Sires With Winners - Thursday April 24

For more than a century, Australia’s thoroughbred sales revolved around polished auction rings, bustling sale grounds, and agents hunting for future champions.

It wasn't just about the winner of the $400,000 Inglis Nursery with a Pink Bonus collected and a Best Turned Out award also presented on the race won by Inglis Digital purchase Where's the Circus.

Trainer Joe Pride is not afraid to travel his horses to where he feels they can win, and this was once again on display on Saturday with 5yo Shamus Award mare The Black Cloud having just her second start away from home, charging late to win the $160,000 Listed BRC Bribie Handicap (1000m) at Eagle Farm.

There were three stakes races at Eagle Farm on Saturday, but strangely, the richest race on the card carries no Black Type, but offers something far more valuable as the winner of the $300,000 The Gateway (1400m) earns a golden ticket into the $3million Group I BRC Stradbroke Handicap in 2026.

While it may have taken Kobayashi mare Midnight In Tokyo 30 starts to record her first stakes victory, it only took until her very next start to record her second, winning the $160,000 Listed BRC Just Now (1300m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday for Annabel and Rob Archibald.

A tick under two hours after stablemate The Black Cloud recorded her first black type victory in Queensland, trainer Joe Pride saddled up fellow 5yo mare Weeping Woman in the $200,000 Listed ATC Razor Sharp (1200m) at Randwick where the daughter of Lonhro impressed as the race favourite.

Boxers talk about “going the distance” and that was the million dollar question about Robbie Griffith’s tough Magnus gelding Rey Magnerio, who took his earnings to $2million on Saturday with victory in the $1.5million Group III WATC Gold Rush (1400m), the final feature race of The Pinnacles carnival at Ascot.

With NZB Kiwi favourite Well Written confirmed to run in the Entain/TAB NZ slot in New Zealand’s richest race, attention is now being focused on decisions around other prominent candidates for the $4 million March 7 feature.

The $400,000 Inglis Nursery RL (1000m) is run at Randwick on Saturday with a field of 11 accepting for a race just for 2YOs offered through Inglis sales with the highest priced runner a colt by Wootton Bassett (GB).

Placed in a G1 Queensland Oaks at three and winner of the $200,000 Listed BRC Tattersall’s Gold Crown at the end of last season, Russian Revolution mare Miss Jolene is primed for a lucrative summer campaign following a barnstorming win in the Listed BRC Tails Stakes (1500m) at Eagle Farm.