The second and final 2YO eligible for the lucrative $3m Inglis Triple
Crown will be known following the running of tomorrow's $500,000 Inglis Nursery
at Randwick.
The Inglis Nursery is the second race in the $8m 2018 Inglis Race Series and
doubles as the 'first' leg of the Inglis Triple Crown.
To win the Triple Crown (and a $3m bonus), a horse must win either the Inglis
Banner (Easter filly Espaaniyah, pictured, won this at The Valley on Cox Plate
Day) or tomorrow's $500,000 Inglis Nursery,and the $2m Inglis Millennium
(Warwick Farm, Saturday February 9) and the $1m Inglis Sires (Randwick, Day 1
of The Championships, Saturday April 6).
A total of 14 runners have accepted for the Nursery and the field is made up of
graduates from each of Inglis' three primary select yearling sales – Classic,
Premier and Easter.
The $3.90 TAB favourite for the race is the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained colt
Strasbourg (I Am Invincible x Danish Spy), a $750,000 Australian Easter
Yearling Sale buy for China Horse Club/Newgate Farm/WinStar Farm, from the
draft of Yarraman Park Stud.
The winning trainer of the Inglis Nursery will receive a set of Swarovski Optik
EL 32 Swarovision binoculars valued at $2,554.