With power house syndicator Darby Racing looking for its initial success in the $2m Inglis Millennium, its their Within The Law who’s at $6.50 with nation-wide wagering agents.
And with Darby supported with three race starters, it’s their 2yo filly Within The Law who’s won both race starts and $593,000 in stakes, and again ridden by Jason Collett carrying 54.5kg.
In first taking out the Inglis Banner of 1000m on at Flemington ridden by Ben Melham, she returned on 14 December with a 1¼ length victory in the Inglis Banner of 1000m from Cobra Club.
Officially listed in Barrier 18 of a 16 runner field, plus three emergencies in this $2m Inglis Millennium of 1100m at Randwick, she’ll be in the dark blue and white of Darby, with white cap.
Trained by highly successful Warwick Farm based Bjorn Baker, she’s by Yulong based NZ Leading First Season Sire in Luck Vega, who also has North England as winner of the $1m Golden Gift.
Only a $30,000 buy for Darby at the 2024 Classic Yearling Sale, she’s the family of Kementari, through champion UAE sprinter Sterling City, and the first foal of Dundeel mare Contract Signed.
Next for Darby Racing is the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained colt Cobra Club, who second to Within The Law in the Inglis Nursery, who will be ridden by Ryan Baylis carrying 56.5kg.
Priced at $6.50 and jumping from Gate 10, he was a $70,000 Classic buy, being by Sistema Stakes winner Cool Aza Beel, from So You Think mare Venom, from stakes winner Dorf Command.
Rounding out the three starters for Darby is the $20 shot Crown The King colt also for Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, who returning from a 15 well spell when second first up at Doomben.
And in starting from Barrier 11, he was a $70,000 2024 Classic Yearling buy, sired by first-crop sire Time to Reign in being the second foal of stakes placed winning Murtajill mare Shamart.
Posted as $3.50 race favourite with wagering apps, the RL placed Price Tag is from 11 for Tyler Schiller, and as a $600,000 Zouster sired Easter Yearling, his Snitzel half-brother sold for $2.3m at the Gold Coast.
With this Classic yearling sale of 2025 comprising 805 yearlings, ‘it’s the diversity through the catalogue that has106 individual sires represented, it’s progeny offered by 73 individual vendors that there is something for everybody at Riverside on 9-11 February.’
And its Inglis Bloodstock CEO Sebastian Hutch who urged buyers to ‘do themselves a favour as the 2025 Classic Yearling Sale is the best value yearling sale in the Southern Hemisphere.’
“If people are serious about finding value in an extraordinarily competitive Australasian bloodstock market, the Classic Yearling Sale never fails to deliver,’’ said Sebastian Hutch.
“We’ve already seen the high-class early season 2YOs, with $1m Inglis Golden Gift winner North England and $500,000 Inglis Banner winner Within The Law, both Classic Sale graduates’
“The quality at this Sale early in the year is exquisite, and we’re expecting more the same next February as the average of an Australian Stakes winner since 2018 is little over $110,000.”
“Consider the results from this Sale over the past 12 months alone, with a multiple Gr1 mare so good she was acclaimed the best of her sex in the world in Pride Of Jenni, and a dual Gr1 colt of the famed Doncaster Mile in Celestial Legend and a 3YO colt, while Veight was so good he won no less than the Gr1 George Ryder at WFA.”
“This trio acquired at the Classic Sale for just $540,000 are now worth many, many multiples of that, while the knack of this Sale for producing top-class horses is why it’s so popular with so many buyers, like today’s Classique Legend, Mazu, Icebath, Pippie, Shadow Hero, Communist, Palaisipan.”
