Bargain Buy Rockets to $1 million Inglis Win

Talented $22,000 Scone yearling Rocketing By gave his loud and passionate ownership group the thrill of a lifetime when winning Saturday's $1m Inglis Sprint in Sydney. The scenes at Randwick will be remembered for years to come as the So You Think colt defeated some of Australia's best 3YOs to announce himself a star in his own right. At just his eighth start, the David Pfieffer-trained Rocketing By burst through the middle of the track to defeat last year's Millennium winner Prime Star who was chasing history. Multiple Group 1 winner Ole Kirk finished third, ahead of Dame Giselle, with both place-getters looking cherry-ripe for their next assignments over 1400m-plus. Pfieffer teamed up with Ferguson Bloodstock at the 2019 Scone sale, purchasing Rocketing By for just $22,000 from the draft of Middlebrook Valley Lodge, who was offering the colt on behalf of breeder Segenhoe Stud. "The X-Rays weren't presented at the sale so as a result of that we got a So You Think colt for $22,000. I took him home, gave him a few months in the paddock and then got him X-Rayed myself and he was perfect,'' Pfieffer revealed. "Look at him now – he's a proper horse. He's won almost $750,000, and today he's beaten a colt worth tens of millions of dollars and one of the best fillies in the land and he's done it convincingly!" Rocketing By will now target the $500,000 Inglis Dash at Flemington in three weeks. Middlebrook's Verna Metcalfe – who watched the race at Riverside Stables as inspections continued ahead of tomorrow's Classic Yearling Sale – was understandably ecstatic with the result.

Rocketing By claimed some big scalps (pic: Steve Hart)