The Inglis Easter Yearling Sale has hit Riverside with horses and buyers coming together on the sale grounds, and Maree McEwan spoke to some of the major players as inspections started.

The auction of Te Akau Racing’s Festivity (NZ) concluded on Friday night with Hunter Valley-based Yarraman Park Stud securing the stakes-winning daughter of their resident sire I Am Invincible for NZ$480,500.

Passionate owner breeder Michael Christian is living the dream with his family at Longwood Thoroughbred Farm in Victoria with the growing success of their boutique breeding enterprise set to be showcased at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

Doncaster/Derby Day at Randwick on Saturday, and we hope to kick off with a winner of the opening event, the Group III Kindergarten Stakes for two-year-olds.

As well as giving his retiring co-trainer Murray Baker a shot at an astonishing sixth and final win in the Gr.1 Australian Derby (2400m) at Randwick on Saturday, rapid improver Regal Lion is shining the spotlight on an emerging family-run New Zealand breeding and syndicating operation.

Southland trainer Robert Dennis will this weekend host a celebration to mark the happy ending of a turbulent journey to reunite his Ukrainian stablehand Alex with his wife Olena.

A Camden born girl raised on a farm with a love of horses has found the perfect job combining diverse business skills with a rewarding career in the thoroughbred industry.

Boutique Hunter Valley nursery Cressfield is a familiar source of stakes-winners and while current flagbearers such as Jamaea and Hellfest are top class Group winning fillies, it is the Cressfield bred colts that will take centre stage at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

Buying an Arrowfield Easter filly is one of the best decisions an owner or breeder can make, with life-changing racetrack, sale-ring & future breeding results. 

Vendors offering yearlings by American Pharoah (USA) at Inglis Easter next week will be pleased to note the Triple Crown winner had a race to race double at Pakenham on Thursday with two promising maiden winners prepared by the Lindsay Park team and Peter Moody.

Here is the full list of 33 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The first crop of Northern Hemisphere bred foals by Coolmore shuttler Justify (USA) are 2YO’s this year and already they are making an impression under saddle with a colt by the undefeated Triple Crown winner selling for $1.1million at Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream 2YO’s in Training Sale.

Three weeks after rocking the Australian sprinters with a Group One boilover in Melbourne, Little Avondale Stud has two chances of a repeat result at Randwick on Saturday.

It will be a homecoming for stallion Winning Rupert as the record-breaking son of champion sire Written Tycoon returns to Queensland to stand at Grandview Stud in 2022.

Clinton Isdale’s time with Big Story will be short and he is hoping to make an early impact with the youngster before he heads offshore.

Torryburn Stud will present half a dozen stunning youngsters at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale next week, but there is no denying the star of the show is the half-brother to dual Group I winning colt Home Affairs.

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

Inglis Digital’s incomparable start to 2022 continued tonight with another boisterous sale which grossed $3,299,050.

A talented Pierro 3YO bred on the magic cross from the family of Champion 3YO Filly Alinghi made it two wins from three starts at Sandown on Wednesday in the colours of Cambridge Stud’s Brendan and Jo Lindsay.

There was a distinct international flavour to a 1600m midweeker for fillies and mares at Sandown. My Whisper, Yulong’s promising 3yo Frankel filly, made it three on the bounce when holding off a determined challenge by the 3yo Deep Impact filly Glint Of Hope (JPN).

Stakes-placed at his first two runs as a two year-old behind Sneaky Five and Anamoe, three year-old gelding The Art of Flying has taken a while to break his maiden but he got the job done in style at Canterbury on Wednesday.

The two-year-old Lonhro colt Amenable made a stunning career debut in a last to first performance over 1300m at Sandown-Hillside on Wednesday.

The 1200m juvenile maiden at Canterbury on Wednesday featured a quinella for promising young Coolmore sire Merchant Navy, who had the first two over the line in race favourite Standing Order and first starter Cadetship.

Emerging young stallions were again to the fore at Matamata on Wednesday, with debut three-year-old winners by Turn Me Loose and Vadamos in consecutive 1200m maidens, while earlier on the card Enraptured, a two-year-old by Preferment was an impressive debut winner.

Adrian Clark may have found his next Jennifer Eccles.

Astute breeder Ian Smith of Edinburgh Park Stud has placed a lot of faith in US bloodlines to upgrade his broodmare band with happy results highlighted by Group I performer Glenfiddich and $2.8million earning stakes-winner Eleven Eleven.

As his final nine Inglis Easter yearlings begin parading in Sydney, Not A Single Doubt reminds us why he is so sorely missed on the Australian stallion roster.

Newgate Farm have announced the fee for Snitzel’s Group I winning son Wild Ruler.

Coolmore takes great pleasure in announcing the addition to its 2022 roster of record-breaking, unbeaten stakes-winning juvenile Acrobat, the fastest 2yo in history over 1000m at Randwick.

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

He’s been on nervous 99 for a while now, but Deep Field finally got his century of winners for this season with a debut victory at the relocated provincial meeting Scone on Tuesday for a homebred for Torryburn Stud.

It might have been wet in NSW this week, but there was still plenty of trial results for 2YO's right around the country to keep a track of including a fourth win for the unraced Ginger's Gal, entered for her debut on Saturday and a tune up for a colt trying to break his maiden with a G1 win.

Consistent stakes success built over time is what sets some vendors apart from their rivals with the current crop of two year-olds from Segenhoe Stud racing up a perfect storm in the lead up to the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale next week.

Racing Australia Chairman John Messara AM has paid tribute to Myles Foreman following the announcement he is stepping down at the end of June after two years in the role of Racing Australia CEO.

The Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale is like no other in terms of quality of pedigree and with nearly all yearling images now uploaded for this iconic sale we thought a look at the siblings to Group I winners would be timely with 35 to consider.

A new Easter graduate stakeswinner just before the Inglis Easter Sale is always a perfectly timed result, and this year Williamsburg delivered it for Arrowfield.

His oldest progeny may only be three-years-old but Westbury Stud stallion Tarzino is already starting to leave his mark.

She combines the blood of champion sires Exceed and Excel and Street Cry and is the best of three stakes-winners bred on this cross, which has had 29 winners from 42 starters and is 7% SW to runner. The two sires also combine in the pedigree of another Group I winning sprinter in Elite Street, who is by Street Boss from a daughter of Exceed and Excel.

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

Unprecedented support from Australasia’s leading breeders and vendors has resulted in the biggest ever renewal of the Australian Weanling Sale.

Winner of the Group III Newcastle Newmarket in March last year, 6YO Your Song gelding Gem Song returned to his happy hunting ground to win the Group III ATC Star Kingdom Stakes (1200m) at his first run back from a spell on Monday.

What a week it’s been for three year-old fillies by the late great Sebring! We’ve seen a couple of G1 contenders in Daisies and Mac ‘n’ Cheese and now an actual Group I winner with Fangirl scoring a richly deserved victory in the $500,000 ATC Vinery Stud Stakes (1850m) at Newcastle.

Scratched from the race on Saturday, Gem Song was reinstated for the Group III Star Kingdom Stakes (1200m) when the meeting was switched to Newcastle and didn’t the son of Your Song appreciate his home track.

Tailed off last early, the 4yo Shamus Award mare Duais gathered her opponents in so quickly in the straight that Josh Parr had the luxury of standing in the irons, saluting the crowd over the final 50 metres of Monday’s $1,500,000 Group 1 Kia H E Tancred Stakes (2400m).

Showing his appreciation for the sting out of the track, the 3yo Snitzel colt Mr Mozart would not be denied in Monday’s Group III ACY Securities Doncaster Prelude (1500m) at Newcastle.

The auction of Te Akau Racing’s Festivity, a stakes-winning daughter of I Am Invincible, is now live on Gavelhouse Plus with bidding set to close from 7pm (NZ time) on Friday.

Purchased for just 27,000 by David Redvers Bloodstock / Rosemount Stud at the 2019 Tattersalls December Mare Sale after failing to win in four starts, Promise Of Success (GB) has been a little star from the time she set foot in Australia.

Godolphin’s Teofilo (IRE) gelding Character stamped himself a serious chance in next Saturday’s Group 1 ATC Derby with a convincing win in the Group III Yarraman Park Tulloch Stakes (1850m) at Newcastle on Monday.

The rescheduled Rosehill meeting from last Saturday got underway at Newcastle this afternoon with three year-old Fastnet Rock gelding O’President returning to his best form to win the Benchmark 88 event over 1400m, putting the spotlight on his full brother to be offered at Inglis Easter.

Kia Ora Stud have bred and sold some sensational horses in recent years and their draft for this year’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale includes siblings to two of their Group I winning pin up performers.

Newhaven Park have brought a select draft of seven to the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale and included is a very rare creature, an eye-catching grey colt by proven Group I sire Dundeel, while the half-sister to Group I MRC Thousand Guineas winner Odeum is a collector’s item.

What Roger James describes as a “light-bulb moment” has led to one of the major forces in Australian breeding and racing, John Messara’s Arrowfield Stud, taking a significant share in the headline lot purchased by the Cambridge trainer at the National Yearling Sale.

Hong Kong punters were expecting an easy win for the red hot favourite in the opening race at Sha tin on Sunday and weren’t left disappointed.

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

One of the best horses to come out of Tasmania in recent years has been $4million earning Group I winning filly Mystic Journey and her half-sister Seasons in De Sun broke through for her first win at Ballarat on Sunday.

A boutique selection of 93 race fillies and broodmares has been finalised for the 2022 Inglis Chairman’s Sale, for which the catalogue is NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE.

Trainer Cliff Goss appears to have another promising galloper on his hands after three-year-old filly Casino Princess shone with a seventh length victory at Tauranga on Saturday.

Te Akau Racing principal David Ellis is finding it hard to catch his breath at the moment.

A Group I winning 2YO by Scat Daddy, Sioux Nation (USA) shuttled to Swettenham Stud for one season in 2019 and his first runner in the Northern Hemisphere is also his first winner with Ocean Quest successful at The Curragh on Saturday.

Combining a career in television production with a love of horses and racing has led this week’s candidate to a lifestyle that brings together the best of both of those worlds.

It’s finally here! The crème de la crème, best of the best, the most elite pedigrees and outstandingly conformed yearlings you will see, coming together in the 2022 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale Preview!

The flat season started in earnest overnight at Doncaster with Coolmore shuttler Wootton Bassett (GB) featuring when his classy four year-old Chindit took out the Listed SKB Doncaster  Mile (1m)

Here is the full list of 113 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Saturday with winners and result details.

Last night at Moonee Valley, Sebring produced a leading contender for the upcoming Group I SAJC Australasian Oaks in Daisies and at Morphettville on Saturday he produced another with quality filly Mac ‘n’ Cheese staking a powerful claim when winning the Listed SAJC Clare Lindop Stakes (1600m).

Tarzino three-year-old Jungle Magnate was the promoted winner of the A$150,000 Mornington Guineas (1600m) on Saturday.

After 76 weeks in the wilderness, Brendan and Jo Lindsay's Not A Single Doubt gelding Not An Option was back in the winner's stall following Saturday's Listed Hareeba stakes at Mornington.

Trainer Ken Rae admits it’s not often a plan comes together perfectly, but that was the case on Saturday when Irish Girl proved too tough for her rivals in the Gr.3 Valachi Downs South Island Breeders’ Stakes (1600m) at Riccarton.

Coming off a win in the Listed Roy Higgins Quality at Flemington, the Chris Waller-trained Crystal Pegasus (GB) made it four wins on the bounce when earning a golden ticket to the Caulfield Cup with his victory in Saturday’s $300,000 Listed Mornington Cup (2400m).

The confidence Kyneton trainer Liam Howley has in Virtuous Circle was vindicated when the two-year-old Almanzor colt relished the step up to 1500m in the A$130,000 Cleanaway Sustainability Sires at Mornington on Saturday.

Underrated galloper Gino Severini (IRE) provided a fitting tribute to his part-owner, the late Ray Wallace, when he produced a fighting performance to take out the Group II Ultimate Mazda Japan Trophy (1600m) at Tauranga on Saturday.

Gilgai Farm’s 4-year-old Sebring mare Jump The Broom kept her unbeaten record intact with a fast-finishing win over 1200m at Mornington on Saturday.

The leading sire of two year-old winners this season is not Snitzel or Zoustar, it’s Lyndhurst Stud’s Better Than Ready and he posted his 11th juvenile winner at Doomben on Saturday where Steady Ready won by daylight on debut.

Punters had eyes for just two runners in Saturday’s Group III Neville Sellwood Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill, the superior wet trackers Mount Popa (IRE) and Polly Grey.

Leading first season sire Russian Revolution posted a new winner at Newcastle on Saturday when the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained gelding Russian Roni saluted at his third start.

In a slogging finish, the regally bred Snitzel colt Williamsburg opened his stakes account in the Group III Schweppervescence (T L Baillieu Hcp) (1400) run under appalling conditions at Rosehill on Saturday.

Bonny mare September Run (Exceed And Excel) returned to the G1 winner's circle in dominant style on Friday night, storming to victory in the G1 William Reid Stakes over 1200m.

Widden Stud have a new addition to their broodmare band after purchasing Te Akau Racing mare Exaltation with a $560,000 final bid on Gavelhouse Plus on Friday night.

Here is the full list of 60 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Sebring filly Daisies showed plenty of potential last spring and took another step forward on Friday night winning the Group III MVRC Alexandra Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley.

Without a win since defeating Swats That and Wild Ruler in the Group 1 Coolmore Stud stakes at Flemington in October 2020, September Run has rarely run a bad race against the best sprinters since.

Due to be sold at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale, the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained mare Shout the Bar broke a 72-week drought when going coast to coast in the $300,000 Group II BMDSunline Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley on Friday night.

The $1,100,000 Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale topper Crosswinds kept his record at a perfect two for two while opening his stakes account in Friday night’s Listed PFD Food Services Valley Pearl (St Albans Stakes) (1200m) at Moonee Valley.

With Group 1 placings in the Randwick Guineas and Vinery Stud Stakes, Harmony Rose needed to find that form to be a player in Friday's $200,000 Listed Albury Gold Cup, and she did just that, putting her opponents to the sword.

A few weeks ago we highlighted an impressive debut winner at Ararat by Frosted (USA) that had an intriguing name and he upped the ante at Moonee Valley on Friday night to win in a breeze at his second start.

One of the biggest Southern Hemisphere online catalogues ever collated is now open for bidding, with the Inglis Digital March (Late) auction overflowing with quality offerings.

A smart new addition to the Karaka countryside is set to open its doors this Saturday 26 March with the official opening of New Zealand Bloodstock’s DoubleTree by Hilton Karaka Hotel.

With four stakes races at Moonee Valley tonight there is loads of interest at a meeting that will see Marabi protect her unbeaten record in the Group I MVRC William Reid Stakes, while the Listed 2YO race is a fascinating contest.

Enver Jusufovic has had plenty of fun with his stable star three year-old Pinstriped this year and he had a debut winner at Pakenham on Thursday evening that holds the promise of a lot more fun to come.

This popular innovation at Breednet seeks to shed light on those mystery unraced siblings to yearlings entered for Inglis Easter, so let’s take a look at some of the most interesting.

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

Thirteen of the sixteen acceptors for Saturday's Group II Yarraman Park Tulloch Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill hold entries for the ATC Derby at Randwick on April 2.

Inglis is proud to present an opportunity to buy quality mares from Arrowfield Stud in a significant reduction sale at next month’s Inglis Digital April (Late) Online Sale, scheduled for April 22-27.

A link to one of New Zealand’s major training centres of last century has been lost with the recent death of former successful trainer Ray Wallace at age 92.

Long regarded as one of the most successful names in Australian bloodstock, Tyreel Stud is flourishing under the ownership of Linda and Laurence Monds, who purchased the picturesque thoroughbred nursery at Agnes Banks in 2014.

Hanging on to promising two-year-olds Defiant and Kikimora might be half the battle for Riccarton trainers Shane Kennedy and Anna Furlong as they prepare the duo for Saturday's Petersens Jewellers Ladies Bracelet (1000m) on their home track.

Leading South Australian vendors Mill Park Stud only bring the cream of their crop to the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale and the draft for 2022 features the half-brother to a freakishly good Group I winning sprinter.

A select draft of three stunning fillies all by champion sires will have yearling buyers beating a path to the B2B Thoroughbreds draft at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

All is in readiness for the Easter Yearling Sale, to be held at Riverside Stables on April 5 and 6.

In a world suddenly facing an energy crisis, there’s one source of power that Inglis Easter yearling buyers, at least, can depend on. 

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