The Andrew Forsman-trained Riproar looks to have inherited some of the family ability, with the gelding a comfortable winner of the Campbell Infrastructure 2YO (1215m) at Rotorua on Thursday at his second start.

The catalogue is now online for the gavelhouse.com Thoroughbred 6 March auction with a special component to the sale aimed at supporting the cyclone relief fund.

Four heats at the Warwick Farm trials on Thursday morning for juveniles saw Golden Slipper contender Platinum Jubilee given a hit out wearing blinkers for the first time and an impressive trial winner for Capitalist that has a half-brother entered for Inglis Premier.

Cambridge Stud’s annual reduction process has started with a quality line up in the latest 74 Lot gavelhouse.com auction.

Trainers Peter and Dawn Williams are hoping they can upset the applecart when they head to Te Rapa on Saturday.

The business end of the Golden Slipper is fast approaching and while there are only small fields engaged for the key lead up races at Randwick this Saturday there is a very good chance we will see this year’s winner.

Here is the full list of 43 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The second annual ‘Inglis Sunday Lunch’ – raising money for the Ingham Institute and South West Local Health District – will take place at Riverside on Sunday April 2, the day prior to the start of the Easter Yearling Sale.

Val Di Zoldo headlined a stellar day for Tony Pike at Awapuni where she added serious momentum to her preparation for the country’s premier staying feature for fillies.

Talented Deep Field filly Beauty Rising produced a strong finishing burst for Jamie Kah at Sandown on Wednesday to run down the leader and score a popular win as favourite.

A full sister to dual Group I winning sprinter Viddora, three year-old I Am Invincible filly Jump‘n Fly opened her account to win at Doomben on Wednesday and has a three-quarter sister to be offered at Inglis Premier on Sunday.

When respected studmaster Peter O’Brien selected his yearlings to present in Victoria for Segenhoe Stud at Inglis Premier this year, he knew the draft would feature one yearling with a Group I connection, but results from Randwick last Saturday have now given him two.

Waikato Hospital radiologist Xavier Kos is dreaming of an Oaks victory with his filly Mehzebeen after she broke through for her maiden win at Awapuni on Wednesday.

More Than Ready (USA) is on the board with his final crop of two-year-olds after Amazonian Lass made the perfect start to her career in the Home Affairs At Coolmore (1100m) at Warwick Farm.

Andrew Forsman has trained two previous victors of the Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) in partnership with mentor Murray Baker, and he is hoping he can claim one in his own right at Te Rapa this weekend.

Established at Flinders in Victoria by well-known businessman and racing enthusiast David Kobritz, Musk Creek Farm has proven a great source of winners with Golden Slipper winning champion sire Pierro an early success story for the enterprise.

It’s hard to dismiss the similarities between Sharp ‘N’ Smart and Savabeel.

As we head into the autumn carnivals the unraced first season trial report offers plenty of insight into the potential of an upswing for our first season sires with horses that have trialled well and that hold entries for upcoming stakes races at The Championships obvious red flags for the future.

Here is the full list of 21 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

All the way from the Southern Highlands of NSW, Ricky Surace and his team at B2B Thoroughbreds are set to make a big impression at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale with a select draft of 10 that features one of only four colts in the sale by champion sire Exceed and Excel.

The 2022-23 New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series heads to Awapuni on Wednesday for its ninth leg – a special edition of the $120,000 Group Two Little Avondale Stud Lowland Stakes (2100m). 

Swettenham Stud’s Toronado (IRE) was represented by his second two-year-old winner this season from three runners when Shesallshenanigans made all the running National Hotel Maiden Plate (1100m) at Bendigo on Tuesday.

Based at Hesket in the Macedon Ranges, Miranda Park will present their best-ever draft at Inglis Premier this year featuring the half-sister to a Group I VRC Oaks winner.

Daumier, the winner of the 2022 Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes over 1200m, has been retired from racing and will take up stallion duties at Twin Hills Stud this spring.

When the 2002 Dubai World Cup winner shuttled to Australia for the first time in 2003, Australian breeders were not entirely sure what to make of him, but 20 years on he’s become a sire that has had and is going to have a profound influence on our industry.

There might be new owners at the helm of iconic Victorian nursery Blue Gum Farm, but the quality buyers expect to find remains unchanged with this year’s Inglis Premier draft of 30 sure to enhance the farm’s formidable record of racetrack success.

Here is the full list of 26 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Fresh from a top-level victory last weekend, Ken and Bev Kelso are looking forward to the challenge of another in Melbourne.

The Rosehill trials on Monday morning featured six heats for juveniles with winners including a $1.4million Snitzel colt, the daughter of a Golden Slipper winner and a close relation to Anamoe.

Thoroughbred Breeders’ New South Wales is delighted to welcome Vicky Leonard as a new director on the TBNSW board, adding more forward thinking and creativity to a group that is achieving some major outcomes particularly in the area of welfare and workforce development in the breeding industry.

Pennyweka will cross the Tararua Ranges on Wednesday in the hope of snaring Group glory at Awapuni.

Daniel Brash and his team at Murchison based Collingrove Stud are poised for action at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale with a draft of 19 to offer including two cracking colts by Toronado (IRE) and a stunning colt by leading European sire Night of Thunder (IRE).

It was an Australian bred trifecta in the HK$12million Hong Kong Classic Cup (1800m) at Sha Tin on Sunday with victory going to Nicconi gelding Super Sunny Sing over Sword Point (American Pharoah (USA) and Galaxy Witness (Star Witness).

A decision by Rosemont Stud to concentrate its major yearling sales drafts on the Gold Coast and Melbourne has ‘gifted’ the latter with a number of Easter quality youngsters in 2023.

Australian bred Golden Sixty confirmed himself as the best in Hong Kong by giving arch rival Romantic Warrior a start and a beating in the Group I Hong Kong Gold Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin.

Here is the full list of 56 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Sunday with winners and result details.

This time last year talented Fastnet Rock three year-old Straight Arron was working towards an impressive win in the Group III ATC Carbine Club Stakes (1200m) and 12 months on after his transfer to Hong Kong he has broken the ice for his first win at Sha Tin and has a half-sister entered for Inglis Easter.

Less than 24 hours after Ben Thompson was steering the Steve O’Dea and Matthew Hoysted trained Uncommon James to victory in the Group I MRC Oakleigh Plate at Sandown, the same team were back in action at the Sunshine Coast where they combined to win with talented two year-old Shot of Whiskey.

The Lindsay Park two year-olds are shooting the lights out at the moment and  they unleashed another debut winner at Ballarat on Sunday that carries the Emirates Park colours.

With the great trainer and showman Yoshito Yahagi  front and centre, Japan conquered at King Abdulaziz Racecourse, Riyadh, as Panthalassa (JPN) led at every call in the world’s richest race, the $US20,000,000 Saudi Cup

Group Two winner Dragon Queen put her hand up for Australian assignments after winning the Lisa Chittick Plate (1400m) at Matamata on Saturday.

Cornwall Park Stud will be waiting until the final day to present their draft of six at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, but the wait will be worthwhile with Peter Boyle and his team to offer a colt by Harry Angel (IRE) bred on a similar cross to Blue Diamond place-getter Arkansaw Kid.

Admiration Express turned the tables on her Listed Challenge Stakes conqueror Feels Playful in Saturday's Listed Schweppes - Ascot 1000 Guineas (1800m).

Progressive Victorian enterprise Two Bays Farm have rapidly made a name for themselves as a source of quality racetrack performers and Rob Carlile and his team are proud to present a top class draft of 13 for the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale highlighted by a stunning Written Tycoon colt with a serious stallion’s pedigree.

Coolmore Stud's one-season shuttler Mendelssohn (USA) is off the mark in Australia with Felix The Scat, a facile winner of the Tattersall's Life Members Hcp (1350m) at Doomben on Saturday.

Monday night on Sky Thoroughbred Central see the pick of the crop of ‘23 heading for Oaklands in Melbourne in March, as Caroline Searcy presents the 2023 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale Preview.

The Inglis Millennium form held up superbly at Randwick to provide the trifecta in the G2 Sweet Embrace Stakes where gorgeous filly Lazzago (Capitalist) defeated Facile and Blanc De Blanc.

There were six Group I races in Australia and New Zealand on Saturday, three of them won by first time G1 horses, while several other new 2YO stakes-winners put their hands up as having G1 potential.

A third stakes winner in as many weeks for Frankel (GB) as Steinem (GB) bested her Melbourne Cup-winning stablemate Gold Trip (FR) in Saturday’s Group II Carlton Draught Peter Young Stakes (1800m) at Sandown-Lakeside.

Exciting So You think gelding Think About It made a winning debut in a Kembla maiden in July last year and has been on a steady upward spiral ever since with victory in the $200,000  Group III ATC Liverpool City Cup (1300m) at Randwick on Saturday stamping him as a Group I star of the future.

Here is the full list of 102 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Invincible Spirit stallion Cable Bay (IRE) shuttled to Victoria for four seasons from 2017 to 2020 leaving just two stakes-winners here and one of them, Uncommon James, became his first Group I winner on Saturday when taking out a thrilling rendition of the Group I MRC Oakleigh Plate (1100m).

Narrowly defeated by Barber in the Group III Blue Diamond Prelude, Little Brose had his revenge in the one that mattered most, the $2,000,000 Group 1 Ladbrokes Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) at Sandown-Lakeside on Saturday.

Nothing seems beyond Anamoe, who earned an eighth Group 1 win with another flawless performance in Saturday's $600,000 Group 1 TAB Chipping Norton Stakes (1600m) at Randwick.

It appeared that Alligator Blood was on the downward slide as 2021 drew to a close, but the son of All Too Hard has found a new lease of life under the training of Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott.

A massive boost for the career of Aquis Stud’s young Snitzel stallion Invader when his first crop daughter Sunshine In Paris scythed between runners to capture Saturday’s $600,000 Group 1 Drinkwise Surround Stakes (1400m) at Randwick.

The Mark Walker trained blue-blood filly Zourion showed she could have untapped potential with a strong performance to win the Group II J Swap Contractors Ltd Matamata Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) in New Zealand on Saturday.

Local mentor Mark Walker was on top of the podium at Matamata on Saturday when he claimed the two juvenile feature races on the day starting with Satono Aladdin (Jpn) gelding Tokyo Tycoon.

Godolphin’s blue hen Accessories (GB) took her total of stakes-winners to five following a dominant performance from the Street Boss gelding Pericles in Saturday’s Group II Stow Storage Autumn Classic (1800m) at Sandown-Lakeside.

Widden Stud raised and sold fillies Lazzago and Facile fought out the finish of the $250,000 Group II ATC Sweet Embrace Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday while race favourite Skirt the Law failed to fire.

The bonny Dundeel mare Hope In Your Heart continues her transition from handy country performer to stakes-winning powerhouse with a successful 2023 debut in Saturday’s Group II Guy Walter Proven Thoroughbreds Stakes (1400m) at Randwick.

Extreme Choice mare Espiona roared back into top form at Sandown on Saturday when charging home to win the Group III MRC Mannerism Stakes (1400m) putting the spotlight on her Inglis Easter bound half-brother by Capitalist.

Matamata-trained mare Levante added a fourth Group One victory to her résumé when she defeated another class performer in La Crique to take out the Gr.1 El Cheapo Cars WFA Classic (1600m) at Otaki.

Another daring ride by Jonathan Riddell provided the impetus for rejuvenated galloper Colorado Star to claim his second consecutive stakes victory when he cruised home to win the Listed Matamata Veterinary Services Kaimai Stakes (2000m) on Saturday.

A wide-open Group III Ladbrokes Zeditave Stakes (1200m) at Sandown-Lakeside encouraged connection of the Shalaa gelding Recommendation to make the trip south after winning a benchmark 64 at Canterbury.

The Fastnet Rock colt Corniche added to the Godolphin armoury for the Golden Slipper when breaking his maiden in the Group II Elite Sand and Soil Skyline Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday.

The $300,000 Group II MRC Angus Armanasco Stakes (1400m) at Sandown on Saturday produced a new stakes-winner for champion sire I Am Invincible when Shuffle Dancer arrived in the last stride to score a head victory over Royal Merchant.

A huge day of Black Type racing at Sandown on Saturday kicked off with a new stakes-winner for So You Think with the $175,000 Listed MRC Victoria Gold Cup (2100m) won by the heavily backed favourite Right You Are.

Records have tumbled across the board at the 2023 Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale following an outstanding Book Two auction in the Swan Valley today.

Gr.1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) winner Pier will return to New Zealand on Sunday after finishing eighth in the Gr.2 Hobartville Stakes (1400m) won by Osipenko at Rosehill last Saturday.

Entries for New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2023 National Online Yearling Sale are now open, with the Sale set to be held on NZB’s online subsidiary Gavelhouse Plus for the third year.

Here is the full list of 53 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Friday with winners and result details.

Two days after the 3yo Pierro gelding Cool Jakey made a winning debut over 1200m at Warwick Farm, Pierro struck again with his first 2yo winner of the season, the debutant Tu Qui Santuzza at Canterbury on Friday.

Third at his previous start behind Allaboutella at Newcastle, the Capitalist gelding Legolas turned the tables on the Trapeze Artist filly in the Black Opal Preview (1000m) at Canberra on Friday.

Following five consecutive placings, the three-year-old American Pharoah (USA) gelding American Liaison shed his maiden status over 1457m at Kilmore on Friday.

Here is the full list of 42 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Thursday with winners and result details.

A well bred filly by Blue Point sold for $350,000 to highlight a record breaking Day One of the 2023 Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale in the Swan Valley today.

Darby Racing’s New Zealand import Goldman made a statement on Thursday at his Australian debut for the Waterhouse/Bott stable at Kembla Grange.

Lindsay Park Racing have two Blue Diamond contenders in Arkansaw Kid and Little Brose, both purchased from Sledmere Stud and a third juvenile they sourced from the same Hunter Valley farm saluted for Ben and JD Hayes at Pakenham on Thursday.

Mill Park Stud in South Australia is renowned for bringing a quality draft across to Victoria for the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale and their selection of 11 for this year features a tantalising mix of speed and classic potential including several siblings to Group winners.

The Chrissy Bambry-trained Chantilly Lace ran out an impressive winner of the Palamountains Animal Nutrition 2YO 1200 at Wanganui on Thursday and in the process provided her sire, US Navy Flag, with his first southern hemisphere winner.

Entries for the Southern Hemisphere’s leading breeding stock sale, the 2023 Magic Millions Gold Coast National, are now open.

Except for family and friends and a few loyal Sandgropers, Jamie Kah returned to a muted reception when earning her second Group 1 success on a $101 chance. It will be a different scenario at Sandown-Lakeside on Saturday if the popular jockey chalks up her tenth triumph at the elite level on a close relative of the shock winner.

A new juvenile winner at Eagle Farm on Wednesday for Spirit of Boom has him on nine two year-old winners for the season and a well bred filly we spotted at the trials earlier this week could easily add to his tally.

Yarradale Stud stallion War Chant (USA) has 16 colts and fillies catalogued for the two-day Perth Magic Millions and his ongoing influence is also evident as the damsire of another 7 yearlings.

Here is the full list of 53 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Wednesday with winners and result details.

Broodmare prospect Constant Dreaming (Blackfriars) topped a magnificent Inglis Digital February (Late) Sale which saw 12 lots reach six figures including four for $200,000 or more, while one of Australia's best maidens Shalatin was sold for $100,000 and is packing his bags for Singapore.

Godolphin had a short priced favourite in the 1200m three year-old maiden at Warwick Farm on Wednesday, but a first starter for Pierro spoiled the party with a debut victory.

Last year Aurora's Symphony broke a 12-month drought to win the Colac Cup, followed by the Group III Ladbrokes Launceston Cup, and he achieved the double again in 2023.

The Inevitable continues to bully his opponents into submission in Tasmania, with just five willing to take him on in the Listed Steve's Liquor Hellova Street Stakes (1600m) at Launceston on Wednesday.

Trapeze Artist colt Introducing caught the attention when winning his first barrier trial earlier this month beating stakes-winner Platinum Jubilee and he took that good form to race day to win on debut at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

The Scenic Lodge draft to this week’s Perth Magic Millions is the second biggest of any vendor and general manager Jeremy Smith reports there’s been more inspections than ever at the Swan Valley sale-grounds.

Mark Walker would love nothing more than to see the jockey statue in the Matamata racecourse birdcage painted in the colours of a Te Akau Racing-trained winner.

The Australian yearling sale season is in full swing and nobody knows more about what’s going on than the Federation of Bloodstock Agents Australia with their series of podcast interviews hosted by Mick Sharkie offering new insights and information.

The big field of 16 Blue Diamond contenders features 11 that were sold at auction so let’s take a look at their sale origins with Lindsay Park Racing and Ciaron Maher Bloodstock both purchasing two runners.

Nimalee – a dominant winner of last year’s G1 Queen of the Turf Stakes against some of the best fillies and mares in training – is the latest headline act confirmed for the Chairman’s Sale.

Two year-old racing coming into the autumn carnival generates plenty of interest and for first season sires to make an impression they need to have horses in the pipeline so the unraced trial report offers some good insight.

Matamata trainer Graham Richardson has an eye on New Zealand’s longest juvenile Group One race as he prepares To Catch A Thief to resume racing at his home track this weekend.

Here is the full list of 23 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The first juvenile Group I of the season will be run at Sandown on Saturday with a full field of 16 plus emergencies accepting for the $2million MRC Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m).