Inkster
Blue Gum Farm homebred Inkster (4 m Umatilla - Delgara) is racing most
consistently and she added yet another win to her growing record with
a dominant performance in the Glasshouse Cafe Handicap (2400m) at Caulfield
on July 18th. Rolling up to make her challenge approaching the home
turn, Inkster rounded up the opposition and strode to the front halfway
up the straight. Jockey Craig Newitt allowed himself the luxury of patting
Inkster down the neck as he eased her near the line, some two and a
half lengths clear. “She’s a very game mare and she is hard
to beat in these races when there is genuine pace on,” winning
trainer Mick Price said afterwards.
Inkster advanced
her record to five wins and five placings from 18 starts for earnings
of $252,155. “Elvstroem might have to wait a little while for
her while she’s racing like this!” Price quipped afterwards.
Either way, Inkster is a credit to the team at Blue Gum Farm that raised
her and the staff at Mick Price’s that dote on the daughter of
Umatilla, whose fee of $4,400 in 2009 looks unbeatable value

Ears pricked, Inkster powers to the line under a smiling Craig Newitt
.