Tasmanian $13,000 buy realises $700,000 at National Broodmare Sale

Hall of fame trainer Bill Ryan could not attend the meeting in Launceston on Wednesday due to his chronic lung condition, but it didn’t stop his courageous mare Take the Sit from scoring an emphatic win in the Group 3 $150,000 Vamos Stakes over 1400m.

Hall of Fame trainer Bill Ryan hopes his talented stayer Sh’bourne Renegade can run a forward race in the Tasmanian Bloodstock Summer Cup in Hobart on Sunday to convince him to progress the gelding to his first main mission, the Ladbrokes Hobart Cup.

Hall of fame trainer Bill Ryan admits Sh’bourne Renegade’s main mission is the Ladbrokes Launceston Cup with hopes to go one better than last season when he was beaten in a three-way photo finish for a second to Glass Warrior.

Still A Star is set for a lucrative pay day if she can take out the Empire Rose Stakes at Flemington.