Sunday July 10
Here is the full list of 61 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Sunday July 10
Juddmonte Farms super sire Frankel is edging close to his century of stakes-winners and racked up number 98 in the US on the weekend when he delivered the quinella in the Group I Belmont Oaks Invitational (2000m) on turf.
Sunday July 10
Promising young sire Menari is set to stand at Corumbene Stud this spring where he was bred and the brilliant son of Snitzel had a debut winner at Wodonga on Sunday trained by Anthony and Sam Freedman.
Sunday July 10
Brilliant Flying Artie colt Artorius again flew the flag proudly for Australia in the Group I Darley July Cup (6f) at Newmarket, surging home for third behind outstanding mare Alcohol Free and Naval Crown, who won the Group I Platinum Jubilee Stakes at his previous run.
Sunday July 10
Trainer Graeme Rogerson hopes a special visit by officials from the Moonee Valley Racing Club to his Tuhikaramea property in Hamilton on Sunday afternoon is a good omen for the spring prospects of exciting galloper Sharp ‘N’ Smart.
Saturday July 9
The short course sprinters got blown out of the water overnight in the UK when quality mare Alcohol Free claimed her fourth Group I win in the Darley July Cup (6f) at Newmarket with Artorius a late closing third.
Saturday July 9
Shuttling to Australia this spring for Coolmore, proven G1 sire Wootton Bassett (GB) featured overnight when his high class son Chindit returned to top form to win the Group II Fred Cowley MBE Memorial Summer Mile (1m) at Ascot.
Saturday July 9
Here is the full list of 114 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday July 9
Defending champion Nerodio emerged from the gloom with a barnstorming finish to claim a second consecutive Listed Beaufine Stakes (1000m) at Belmont on Saturday.
Saturday July 9
A 2YO son of record-breaking sire Deep Field has topped the 2022 Hong Kong International Sale after attracting a bid of HK$7.8 million (A$1.4million) at the Sha Tin Parade Ring on Saturday, as all 17 lots offered realised a total of HK$71 million.
Saturday July 9
Cross Talk capped a successful day for New Zealand-breds in Sydney on Saturday with a commanding performance in the final race on the Randwick card.
Saturday July 9
There are few more likeable mares around than the Headwater 4yo Mileva, who earned a fourth stakes success when pulling the Group III Neds Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m) out of the fire at Caulfield on Saturday.
Saturday July 9
Exciting New Zealand-bred gelding Waihaha Falls produced one of the most impressive performances in Australasia on Saturday, outclassing his opposition by almost five lengths in the A$150,000 Bowermans Handicap (1200m) at Randwick.
Saturday July 9
Three weeks after clearing maiden grade at Geelong, up-and-coming stayer Duke Of Hastings delivered a repeat result at Caulfield on Saturday and headed a New Zealand-bred trifecta in the A$130,000 Neds Fully Loaded Handicap (2000m).
Saturday July 9
After two black-type placings, the 4yo Written Tycoon mare Tycoon Evie sent her worth soaring while completing a great day for Rex Lipp and Nicholas Hahn when capturing Saturday’s Group III Magic Millions Pam O’Neil Stakes (1600m) at Doomben.
Saturday July 9
Sporting the Eureka Stud colours carried to stakes success by his sire and dam, Simply Fly lived up to his heritage with a dominant performance in Saturday’s Listed Chief De Beers Stakes at Doomben.
Saturday July 9
In an energy-sapping finish, the Joe Pride-trained Taksu outbattled lightweight Jojo Was a Man in Saturday's $160,000 Listed Winter Stakes (1400m) at Randwick.
Saturday July 9
A twelve-month break necessitated by an operation to remove some bone chips from a knee hasn’t held back promising winter galloper Butler, who resumed with a comfortable victory over 1200m at Te Rapa on Saturday.
Saturday July 9
A flying start to the day for Aquis Farm's first crop sires Kobayashi, Invader, and Jukebox with Midnight In Tokyo (Kobayashi) winning at Randwick, Nishikado (Invader) making a winning debut at Gawler, and Jukebox Flyer (Jukebox) a fighting second at Caulfield.
Saturday July 9
Making her career debut, the Peter Moody-trained, bred, and owned filly Cotel made all the running in Saturday's Take It To The Neds Level Hcp (1100m) for two-year-old fillies at Caulfield.
Saturday July 9
Aquis Farm’s Kobayashi is the sire of smart filly Midnight in Tokyo, who powered home from back in the field to win the open juvenile event at Randwick on Saturday.
Friday July 8
Interesting racing overnight in the UK with a massive upset in the Group I Falmouth Stakes and new Group winners for Australian bred sires Starspangledbanner and Exceed and Excel.
Friday July 8
An extraordinary renewal of the Tattersalls July Sale concluded with unprecedented figures for all key indicators, sale turnover exceeding 16 million guineas for the first time and a record average and median. The third and final day of the sale saw continued strength and depth to trade with seven lots selling for 100,000 guineas or more and a 96% clearance rate.
Friday July 8
Stratosphere has left outstanding individuals and it is no surprise that his first crop yearlings were exceptionally well received this year in the sale ring. His yearlings averaged over $36k (9 x service fee) providing breeders with one of the best return on service fee of any stallion in Australia. Stratosphere’s yearlings sold for $125k, $80k, $70k, $65k etc and were bought by many leadin
Friday July 8
Stakes winners, G1 performers and broodmares with highly desirable domestic and international covers headline another strong and diverse Inglis Digital online sale.
Friday July 8
Here is the full list of 36 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Friday July 8
A massive set of 20 trials at Randwick on the polytrack were run on Friday morning featuring 11 heats won by juveniles including a royally bred Zoustar colt that won by nine, a Churchill (IRE) colt that has class 3YO written all over him and an unraced Snitzel filly from THE family.
Friday July 8
The 2022 National Broodmare and Stallion Share catalogue is now live on Gavelhouse Plus with 81 Lots.
Friday July 8
A great-granddaughter of one of the incomparable Miesque making her career debut qualifies this filly for the Best On Breeding on Saturday.
Friday July 8
Progressive Victorian farm Glen Eden Stud have made an exciting announcement with brilliant Group winning Written Tycoon speedster Finance Tycoon set to join their roster in 2022.
Thursday July 7
A field of blue-blood two year-old fillies lined up in the seven furlong maiden at Leopardstown overnight with victory going to a first starter by promising young sire Saxon Warrior (Jpn), who returns to Australia this spring.
Thursday July 7
The Tattersalls July Sale continued in robust fashion on the second day with a remarkable clearance rate of 99% and six lots selling for 100,000 guineas or more. The sale turnover is already the third highest on record after just two days of the three day sale.
Thursday July 7
Newgate Farm’s Extreme Choice stands for $275,000 this spring making him the most expensive sire in the country, so we thought it might be interesting to see what his book looked like last year when he was listed as fee on application.
Thursday July 7
Here is the full list of 32 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Thursday July 7
Having been part of the ownership that won the race that stops the nation in 2021 with superstar mare, Verry Elleegant, the prominent Melbourne based ownership group – headed up by Ozzie Kheir – is aiming to repeat the dose this November with exciting Melbourne Cup hopeful, Loft.
Thursday July 7
Not even a bottomless track could spoil the winning debut of Lonhro blueblood Vientiane over 1100m at Canterbury on Thursday.
Thursday July 7
Despite dramas at the start, the Ribchester (IRE) colt River Ribble gave favourite backers little cause for concern when breaking his maiden over 1200m at Cranbourne on Thursday.
Thursday July 7
Yarraman Park’s Hellbent was in hot form on Thursday with two new winners, Hell I Am scoring at Canterbury and then Tattenham breaking the ice at Cranbourne with a commanding win.
Thursday July 7
Yarraman Park’s promising young sire Hellbent added a fifth winner to his tally at rain soaked Canterbury on Thursday when talented gelding Hell I Am cast off maiden status with a determined length victory.
Wednesday July 6
The Tattersalls July Sale got off to a record-breaking start with two lots selling for 500,000 guineas or more and turnover for the opening session eclipsing the previous record set in 2016 by 21%. Four of the ten highest prices in the history of the Tattersalls July Sale were set today.
Wednesday July 6
Spring racing will be without charismatic So You Think gelding Think It Over, who will not ace again this year due to a tendon injury.
Wednesday July 6
Here is the full list of 40 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Wednesday July 6
Coming to the end of his best ever season on the racetrack having sired the winners of over $18.6million, So You Think has been phenomenally popular with broodmare owners for the past four seasons covering 200 plus mares in each of those years, so let’s take a look at his 2021 book.
Wednesday July 6
Cambridge Stud have been buoyed by the early interest in their freshman sire Sword Of State ahead of the coming breeding season.
Wednesday July 6
A short priced favourite for the opening race at Sandown on Wednesday, talented 3YO Pride of Dubai filly Hypothetical did the right thing by her supporters when cruising home to win by a length.
Wednesday July 6
The barrier trials originally scheduled for Monday at Warwick Farm finally got run this morning following rain delay and there were seven 2YO heat winners on the polytrack including the half-sister to Group I Blue Diamond winner Tagaloa.
Tuesday July 5
The Tattersalls July Sale starts this week featuring a smorgasbord of tried racehorses, race fillies and broodmare prospects guaranteed to tempt what is anticipated to be a large Australian buying bench and with many of the leading European sires being offered for Southern Hemisphere time covers we can expect the seeds of future racetrack success in Australia to be sewn this week.
Tuesday July 5
Here is the full list of 20 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details and importantly Better Than Ready posting the one winner he needed to crack a century of winners for the season!
Tuesday July 5
The Ballarat meeting on the synthetic track on Tuesday produced a promising debut winner for Merchant Navy when Navy Black saluted as a hot favourite.
Tuesday July 5
Mapperley Stud will welcome the addition of three new stallions to their roster this upcoming breeding season, with former Valachi Downs residents Vespa and Savile Row joining the Matamata farm’s earlier acquisition of Armory.
Tuesday July 5
Our next chapter in the Price Point series of stories looks at a small group of well credentialled sires that sit just below $22,000, but above the massive group priced at $16,500, and they include some young sires attracting plenty of support.
Tuesday July 5
Quality New Zealand jumper Chief Sequoyah has arrived across the Tasman in preparation for a three-race campaign.
Monday July 4
After seven seasons at Darley in the Hunter Valley, Group I Caulfield Guineas winner Shooting to Win has been relocated to Western Australia and will stand at Oakland Park Stud.
Monday July 4
They only ran three races at Wagga on Monday due to the appalling weather and heavy track, but that was enough for astute trainer Kurt Goldman to unleash a very promising juvenile filly by Pierro.
Monday July 4
Due to popularity and limited places for the accredited training open to NSW Supervisors and Managers of the Breeding and Racing industry, we encourage those yet to register to do as soon as possible.
Monday July 4
Arrowfield Stud’s Snitzel has had his usual good season with his 2YO’s, but his 3YO’s have been a powerhouse of success making him the leading sire in the country by 3YO winners and 3YO stakes-winners.
Monday July 4
Here is the full list of 16 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Monday July 4
The race to be the most successful sire of Australian 2YO winners this season is being fought in Queensland with Spirit of Boom (Eureka Stud) and Better Than Ready (Lyndhurst Stud) going head to head with only weeks of this season to run.
Sunday July 3
Group I racing in Europe overnight produced a Frankel quinella in the Group I Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, but the winner was not the Frankel that ran as favourite , while the German Derby delivered a new Group I winner for Camelot.
Sunday July 3
Here is the full list of 44 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Sunday July 3
The sad passing of retired champion sire Not a Single Doubt last week got us thinking about his close relation King’s Legacy, who was the busiest first season sire in Australia last spring, so let’s take a look at the mares he covered.
Sunday July 3
Although leading New Zealand racehorse syndicator David Ellis has plenty to celebrate through the success of his Te Akau Racing operation during the 2021/2022 season, one of the lesser known strings to his bow are the numerous achievements he and wife Karyn have secured on the thoroughbred breeding front over the past twelve months.
Sunday July 3
Three-year-old gelding Facteur Cheval, a son of Haunui Farm shuttle stallion Ribchester, oozed class when defeating a quality field to land Saturday’s Listed Tattersalls Prix de Saint-Patrick (1600m) at Chantilly.
Sunday July 3
With a Blue Diamond in the trophy cabinet courtesy of Tagaloa, Trent Bussutin and Natalie Young have every right to love the progeny of Lord Kanaloa (JPN), and they have another promising type by the champion Japanese sprinter in Kween Kanali.
Saturday July 2
A half-sister to dual Group I winning sprinter September Run by American Pharoah (USA), My Yankee Girl is a filly on the up winning the $150,000 VRC Rivette Final (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday.
Saturday July 2
A homebred for the Aga Khan, talented three year-old colt Vadeni announced himself on the big stage with a five length last start win in the Group I Prix du Jockey Club (2100m) and confirmed that potential when travelling to the UK to win the Group I Sandown Coral Eclipse Stakes (1m2f).
Saturday July 2
Here is the full list of 98 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday July 2
Le Don De Vie (GB) had some useful form in Britain for Andrew Balding and Hughie Morrison, hence his hefty €460,000 purchase price at the 2019 Goff London Sale.
Saturday July 2
So You Think’s bumper season continued at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday when his promising three year-old Majestic Colour extended his winning run to four on the trot with a commanding victory in the $200,000 Group III Winx Stakes (1600m).
Saturday July 2
A Group I winning son of champion sire Fastnet Rock, Awesome Rock has been quietly putting together some nice results with his oldest progeny just three year-olds and went very close to posting a stakes double at Belmont on Saturday.
Saturday July 2
A $200,000 Inglis Premier purchase for Boomer Bloodstock/ Lindsey Smith, four year-old gelding Tuvalu became a new stakes-winner for his sire Kermadec when taking out the Listed VRC Winter Championship Final (1600m) at Flemington on Saturday.
Saturday July 2
Spritely seven year-old gelding Sirius Suspect claimed his second Black Type win at Flemington on Saturday taking out the Listed VRC Santa Ana Lane Final (1200m).
Saturday July 2
New Plymouth trainer Allan Sharrock made the most of a five-and-a-half-hour road trip to Hastings on Saturday when he secured a one hundred percent winning strike rate with his three runners on the day.
Saturday July 2
The local training partnership of Paul Nelson and Corrina McDougal dominated proceedings at Hastings on Saturday, winning all four jumping races on the card including the two feature events.
Saturday July 2
Arrowfield Stud shuttler Shalaa (IRE) has had a busy season with his juveniles and Prime Thoroughbreds colour bearer Quang Tri added to that success when scoring a stylish victory in the $160,000 Listed VRC Taj Ross Final (1600m) at Flemington on Saturday.
Saturday July 2
Widden Stud’s promising young Snitzel stallion Thronum has a very smart 2YO in the shape of Thron Bone, who scored a brave victory in the$150,000 VRC Yulong Next Gen Sprinters Final (1200m) for juveniles at Flemington on Saturday.
Saturday July 2
Entries are now open for the 2022 National Online Broodmare Sale, set to be held on Gavelhouse Plus for the second year.
Friday July 1
Yulong have been very active in the bloodstock market this week purchasing blue hen Baggy Green and her yearling daughter (full sister to Tofane) for a combined $NZ 2.21 million from the Valachi Downs Dispersal and they were not to be beaten at the Arqana Summer Sale overnight purchasing German 1000 Guineas winner Txope.
Friday July 1
As the Valachi Downs dispersal process drew to a close with turnover nudging $10 million, Friday night’s Unreserved Young and Racing Stock Dispersal on Gavelhouse Plus shone a spotlight on exceptional broodmare Baggy Green for the second week in succession – and once again it was Yulong’s Written Tycoon Syndicate who provided the sale-topping bid.
Friday July 1
Here is the full list of 53 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Friday July 1
Showing the experience earned from three previous starts, the Justin Bowen-trained Play My Song overpowered the favourite Secret Revolution in a hotly contested 1000m 2yo handicap at Muswellbrook on Friday to credit Jukebox with his fifth winner and fourth in Australia.
Friday July 1
The Group III Winx Guineas (1600m) at the Sunshine Coast takes centre stage on Saturday, and as usual, connections will be casting their gaze skywards with rain predicted for the next few days.
Friday July 1
Sent off as favourite for the juvenile maiden at Geelong on Friday, promising Churchill (IRE) filly Thesecondatportsea overcame a tardy beginning to open her account.
Friday July 1
Southland trainers Kelvin and Aimee Tyler will have five runners at Wingatui on Sunday but the more pressing focus is on two feature races on the Sunshine Coast on Saturday.
Friday July 1
Entries for New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2022 Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds are now open, with the Sale set to be held physically at the Karaka Sales Centre on 16 and 17 November. This year’s Breeze Ups will take place on Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 October at Te Rapa.
Thursday June 30
Trained by A & G Botti, Amilcar was having his third run this year and powered to a three-quarter length win taking his overall record to six wins and four placings from 13 starts.
Thursday June 30
After a two year COVID-19 enforced hiatus, the New Zealand National Breeding Awards are back on the calendar.
Thursday June 30
Here is the full list of 41 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Thursday June 30
Sierra Sue – one of the best performed Australian-trained race mares of recent years - will be offered in a bespoke Inglis Digital online auction later this month.
Thursday June 30
Yesterday we looked at the mares covered last spring by Arrowfield Stud’s champion sire Snitzel, who is increasingly making his presence felt as a broodmare sire producing the dams of 10 stakes-winners this season.
Thursday June 30
Three decades have passed since Anton Koolman resided in New Zealand, however, the highly respected horseman’s death at age 82 in Sydney last weekend still resonated with many on the other side of the Tasman.
Thursday June 30
Our next chapter in the Price Point series of stories looks at a big group of 16 stallions that includes the sire of the world’s best sprinter.
Thursday June 30
An eye-catching debut two year-old winner for champion sire Lonhro on Thursday at Bendigo was an easy choice as our ‘One to Watch’.
Wednesday June 29
The second-highest grossing Inglis Digital auction ever conducted has tonight brought an end to an “astonishing’’ financial year for the platform.
Wednesday June 29
Here is the full list of 44 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Wednesday June 29
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah (USA) will not be returning to Coolmore Australia this spring, but he featured on Wednesday with a debut 2YO winner trained by Chris Waller.
Wednesday June 29
Two-time New Zealand premiership-winning trainer Keith Hawtin bowed out a winner at Cambridge on Wednesday.
Wednesday June 29
Sizzling might not be the height of fashion as a sire these days, but he figured at Randwick on Wednesday when his well bred 2YO filly What’s Going On opened her account for the Annabel Neasham stable.
Wednesday June 29
It has taken some time for the penny to drop for Contemporary, but the son of Exceed And Excel put it all together for an impressive win in the TAB Maiden (1150m) at Randwick-Kensington.
Wednesday June 29
A promising field went around in the first two year-old maiden at Randwick on Wednesday and I am Invincible gelding Airman produced an eye-catching performance to win on debut.