

Celestial Falls Sold for $465,000 on Inglis Digital
Darby Racing’s strong recent affinity with Inglis Digital continued today as talented mare Celestial Falls (Hinchinbrook) realised $465,000 in the Spring Boutique Sale. The G2 placed 5YO – a half sister to three-time Stakes winner and G1 placed Greysful Glamour – sold to Michael Flannery’s Victorian nursery Springmount. The result comes just weeks after another of Darby’s top-quality mares, Every Rose, sold for $1.3m in a bespoke online auction on the Inglis Digital platform.


Greysful Glamour’s half-sister to be sold online
Multiple Group performer Celestial Falls (Hinchinbrook), a half-sister to last year’s Villiers Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m) winner Greysful Glamour (Stratum), looks like being the star draw when Inglis Digital hold another boutique mare sale beginning today at 10am. The winner of two of her 11 starts for Mark Newnham, Celestial Falls finished third in last year’s The Roses (Gr 2, 1800m) having narrowly failed in her bid to land the Pam O’Neill Stakes (Listed, 1600m) on her previous o


First Winner for Yankee Rose
Top-class racemare Yankee Rose is off to a flyer as a broodmare with her two-year-old daughter Romneya making all the running in a 1600m Newcomers race at Nakayama on Sunday. Given a positive ride from an inside barrier by Keita Tosaki, the daughter of Deep Impact held the challenge of the Lord Kanaloa colt Lord Cathedral by a neck as that pair draw five lengths clear of the third placed Duramente filly All Yours. Trained by Sakae Kunieda, Romneya was a ¥226m ($A2,750,000) pu


Every Rose Sells for $1.3Million
In a result described as ‘incredible’ by Darby Racing Syndications Scott Darby, Every Rose has become the second horse to surpass the magical seven figures in an Inglis Digital Online Auction, with the daughter of the Choisir selling for $1.3million to Suman Hedge Bloodstock on behalf of a client. “I had a feeling she would sell well, and thought she would hit $1 million,” a thrilled Scott Darby said. “But $1.3 million – that’s unbelievable!” “What a great way to sell, with I

Harmony Rose to kick off Epsom Handicap campaign at Randwick
Buoyed by the early-season form of two of Harmony Rose’s autumn foes, Mark Newnham is optimistic the Group 1 placegetter can make her mark during the Sydney carnival. Placed behind Lion’s Roar and Mo’Unga in the Randwick Guineas and runner-up to Hungry Heart in the Adrian Knox Stakes, Harmony Rose will make her spring return in Saturday’s Bill Ritchie Handicap (1400m) at Randwick. It will be her first appearance as a mare but with Mo’unga resuming with a Winx Stakes victory o


Every Rose Offered for Sale on Inglis Digital
High-class 2YO and multiple Group winner Every Rose (Choisir) will be offered for sale in a bespoke Inglis Digital Online Auction to be held later this week. The Darby Racing-campaigned speedster, a $160,000 yearling purchase in conjunction with De Burgh Equine, immediately showed her star quality at the first official 2YO trials on the Kensington track at Randwick. Her winning time for the morning of 50.08 was the fastest across all 12 trials on a morning that also saw the l


Darby doubles down on winning Tattersalls formula
Darby Racing and de Burgh Equine struck twice on the second day of the Tattersalls August Sale in Newmarket, snapping up a pair of Northern Hemisphere-bred 3-year-olds by Galileo (Ire). The recent success of imports such as Harpo Marx (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), Canasta(Fr) (Makfi {GB}) and Spirit Ridge (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) has emboldened Darby Racing's confidence in buying tried horses out of international sales and it went to a combined 180,000 gns (AU$363,228) for two Galileo
Darby Racing secure a pair of Galileo colts at Tattersalls
Darby Racing were active at the second session of the Tattersalls August Sale yesterday, picking up two colts by the late Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) from the Ballydoyle draft. The Aidan O’Brien-trained three-year-old’s Father’s Day (Lot 391) and Iowa (Lot 393) were secured in a matter of minutes by Hubie De Burgh of De Burgh Equine for Darby, with the pair selling for 80,000gns (approx. AU$157,150) and 100,000gns (approx. AU$196,500) respectively. "They're both going to Austral