Monday March 17
Here is the full list of 16 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Monday March 17
A connection to their homeland attracted Emma-Lee and David Browne to Mcgaw as an yearling, and twelve months later, the inexpensive gelding delivered the couple’s biggest victory since moving to Australia in Saturday’s $1 million Showdown (1200m).
Monday March 17
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Monday March 17
Wexford Stables took home the major spoils at Tauranga on Saturday, and this weekend, they will venture further afield with class three-year-old Checkmate contesting the Gr.1 Rosehill Guineas (2000m) in Sydney.
Monday March 17
There were five heats for 2YOs at Rosehill on Monday morning with winners including unraced youngsters by Wootton Bassett (GB), Lucky Vega (IRE) and Ole Kirk, while we had a second look at $3million I Am Invincible filly Ernaux and three winners have siblings for Inglis Easter.
Monday March 17
Progressive Starspangledbanner mare Lady Claypoole has been in great form this year in easier races and stepped up in class for the Group III Santa Ana Stakes (1 ¼ m) at Santa Anita on Saturday she kept the winning run going to claim her first Black Type victory.
Sunday March 16
Here is the full list of 57 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Sunday March 16
There’s a well proven recipe for success in finding an expensive yearling colt that shows ability, but not enough to remain a colt that then heads to Inglis Digital.
Sunday March 16
Bargain buy McGaw produced a rags-to-riches result in the TBV VOBIS Platinum Showdown (1200m) for the training team of David and Emma-Lee Browne and for Swettenham Stud, whose stallions continue to dominate the $1 million marquee contest on Victorian Owners and Breeders Raceday at Caulfield.
Sunday March 16
Just two days after siring his first winner, Kingstar Farm’s promising young sire Time to Reign added a second with King’s Court saluting at Ascot.
Sunday March 16
Up and coming Better Than Ready filly Hearts Are Better got a valuable payday winning the $500,000 Gold Coast City Council QTIS Jewel (1200m) for 3YO’s at the Gold Coast on Saturday evening.
Sunday March 16
Widden sires Written By, Gold Standard and even Zoustar put their owners in the winner’s circle at Caulfield on Saturday.
Sunday March 16
Promising two-year-old colt Grafterburners put his sire Graff into the top five on the First Season Sires list with a dominant win in the $500,000 Aquis QTIS Jewel (1200m) at the Gold Coast on Saturday.
Sunday March 16
The last Slipper lead up races were run at Rosehill on Saturday and while Skyhook is expected to take his place in the Golden Slipper next Saturday, Memo was announced as highly unlikely by her trainer Peter Snowden, so here is how the field is shaping and if you are a Wodeton supporter he’s looking good for a start.
Sunday March 16
When exceptional three year-old filly Lady Shenandoah won the Group I ATC Coolmore Stud Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday she put the finishing touch on a remarkable 24 hours for Arrowfield Stud bred and sold horses.
Sunday March 16
The trainer liked his long legs so paid $14,000 for McGaw who went two for two in the $1million TBV VOBIS Platinum Showdown (1200m) at Caulfield on Saturday.
Sunday March 16
Lady Shenandoah won the Group I Coolmore Classic at Rosehill on Saturday, as favourite, so no real surprise, but what might surprise is the rare air she now sits within, and the question becomes where might it finish?.
Saturday March 15
Here is the full list of 118 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday March 15
Vauban can only be described as a most remarkable horse and just to add to a story that appears far from finished, his first-up win in the 2000 metre Group III Sky High Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday as a seven-year-old came in the shortest race he’s ever contested.
Saturday March 15
The rise of Darby Racing flagbearer Iowna Merc over the summer months has been the stuff of dreams for his many owners and he took another step forward on Saturday when winning the $300,000 Group II ATC Ajax Stakes (1500m) in a thriller.
Saturday March 15
A savvy $300,000 purchase for Newgate Bloodstock from the 2024 Inglis Chairman’s Sale, talented Shalaa (IRE) mare Eagle Next claimed another valuable Black Type victory for her owners that now include Newgate and partners at Rosehill on Saturday when taking out the $250,000 Group III ATC Maurice McCarten Stakes (1100m).
Saturday March 15
Talented Snitzel filly Lazzura has been chasing home her over achieving stable-mate Lady Shenandoah in her previous three starts and with that filly targeted to the Group I ATC Coolmore Classic against the older mares, Lazzura grabbed her opportunity to shine when taking out the Group II ATC Phar Lap Stakes (1500m).
Saturday March 15
A troubled spring which ended when she bled when unplaced in the Group I VRC Champions Mile looked to have brought to a close the spectacular racing career of Pride of Jenni, but the seven year-old mare put all of that behind her when resuming from a spell to win the $500,000 Group II MRC Peter Young Stakes (1800m) at Caulfield on Saturday.
Saturday March 15
A week after Blake Shinn’s rail-skimming masterclass to guide Damask Rose from last to first in the inaugural NZB Kiwi (1500m), Ryan Elliot followed a similar script to help Waitak triumph in Saturday’s Gr.2 Ultimate Mazda Japan Trophy (1600m) at Tauranga.
Saturday March 15
With $600,000 in the bank and four placings from her first five starts Capitalist filly Memo was ‘Australia’s best maiden’ until she went to Rosehill on Saturday where she kicked the bridesmaid tag to the kerb with a late charging win in the $250,000 ATC Magic Night Stakes (1200m).
Saturday March 15
Smart middle-distance three-year-old King Of Thunder will get another chance at Classic success following a strong second-up victory in the Bisley Workwear Handicap (1900) at Rosehill on Saturday for trainer John O’Shea and Tom Charlton.
Saturday March 15
Talented Written Tycoon colt Skyhook has been a big watch horse at Breednet since he won his first barrier trial at Rosehill on February 3 and has now earned a shot at the Golden Slipper with a bold front running win in the $250,000 Group III ATC Pago Pago Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill on Saturday.
Saturday March 15
Classy three-year-old Love Poem overcame a wide barrier draw and her tenacious stablemate I’m All In to score fresh-up at Tauranga in the J Swap Contractors 3YO (1200m), booking her ticket to Sydney for a crack at The Championships.
Saturday March 15
Impressive debut winner War Princess made it two from two when she led from go to whoa in the opening event at Wanganui, the Wanganui Insurance Brokers 2YO (1200m).
Saturday March 15
Yulong have been making news overnight in Europe with the announcement of their purchase of two Dullingham Park based stallions in Shaquille and Soldier's Call from Steve Parkin's Clipper Logistics.
Saturday March 15
Here is the full list of 52 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Friday March 14
The $250,000 Group III Kembla Grange Classic (1600m on Friday drew an outstanding field of up and coming fillies and while Castelvecchio is without his Group I winning colt El Castello this autumn, he might have a very good replacement in the shape of Verona Rose, who kept her unbeaten record intact with a barnstorming win.
Friday March 14
Entered for the Group I ATC Australian Derby next month, the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained Frankel colt Format showed the classic distance will be right up his alley when bolting away to win as he pleased over 2400m at Kembla on Friday.
Friday March 14
An unreserved Canning Downs dispersal will be a standout feature of the Inglis Digital March (Late) Online Sale, for which entries remain open.
Friday March 14
Cambridge Stud is pleased to announce the appointment of Ben Tappenden as their General Manager. Ben is returning home after spending eight years in England at the renowned Whitsbury Manor Stud in Hampshire, working for the Harper family.
Friday March 14
The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable produced an interesting debut winner at Kilmore on Friday with the half-sister by I Am Invincible to Golden Slipper winner Farnan breaking the ice first time out.
Friday March 14
El Vencedor’s golden run of form has been recognised on the world stage, with the Stephen Marsh-trained gelding rated the 10th joint best galloper in the world in the latest LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings.
Friday March 14
South Australian nursery Rathmore Lodge have a draft of 10 for Magic Millions Adelaide next week and will offer one of only two yearlings in the sale by red hot first season sire Home Affairs as well as the only filly in the sale by Ole Kirk.
Thursday March 13
Our look into covering statistics last week highlighted plenty of super popular stallions that covered big books, but from a commercial perspective as a yearling vendor being one of a great many is not always a good thing, so we have delved deep into the book of a young stallion carrying a high degree of anticipation.
Thursday March 13
Here is the full list of 37 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Thursday March 13
Kingstar Farm’s freshman stallion Time To Reign has had a couple of metropolitan placegetters and broke through for his first winner at Wagga on Thursday with Timeless Grace.
Thursday March 13
Darby Racing have had a lot of success with modestly priced yearlings, but raised their sights to purchase a colt by Hello Youmzain (Fr) for $325,000 at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale last year and Stormland made a winning debut at Randwick on Thursday.
Thursday March 13
Two year-old Trapeze Artist filly Pleasure Queen opened her account with a promising debut victory at Randwick on Thursday.
Thursday March 13
Collingrove Stud are being kept busy this week with parades now underway for the Adelaide Magic Millions Yearling Sale next Monday and Tuesday with their draft of eight yearlings by eight different sires offering plenty of diversity and including a filly by exciting young sire Tassort and a colt closely related to promising 2YO Skyhook.
Wednesday March 12
“You will have received voting material from the ATC proposing two resolutions that would allow Rosehill Gardens to be sold at any time in the future without members having any further say in the matter.”
Wednesday March 12
The open juvenile event at Sandown on Wednesday attracted a good field with cream rising to the top as $1.4million Snitzel filly Conscience edged out regally bred I Am Invincible filly Sisstainable to score a long head win.
Wednesday March 12
Here is the full list of 41 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Wednesday March 12
The well-related Railway Man – today’s Inglis Digital March (Early) sale topper – will race the next phase of his career in Hong Kong after being purchased by Pure Bloodstock for $210,000.
Wednesday March 12
Dundeel had a couple of blueblood filly winners on Wednesday out of G1 winning mares that have more to offer on both the racetrack and for the future at stud.
Wednesday March 12
Coolmore Stud have released an interesting video through their social channels on Storm Boy as he builds up for a European campaign and no doubt a Royal Ascot tilt under Aidan O’Brien.
Wednesday March 12
Group One targets are in the offing for Tajana after she broke through for her maiden win in the AKW Farrier LTD 2YO (1200m) at Matamata on Wednesday.
Wednesday March 12
From being hidden behind the hedge as a foal due to being born with his left near-fore leg sitting at a stark angle, to proudly representing Waikato Stud and it’s white, green and royal blue colours on the world stage, the decision to retire I Wish I Win (ex Make A Wish) from racing has been made with the son of Savabeel having granted many wishes in his dazzling career.
Wednesday March 12
Windsor Park Stud’s first season sire Circus Maximus is on the board in the southern hemisphere with his first Australian runner a winner at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.
Wednesday March 12
The current racing season has delivered more success for Newhaven Park with a new round of star graduates to emerge from their sales drafts and at the Adelaide Magic Millions Yearling Sale next week, buyers will get the chance to seek out some of their future stars.
Wednesday March 12
Fresh from selling the sale-topper at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale in Sydney when their colt by The Autumn Sun from Talimena sold for $520,000, Fergal Connolly and his team at Valiant Stud are now focusing on Magic Millions Adelaide where they will present five youngsters by five different sires and they will be available for inspection from Thursday.
Wednesday March 12
Widden Stud are used to presenting huge drafts of yearlings at the major sales, but have gone short and sweet for Magic Millions Adelaide with a draft of 10 that includes a colt by the current leading two year-old sire in the country Ole Kirk and five youngsters by Widden’s proven G1 sire Trapeze Artist.
Tuesday March 11
Just two days after the Joseph / Jones Racing team won the Listed Canberra National Sprint with bargain priced Zoustar gelding Zouatica, they produced another modestly priced yearling by a red hot sire to win at Goulburn on Tuesday.
Tuesday March 11
Here is the full list of 10 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Tuesday March 11
Julie Harris of Holbrook Thoroughbreds is taking just three youngsters across to the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale and they all hold interest with two by Hellbent and Castelvecchio and the third is from a stakes-winning daughter of Fastnet Rock.
Tuesday March 11
Entries for NZB’s 2025 National Weanling Sale are now open, with the Sale set to be held at the Karaka Sales Centre on Thursday 26 June.
Tuesday March 11
A lot of attention is paid to the first season sires table, but it’s the second season when things get really interesting for a lot of sires as we saw at this time last year when The Autumn Sun took off like a rocket and with four stallions in this cohort already siring G1 winners this season we’re taking a closer look at these guys.
Tuesday March 11
There’s plenty of anticipation ahead of regally-bred colt Hostility’s raceday debut at Matamata on Wednesday.
Tuesday March 11
Olly Tait and his team at Twin Hills Stud are headed next to South Australia for the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale next week with a select draft of seven that includes a filly by So You Think and two youngsters by his young sire son Peltzer, who stands at the Cootamundra based nursery.
Tuesday March 11
Well-related colt Tardelli will make a return trip to Wellington in his bid to add a black-type victory to his burgeoning record.
Tuesday March 11
Ellerslie’s inaugural Champions Day was a memorable one for New Zealand’s leading stable, Te Akau Racing, with their tangerine and blue silks taking out two of the major prizes.
Tuesday March 11
The Golden Slipper picture is cloudier than ever after last weekend’s key races with five horses now exempt from ballot and boom colt Wodeton is just into the field, but vulnerable to possible latecomers from the Group III ATC Pago Pago Stakes and Magic Night Stakes to be run this Saturday.
Monday March 10
Here is the full list of 39 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Monday March 10
Melbourne Cup hero Fiorente has finally, a bit poetically and a bit sadly, sired a two-mile Cup winner and you can buy the half-brother at Inglis Easter by a Golden Slipper winner.
Monday March 10
There were a lot of people made happy by the result of the Listed SAJC Morphettville Guineas (1600m) on Monday when the unbeaten run of race favourite Sabaj was brought to an end by progressive Deep Field filly Gala Queen, a half-sister to multiple Group I placed Group III winning mare Semana.
Monday March 10
Fresh from siring a Group II double at Randwick on Saturday with fast juveniles Tempted and Tentyris, Street Boss (USA) kept the ball rolling with another stakes-winner on Monday at Morphettville when four year-old mare Elphinstone landed the Listed SAJC Colin Hayes Memorial Cup (1600m).
Monday March 10
There were five heats for juveniles at Randwick on Monday morning with Golden Slipper contenders West of Swindon and Bellazaine both in action, plus some well bred unraced heat winners including the brother to G1 winner Captivant and the Farnan first foal of Champion NZ 3YO Filly Jennifer Eccles.
Monday March 10
Classy juvenile Landlock turned a few heads when pushing million-dollar colt Return to Conquer right down to the wire in Saturday’s Gr.1 Sistema Stakes (1200m), but the performance came as no surprise to his trainer Cody Cole.
Monday March 10
Raymond Connors has collected every major two-mile prize in New Zealand, and now he is dreaming of a possible tilt at Australasia’s most coveted staying scalp, the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m).
Monday March 10
A stunning family double for Tony Rider on Champion’s Day elevated the Milan Park principal into rare territory.
Monday March 10
Trainers Simon and Katrina Alexander have always felt distance would be La Crique’s best friend, and they will give her the opportunity to step up over ground when they head to Australia with her later this month.
Monday March 10
Wootton Bassett (GB) already has his stripes as a sire of sires thanks to Almanzor (Fr), but one of his other Group I winning sons Wooded (IRE) was credited with his first stakes-winner overnight when Woodshauna took out the Listed Prix Monetenica (1300m) at Chantilly.
Sunday March 9
Here is the full list of 61 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Sunday March 9
Promising Alabama Express filly Glasgow Lass had been luckless in two attempts at black type this campaign but got the job done on Sunday with victory in the Listed Ascot 1000 Guineas (1800m).
Sunday March 9
Zoustar is one of the hottest sires in the country right now producing last Saturday’s Group I VRC Newmarket Handicap winner Joliestar with 35 of his glamour yearlings set to light up the sale ring next month at Inglis Easter, but it was one of his cheapest yearlings that became his latest stakes-winner at Canberra on Sunday.
Sunday March 9
It’s coming to the end of a busy sales season for Chris Watson and the team at Mill Park Stud with the leading South Australian nursery poised for action at the Adelaide Magic Millions Yearling Sale next Monday and Tuesday with their draft to feature one of the very last yearlings to be offered at auction by the great champion Lonhro.
Sunday March 9
They’re the two highest priced yearlings by Kia Ora Stud’s Golden Slipper winner Farnan and they fought out the finish of the Group III Black Opal Stakes (1200m) at Canberra on Sunday with the ‘cheapie’ King Of Pop prevailing over Farcited.
Sunday March 9
Monday night sees the Autumn return of Caroline Searcy’s Bred To Win promoting the thoroughbred breeding industry and informing both the stalwarts of the game and newcomers about the latest bloodstock news and much more.
Sunday March 9
The Autumn Sun’s Group One placed daughter Snow In May got the first stakes win on the board at Canberra on Sunday when taking the Listed Canberra Guineas (1400m).
Sunday March 9
Talented import Buckaroo (GB) was one of the WFA stars of last year’s spring carnival and we had a first look at his younger half-brother in the $150,000 VRC Australian Cup Prelude (2000m) at Flemington on Saturday and Middle Earth (GB) did not disappoint.
Sunday March 9
An interesting result at Hawkesbury on Saturday was the win of Mahogany Girl in the $150,000 Polytrack Provincial Midway Championship Qualifier (1400m) as while stallions sometimes come back to racing after a stint at stud, mares rarely do it, but she has proved it is not only possible, but profitable!
Sunday March 9
Cambridge Stud-owned sprinting mare Joliestar proved she is among the best of Australia’s sprinters with an outstanding performance to win Saturday’s A$1.5 million Gr.1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington.
Sunday March 9
Woodside Park’s Shalaa produced his fifth stakes winner of the season when Jennilala produced a tough performance to win the Group III Matron Stakes (1600m) at Flemington for her new trainer.
Sunday March 9
Twin Hills Stud’s super consistent Smart Missile produced his 26th stakes winner on Saturday when Triple Missile won the Listed Bunbury Stakes (1400m).
Sunday March 9
Fresh off a Friday double, Vinery Stud’s red-hot Ole Kirk did it again on Saturday with two debut winners taking him to the top of both first season sire tables.
Sunday March 9
Reigning champion sire I Am Invincible had a seven winner Saturday and three of those winners were stakes-winners with Vinrock (2YO colt)and Enriched (3YO colt) joined later in the day by the Godolphin homebred mare Commemorative, who scored a dominant win in the Group III ATC Wenona Girl Stakes (1200m) at Randwick.
Saturday March 8
Here is the full list of 106 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday March 8
The $750,000 Group I ATC Canterbury Stakes (1300m) at Randwick on Saturday attracted a crackerjack field of serious G1 talent and when they got to the winning post it was one of only two runners in the race that was not a G1 winner that got the prize and it was the glorious Wootton Basset import Royal Patronage (Fr).
Saturday March 8
A troubled third when resuming from a spell in the Group II ATC Expressway Stakes in Sydney last month, super talented Zoustar mare Joliestar put that form behind her when powering to victory in the $1.5million Group I VRC Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday.
Saturday March 8
There’s always been a bit of something about Tom Kitten and he was mighty getting back to Group One winning form at Flemington on Saturday, staring down a brave Mr Brightside to prevail in the All Star Mile.
Saturday March 8
Waikato Stud’s rising star stallion Super Seth has sired his first two Group One winners within the space of seven days, with Linebacker capturing Saturday’s A$1 million Gr.1 The Agency Randwick Guineas (1600m) a week after Feroce’s heroics in the Gr.1 Australian Guineas (1600m).
Saturday March 8
A Cox Plate winning champion sire for Waikato Stud, Savabeel is not known for his short course older sprinters, with the exception of I Wish I Win, but he has a good one in Jedibeel.
Saturday March 8
Gilgai Farm have been basking in the glory of selling a million dollar yearling at Inglis Premier last week and also featured at Randwick on Saturday having bred and sold All Too Hard mare Little Baia, who scored a valuable first stakes win in the Group III ATC Aspiration Quality (1600m).
Saturday March 8
Memories of a confidence-denting defeat in last month’s Gr.2 Avondale Guineas (2100m) were blown away on Saturday as Willydoit powered to a dominant victory in the Gr.1 Trackside New Zealand Derby (2400m) at Ellerslie.
Saturday March 8
Te Akau Racing, Blake Shinn and fantastic filly Damask Rose created a piece of New Zealand racing history when they took out the inaugural running of the richest race in the land, the newly minted $3.5 million Listed The NZB Kiwi (1500m) at Ellerslie.
Saturday March 8
The $300,000 Group II VRC Sires Produce Stakes (1400m) always looked a race for the up and comers with talented I Am invincible colt Vinrock making it two wins in as many starts with a dominant two length win.