Gosford trainer Angela Davies on a career high

"I started yelling about the 200 metres mark, it is a great thrill," Angela said.

Through The Cracks showed a clean pair of heels to Wyong prepared pair Moana Jewel (trained by Tracey Bartley) and Oxford Tycoon (Kim Waugh) for second and third respectively.

Gaining a start after finishing second to the Kris Lees' trained Asharani in the rescheduled Gosford Provincial Qualifier at Newcastle last month, Through The Cracks was purchased at the Scone Yearling Sale for $7500 by Sydney enthusiast Michael Hohos who also races the five-year-old with a group of friends.

Now a winner of six races (from 13 starts) and $461,000, Through The Cracks becomes a feature winner for the 2010 VRC Newmarket Handicap Group 1 winner Wanted, a son of Coolmore Stud's champion sire Fastnet Rock who stands at Clear Mountain Thoroughbreds in south-east Queensland.

With no Winx at day two of Randwick's The Championships to take centre stage this year, it was Irish bred and trained import Addeybb (by Nureyev grandson Pivotal) who backed up from his Ranvet Stakes-G1 win on the Golden Slipper program, to easily take the feature $2 million Longines Queen Elizabeth Stakes-G1.

The two-mile Sydney Cup was won by New Zealander Etah James who was ridden by Glen Boss, also the rider of ATC Oaks-G1 winner Colette, a first crop galloper of Street Sense sire Hallowed Crown, who has transferred from Godolphin's 'Kelvinside' in the Upper Hunter Valley to Olly and Amber Tait's Twin Hills near Cootamundra.

Etah James is by Sadler's Wells GB bred import Raise The Flag, who stands at New Zealand's major South Island breeding property White Robe Stud near Mosgiel in Otago.

COVID-19 saw Inglis go to extraordinary lengths to conduct its 2020 Australian Easter Yearling Sale - Round One last week, albeit as an online auction without a single buyer or horse at its modern auditorium at Riverside Stables.

Inglis created a virtual live sale with Jonathon D'Arcy and Chris Russell in the auctioneers' box taking online and phone bids to give an atmosphere of an auction and some theatre for online viewers.

Even with business uncertainty and the downturn in global money markets, the sale resulted with seven $1 million or more yearlings including the $1.8m top for a Snitzel colt (and the first foal of First Seal) sold via the Murphy family's Sledmere Stud, Scone, to Tom Magnier of Coolmore Stud.

In fact, the Coolmore team not only was the biggest buyer (buying five lots for $2.95m), but the Jerrys Plains located breeding farm was the leading vendor by gross, selling 10 yearlings for a total of $2.95m.

Inglis reported almost 300,000 engagements on their website from more than 100 countries, in the Warwick Farm headquartered company's world first major online auction.

Buyers spent just over $68m from the 214 sold yearlings (345 offered) for an average of $318,000, compared to last year's typical edition of 343 sold (19 of them selling for $1m or more, from 407 offered) for a $356,000 average and a gross of $122m.

While Yarraman Park's super-sire I Am Invincible had 14 of his progeny sell for a total $7.21m and an average $515,000, Godolphin's Exceed And Excel topped the sires' averages at $561,667 for his three yearlings, which found new owners.

While Arrowfield Stud's champion sire Snitzel had the top price, his stud arch rival I Am Invincible was represented with three $1m or more yearlings including the second top of $1.4m for the Kia-Ora Stud, Scone, colt from Testa Rossa Group 2 winner Twilight Royale.

The brother to Sunlight (by Zoustar from Solar Charged) from Widden Stud, Segenhoe Stud's Deep Impact - Amanee colt, and Tyreel Stud's So You Think - Pinocchio grey colt all made $1.1m.

Vendors now have the option of having their passed-in horses or horses that missed out getting offered during round one, eligible to re-enter them into Easter Round 2, which - at this stage - will be conducted as a live auction at Riverside on Sunday, July 5.