{"id":158860,"date":"2025-09-25T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158860\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T04:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:30:08","slug":"skybird-set-to-fly-flag-for-inglis-in-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158860\/","title":{"rendered":"Skybird set to fly flag for Inglis in Everest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian sprinter Skybird, the reigning Black Caviar Lightning Stakes winner, has secured a place in this year\u2019s The Everest for trainer Mitch Freedman.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Skybird-JohnAllen-20250215-0534-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"Skybird\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\"  \/>Auction house Inglis has chosen Group 1-winning mare Skybird for its Everest slot. (Photo: Bronwen Healy. The Image is Everything &#8211; Bronwen Healy Photography)<\/p>\n<p>Auction house Inglis has selected the daughter of Exosphere, a $110,000 Classic Yearling Sale graduate, three weeks out from the $20 million race at Randwick on October 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMitch Freedman is a young trainer that the market has a lot of respect for and he has been very patient in his development of this filly,\u201d Inglis Bloodstock chief executive Sebastian Hutch said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is unexposed, progressive and shaping as a candidate to produce a career best at Randwick on Everest day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skybird, who ran sixth first-up in the Moir Stakes, will contest Friday\u2019s Manikato Stakes as her final lead-up run to The Everest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all go to the yearling sales with a dream of finding a horse like her,\u201d Freedman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo purchase a horse like Skybird, bring her through our system and to now to be a part of the most elite sprinting race in our country, if not the world, truly is an honour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Australian-bred Japanese sprinter Invincible Papa, a son of Shalaa who won at Grade 3 level in August, had also been considered as a contender for the Inglis slot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/racingwa.com.au\/racing\/feature-carnivals\/the-pinnacles?ref=thestraight.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250907_ThePinnacles_The-Straight_Digital-600x400-2.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The decision by Inglis to side with Skybird, 24 hours after rival slot holder James Harron Bloodstock signed up Angel Capital, leaves just three openings remaining for this year\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>Coolmore is yet to make a call on its slot, as is Godolphin, which has Golden Rose favourite Tempted and fellow three-year-old Tentyris as leading homebred candidates to represent it in The Everest.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Gregg&#8217;s Mulberry Racing is also yet to fill its slot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victorian sprinter Skybird, the reigning Black Caviar Lightning Stakes winner, has secured a place in this year\u2019s The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-158860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}