Sires With Winners - Monday July 22

He may already have a Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) win to his name but New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame trainer Chris Waller says he still yearns to win the Flemington showpiece as much as anyone.

More than ever before, horses bought from the NZB Ready to Run Sale at Karaka will be eligible to compete for significant prize-money within 18 months of their purchase.

Ciaron Maher and Australian Bloodstock teamed up on Wednesday to win the $500,000 Group 3 Bendigo Cup (2400m) with 5yo gelding Sayedaty Sadaty (IRE), who will now need a weight penalty to force his way into the $10m Group 1 VRC Melbourne Cup (3200m).

The favourites have all fared well after the field and barrier draw was declared for the $10million Golden Eagle at Randwick this Saturday.

Here is the full list of 44 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Passiflora will provide her connections with a sound guide at Tauranga as to where she sits in the three-year-old pecking order.

Here is the full list of 24 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The Group I VRC Victoria Derby at Flemington on Saturday is worth a whopping $2 million and the testing trip of 2500m means a lot of horses are not going to see it out strongly and this looks a competitive year with no G1 winners engaged and a full field of up and comers set to do battle, so let’s see what the pedigrees have to say.

Smart two-year-old AUGUST GEORGE topped the opening day of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale at Park Paddocks when selling for 375,000 guineas to Qatari trainer Gassim Ghazali, one of five lots to realise 200,000 guineas or more.

Impeccably related mare Taste of Heaven topped the first Magic Millions Digital Sale conducted today.