A metro winning treble on Wednesday for Deep Field has seen him move to the top of the leading Australian sires list by winners with 18 winners in the first 18 days of the new season.

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

The Benchmark 72 event for fillies and mares at Randwick on Wednesday featured two lightly raced and talented fillies with spring aspirations in Billiondollarbaby (I Am Invincible) and Jal Lei (Sebring) with the former fading badly to finish out of the placings while the latter sprouted wings to post a soft victory.

Coolmore will stand outstanding European sire Wootton Bassett (GB) in Australia for the first time this spring and the proven Group I sire has a most promising Australian winner in Rapid Achiever (FR), who made it two wins from two starts when scoring at Sandown on Wednesday.

Zed may be one of New Zealand’s most solidly proven stallions, but there’s still plenty of room for broodmare owners that want their mares to visit him.

There was a good deal to dissect from the colts and geldings maiden for three-year-olds over 1250m at Kensington-Randwick on Wednesday.

Progressive Pride of Dubai gelding Sandy Prince has not missed a place in five starts and upped the ante to score an impressive all the way victory at Sandown on Wednesday.

Anthony Cumming has lofty plans for talented Vancouver filly Chill, who cast off maiden status at Randwick on Wednesday with a stylish win at her second run back from a spell.

Trainer John Sadler believes Adele Amour is a Victoria Oaks contender after the daughter of Sebring opened her winning account over 1400m at Sandown-Hillside on Wednesday.

After a hiatus in 2020 due to COVID-19, the Waikato Branch of the NZTBA were looking forward to a bumper weekend in the Waikato this week with the Gavelhouse.com Waikato Stallion Parade book-ending the Ebbett VW National Breeding Awards.

Former New Zealand mare Bonham could kick-off the Australian leg of her racing career in the Gr.2 Sheraco Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill next month.

The first two maiden events on the Kensington track at Randwick on Wednesday feature a raft of three year-olds entered for the big Guineas races in Melbourne.

Kim Waugh will have a lot of fun with this three year-old son of Vinery Stud’s young gun sire Star Turn.

Connections of high-class four-year-old Aegon are favouring a start in the A$1 million Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday week as the kick-off point for the athletic gelding’s spring campaign.

Like many primary industries, there has been a growing shortage of skilled labour in the thoroughbred industry, but the cavalry are coming.

Here is the full list of 29 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

There were barrier trials galore at Warwick Farm on Tuesday morning with Everest contenders Eduardo and Gytrash unleashed for a stretch of their legs, while the 2020 Magic Millions sale-topper Profondo continues to make progress.

Back to its original format, the third day of the 2021 August Yearling Sale hosted Part II of the catalogue.

A first time Coolmore shuttler to Australia this spring, Wootton Bassett (GB) was based in France before being acquired by Coolmore so he had strong representation at the 2021 Arqana August Yearling Sale with 16 yearling sold over three days and 13 of those selling for €100,000 ($A160,502) or more.

Yarraman Park’s champion sire I Am Invincible set an Australian record last season for individual Australian winners (208) and has not missed a beat as we move into the new season with 16 winners in 16 days, the latest of them Wild Wind, another success story for Inglis Digital.

Red Hawk was not the only well bred three year-old to win by a wide margin at Ballarat on Monday for the Tony and Calvin McEvoy stable with Zoustar filly Star of Chaos also looking to be a prospect for better races this spring.

Deep Field gave us an eye-catching debut winner at Ballarat that is destined for far bigger things.

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

The famed Fastnet Rock  x Galileo cross has produced numerous Group I winners in Europe and Australasia and it has worked again to produce progressive filly Star Devine, who claimed her first Black type victory in the $120,000 Galway Stakes (5 ½ f) at Saratoga on Sunday.

Another Australian breeder has hopes of sale ring success in France during the third session of the 2021 Arqana August Yearling Sale with a lovely filly from an Australian mare to be offered as Lot 315.

Coolmore’s dual Group I winning Deep Impact sire Saxon Warrior (Jpn) had strong results last year at the Northern Hemisphere foal sales and he made his presence felt again at the Arqana August Yearling Sale on day two with a stunning colt from his first crop that sold for €370,000 ($A594,494).

The New South Wales Racehorse Owners’ Association is delighted to announce the finalists for the 20/21 NSWROA Racing Awards.

A mare purchased by Dorrington Farm at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton November Sale for $US250,000 produced a great result for Victorian breeder Rob Crabtree and his family when her yearling colt by Kitten’s Joy sold for €300,000 at the Arqana August Yearling Sale on day two.

The second evening of the August Yearling Sale, that was held in alphabetical order and featured the second half of Part 1 of the catalogue, recorded excellent results: a total of 78% of the yearlings presented were sold for an average price of €307,787, generating a turnover of €18,775,000.

Bargain Karaka purchase Sierra Sue (NZ) (Darci Brahma) added a second Melbourne Group Two victory to her CV with a high-class performance in Saturday’s A$300,000 P.B. Lawrence Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield. 

Kingman’s champion son Palace Pier made it back to back wins in the Group I Deauville Prix Jacques Le Marois (1600m) in France overnight cementing his position as the best miler in Europe.

Darley’s champion sire Exceed and Excel added a new stakes-winner to his tally in the UK overnight when Double or Bubble won the Listed Flying Fillies Stakes (6f) at Pontefract.

I Am Invincible had four winners on Sunday and one of them was a blue-blooded $1.1million Inglis Easter purchase.

Here is the full list of 57 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

One of the most popular horses in the Bjorn Baker stable, dashing grey Your song gelding Frosty Rocks has earned himself a crack at black type races after scoring a stylish victory in the $130,000 Spring Preview (1400m) at Kembla on Saturday.

Having returned to its original format, the August Yearling Sale kicked off the European yearling sales season on Saturday.

The William Haggas stable was on fire in Europe overnight, capturing three Group races, two of which were by Australian-bred stallions.

It was a case of '10 memorable minutes' for the Tyreel Stud team today as Tiger Of Malay (Extreme Choice) and Behemoth (All Too Hard) resumed with nail-biting Stakes victories.

The Deauville meeting in France overnight produced a new stakes-winner for Pride of Dubai with three year-old gelding Dubai Honour capturing the Group II Prix Guillaume d’Ornano Haras du Logis Saint-Germain (2000m).

 With the late scratching of Dalasan, expectations were that Saturday's Group III Spring Stakes at Morphettville was a match race between Behemoth and Beau Rossa, and that was the way it played out. Still, this was destined to be decided in the steward's room.

Lightly raced five-year-old Pintoff made it four wins and a second from his last five starts when opening his stakes account in Saturday’s Listed Evergreen Turf Regal Roller Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.

Here is the full list of 117 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Extreme Choice was the Champion Australian 2YO sire and Champion First Crop Sire last season and one of his star performers was talented colt Tiger of Malay, who resumed from a brief winter spell to win the Group III ATC Up and Coming Stakes (1300m) at Kembla on Saturday.

Fresh off a win in the Mildura Cup, the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained mare Sierra Sue made the trip to Caulfield on Saturday to capture the $300,000 Group II PB Lawrence Stakes (1400m).

Last season’s Talindert Stakes form stood up at Caulfield on Saturday with the winner Ingratiating claiming the Vain Stakes while runner-up Gimmie Par made her three-year-old bow with a valuable Group III triumph in the Beck Probuild Quezette Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield.

A year ago, Bella Nipotina won her first stakes race taking out the Group III MRC Quezette Stakes at Caulfield and a year on the daughter of Pride of Dubai has returned to  the scene of her biggest success to win the $130,000 open mares event over 1100m.

Cambridge raider Elephant made his presence felt at Caulfield on Saturday when making an impressive start to his Australian spring campaign as he cruised to victory in the IVE Print Handicap (1400m).

Striking Frosted (USA) colt Ingratiating made an exciting start to his three-year-old campaign with a last to first performance in Saturday’s Group III Vain Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield.

Progressive So You Think mare So You Assume came out of last season in top form and kept up the good work at Caulfield on Saturday to win a Benchmark 84 event over 1700m positioning herself as a contender for Black type races this spring.

It’s often a tough decision to geld a high-priced yearling, especially when it is owned by a consortium of breeders, but it looks to have have done the trick for King Of Sparta.

Desert King (IRE), the sire of three-time Melbourne Cup heroine Makybe Diva, has died at the age of 27 at Lauriston Park, Victoria.  

2020 Melbourne Cup winner Twilight Payment (IRE) hit top form overnight at the Curragh winning the Group III Irish St Leger Trial (1m6f) in a dominant display.

A Group I sire in both hemispheres, Coolmore shuttler Mastercraftsman (IRE) has died of a suspected heart attack at age 15 at Coolmore’s Castlehyde Stud in Ireland.

Here is the full list of 41 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

It did not take long for Eddie Hirsch to learn he had made a rare bargain with the purchase of the stakes-winning Lonhro mare Obsequious from the Godolphin draft offered at the 2020 Inglis July (Early) Online Sale.

Tivaci has rapidly doubled his winning tally with further Australian success on Thursday at Scone where his daughter Mascherata was a stylish and untested winner over 1200m in her three-year-old debut.

Four heats at Rosehill on Friday morning for Group and Listed horses produced interesting winners with two stayers looking well primed as well as a potential star three year-old and an Everest contender.

Spendthrift Australia is welcoming regional guests to their Macedon Ranges property, through daily Open Houses.

Breednet’s 2021 Premium Online Stallion Directory is a suit for all occasions.

Breeders will be presented with another world-class rare gem when the G1-performing mare Fasika (So You Think) is offered in the Inglis Digital August (Late) Online Auction.

The provincial meeting run at Scone on Thursday produced a blue-blood three year-old Snitzel winner carrying the Darby Racing colours.

Entered for the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas, The Duke of Dubai made a winning debut at Sale on Thursday for the Mike Moroney stable.

As a full sister to undefeated world champion sprinter Black Caviar, a lot was probably expected of Naturale, but that success has come in the breeding barn rather than on the racetrack.

The top lot at the 20019 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale when sold for $2.8million, Snitzel colt Mount Fuji will be heading to a new home in Queensland after being sold in the Inglis Digital August (Early) Sale for $75,000.

Australia’s biggest and most popular Foal Gallery is up and running for 2021, so tag us in your foal pictures on social media or email us direct at media@breednet.com.au

Aquis Farm have a roster filled with promising young sires, but with some 30 of his first crop two year-olds already named and 23 of them entered for the 2022 Golden Slipper there is reason for optimism in regards to this good looking son of a champion sire.

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

Race fillies have dominated the Inglis Digital August (Early) Online Sale, with the Shadwell-bred Sulwaan (I Am Invincible) topping the sale at $300,000.

Prominent jumps trainer Paul Nelson has had plenty of top-class hurdlers pass through his care over the years but he labelled The Cossack as the best after his dominant win in the Hospitality New Zealand Canterbury 131st Grand National Hurdles (4200m) at Riccarton on Wednesday.

Emirates Park have been bullish in their support of Newgate Farm based promising young sire Tassort and are delighted with his first foal.

Last season’s leading first crop sire by winners, Capitalist posted his first metropolitan winner of the new season on Wednesday at Newcastle with a debut victory for the Chris Waller trained Coodarady.

An important, if belated, win for Shosha at Doomben on Wednesday as the Deep Impact (JPN) mare made the first instalment on her $1,100,000 purchase price.

Timing is everything in life and in horses and wins by quality Arqana purchased imports Hosier at Flemington and Kingsheir at Royal Randwick last Saturday has cast the spotlight firmly on the upcoming 2021 Arqana Yearling Sales to be held this coming weekend August 14-16 in gorgeous Deauville.

A sale-topping $2,600,000 paid by MV Magnier for a colt by leading stallion Into Mischief, a $1,400,000 colt by Spendthrift Farm’s one season shuttler Bolt D’Oro (USA), and a $1million filly by Quality Road highlighted the final session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale on Tuesday.

Superbly bred Invincible Spirit stallion Magna Grecia (IRE) is a half-brother to one of the best European three year-olds this year in St Mark’s Basilica and he has his first Australian foals being born this spring.

Keeneland has announced that 4,034 yearlings have been cataloged for the 78th annual Keeneland September Yearling Sale to be held over 11 sessions from Sept. 13-24.

Bowness Stud’s charismatic grey So You Think stallion D’Argento has produced his first foal to the great delight of studmaster John North and his big team of Star Thoroughbreds owners who enjoyed his exploits on the track.

Justify (USA) was not the only Triple Crown winning sire making an impression on day one of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale.

The first yearlings by Triple Crown hero Justify were a highlight during the first session of the 2021 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale on Monday with a colt from Bar of Gold selling for $825,000 ($A1.12 million).

Highlighted in a recent Juvenile Trial Watch story this $1million I Am Invincible colt made a winning debut at Hawkesbury on Tuesday.

Here is the full list of 31 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Highly regarded filly Ancient Girl (Turn Me Loose), who holds a nomination for the Gr.1 Thousand Guineas at Caulfield in early October, made a winning debut at Ballarat today.

Cambridge trainer Tony Pike will be keeping a close eye on the weather ahead of racing at Te Rapa on Saturday where Group One winner Sherwood Forest is set to kick-off his spring preparation in the Super Seth & Waikato Stud Mile (1600m).

Leading Melbourne trainer Mick Price outlaid $250,000 for a War Front (USA) colt on the opening day of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling sale.

Last season’s outstanding juvenile Sword Of State was back in action at the Cambridge trials on Tuesday, where he finished second under a hold over 800m.

A powerfully built colt from the first crop by Triple Crown hero Justify (USA) made the early running as the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale got underway on Monday.

Get ahead of the pack and discover this stallion …. before everybody else does.

A debut winner by Snitzel trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott is always worth further investigation.

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

Rosemont Stud have reshaped it’s forth-coming stallion parade to adapt to Victoria’s current Covid-19 situation -  Instead of this Sunday’s “open to all” stallion parade, the six-strong roster will parade for smaller groups through the day on Tuesday, August 17 and Thursday, August 19.

The thoroughbred industry lost one of its most respected men after renowned bloodstock agent Michael Stedman passed away at the age of 73 last week. 

The New Zealand Thoroughbred breeding industry lost one of its trailblazing female breeders recently with the passing of Lorraine Jameson.

Annabel Neasham unleashed her two big guns at the Warwick Farm trials on Monday morning with Zaaki (GB) and Mo’Unga asked to stretch their legs, while in the heats for up and comers the 2020 Magic Millions Yearling Sale-topper won with plenty in hand.

Triple Group One winner Tofane was back in action at the Flemington jump-outs on Monday after a brief break from her winter exertions.

Each year we bring together some of Australia's leading equine Veterinarians and Thoroughbred industry professionals, covering topical breeding information for the upcoming season at our ever popular seminars.

The best offspring to date for Queensland’s champion first crop sire last season Worthy Cause, exciting filly Hinged will be given her opportunity to compete against the best fillies this spring with news she is set to join the stable of Chris Waller.

2021 is delivering a new benchmark of success for Juddmonte Farm’s champion sire Frankel and he added another new Group I winner overnight with four year-old mare Alpinista winning the Group I Grosser Preis Von Berlin (1m4f).

Proven Group 1 sires Nicconi (119), Magnus (119) and Star Witness (100) all recorded a century of winners in season 2020/21 with the trio combining for 338 winners, 542 wins and over $24 million in progeny earnings.

Here is the full list of 62 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

It is with great sadness we announce the passing of one of our foundation sires, Mossman.