Extreme Choice - New Winner

Dean Hawkins admits to shedding a tear or two when With Your Blessing was sold as a yearling.

Here is the full list of 28 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A quality packed catalogue for the 2025 NZB Ready to Run Sale is now online and in the lead up to the sale we’ll go looking each week for some horses of interest that jump out on pedigree for various reasons.

Newgate Farm’s Extreme Choice went very close to a juvenile stakes double at Randwick on Saturday with his colt Tempestuous going down by a head when second in the Group III ATC Breeders’ Plate and then his well related filly Bel Merci showed real class to win the Group III ATC Gimcrack Stakes (1000m).

This week we’re talking trials after an insightful set of official 2YO trials in Sydney, plus some racing and how Fangirl will eventually go to stud with two Group I wins less on her resume than there should be.

Cambridge Stud stallion Sword Of State was represented by an impressive trial winner when State Of Valour coasted to victory in his two-year-old heat over 730m at Te Rapa on Tuesday.

Wootton Bassett, one of the world’s great sires, has sadly passed away today at Coolmore Australia.

National Thoroughbred Week, the newly launched industry initiative designed to bring the public closer to the thoroughbred and our sport, is excited to confirm a truly trans-Tasman exposure, with hosts confirmed across all Australian and New Zealand regions.

I Am Invincible’s exciting young sire son Home Affairs was the talk of the town after the yearling sales this year when his progeny topped both Magic Millions and Inglis Easter and at Randwick on Monday morning he had two runners at the official 2YO trials and both of them came out winners.

Godolphin filly Tempted will take on eight colts in a nine horse Group One Golden Rose at Rosehill on Saturday where she retains favouritism after drawing barrier eight.