We snapped up a bargain at the Inglis Ready2Race Sale, purchasing this Portland Sky x Tumbler gelding for just $30,000. He was offered by one of the leading vendors at this sale over the past two years, Hunter's Lodge. They do an outstanding job sourcing these horses, educating them and then presenting them as two-year-olds.

He breezed up in 10:82 on a Good 4 surface at Warwick Farm.

Portland Sky was trained at Mornington, and I saw a lot of him in the mornings. He retired to Widden Stud as the winner of the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate, and his oldest crop has just turned three. He already has several winners on the board from his first runners and, being a son of Deep Field, you fully expect we'll see a lot more of them this season.

This horse is out of a really tough race mare. She won eight races in total, stringing together five in a row at one stage, and earned just under $300,000. She had only 18 starts and finished second a further six times. She finished outside the first two placings just four times in her career.

She has only had one foal to race, and this gelding is her second foal. Her first foal has won since the catalogue went to print. Our Combination broke his maiden over 1100m at just his fifth start. It's a winning family, and this horse looks set to carry that on.

Opportunities are available and, as always, are sold at cost. What we pay, you pay.

The total price includes purchase price, GST, vetting, scope and race series nomination and 12 months insurance.

If you would like further information, please get in touch with us at shane@shanenicholsracing.com.au or 0416 000 042.