Spendthrift Farm have announced they are discontinuing their operation in Australia and putting the Spendthrift Australia property in Victoria up for sale.

DArley sire Kermadec featured in South Africa on Wednesday with an impressive Australian bred winner at Kenilworth in Sunday Island, who appreciated a step up in distance to a staying trip.

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

Supporters of the odds-on favourite Brookspire would have been on good terms with themselves when she eased around the leader Expat coming around the turn in Wednesday’s Group III Gosford RSL Belle Of The Turf Stakes (1600m), but there was plenty of fight left in the leader.

An interesting winner in Tasmania on Wednesday was blue-blooded Frankel filly Unclouded (GB), who was quietly snapped up from the 2021 Inglis September (Early) Online Sale for $65,000 by Tasmanian breeder Rob Dixon’s Reibey Lodge.

Godolphin’s Exceed And Excel gelding Bacchanalia loves to get his toe in the ground and found conditions to suit in Wednesday’s $150,000 Listed Gosford Guineas (1200m).

This three year-old Capitalist colt has had a good grounding at the barrier trials and unleashed for real at Gosford on race day produced an explosive debut victory.

Second on debut when she did a few things wrong, four year-old Zoustar mare Twilight Affair made no such mistakes when racing straight and true to win with ease at Gosford on Wednesday as a short priced favourite.

Tutukaka might be dropping back from a Derby trip but there's little doubt that the two-time Australian stakes winner spearheads a three-pronged attack for Cambridge trainer Tony Pike on Saturday's Gr.2 SkyCity Auckland Guineas (1600m) at Ellerslie.

Well-performed Karaka graduate William Wallace (NZ) (Darci Brahma) is continuing to deliver at the age of nine, romping home by a wide margin in Tuesday’s $60,000 Listed Craigmore Sustainable Holdings Timaru Cup (1600m) at Phar Lap Raceway. 

The 2022 Magic Millions Yearling Sale will showcase the first Australian progeny for a number of high profile first season sires and Breednet’s user friendly image galleries make a swift assessment of their stock an easy task.

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

A quartet of promising three-year-olds captured the first four races at Yarra Glenn on Tuesday, and there was a lot to like about the Logan McGill-trained debutant Il Braccio.

Widden Stud sires Outreach and Star Witness both had smart winners at the Sha Tin meeting on Monday with four year-old Carroll Street making it four wins from eight starts, while three year-old Galaxy Witness was a winner on debut.

Promising three-year-old filly Miss Ella set tongues wagging at Rotorua on Tuesday as she broke her maiden status with a ten-length romp over 1400m.

Gosford will host the final two stakes races of the year in Australia on Wednesday, the Group III Belle Of The Turf Stakes (1600m) and Listed Gosford Guineas (1200m).

A classy three year-old in the Chris Waller stable last season winning the Group III ATC Frank Packer Plate and finishing second in the Group I BRC Queensland Derby, Senor Toba has opened his account in Hong Kong with a stylish win at Sha Tin on Monday.

Proven Thoroughbreds /O’Dea Hoysted Racing upped the ante at the 2021 Magic Millions Yearling Sale paying $450,000 for a Snitzel filly bred on a ‘nick that clicks’ and she made a winning debut at the Sunshine Coast on Monday .

Magic Millions have released updated order of entry lists for their $2million Magic Millions 2YO Classic and $2million 3YO Guineas on January 15.

Here is the full list of 47 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Te Akau Racing principal David Ellis has announced the retirement of Gr.1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) winner Noverre.

Boxing Day races provided opportunity for some of our first season sires to put runs on the board and as we get to the end of 2021 we see four of our young first season stallions tied on three winners each – can you name them?

2022 yearling sale catalogues are a moving picture that evolves and changes with every race meeting up until sale day, so this weekly report seeks to bring you all the relevant updates in the one place and this week includes the full brother to a new stakes-winner and the half-brother to a Group I winner that has returned from a spell in top form.

The retirement of one champion and the ordination of another was the takeaway following a thrilling Group 1 Arima Kinen (2500m) at Nakayama Racecourse on Boxing Day.

The remarkable consistency and class that Belle En Rouge (NZ) (Burgundy) has shown through the first half of the 2021-22 New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series has been rewarded with a place at the top of the points table. 

Trelawney Stud’s colours were prominent in black type events at Ellerslie on Boxing Day with three placings, but two of them came at a physical cost.

Here is the full list of 110 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Boxing Day with winners and result details.

Coolmore’s Golden Slipper winning sire Pierro featured with a stakes double on Boxing Day with Parry Sound winning the Group III ATC Summer Cup (2000m ) and Holbien taking out the Listed MRC Lord Stakes (1700m) at Caulfield.

Twelve months ago, Roheryn won the Listed Falvelon Quality at Eagle Farm, which earned him a wildcard entry for the $1million Snippets Sprint on magic Millions Day on the Gold Coast, where he clocked in third.

In 2005, high class Danehill mare Aqua D’Amore was just at the start of her sparkling career backing up from winning the Group II ATC Villiers Stakes to also take out the Group III ATC Summer Cup and at Randwick on Boxing Day her six year-old son Parry Sound followed in her footsteps to win the feature race claiming his  first Black type success.

After going winless for two years and twenty starts since winning the $1million Bondi Stakes at Randwick in 2019, the striking Shooting To Win gelding Kubick has become a winning machine.

Yarraman Park’s champion sire I Am Invincible posted a trans-Tasman stakes double with Festivity successful in New Zealand and then exciting mare Marabi made it five wins from five starts when taking out the Listed MRC Christmas Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield.

Gimcrack Stakes heroine Coolangatta erased any doubt about running a strong 1200m when keeping her record at a perfect two for two in a furiously run Group III Magic Millions BJ McLachlan Stakes at Doomben on Boxing Day.

Veteran galloper Tiptronic led all the way to take out his second career Group One prize when he captured the Gr.1 Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie

Yarraman Park’s champion sire I Am Invincible kept the winners coming for Jamie Richards at Ellerslie on Boxing Day with Te Akau owned Festivity outpointing her stablemate Vamos Bebe to win the Listed Hallmark Stud Handicap (1200m).

A shift to the South Island has worked wonders for Hasabro, who picked up his first black-type win in the Listed Alleviate Administration Hazlett Stakes (1200m) at Wingatui on Boxing Day.

A brilliant performance by emerging star Bankers Choice completed a dream Boxing Day for Okaharau Station owner-breeders Ross and Corrine Kearney.

A year on from their five-win bonanza on Boxing Day at Ellerslie last year, Te Akau Racing and trainer Jamie Richards got the 2021 edition of the famous fixture off to an eerily similar start.

The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained Jacquinot will have a short break before embarking on a Blue Diamond Stakes campaign following a brilliant debut performance in the Frank O’Brien Handicap (1200m) at Caulfield on Boxing Day.

Newgate Farm’s young gun Russian Revolution will have a runner in the $2million Magic Millions 2YO Classic next month with his talented filly Russian Conquest making it two wins from two starts when saluting at Randwick on Boxing Day.

There are plenty of runners right around Australia and New Zealand today by first season sires with three runners for Russian Revolution, who has 39 entries for Magic Millions.

The following is a selection of the top-class racemares that had their first foals in 2021.

Here is the full list of 17 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The Gimcrack Stakes heroine Coolangatta dominates betting for the Group III Magic Millions BJ McLachlan Stakes (1200m) at Doomben on Boxing Day. Still, she is just one of three runners striving to keep their unbeaten record intact.

Some of the biggest vendors like to get their Magic Millions yearling images uploaded before Christmas, so we’ve gone through to take a look at some of the pedigree standouts for those of us that have not been touring the farms to see them in the flesh.

The Cornish family owned Torryburn Stud has long been highly regarded as a proven Group I nursery and their easily recognizable TS in a heart shaped brand is carried by the best sprinting three year-old colt in the country in Home Affairs.

A weekend job after leaving school at Gerry Harvey’s Armidale farm has led this Queensland born young lady to a bloodstock career in the Hunter Valley working in marketing and nominations for leading nursery Kitchwin Hills.

Impressive Otaki three-year-old Galleon will do his future racing in Australia.

Undefeated three-year-old Pareanui Bay will be one of the major drawcards at Ellerslie on Boxing Day where he contests a strong edition of the Listed Shaw's Wire Ropes Uncle Remus Stakes (1400m).

The Ben & JD Hayes-trained Excelida is racing for a potential trip to New Zealand when she lines up at Caulfield on Boxing Day.

At this time of year there is great interest in the progeny of first season sires stepping out at the trials so Breednet are tracking them and producing a weekly report which features 11 first season sires with trial winners in the pipeline with a few new names featuring this week.

It was a fitting result in the Congratulations Hong Kong Bound Jamie Richards Maiden (1400m) at Matamata on Thursday, with Richards taking out the quinella.

Here is the full list of 32 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The votes from our readers have been tallied to decide the Breednet Favourite Foal of 2021 and it would seem Darley’s exciting young sire Blue Point (IRE) already has a winner before his stock even hit the racetrack!

Named after a dual AFL premiership winning coach, Pagan looks set for a promising career after scoring at Sandown on Wednesday.

New Zealand Bloodstock sales are a proven source of elite thoroughbred talent, with Karaka graduates consistently demonstrating their strength, stamina and Group One-winning abilities on the world stage. 

New Zealand’s flagship racecourse is about to roar back to life after a six-month hiatus, and two stellar days of Christmas Carnival racing at Ellerslie will feature two legs of the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series – starting on Boxing Day with the $120,000 Group Two Jamieson Park Eight Carat Classic (1600m). 

Juddmonte have announced the sad news of the passing of their Champion sire DANSILI (Danehill x Hasili) at his birthplace Banstead Manor Stud shortly before his 26th birthday following a short but aggressive illness, .

Te Akau are once again set to hold a strong hand in next month’s Doubletree By Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) with Lord Cosmos adding his name to the contenders with victory at New Plymouth on Wednesday.

Here is the full list of 52 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Wednesday with winners and result details.

Following seconds at Hawkesbury and Canterbury to kick-start his career, it was third time lucky for the John O'Shea-trained Pizarro at Warwick Farm on Wednesday. However, he would not have wanted one metre further than the 1300m.  

The most expensive yearling ever sired by Not a Single Doubt having fetched $1.8million at Magic Millions for Emirates Park, Man in the Mirror made the best start possible for his racing career when scoring a stylish debut win at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

Following a pleasing Melbourne spring campaign, Elephant has returned to work in good fettle ahead of a return trip across the Tasman.

Some of the biggest vendors like to get their Magic Millions yearling images uploaded before Christmas, so we’ve gone through to take a look at some of the pedigree standouts for those of us that have not been touring the farms to see them in the flesh.

Some of the biggest vendors like to get their Magic Millions yearling images uploaded before Christmas, so we’ve gone through to take a look at some of the pedigree standouts for those of us that have not been touring the farms to see them in the flesh.

Here is the full list of 30 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Emirates Park’s Golden Slipper winner Mossfun spent a few years at stud in the UK to be covered by Frankel and the result of one of those matings is four year-old stallion Dajraan (GB), who has returned to Australia and won a trial at Canterbury this morning.

Five heats for two year-olds were run at Canterbury on Tuesday and the quickest winner was a Zoustar colt in the China Horse Club colours, while the half-brother to Golden Slipper winner She Will Reign also impressed and a Capitalist colt in the JHB colours is a mirror image of his sire.

Matamata trainer Jamie Richards is keen to plunder some more Australian prizemoney before he ventures to Hong Kong in April or May next year.

The cream of the Western Australian yearling crop will converge on the Swan Valley in February when the world class complex hosts the 2022 Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale across two days of selling.

Mike Moroney and Pam Gerard will have numbers and class in their favour for the Gr.1 Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic (2000m) on Boxing Day.

A changing of the guard at the powerful Te Akau operation will result in Donna Logan’s Singapore training career going to a new level in 2022 with a dramatic boost to her stable’s firepower.

2022 yearling sale catalogues are a moving picture that evolves and changes with every race meeting up until sale day, so this weekly report seeks to bring you all the relevant updates in the one place with the big highlight from last week coming from undefeated filly Gypsy Goddess.

All staff in the Australian breeding industry will have round the clock access to mental health professionals through a new support line launched by Thoroughbred Breeders Australia (TBA).

Here is the full list of 36 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Monday with winners and result details.

Owned by Swettenham Stud, juvenile filly Pacific Dragon broke through for her maiden win in the Dunstan Recovery Mash 1000 at Pukekohe on Monday, cementing her path towards the Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie next month.

Three-year-old gelding Horace broke maiden ranks in good style on Monday for trainer Chad Ormsby when landing the Premier Horse Transport 1200 at Pukekohe and looks a promising stayer in the making.

Belardo gelding Fellini broke through for his maiden victory at Pukekohe on Monday when taking out the Tuakau Cossie Racing Section 1000.

Already a two time Graded winner, quality Amercain Pharoah (USA) mare Sweet Melania added another feature win to her resume when taking out the $100,000 Group III Suwannee River Stakes at Gulfstream on the weekend.

Four trials for juveniles at Wyong on Monday morning produced some interesting winners prepared by leading trainers with Peter and Paul Snowden delivering the fastest heat winner who is by Russian Revolution and has a three-quarter sister headed to Magic Millions 2022.

Lightly raced Group winner Mana Nui has joined Chris Waller’s Sydney operation with the champion trainer handed the task of boosting the colt’s stallion profile.

With just two live foals from his lone crop before being unceremoniously gelded, Kementari has both of those rare gems heading to the Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale.

Kiwi-bred filly Gypsy Goddess became the first stakes winner for Westbury Stud stallion Tarzino when she cruised to victory in the Gr.3 Grand Prix Stakes (2100m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

An eclectic group of friends entrusted Guy Lowry with the task of finding them a racehorse at Karaka 2020, and now the resulting purchase is coming into his own.

Two-year-old debutant Kana raced into contention for the $1million Doubletree by Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie next month with an impressive victory on her home track at Awapuni on Saturday.

Here is the full list of 68 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Nominated a race to watch with two intriguing runners in the $1,100,000 Deep Impact colt Elzamee and Orbis Bloodstock’s import Campeao (IRE), the 1500m maiden at Newcastle on Saturday did not disappoint.

We’d like to thank thoroughbred breeders from throughout Australia and New Zealand for supporting the 2021 Breednet Foal Gallery which again has showcased a huge variety of gorgeous foals from both hobby and commercial breeders.

Nicconi had four winners in Australia and Hong Kong on Saturday with speedy three year-old filly Scorched Earth saluting at Flemington, while The Bopper put his best foot forward at Randwick.

Bob and Sandra Peters have enjoyed phenomenal success over the Perth Summer Carnival and it continued on Saturday at Ascot when their top class Pierro gelding Regal Power backed up from a last start victory in the $1million Group I Kingston Town Stakes (1800m) to take out the $250,000 Group II WATC Ven Heemst Stakes (2100m).

Here is the full list of 122 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Saturday with winners and result details.

Stampe made eleven starts in stakes races without a win, but it was 12-times a charm for the five-year-old son of Whittington in Saturday’s Listed Lough Neagh Stakes (1400m) at Eagle Farm.

Taranaki mare Coventina Bay reminded racegoers of her undoubted class when she came from last at the turn to down a small but quality field in the Gr.2 Carters Manawatu Challenge Stakes (1400m) at Awapuni.

Visiting Matamata rider Craig Grylls had a day to remember on Saturday when he took out the two feature races on the card at Awapuni, albeit in contrasting fashion.

Making her first start in 26 weeks, the promising Star Turn filly Me Me Lagarde came with a barnstorming finish from the tail of the field to open her stakes account in Saturday’s $200,000 Listed Gold Edition Stakes at Eagle Farm.

It may not have been a vintage Group III Ascot Green Grand Prix Stakes (2100m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday, but you have to admire the way the odd-on favourite Gypsy Goddess put them to the sword.

Russian Warrior could not quite get the job done when the ‘Best On Breeding’ at her debut when fourth at Doomben, but she opened her winning account at start two in a thrilling finish to the Amalgamated Group Maiden Plate (1200m) at the Gold Coast on Saturday.

Quickly building a cult following, Squid Game kept his record at a perfect two for two following a last to first performance in Saturday's Lexus Holiday Plate (1200m) at Flemington.

After three starts in stakes company, the three-year-old Xtravagant filly Lavish Girl appreciated the drop in class for Saturday’s Tab Trophy (1400m) at Flemington.

A luckless fourth when on debut at Warwick Farm on December 12, the two-year-old Rebel Dane filly Fireburn made no mistake at her second when overpowering Uncorked in Saturday's Tab Supports Nation Jockeys Hcp (1200m) at Randwick.