Up and coming trainer Jack Pilkington broke the ice at his home track of Hawkesbury on Thursday when Alabama State beat the older horses to become the seventh first crop winner for his young sire Alabama Express.
At the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale on April 7 and 8 it will be wall to wall bluebloods, but the most interesting horse in the Ciaron Maher stable is one whose pedigree would not have made the grade at Australia’s premier yearling sale.