Churchill - New Winner

Saturday’s $1m Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand Oaks (2400m) at Ellerslie crowned Ohope Wins (NZ) (Ocean Park) as a spectacular winner of the 2025-26 NZB Filly of the Year Series.

It’s always special when Kiwi bred sprinter Ka Ying Rising steps out at Sha Tin, but on Sunday it was even more so with the world’s fastest horse breaking the track record for 1400m as he powered to a record 18th consecutive win in the Group I Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup.

Quality four year old Headwater mare London's Image collected her third stakes victory when she unleashed a big finish to claim a determined last stride win over race favourite Talkanco in the Listed Pinjarra Classic 1300m on Sunday.

Woodside Park Stud in Victoria were thinking outside the square when they decided to stand globetrotting Group I winning Dubawi stallion Benbatl (GB), who shuttles from Japan and he posted his first stakes-winner over the weekend in Japan.

Here is the full list of 76 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Waikato Stud principal Mark Chittick has barely had time to draw breath just lately, but on Monday he found a brief window to reflect on what has been a landmark period for his family’s Matamata nursery.

Group One winner Captured By Love was back in the winners’ circle at Taupo on Sunday, with an elite-level assignment now firmly in her sights.

There were four heats over 900m for juveniles at Rosehill on Monday morning and we saw a number of youngsters with Golden Slipper aspirations including one time Magic Millions 2YO Classic favourite Paradoxium.

Promising two year-old Dirty Work filly Summer Schemer crowned a memorable recent run of results for Highden Park when she made the perfect start to her career at Ellerslie on Saturday bringing a timely update for her yearling half-sister headed to Inglis Premier for Crossley Thoroughbreds.

Five Group I races were run in Australasia on Saturday and all of them went to first time G1 winners so let’s take a look at those pedigrees and one of them has five lines of Star Kingdom – so who was it?