A $350,000 Inglis Easter purchase from the Newgate Farm draft, talented Snitzel colt Calgary Stampede opened his career in the best way possible when scoring a professional debut victory at Rosehill on Wednesday.

There was a flurry of action at Te Rapa on Wednesday when lot 44 came into the virtual sales ring at New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready To Run Sale.

Multiple Group One-winning Australian trainer Tony McEvoy made an early impact on the opening day of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale at Te Rapa on Wednesday when he secured a handsome son of Almanzor.

Buyers have been circling around impressive debut winner Mascarinto, but so far the two-year-old’s connections have knocked back all potential suitors.

Mapperley Stud sire Puccini sired his first winner at Rotorua when the Peter McKay trained Giacomo won impressively over 1560m.

The European flat season is coming to an end, but Wootton Bassett (GB) is not done siring stakes-winners just yet with his consistent mare Speak of the Devil taking out the Listed Prix Tantieme (1600m) at Saint-Cloud overnight.

The Warwick Farm trials on Tuesday morning produced two heat winners for Godolphin by Frosted (USA) and Kermadec, who gave them the recent Group I VRC Oaks winner Willowy.

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

Roger James is hoping for a big day for his mares Two Illicit and Cheaperthandivorce as they seek more black-type success at Te Rapa on Saturday.

Francis Lui will unveil a healthy, strong and more mature Golden Sixty when the Hong Kong superstar resumes in the Gr.2 BOCHK Private Wealth Jockey Club Mile (1600m) at Sha Tin on Sunday.

Sebastian Hutch has been appointed to the new role of CEO, Inglis Bloodstock.

Renowned for his feats on the Karaka buyers’ bench at New Zealand Bloodstock’s annual National Yearling Sales Series, where he has been leading buyer for 16 consecutive years, Te Akau Racing principal David Ellis is also an ever-increasing force at the Ready to Run Sale. 

The NZB Ready to Run Sale starts on Wednesday and Riversley Park will present a sensational draft of 27 two year-olds by a wide range of sires.

If you missed this week’s episode of Thoroughbreds are Go last night on Sky Thoroughbred Central featuring remarkable racehorse turned showjumper turned police horse Lunar Rise then read on for the link to a great show from Caroline Searcy.

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 seven first season sires with trial winners in the pipeline and one sire in particular that has generated a cloud of smoke.

Here is the full list of 16 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The catalogue for Australia's most popular thoroughbred auction, the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, has been unveiled and will present a sensational line up of racing's future superstars.

The powerful Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable were in the winner’s circle at Scone on Monday when promising American Pharoah (USA) filly Wenet scored her second win.

Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup Day has been put back a day to Sunday March 13 in order to accommodate New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale series.

New Zealand-breds are enjoying a golden run in Australian feature racing, winning a quarter of all Group One races last season and seven since August, despite making up only 7.3% of runners. But the (NZ) suffix has also been a recurring theme among blacktype broodmares.

New Zealand Bloodstock has today announced revised sale dates for its 2022 National Yearling Sales Series set to be held in March. 

We’ve run several stories on Breednet highlighting the adventures of a remarkable thoroughbred that was born at Arrowfield Stud with Caroline Searcy taking us into NSW Mounted Police headquarters at Surry Hills for a look into the next chapter of his life.

Here is the full list of 67 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou picked a Canberra juvenile event to kick start the career of this promising Rubick two year-old filly, who won with the proverbial leg in the air.

Little Avondale Stud boss Sam Williams admits he will have one small pang of regret when the annual New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds kicks off this week.

Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (USA) has been churning out stakes-winners this year in the Northern Hemisphere with progressive mare Skygaze scoring a career best win in the Group III Maple Leaf Stakes ( 1¼ m ) at Woodbine on Saturday.

A bold front running effort that saw her dominate her rivals in the closing stages of a three-year-old 1400m event at Tauranga on Saturday has set promising filly La Crique on a path that will hopefully culminate in a tilt the Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) next March.

Fresh off providing the first four runners home in the Gr.1 Barneswood Farm New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m), trainer Jamie Richards has already begun to plan what the immediate future holds for each of his three-year-old fillies that contested the event.

Just like so many of New Zealand’s feature races in recent seasons, Saturday’s $300,000 Group One Barneswood Farm New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton Park turned into an astonishing tour de force by Te Akau Racing’s champion trainer Jamie Richards. 

The John O’Shea trained sprinting star Lost And Running (Per Incanto) carried top weight to a decisive victory in the $1m The Hunter over 1300m at Newcastle.

Rob and Heather Grant's mighty little filly Searchin' Roc's is doing much to revive the fortunes of Fastnet Rock's Group 1 winning son Awesome Rock.

The Dan Morton-trained Street Boss (USA) gelding took his earnings to over $1million following a dominant performance in Saturday’s Group III Euroz Hartleys-Colonel Reeves Stakes (1100m) at Ascot.

A homebred for Bob and Sandra Peters, five year-old So You Think gelding Midnight Blue posted his first Black Type success on Saturday when surging clear to win the Listed WATC Ascot Gold Cup (1800m) in Perth.

Here is the full list of 99 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Chris Waller and Kiwi syndicators Go Racing combined to provide the quinella in the inaugural Alf Kneebone Trans Tasman Trophy (1850m) at the metropolitan meeting at Newcastle on Saturday, with Mightybeel and stablemate Lord Ardmore running 1-2 in the Benchmark 88.

Tambo's Mate completed a running treble for trainer Tony Gollan when he turned back the clock in the Listed Keith Noud (1200m) at Doomben.

Fourth in The Everest and second in the Classique Legend, Lost And Running was the class act in Saturday’s $1million The Hunter at Newcastle, and it showed.

A tough, grinding drag it out finish on a heavy track played into the wheelhouse of King Magnus, who bounced back from troubled fifth in the Group 1  Kennedy Cantala Stakes to claim Saturday’s $500,000 Listed TAB Cranbourne Cup (1600m).

Purchased for just $33,000 from the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale by her trainer Matthew Smith, improving Choisir filly Festival Dancer ensured her future worth as a broodmare  when scoring a bold win over the colts in the $160,000 Group III Spring Stakes (1600m) at Newcastle on Saturday.

Trainer Jamie Richards added another milestone to his already storied training career when he provided the first four home in the Gr.1 Barneswood Farm New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton.

A last start winner of the Listed ATC Tattersalls Cup at Randwick, progressive stayer Torrens kept up the good work at Newcastle on Saturday when scoring a resounding victory in the $300,000 The Beauford (2300m).

A patient ride by Sam O’Malley proved the key to victory as Taranaki visitor Justaskme stormed clear to win the Gr.2 Gartshore Tauranga Stakes (1600m) at Tauranga.

It was some Kevin Myers magic at play at Riccarton on Saturday when outsider Mondorani ($22.60) stormed home down the outskirts of the Riccarton track to take out the 158th running of the Gr.3 Martin Collins New Zealand Cup (3200m).

Making his fifth start in seven weeks, the 2yo The Mission gelding Mishani Mental broke through for his first win in Saturday’s Sky Racing Hcp (1100m) at Doomben and banked another $100,000 Aquis bonus for owner/breeder Mike Crooks.

A heavy 10 did not deter connections of twelve youngsters contesting the Rhino The Wrecker Plate (1000m) at Cranbourne on Saturday.

Newgate Farm’s young gun Russian Revolution is on the board with his first winner after the Peter and Paul Snowden trained filly Russian Conquest scored a stylish debut victory in the $130,000 Max Lees Classic (900m) at Newcastle on Saturday.

Speedy filly Grace’s Secret made it two wins from two starts when she led throughout to take out the Listed Riccarton Park Function Centre Welcome Stakes (1000m) at Riccarton on Saturday.

The bullish market continued into the third day of selling at Keeneland’s November Breeding Stock Sale, which recorded strong trade throughout the session  evidenced by double-digit increases in gross, average and median prices and a buy-back rate of less than 19 percent.

Racing at Canterbury and Moonee Valley last night delivered metropolitan success for two siblings to Champion 3YO The Autumn Sun with three year-old colt Field Legend saluting in Sydney and four year-old gelding The Awesome Son getting the cash in Melbourne.

Ballylinch Stud have announced their fees with flagbearer Lope de Vega remaining at €125,000 following a successful year that has seen him sire 19 stakes-winners and 48 stakes horses in total.

Here is the full list of 48 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Friday with winners and result details.

A cowboy at heart and the son of a local bloodstock legend, this week we learn more about a young man with an eye for a good horse and the dream of buying his own farm.

With rain lashing the eastern states, it makes it a little bit more challenging for the inexperienced two-year-olds, however our pick looks to be carrying a bit of stable support in the Max Lees Classic (900m) at Newcastle on Saturday.

Session two of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale is underway and it did not take long for the Australians to strike.

Coolmore’s M.V. Magnier spent $625,000 for Just Before Dawn, a weanling colt by undefeated Triple Crown winner Justify who is a half-brother to multiple Grade 1 winner Moonshine Memories, to lead Thursday’s second session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Australian breeders with foals being born this spring by Coolmore shuttler Magna Grecia (IRE) will no doubt have been following the fortunes of his younger half-brother St Mark’s Basilica this year with the champion son of Siyouni crowned Cartier Horse of the Year for 2021.

The Inglis Digital platform has further enhanced itself as the best place to sell online after Stakes-winning mare Dirty Thoughts (So You Think) realised $575,000 as part of the November (Early) auction.

The first-ever running of the A$130,000 Alf Kneebone Trans-Tasman Trophy (1850m) will be a key component of Saturday’s New Zealand-themed raceday at Newcastle in the Hunter Valley, proudly sponsored by New Zealand Bloodstock. 

Juvenile trials this week produced some encouraging efforts from several runners by Hellbent, The Mission and Menari, whose highest priced yearling appears to have not only his good looks, but also his ability.

Winner of the 2020 Group I VRC Australian Cup when trained by the Hayes Dabernig team, blue-blood stallion Fifty Stars (IRE) has been retired and will take up a position in Ireland at Sunnyhill Stud to stand as a National Hunt stallion in partnership with Bloodstock.Racing.

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

Born and raised in Otago and sold at New Zealand Bloodstock’s South Island Sale, Markus Aurelius (NZ) (Ghibellines) made a triumphant southern homecoming in Wednesday’s $230,000 Group Two Coupland’s Bakeries Mile (1600m) at Riccarton Park.

After a series of impressive performances at various tracks around the country, this season’s elite three-year-old fillies will meet for their first Group One showdown this Saturday.

Spendthrift Farm paid $3.1 million for the Grade 1-winning Curlin filly Paris Lights to lead Wednesday’s Book 1 opening session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. Paris Lights, who was supplemented to Book 1, was the third-to-last horse to appear in the ring during the session, which featured seven horses who sold for more than $1 million each and the highest price paid for a wea

The sales action moved to the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale on Wednesday, with a few familiar names making the scoreboard.

The running of the $1million ATC Golden Gift last weekend and the announcement of an increase in prizemoney for the Group I ATC Golden Slipper to $5million in 2022 got us thinking about two year-old racing and how small a percentage of the horse population is actually capable of contesting these races.

Here is the full list of 43 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Trevor Delroy of Wyadup Valley has a happy knack for breeding and racing quality stayers and we might have seen the beginning of a new chapter in his success with a debut winner at Bendigo on Wednesday.

Lustre Lodge’s broodmare band gained two outstanding additions today as Peter Colley purchased the two top lots of the Inglis Digital November (Early) Online Sale.

Paul Moroney, Newgate Farm and S F Bloodstock, Freedman Brothers, Kia Ora Stud, and Julian Blaxland and Rosemont Stud were all players at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale, but it was the Japanese that flexed their muscles.

Fresh from landing the Gr.1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton last Saturday with glamour colt Noverre, the Te Akau team were again to the fore on the middle day of the New Zealand Cup Meeting.

Five-year-old mare Karalino landed the Gr.3 Valachi Downs Canterbury Breeders’ Stakes (1400m) for trainers Stephen Autridge and Kris Shailer in a dramatic finish to the fillies and mares feature at Riccarton on Wednesday.

Leading Victorian stallion, Reward For Effort, will be withdrawn from service for the remainder of the 2021 breeding season, due to a foot abscess.

Earlier this year Breednet ran a very popular story about the merits of November born foals highlighting their racetrack success and discounted yearling price in terms of how they present in the sale ring, so as we move into the last part of the breeding season we thought it was worth revisiting.

Over the last few weeks, dozens of feature races across Australasia and abroad have enhanced pedigrees throughout the catalogue for New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2021 Ready to Run Sale. 

Fees for the extensive Darley European sire roster for 2022 has been announced with Dubawi topping the list at £250,000 remaining at the same price he was this year.

Racing NSW today announced a prizemoney increase for The Golden Eagle from 2022. Prizemoney for the Golden Eagle will be increased to $8 million from 2022, befitting of its position as Australia’s premier four-year-old race and one of the highlights of the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival.

Central Districts raiders have triumphed in the $1m DoubleTree by Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) twice in the last decade, and a potential contender for 2022 emerged with a superb debut at Otaki on Thursday. 

Robina Joy will complete a unique family double if she can successfully rise to the sternest test of her career at Riccarton on Wednesday.

The bluebloods fought out the finish of the 1100m maiden at Gosford on Tuesday but it was the four year-old debutant mare that got the job done impressively.

Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week including a couple of winners for Spirit Of Boom, whose babies have started the season strongly again, so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.

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 four first season sires with unraced trial winners in the pipeline.

In a year that saw the passing of his legendary sire Galileo, Frankel has soared to new heights with Juddmonte Farms moving to raise his service fee in 2022 to £200,000 up from  £175,000.

Little Avondale Stud’s Per Incanto (USA) was once the well kept secret of savvy buyers looking for real results and serious value at Karaka, but the secret is no longer as a growing legion of fans are now awake to his merits with the likes of Justacanta and Lost and Running keeping him front and centre in recent weeks.

A colt by Newgate Farm's young sire sensation Extreme Choice topped today's Magic Millions Gold Coast 2YOs in Training Sale when selling for $350,000.

Here is the full list of 22 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Gary Portelli has already won a Golden Slipper with the brilliant filly She Will Reign, but as he pointed out last Saturday it’s a lot more profitable to win it with a colt and he may have just the horse to do it.

There were three heats for juveniles at Rosehill on Monday morning that produced winners for Snitzel, Rubick and Spirit of Boom, who sired the fastest winner of the three.

A talented Group II placed three year-old in Australia when racing as Jet Propulsion, the now gelded Rubick four year-old Master Delight scored his first win in Hong Kong at Sha Tin on Sunday.

Spring racing is well and truly underway on both sides of the Tasman and three Haunui graduates certainly provided plenty to cheer about over the weekend in both New Zealand and Australia.

Less than two weeks out from the 2021 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale, a previous graduate of the Sale played the lead role in a remarkable all-Karaka trifecta in Saturday’s A$200,000 Group Three Paramount+ Chatham Stakes (1400m) at Flemington.

Adhering to the maxim of never looking a gift horse in the mouth is serving Robert Dennis and partners well.

Arrowfield Stud have had a great winning run over the past week with stakes victories at Flemington for star graduates Hitotsu, Flying Evelyn and Bend The Knee, the winning groove extending to Sha Tin on Sunday where the Group III Sa Sa Ladies Purse (1800m) was won by Tourbillon Diamond, a horse they sold as a yearling for just $7,000!

The Nervous Witness bubble burst at Sha Tin on Sunday when the boom four year-old could only finish fourth in the Class Three sprint over 1000m with victory going to Star Turn three year-old Cordyceps Six.

A Group I winner in Australia of the ATC Metropolitan, blue-blooded Frankel stallion Mirage Dancer (GB) is headed to Ireland to take up a stud career at Ger O’Neill’s Castlefield Stud as a National Hunt sire.

Trainer Catherine Cameron knows that she has limited time left with impressive Te Rapa winner Solid Impact but is keen to make the most of it with the progressive four-year-old.

The $6 million Longines Breeders' Cup Classic at Del Mar is a story easily told - Knicks Go jumped straight to the lead and refused to surrender it.

After capturing the Breeders’ Cup Mile with the Dubawi homebred Space Blues (IRE), Godolphin and trainer Charlie Appleby struck again with another son of Dubawi, Yibir (GB), in the $4 million Longines Breeders' Cup Turf.

Yoshito Yahagi struck for a second time for Japan when Marche Lorraine (JPN) beat the locals at their own game in the Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Del Mar.

A familiar face in Australia as the trainer of 2019 Cox Plate heroine Lys Gracieux (JPN), Yoshito Yahagi broke new ground for Japan when his world-traveller Loves Only You (JPN) overcame difficulties to triumph in Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Del Mar.