News - CAPITALIST (AUS)
The latest in a long line of Inglis Digital success stories is three year old filly Profit Motive, who became a stakes winner at just her third lifetime start when taking out the Listed Burgess Queen Stakes (1400m) at Ascot on Melbourne Cup day.
Peter McKay holds a special place in the history of the TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m), and the Matamata trainer set himself up for another shot at the $1m feature when Aquila Veloce (Capitalist) won the $45,000 Speight’s 2YO (1100m) at Ellerslie on Saturday.
The leading sire of winners in Australia last season, Capitalist is also a firm favourite with the Hong Kong market and his stock were popular at the Inglis Ready 2 Race Sale on Thursday with five selling at an average $288,000.
The reigning leading sire of Australian winners, Capitalist posted his first 2YO winner of the new season when the Kelly Schweida trained filly Venus Invicta won the first juvenile event of the season in Brisbane at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
Capitalist was Australia’s leading sire of winners last season and has been quickly back into stride with the Lindsay Park trained three year-old Stakes getting home in a thrilling contest at Caulfield on Saturday.
It’s been a nail biting finish in the race to be the leading sire of Australian winners and it went right down to the wire with Newgate based Capitalist landing two new winners on Friday to take the title.
Ask any athlete or indeed any human being of a competitive bent about the value of winning and of course that’s important, but the thing that matters most is personal best and the quest to be better than you were.
With four days of racing left in this season the battle to be leading sire by winners is going down to the wire with Capitalist and Zoustar tied on 168 winners and Toronado (IRE) two behind on 166, so let’s take a look at their runners to come.
Talented three year-old gelding Watson is one of 167 Australian winners this season for Capitalist and racked up his third win this year when saluting at Canterbury on Wednesday for the Waterhouse Bott stable.
G1-winning sprinter and stallion prospect Reserve Bank will embark on the next chapter of his career after being purchased by Botty’s Bloodstock through the inaugural Inglis Bull Ring sale, powered by Inglis Digital.
The G1 Goodwood Handicap winner Reserve Bank (Capitalist) will be offered as a stallion prospect through a private online sale to be conducted by Inglis next week.
There were five heats at the Warwick Farm trials on Tuesday morning won by juveniles including an unraced colt by I Am Invincible and a pair of unraced youngsters by Capitalist that may well add to the tally for their sire, who leads the way for Aussie winners this season.
Speedy Capitalist filly Memo is no stranger to the Magic Millions sale ring having been purchased at the Gold Coast as a yearling by Snowden Racing for $350,000 and she sold at the MM National Broodmare Sale on Tuesday for $1.1million.
Well-travelled Capitalist gelding King of Roseau is a quiet achiever for the Peter Snowden stable and has won races in three states in the past 12 months with his latest victory coming at Gosford on Saturday in the $250,000 Listed Takeover Target Stakes (1200m).
She’s by a Golden Slipper winning sire and out of a Golden Slipper winning dam and while this three year-old filly finished her juvenile season unraced, Loera is on her way to better things after scoring her second win at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
Stakes-placed three times previously, Capitalist filly Akaysha was overdue for a stakes win, but got the job done at Eagle Farm on Saturday when she made light of a heavy track to win the Listed BRC Mick Dittman Plate (1000m).
She’s by a Golden Slipper winning sire and out of a Golden Slipper winning dam and while this three year-old filly finished her juvenile season unraced, she is now a winner with the promise of better things to come.
Last seen finishing fourth behind Group winning colt Sixties in a maiden at Randwick last August, three year-old Capitalist gelding Outer Banks reappeared at Bendigo on Friday and duly came home a winner.
The Lindsay Park team have had plenty of 2YO winners this season including speedy Capitalist gelding Rich on Bubbles, who made it three wins in a row when landing the $175,000 Listed MRC Valley Pearl (1200m) at Caulfield on Saturday.
It was Magic Millions Day at Murray Bridge on Saturday and the feature, the $200,000 Magic Millions SA 2YO Classic (1100m) was won in brilliant style by the Ben, Will and JD Hayes trained Capitalist gelding Rich on Bubbles.