Trainer Mike Moroney’s association with four-time Group One winner Tofane is set to continue.

Kia Ora Stud are leaving no stone unturned to ensure Golden Slipper winner Farnan has the very best chance of success and one of the star mares he will cover this spring is Group I ATC Coolmore Classic winner Lighthouse (USA), who was sold at Magic Millions this week for $1.7million.

Telemon Thoroughbreds is home to Golden Slipper winner Kiamichi’s sire Sidestep, who added a new stakes-winner to his tally overnight when Best Lightning won the Group III 44th Kroniums Badener Mile (1600m) at Baden Baden in Gemrnay.

The Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale this week highlighted the demand for mares in foal to Coolmore's proven Group I sire Wootton Bassett (GB), who was the leading first season covering sire at the sale by average.

Wet tracks and form lines from all over the place have made this year’s Group I Queensland Derby a complete lottery of a race, so we’re going to throw out the form guide and pick our Top 7 based purely on pedigree to run a strong 2400m.

Stakes action in Europe overnight produced a new stakes-winner for Arrowfield shuttler Shalaa (IRE) and a new stakes-winner for Frankel that is trained by Francis-Henri Graffard, the man who is soon to take charge of Australian Horse of the Year Verry Elleegant.

Here is the full list of 44 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Madam Rouge proved the star of a remarkable third and final day of the 2022 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast today.

The big prices kept coming right through the day at the Gold Coast on Thursday with enigmatic dual Group I winner Nettoyer putting on quite a show in the sale ring before selling for $1.3 million.

Sam Triggs has been promoted to the position of Chief Executive Officer of Inglis Rural Property.

Two industry heavy hitters, Coolmore and China Horse Club, have over $3,500,000 worth of horseflesh sitting on the bench for Saturday's $1,000,000 XXXX Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m) at Eagle Farm.

Multiple Group winning Zoustar mare Madam Rouge is headed back to her birthplace, the ‘Valley of Champions’ after being purchased by Widden Stud for $2.4million at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on Thursday.

The final chapter of a wonderful contribution to South Australian racing and breeding is about to close. Ken and Helen Smith will be offering a complete dispersal of their bloodstock interests via online auction website Bloodstockauction.com, with the catalogue going live on Thursday 26th May 3022 and the auction concluding on Tuesday 31st May 2022.

Mares in foal to Juddmonte Farm’s champion sire Frankel have been lighting up the Gold Coast Sale ring on Thursday as the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale continues.

The 2022 Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards were announced last night so let’s take a look at this year’s winners.

Minsk Moment – today’s $400,000 Inglis Digital May (Late) sale topper – will remain with his incumbent trainer Chris Waller after being purchased by co-breeder and part owner Keith Biggs.

Here is the full list of 38 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Blue blooded mare Tangier topped Day Two of the 2022 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast today when selling for $1.3 million.

Rosemont Stud have welcomed exciting young sire Extreme Warrior to the farm and the first son of Extreme Choice to stand in Victoria will be available for inspection next week.

Trainer Matthew Dunn believes Veandechance will be an Oaks contender next season after the daughter of Vancouver ploughed through the mud to break her maiden over 1250m at Canterbury on Wednesday.

Spelled following a lacklustre last of six over 900m at Newcastle last November, the Paul Perry-trained Forecaster showed the benefit of a spell when breaking his maiden over 1100m at Canterbury on Wednesday.

It’s a case of status quo for The Oaks Stud for the upcoming breeding season.

The Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale is continuing on Wednesday with mares that have already gone to stud and Tom Magnier was back in a buying groove paying $1.3million for the Godolphin bred and sold mare Tangier in partnership with Avenue Bloodstock.

Lance O’Sullivan won the Gr.1 Queensland Derby (2400m) as a jockey 30 years ago and he is hoping to repeat the feat as a trainer at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

Improving Matamata filly Farrenc will try her luck across the Tasman from the Lindsay Park stable for a short campaign.

So You Think is the sire of exciting 2YO Political Debate, who is unfortunately only a fourth emergency for the Group II BRC Sires Produce Stakes on Saturday, but another of his 2YO’s showed potential on Tuesday breaking the ice at Hawkesbury.

Here is the full list of 15 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Former Champion Two-Year-Old filly Away Game topped a cracking first day of the 2022 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast today.

Dashing grey mare Lighthouse (USA) arrived from North America as a Listed winner in June last year and in less than a year on our shores has risen to winning the Group I ATC Coolmore Classic and lighting up the sale ring at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on Tuesday.

Curraghmore principal Gordon Cunningham was on hand on the Gold Coast on Wednesday to watch Tofane, a product of his Waikato farm, sell for A$3.1 million to the bid of Yulong Investments.

Three top class racemares mares that all sold for $1milion at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on Tuesday were all purchased as yearlings and have proven great investments for their respective ownership groups.

For a while it looked as though Away Game might challenge Sunlight as the most expensive mare ever sold at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast, but in the end she came up just short selling for $4million.

Kiwi bred four time Group I winner Tofane put her name on the list of Australia’s most expensive mares when selling at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on Tuesday morning for $3.1million..

Geisel Park Stud principal Eddie Rigg is joined by progressive Western Australia breeders in having the great pleasure of announcing the acquisition of the high class sire Manhattan Rain to continue his stud career in WA.

Leading French trainer Francis-Henri Graffard is looking forward to welcoming 11-time Group One winner Verry Elleegant to his Chantilly barn later this week.

Palmerston North horsewoman Lucy Tanner turned a few of her colleagues’ heads when she nicknamed a young filly “Rolls Royce” before she’d even had a trial.

Here is the full list of 15 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Monday with winners and result details.

Triple Group I winning Maurice (Jpn) colt Hitotusu has been ruled out of any spring campaign with the Maher Eustace stable issuing a statement on Monday advising the glamour colt has sustained a suspensory injury.

The Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale gets underway on Tuesday at the Gold Coast and with a star studded catalogue and a booming bloodstock market we can expect these mares to be fetching premium prices.

Our Price Point series of stories last year had just one category for sires priced between $66,000 and $99,000, but this year there has been an expansion in that area of the market (from nine sires to 14) so we’ve broken it into two groups with the $82,500 to $99,000 covered last week and this week we look at those horses priced just below.

There are just four Group I races run in South Australia each year and they are finished for 2022 with the running of the SAJC Goodwood Handicap, so let’s take a look at the pedigrees of those winners.

There were some very familiar names on the board on Italian Derby Day at Capannelle on Sunday with the day’s feature being won by a son of Westbury Stud's Reliable Man (GB).

Members from two of Australasia’s most famous racing families with winning ties to the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) joined forces for a memorable victory at Hawera.

Coolmore’s undefeated Triple Crown winner Justify (USA) is on the board with his first runner in North America returning a winner at Sant Anita on Sunday with a debut victory for Tahoma.

There was Group I racing at The Curragh last night where Australian owned State of Rest came up short in the Tattersalls Gold Cup, while the Irish 1,000 guineas produced a new Group I winner for Frankel.

Australasian bred sprinters filled the trifecta in the Group III Sha Tin Vase (1200m ) on Sunday with three year-old Star Turn gelding Cordyceps Six proving too good for Nervous Witness (Star Witness) and Lucky Patch (El Roca).

Superstar Fastnet Rock mare Atlantic Jewel was a champion on the track and has also done the job at stud as the dam of blue-blood Irish bred Galileo gelding Russian Emperor won his second Group I event in Hong Kong on Sunday when taking out the Standard Chartered Chater Cup (2400m) at Sha Tin .

The Group One Doomben Cup meeting which was postponed from Saturday to Wednesday has now been abandoned with stakes races rescheduled throughout the coming weeks including three to this Saturday and involving some mares set to go under the hammer at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale this week.

The Federation of Bloodstock Agents Australia is pleased to announce that respected bloodstock agent Satomi Oka is joining the FBAA having been approved as an accredited member.

Promising two-year-old Sophmaze could tackle the Listed John Turkington Forestry Ltd Castletown Stakes (1200m) at Wanganui next month after registering an impressive maiden victory at Trentham on Saturday.

On the board in all five starts, the three-year-old Rich Enuff filly Belle Et Riche took another step forward when overcoming the pattern of the day at Sandown-Lakeside on Sunday.

Three Chimney Farm’s super sire Gun Runner may have missed a first crop Classic winner in the Kentucky Oaks and Derby, but he struck with the Chad Brown Early Voting in the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico on Saturday.

The Annabel Neasham-trained Hopeful (FR) is shaping an inspired purchase for Grant Morgan’s Ontrack Thoroughbreds after opening his Australian account in the Listed Lord Mayors Cup (2000m) at Rosehill.

For a fourth consecutive week, an Inglis graduate has become a first time G1 winner as Lombardo (I Am Invincible) ran his rivals ragged in the Goodwood Handicap at Morphettville.

The two day Magic Millions National Weanling Sale last week produced some good results for young gun sires with four of the Top 10 leading sires by average being first season sires.

We have a new leader, and no, we are not talking about Anthony Albanese.

Godolphin pulled off a unique achievement at The Curragh overnight winning the Group I Irish 2,000 Guineas (1m) with Native Trail, his victory following on from their previous wins this year in the Newmarket 2,000 Guineas with Coroebus (Dubawi) and the French 2,000 Guineas with Modern Games (Dubawi).

Here is the full list of 101 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Five year-old I Am Invincible gelding Lombardo is a very good sprinter on his day and particularly in Adelaide where he made it five wins from five starts when taking out the $500,000 Group I SAJC Goodwood Handicap (1200m) at Morphettville on Saturday.

Stawell trainer Andrew Bobbin had a day to remember at Flemington on Saturday, celebrating his first stakes win in the Listed Hilton Nicholas Straight Six (1200m) with highly talented New Zealand-bred Ocean Beyond.

The Mark and Levi Kavanagh-trained filly Seradess showed her facile win in the Group II Tobin Bronze Stakes was no fluke with an equally dominant performance in Saturday’s Group III Proud Miss Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville.

On the anniversary of her first stakes win in last year’s Listed Rangitikei Gold Cup (1600m), classy New Zealand mare Belle Plaisir doubled her black-type tally with a powerful come-from-behind performance in Saturday’s Gr.3 R A Lee Stakes (1600m) at Morphettville.

Trainers Mick Price and Michel Kent Jnr and jockey Mark Zahra are having a day out at Morphettville.

A powerful late surge that carried him to victory in the Listed James Bull Holdings Rangitikei Gold Cup (1600m) at Trentham on Saturday may have put a hold on an immediate jumping career for handy winter galloper Verry Flash.

Progressive three-year-old Wewillrock will head to the spelling paddock after a clear-cut victory at Te Rapa on Saturday which has trainer Guy Lowry keen to see just how far he can go in his next campaign.

In the first two in eleven of her previous 15 starts, the Andrew Noblet-trained Foxy Frida finally had the cards fall her way in a stakes race.

The short-priced favourite See You In Heaven looked set for a third consecutive win when levelling up with Maximillius, who rallied to break his maiden in Saturday’s Group III David Coles Stakes at Morphettville.

The Benchmark 72 event at Rosehill on Saturday over 2000m was packed with 3YO’s entered for the Queensland Derby and Oaks and the winner Aravene booked her ticket north with a commanding victory.

Aided by a copybook ride by Jye McNeil, the Snitzel colt Brosnan appreciated a drop back in grade to break his maiden in the Donate @ Njt Org Au Hcp (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday.

A homebred Fastnet Rock filly for celebrity chef and horse breeder Bobby Flay, the Christophe Clement trained Pizza Bianca closed out her juvenile season in the US winning the Group I Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (1m) and is now on track for a tilt at Royal Ascot.

A battling sixth at Rosehill when on debut in January, Madame Pommery showed an appreciation for a break when routing eight opponents in the Precise Fire Hcp (1200m) at Rosehill Gardens.

Three new promising 3YO stakes-winners overnight, one by Sea the Stars, who has had a big week, and two more from mares sired by his half-brother Galileo.

G1 performers, Stakes winners and exciting up-and-coming turf stars are among a strong and diverse catalogue for the Inglis Digital May (Late) Online Sale, which is now open for bidding.

An impeccably bred filly by Zoustar has topped the 2022 Magic Millions National Weanling Sale on the Gold Coast.

Last season’s New Zealand Champion Two-Year-Old Sword of State has been retired from racing.

A busy set of trials on the grass at Rosehill on Friday morning included eight 2YO heat winners including two expensive unraced colts by champion sire Written Tycoon.

Two stakes-winners in two days is not bad for a broodmare and when it brings her total to three foals to race and all are stakes-winners, she’s definitely worth a story even if she is on the other wide of the world.

For the second year in succession, the Tattersalls Ireland Goresbridge Breeze Up Sale produced an outstanding set of record-breaking results with a new record top price of €520,000, the first time in the sale’s history that the half million mark has been topped.

A $500,000 Inglis Easter investment on a blue-blood Fastnet Rock filly for Jonathan Munz’s Pinecliff Racing looks like paying dividends with Passive Aggressive making it two wins in as many starts when saluting at Pakenham on Thursday evening.

A three quarter sister to Golden Rose winner In the Congo topped Day One of the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale on the Gold Coast today.

A drop back in grade following three starts in stakes races looks the right formula for $1million Snitzel colt Brosnan to break his maiden in the Donate @ NJT.ORG.AU Handicap (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday.

Bidding on Cambridge Stud’s select draft of 10 mares plus a share in Ocean Park on Gavelhouse Plus will end from 7pm (NZT) this Friday 20 May. 

Chris Waller is hoping to upset the apple cart in the Gr.1 Doomben Cup (2000m).

The Magic Millions National Weanling Sale continues on Friday at the Gold Coast with some quality youngsters set to go under the hammer, so let’s take a look at some of the featured lots with images that are tipped to top and they include a pair  of colts by Frankel and the only weanlings in the sale by Snitzel and I Am Invincible.

The unreserved dispersal of weanlings from Spendthrift Australia at Magic Millions this week has highlighted the potential of young I Am Invincible sire Overshare, who moves to Widden Stud Victoria this spring and had a filly sell for $210,000 this morning.

He’s leading the Australian General Sires List with progeny earnings topping $17million and So You Think also put some early spark into the opening session of the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale when his colt from Salina sold for $525,000.

New Zealand raiders recouped plenty of travelling costs at the Sunshine Coast meeting on the polytrack on Wednesday, with trainers Robbie Patterson and Kelvin Tyler both sending out winners. 

The racing industry has lost one of its most respected and valued contributors with the death of Bernard Kelly, OBE, at age 90.

Galileo’s champion half-brother Sea the Stars was making his presence felt overnight siring one new stakes-winner for Godolphin and also the dam of another new stakes-winner, both of them 4YO mares with big pedigrees.

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

The Magic Millions National Weanling Sale gets underway on Thursday at the Gold Coast with some quality youngsters set to go under the hammer, so let’s take a look at some of the featured lots with images that are tipped to top including the only colt in the sale by Extreme Choice the lone youngster by Kingman and the three-quarter sister to In the Congo.

Philip & Patti Campbell of Blue Gum Farm have made the decision to cease standing stallions at their Euroa property this season. After a long and highly successful period of standing stallions, the Campbells have decided to concentrate on their broodmare management, raising of young stock and selling of weanlings and yearlings.

Rich Hill Stud’s royally bred shuttler Satono Aladdin (JPN) looks to have an outstanding prospect in the 2yo filly Koshu, who made a sensational debut over 1100m at Randwick-Kensington on Wednesday.

Unbeaten in two barrier trials, 2YO Caravaggio (USA) gelding Baroque Road took that winning form to the races on Wednesday to salute on debut at Randwick for some very happy Dynamic Syndications owners.

Juddmonte Farm’s super sire Frankel has made a huge impression in Australia siring 10 stakes-winners here so the two weanling colts to be offered at the Gold Coast this week by the champion son of Galileo will command massive interest.

Here is the full list of 27 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

This two year-old Redoute’s Choice colt is bred to be a classic contender next season, but he’s broken the ice early saluting at Goulburn on Tuesday for the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable.

The Emirates Park sales team arrived on the Gold Coast earlier this week meaning to do business with its first Magic Millions weanling sale draft since 2017 and they have a headline horse as they will offer the only Snitzel in the sale this year. 

The two-year-olds faced off against their elders in a 1000m maiden at Port Macquarie on Tuesday, and two fought out the finish.

The next price bracket in our series of Price Point stories is an interesting one showcasing an intriguing selection of proven sires priced just below the top bracket we looked at last week, but are they worth the money?