Patience has paid dividends for the connections of New Zealand-bred gelding Smokin’ Romans.

All Blacks coaching great Sir Steve Hansen believes New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame trainer Chris Waller is a prime candidate for New Zealand sports coach of the year.

Danny O’Brien won the Gr.1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) in 2007 with New Zealand-bred Master O’Reilly and he is hoping he has another Kiwi that can add a second Caulfield Cup to his mantle on Saturday.

The Listed Bisley Workwear Reginald Allen Stakes is far from the most lucrative contest at Randwick on Saturday, but it does carry some priceless black-type for the three-year-old fillies.

Keeneland has announced that seven horses have been supplemented to Book 1 of the 79th November Breeding Stock Sale, to be held Nov. 7. A total of 233 horses are cataloged to the sale’s first session, which begins at 1 p.m. ET.

Widden Stud are thrilled to announce the acquisition of Group I ATC Golden Rose winner Jacquinot, who will start in the $15million Everest against the best sprinters in the world at Randwick on Saturday.

It’s worth $15million and is widely regarded as the best sprint in the world, but the price of a runner in this year’s Everest is not what you would think and the sires represented give hope to every single breeder in Australia that they too could one day produce an Everest contender.

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

Rebel Dane was relocated to Widden Stud this spring off the back of the achievements of his Champion 2YO Filly and Golden Slipper winner Fireburn, the promising sire posting an impressive debut winner at Kembla on Thursday.

Strong trade at the Inglis Ready 2 Race Sale this week produced some great pinhook results with Dean Harvey’s Baystone Farm producing two of the three best sales.

Yearlings consigned by Ballylinch Stud filled two of the top three positions on the final day of Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, with their LOPE DE VEGA filly topping proceedings at 650,000 guineas, the second highest price for a filly at this sale.  

She may not have won, but trainer John Sargent was pleased with So Dazzling’s third-placed run in the wet over 1880m at Newcastle on Tuesday.

Ross and Corrine Kearney took an instant shine to Satono Aladdin and first impressions have resulted in the South Waikato couple adding Australian stakes success to their domestic achievements.

A third of the runners in this year’s $15million The Everest are by Swettenham Stud based sires past and present, but it’s their new recruit Wooded (IRE), who holds the promise of producing sprinting stars for the future.

We saw three new Australian three year-old stakes-winners on Wednesday, one of them a Group I winner and the other two may well be Group I winners before the end of spring and two of them are by mares by the same sire!

A pair of broodmares at different spectrums of their breeding careers have shared top billing in today’s Inglis Digital October (Early) Online Sale, both realising $150,000.

Here is the full list of 54 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

With Group One goals in both Sydney and Melbourne looming large on his horizon, New Zealand three-year-old Sharp ‘N’ Smart kicked off his Australian spring campaign with a tenacious victory in the Gr. 3 Gloaming Stakes (1600m) at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

The Pride Of Dubai mare Sirileo Miss showed her appreciation for the track and distance when going back to back in the Group III Catanach's Ladies' Day Vase (1600m) at Caulfield.

No Nay Never (USA) shuttled to Coolmore Australia for four seasons and now remains in Ireland at a fee of €125,000, but the brilliant son of Scat Daddy was making news here on Wednesday when his talented filly Madame Pommery won the Group I MRC Thousand Guineas (1600m).

Rich Hill Stud shuttler Satono Aladdin (JPN) sired his first stakes winner when Grand Impact stretched his unbeaten sequence to three in Wednesday’s $200,000 Group III Catanach's Blue Sapphire Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.

Well-supported when disappointing behind Hitotsu in the Victoria Derby twelve months ago, the Tavistock gelding Gunstock looked like a Cups horse in the making with a dominant performance in the Group III Neds Coongy Cup (2000m) at Caulfield on Wednesday.

So You Think made it a race to race double at Warwick Farm on Wednesday when Mark Newnham unleashed three year-old filly Street Gossip to win a very competitive 1200m maiden on debut, not long after Pungo showed serious potential with his maiden win.

A savvy purchase from the NZB Ready to Run Sale, the Chris Waller trained So You Think colt Pungo was a short priced favourite at Warwick Farm on Wednesday and duly scored a dominant win at just his second start.

Third on debut behind the hugely impressive Platinum Jubilee in the Group III Gimcrack Stakes at Randwick, Hellbent filly Divine Glory made light work of the Fujitsu General Maiden Plate (1000m) at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

While any sale of young horses always generates huge excitement around the progeny of up-and-coming stallion talent, buyers can also strike gold by sticking with the tried and true.

It was an electric second day at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale with eighteen lots selling for 300,000 guineas or more and a turnover record for a session at this fixture. The turnover, average and median all rose by double digit percentages when compared with this session last year whilst the clearance rate was 88%. 

The highest-priced 2YO ever sold at an Inglis Ready2Race Sale – and the most expensive breeze up horse sold in Australasia in 15 years – today topped what was the highest-grossing 2YO sale in Australian history.

The field and barrier draw for the Everest were finalised tonight with two sires to have multiple runners and both of them standing in Victoria, while race favourite Nature Strip drew the outside gate.

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

The Kitchwin Hills team are filled with anticipation for what tomorrow brings with Boogie Dancer headlining Wednesday’s Group I MRC Thousand Guineas at Caulfield where she'll start as favourite against a field of 11.

Reigning champion sire in Hong Kong, Deep Field is setting the pace at the Inglis Ready 2 Race Sale on Tuesday with a colt offered by Nolen Racing selling for $550,000 to Anton Koolman Bloodstock after producing the fastest breeze up gallop of the sale.

The Warwick Farm meeting on Wednesday features a juvenile maiden over 1000m with eight runners engaged, four colts and four fillies.

The first day of Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale got off to a strong start, with six lots selling for 300,000 guineas or more led by a SEA THE STARS colt who topped the opening session at 800,000 guineas, the highest price at the sale since 2019 and the third highest priced colt in the history of the fixture. 

The Inglis Ready 2 Race Sale for two year-olds is on today at Riverside Stables and for a guide as to what they will be making the pinhook  report is a must read.

Following the passing of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III has taken over the ownership of her racehorses and he tasted success with his first stakes-winner in the royal silks overnight with progressive filly Perfect Alibi franking the form of Melbourne Cup contender Hoo Ya Mal.

Highland Reel (IRE) is off the mark in Australia, his first winner coming with the Jackson Pallot-trained Highland Blaze in a 2200m maiden at Bairnsdale on Monday.

This time three years ago Yes Yes Yes was a promising three year-old colt that had finished second twice to Bivouac in the Group II ATC Run to the Rose and then the Group I ATC Golden Rose, but by the end of that week he was the highest rated colt in the country thanks to The Everest.

Rich Hill Stud principal John Thompson has a spring in his step after two members of his exciting stallion roster posted Group victories at Matamata on Saturday.

Sydney’s big wet has helped persuade the La Crique team to send her to Melbourne for a potential pair of Flemington features.

The big wet in Sydney meant the Randwick trials on Monday morning were run on the polytrack with an interesting heat for juveniles featuring several high-profile colts including the winner who cost $1.4million.

The strength of the Sydney fillies form will be tested at Caulfield on Wednesday with Flight Stakes runners North Star Lass and Madame Pommery accepting for the $1million Group I MRC Thousand Guineas (1600m), while a trio of blue-blood fillies will be searching for their first G1.

Deep Field was doing the business in Australia on Saturday with a pair for new Group winners in Sky Command and English Riviera and his fans will be pleased to note there are seven quality colts by the reigning champion Hong Kong sire to be offered at the NZB Ready to Run Sale on November 16 and 17.

NZB Airfreight is proud to be at the forefront of a new sponsorship incentive known as the NZB Airfreight Best Newcomer Award, forming part of the NZTR Thoroughbreds in Equestrian Sports (TiES) Series. 

We all know how good a sire NZ  based Per Incanto (USA) is in Australia with Roch ‘n’ Horse winning the Group I VRC Newmarket Handicap and Lost and Running poised to give Nature Strip a run for his money in the $15million Everest this Saturday and he has 10 entries to be offered at  the Inglis Ready 2 Race Sale on Tuesday.

Here is the full list of 45 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

New Zealand-based syndicators Go Racing have lofty goals for their team and are confident they have the right horses to target some of the lucrative prizes on offer in Australia over the next few months.

After a big Saturday of stakes racing, Zoustar still holds the top slot on the Australian General Sires List by earnings and he featured on Sunday with a debut winner that could be considered a bargain buy given the soaring stocks of his sire.

The Randwick meeting on Saturday was cut short due to the dire state of the track with the richest race run carrying no Black Type, but $500,000 in cash with the inaugural ATC Tapp Craig (1400m) won by terrific filly Opal Ridge, who continued the run of success enjoyed by her sire Rubick.

Tuvalu – just the second horse Merricks Station’s Ben Cooper ever offered for sale – became the Victorian farm’s first G1 winner when saluting in the Toorak Handicap at Caulfield.

Annabel Neasham’s Group 1 Prix Jean Prat winner Laws Of Indices came with a barnstorming finish to run Tuvalu to three-quarters of a length in the Group 1 Toorak Hcp at Caulfield on Saturday, completing a good day for Oaklands Stud’s Power (GB), which began with a win by the debutant Risky Investment at Eagle Farm.

A great start to the day for the Nolan family at Eagle Farm on Saturday, when the Raheen Stud bred Spirit Of Boom filly, Miss Coota blitzed her rivals in the Widden Stud  Basil Nolan Jnr QTIS 2YO Fillies Plate.

The breeder of the top seller on Day 1 at Tattersalls on Monday and the winner of the $750,000 Grade 1 First Lady Stakes at Keeneland on Saturday, then throw in the much-anticipated birth of the first foal of Winx, then it has been some week for John Camilleri's Fairway Thoroughbreds.

Four Group I races in Australia and New Zealand on Saturday produced three first time G1 winners, highlighted an unexpected influential broodmare sire and of course the mighty Anamoe, who claimed his sixth Group I win making him the most successful horse Godolphin have ever had in Australia.

Blue-blood Deep Impact sire Saxon Warrior (Jpn) posted a new stakes-winner in Ireland overnight with talented filly Lumiere Rock taking out the Group III Staffordstown Stud Stakes (1m) at The Curragh.

Frankel colts were in hot demand at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale this week and a colt bought from the December Foal Sale in 2020 for 550,000 guineas became his latest Group I winner when taking out the Dewhurst Stakes (7f) at Newmarket.

Here is the full list of 117 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

It was a Written Tycoon quinella to round out a magnificent card at Caulfield, with Literary Magnate edging out Written Beauty in the Group III Senet Northwood Plume Stakes (1200m).

Aquis Farm’s brilliant Japanese bred multiple Group I winning sprinter Brave Smash (Jpn) became the first of the new season sires to post a winner when his first runner Brave Halo returned a winner at Ascot in Perth on Saturday.

Following his fighting third in the Group 1 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes, the Lindsay Smith trained Tuvalu and jockey Jarrod Fry had their day in the sun in the $1,00,000 Group 1 Hyland Race Colours Toorak Hcp (1600m) at Caulfield.

Progressive mare Darci La Bella added a valuable black-type victory to an already outstanding race record when she strode clear to win the Gr.3 Grangewilliam Stud Taranaki Breeders’ Stakes (1400m) at Hawera.

Young Godolphin stallion Astern looked to have a lock in the Caulfield Guineas with Aft Cabin, but with his injury-enforced absence, it was time for another son of Astern to step up in the $3,000,000 Group 1 feature.

Newgate Farm’s Deep Field posted a Group double of new stakes-winners on Saturday with English Riviera saluting at Caulfield in the Group III MRC Thoroughbred Club Stakes before speedy mare Sky Command ploughed through the heavy 10 at Randwick to win the Group III ATC The Nivison (1200m).

The best middle-distance horses in the land turned up for Saturday’s $1,000,000 Group 1 Neds Might And Power Stakes (2000m) and it was a race for the ages.

James Cummings would not commit to a start for Paulele in next week’s Everest after the son of Dawn Approach (IRE) captured the Lexus Schillaci Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

Top class Snitzel colt Best of Bordeaux was second in the Group I ATC Golden Slipper last season and showed he was back to that form at Randwick on Saturday when making the best of heavy 10 conditions to win the Group II ATC Roman Consul Stakes (1200m).

It may have taken an extra seven days to come to fruition but Matamata mare La Crique got a deserved success at the highest level when she took out the Gr.1 Arrowfield Stud Plate (1600m) at Matamata on Saturday.

Local runner Paisley Park showed he had taken plenty of improvement from his first-up performance at Te Rapa last month when he came with a withering late burst to score in the Listed Team Wealleans Matamata Cup (1600m).

Local runner Pier dominated his three-year-old rivals in the closing stages of the AHD Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m), dashing away to win the Group Two feature in fine style.

Danny O’Brien’s Saracen Knight (IRE) is in the form of his life, which may have connections regretting his absence from the nominations for the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup.

Deep Field filly English Riviera has always promised to win a stakes race and got the job done at Caulfield on Saturday when scoring a tenacious victory in the Group III MRC Thoroughbred Club Stakes (1200m) carrying the Seymour Bloodstock colours

Blake Shinn made it three wins in the first four races on Caulfield Guineas Day when finding a narrow seam to capture the Listed Neds Village Stakes on Godolphin homebred Gravina.

Grahame Begg raised a few eyebrows when declaring Cardinal Gem a Group 1 horse after winning his most recent start on a heavy 10 at Flemington.

The Listed MRC Debutant Stakes (1000m) at Caulfield on Saturday only had six runners, but we might have seen an exceptional juvenile with I Am Invincible colt King’s Gambit winning by five lengths untouched to become the first stakes winner for a joint venture between Newgate Farm and Gooree Stud.

Valiant Stud will present five quality juveniles at the Inglis Ready 2 Race Sale on Tuesday and all have breezed in sub 11 seconds.

Happy news overnight with the owners of champion mare Winx confirming their superstar has at last produced her first foal with the early morning arrival of a filly by Golden Slipper winning sire Pierro.

Last month we highlighted an exciting filly by Kingman that had Group I potential and that was fulfilled overnight when Commissioning won the Group I Newmarket Fillies Mile (1m).

Here is the full list of 49 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Friday with winners and result details.

The first Australian bred foals by Wootton Bassett (GB) are being born here this spring, but a stunning filly by the Coolmore shuttler will be headed to Australia after being purchased at Tattersalls October Yearling Sale this week by bloodstock agent Jeremy Brummitt.

The next generation of racetrack stars have strutted their stuff at three breeze up sessions for the upcoming Magic Millions Gold Coast 2YOs in Training Sale.

Group placed 3YO Barbie’s Fox – who has defeated the likes of Snapdancer, Lyre, Flit, Missile Mantra etc – is one of a number of appealing entries in the Inglis Digital October (Early) Online auction.

Widden Stud’s champion sire Zoustar posted some good results at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale this week and his top seller is an interesting one as her dam is now in Australia and recently produced a filly by Frankel.

The big wet in Sydney meant the barrier trials on Friday morning went ahead on the polytrack at Warwick Farm with two heats for juveniles producing winners sired by Snitzel and Exceed and Excel and both are full siblings to stakes horses.

A record-breaking Tattersalls October Book 1 Yearling Sale was dominated by two sires, Frankel and Dubawi, who provided every single one of the 12 yearling colts that sold for 1million guineas or more and Godolphin signed for seven of them.

The remarkable trade continued on the third and final day at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale with two sons of FRANKEL headlining the session on a day that saw a further 24 yearlings sell for 500,000 guineas or more, taking the three-session total to 73. Turnover for the three day sale was a record 126,671,000 guineas, up a massive 47% on last year’s sale, whilst the average a

The final breeze ups ahead of Tuesday’s Inglis Ready2Race Sale were this morning completed at Warwick Farm, with the final 31 juveniles put through their paces in difficult conditions.

Here is the full list of 35 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Joe Pride will have two runners in the $15million Everest with Private Eye joining stablemate Eduardo after Inglis selected him to replace their first choice Snapdancer, who has been sidelined with a hoof issue.

The New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association, in partnership with the Keith and Faith Taylor Equine Scholarship Trust, are offering the opportunity of a lifetime for one young industry participant.

If he were around today, Aub Walsh would get a kick out of Golden Mile carrying the Godolphin silks in Saturday's $3,000,000 Group 1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m).

Champion trainer Chris Waller has had some luck for Yulong training their dual Group I winning filly Hungry Heart and he produced a promising winner in their colours at Mornington on Thursday.

If you are an Australian breeder that has been supporting Darley shuttler Too Darn Hot (GB) then results coming out of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 this week will have you feeling pretty chuffed!

Juvenile stakes racing continues at Caulfield on Saturday with seven acceptors for the Listed MRC Debutant Stakes for colts and fillies.

Keeneland has cataloged 3,691 horses for its 79th November Breeding Stock Sale, which will begin Monday, Nov. 7 after Keeneland hosts the Breeders’ Cup World Championships the preceding Friday and Saturday. Click here for the catalog for the sale, which features proven producers, coveted broodmare prospects who were successful racehorses and royally bred weanlings at all levels of the market

Explosive trade on the second day at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale saw eight yearlings sell for 1,000,000 guineas or more, the highest priced yearling in the world in 2022 and the European turnover record for a day at auction also broken. Whilst the progeny of DUBAWI dominated yesterday, it was yearlings by the remarkable FRANKEL who hit the headlines on day two with four of the

Here is the full list of 41 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Wednesday with winners and result details.

Returning to the track fifty-eight weeks after her maiden success at Sale, Black Caviar's daughter Invincible Caviar returned to the same track to claim a second victory.

Joe Pride informed the stewards before the race that the intention was to lead on Cinderella Days, and the three-year-old daughter of Astern did just that when never headed in a benchmark 64 over 1250m at Canterbury on Wednesday.

The three-year-old Fastnet Rock filly Cabaca wiped $36,000 off her $300,000 purchase price when breaking her maiden over 1580m at a rain-sodden Canterbury on Wednesday.

Few stable have a better strike rate with the progeny of Magnus than Robbie Griffiths and Mathew de Kock, who have another progressive type in the three-year-old filly Entremet.