Toronado - New Winner

With a quinella in Saturday’s Gr. 1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) done and dusted, trainer Pam Gerard is now setting about confirming summer plans for Romanoff and Affirmative Action.

In celebration of the inaugural National Thoroughbred Week, the Melbourne Racing Club (MRC) will open its official trials for public viewing on Thursday 20 November from 7:30am. The morning touts an expanded program that will see 124 horses take to the Heath across 15 trials. 

The Caulfield meeting on Wednesday features a juvenile contest with seven runners that include a pair of youngsters from the powerful Lindsay Park training team and a well bred filly from the Grahame Begg stable.

Annabel and Rob Archibald send out runners all up and down the Eastern States and a Written Tycoon filly that bolted in at Kyneton on Tuesday delivered a timely update for her half-sister headed to Magic Millions in January.

It was lucky start 13 for the Group 1 placed Too Darn Hot (GB) mare Sweltering as the Chirs Waller trained 4yo broke her maiden by a wide margin in Wednesday’s Irresistible Pools And Spas Plate (1900m) at Canterbury.

Here is the full list of 25 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Three heats for juveniles over 900m were run at Rosehill on Tuesday morning and the winners included the highest priced yearling by Exceedance in 2025 and a filly by first season sire Tiger of Malay.

We don’t expect to see a pre-Christmas 2YO winner for the late So You Think, but we got one at Caulfield on Wednesday when talented filly Almost an Angel zoomed past her speedy rivals to score a dominant debut victory.

Astute trainer Brad Widdup was a visitor to the Perth Magic Millions Yearling Sale in 2024 and he signed for four yearlings with the most expensive being a filly by Western Austalia’s champion sire Playing God and she made a winning debut at Scone on Tuesday.

Continued fevered demand from pinhookers and end-users led to across-the-board increases for the second successive session at Goffs November Foal Sale with a filly by Palace Pier the top selle rof the session.