Saturday July 3
A small but select field of four lined up in the Group I Coral-Eclipse Stakes (1m2f) at Sandown in the UK overnight with victory going to outstanding three year-old colt St Mark’s Basilica, who proved superior to globe-trotting multiple Group I winner Addeybb.
Saturday July 3
Here is the full list of 99 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday July 3
Progressive three-year-old gelding Tena Koutou made it three on the bounce, and a first at stakes level, in Saturday’s Listed Aquanita Stakes (200m) at Belmont Park.
Saturday July 3
Widden Stud’s flagship sire Zoustar has had a sensational year and posted his 12th Australian stakes-winner this season when tough sprinter The Astrologist scored his first Black Type success in the Listed VRC Furphy Sprint Series Final (1200m) at Flemington ion Saturday.
Saturday July 3
Purchased for just $500, the tenacious Gingerbread Man filly Chili Is Hot scored a fighting win in Saturday's Listed Belmont Oaks (2000m) at Belmont Park.
Saturday July 3
Oscar Zulu was not the only talented three year-old winner on Saturday bred and sold by Gilgai Farm with promising young stayer Token Spirit taking out the $150,000 VRC GH Mumm Mahogany Challenge Final (2500m) a Flemington.
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Saturday July 3
The despised outsider of the field, rising 7yo gelding Mongolian Marshal, finished determinedly to claim Saturday’s $160,000 Listed Seppelt Wines Winter Championship (1600m) at Flemington.
Saturday July 3
Gilgai Farm have bred some amazingly good horses including Black Caviar, All Too Hard, Jameka, The Quarterback and more recently Ole Kirk, and while Oscar Zulu is not in their league yet, he is building an impressive record in Sydney over the winter posting his third consecutive victory at Rosehill on Saturday.
Saturday July 3
The Gary Portelli-trained Royalzel completed a successful hit and run mission in Saturday's $160,000 Listed Kennedy Taj Rossi Series Final (1600m) at Flemington.
Saturday July 3
The Champs Elysees (GB) gelding Grand Promenade (GB) is another from the seemingly endless production line of top stayers sourced by John Foote in Europe.
Saturday July 3
A homebred for David Moodie’s Hesket Bloodstock, two year-old Zoustar filly Jagar pricked a nice race in which to break her maiden after powering to victory in the $150,000 VRC Sofitel Next Generation Final (1200m).
Saturday July 3
A sparkling win at the Te Rapa trials back in late May indicated that promising three-year-old All About You would be hard to beat when he made his raceday debut and that proved correct as he bolted away with the first race on the card at Ruakaka on Saturday.
Friday July 2
Gelding might be the making of Zoustar two year-old Sunfall, who charged home from last to break his maiden at Geelong on Friday.
Friday July 2
Here is the full list of 43 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Friday July 2
It is hard to fathom how a mare can strike gold with her first foal then prove an abject failure for the remainder of her life.
Friday July 2
A big set of trials at Canterbury on Friday featured nine heats won by juveniles including an unraced I Am Invincible colt that could easily help his champion sire to crack 200 winners for this season.
Friday July 2
It is with immense sadness that STOCKWELL THOROUGHBREDS announce the passing of one of the racing worlds most revered champions, ARAZI, at the grand age of 32 years.
Thursday July 1
The Breednet Price Point stories have been super popular and are now archived on the site, so will remain a great source of information and reference as we move towards the breeding season and let’s not forget that the three stallions topping the current Australian General Sires List by earnings all started their stud careers at this price point or below.
Thursday July 1
Here is the full list of 34 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Thursday July 1
The exciting Camelot (GB) gelding Hosier (IRE) kept his record at a perfect two for two in Australia with an authoritative display in a class 1 over 1600m at Bendigo on Thursday.
Thursday July 1
Darren and Elizabeth Dance’s Esker Lodge will present three weanlings colts by Capitalist, Toronado (IRE) and Impending, plus three mares at the Inglis Great Southern Sale.
Thursday July 1
Leneva Park is one of Victoria’s newest thoroughbred pre-training and breeding organisation spanning two properties in the heart of Victorian thoroughbred country.
Thursday July 1
Highlighted in a recent Breednet ‘Juvenile Trial Watch’ story the half-sister to brilliant stakes-winning filly Isotope made a winning debut at Hawkesbury on Thursday becoming the ninth winner for Winning Rupert.
Thursday July 1
Arguably the rarest online offering the world has ever seen will be showcased through Inglis Digital next month when superstar G1 winner Funstar is offered for sale.
Wednesday June 30
Earlier this year Juddmonte Farms suffered a painful blow when losing their star broodmare Kind, who died at age 20 of foaling complications after delivering a colt by Kingman.
Wednesday June 30
Stakes-winning 2YO Volcanic Rock has become the most expensive racehorse sold on Inglis Digital, with the June (Late) Online catalogue eclipsing the result of last sale, with an incredible $5.63 million in turnover, making it the second-highest grossing sale in the history of the platform.
Wednesday June 30
Here is the full list of 56 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Wednesday June 30
The end of the Australian Group I season last weekend got us thinking about this amazing pool of horses and what they were like as yearlings so we’ve come up with a gallery featuring all Group I winners with available yearling images ranging in price from $5,000 up to $675,000.
Wednesday June 30
Cox Plate winner Adelaide (IRE) is not the highest profile sire on the Coolmore roster, but he does get his winners and progressive mare Duchess Adele upped the ante at Warwick Farm on Wednesday to post her first metropolitan success.
Wednesday June 30
Following a troubled third on debut at Canterbury on June 9, the Mikki Isle (JPN) gelding Dragonstone made no mistake at start two at Warwick Farm on Wednesday, and he looks to have a bright future.
Wednesday June 30
Australia’s leading third crop sire Deep Field was quickly into stride at Warwick Farm on Wednesday siring the first two home in the juvenile fillies maiden over 1100m.
Wednesday June 30
An expensive yearling by a champion sire that goes on to deliver immediate success on the track is always going to be a highly sought-after commodity when he trades in the turf for the stallion barn.
Wednesday June 30
Hong Kong hero Beauty Generation (NZ) (Road to Rock) has settled nicely into life after racing at the world-renowned Australian-based retired racehorse facility, Living Legends.
Tuesday June 29
Last week saw the passing of champion European broodmare Cassandra Go at age 25 and overnight she was back in the news when her two year-old colt by Churchill (IRE) became her tenth winner.
Tuesday June 29
With record sales across the board and a host of new stallions, it’s shaping to be a cracker of a breeding season for Victoria … and, we might add, a memorable one for Larneuk Stud.
Tuesday June 29
The most expensive yearling sired by Written Tycoon in 2019 broke the ice when winning on debut at Ballarat on Tuesday.
Tuesday June 29
Here is the full list of 27 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Tuesday June 29
“He has had a big rap on him from day one but it has taken a little while for things to click.
Tuesday June 29
There are so many ways in which we can evaluate the performance of sires and while sire tables for two and three year old sires are common, sire tables based on distance parameters are not and they do offer a unique insight into where the strength of a stallion can really be found.
Tuesday June 29
Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week including a very impressive 16 plus length win for a $375,000 Divine Prophet youngster which has switched from Team Hawkes to Kody Nestor at Dubbo, so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.
Tuesday June 29
The talented horse with the quirky name is back in work and looking to accomplish some big things over spring.
Monday June 28
Yarraman Park’s super sire I Am Invincible is powering towards his third consecutive title as Australia’s most successful sire of winners and at some point in the next 10 days is likely to pass the phenomenal milestone of 200 individual Aussie winners for the season.
Monday June 28
We all know the saying ‘never judge a book by it’s cover’, but in the bloodstock industry that might be better applied as ‘never judge a sire on what he does in his first season’.
Monday June 28
Much is made of the performance of first and second season sires in terms of racetrack results , but when their oldest progeny turn four they have to swim in the big pool against all the other sires, so a look at how they are going comparative to each other is interesting.
Monday June 28
Here is the full list of 17 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Monday June 28
Despite COVID-19 restrictions creating ongoing logistical headaches and isolating him from his family and friends in New Zealand, trans-Tasman trainer Mike Moroney has taken special satisfaction from the last couple of weeks.
Monday June 28
Two-year-old Brazen Beau colt Windstormblack will target the Group II Prix Robert Papin on July 18th at Chantilly after keeping his record at a perfect three for three with a hugely impressive front-running performance in Sunday's Premio Group III Primi Passi (1200m) at San Siro.
Monday June 28
The Breednet Price Point stories have been super popular and are now archived on the site, so will remain a great source of information and reference as we move towards the breeding season and with 22 horses priced at $16,500 there is huge competition in this sector so we have split the group into PROVEN and UNPROVEN.
Monday June 28
The 2020 New Zealand Oaks winner and 2019/2020 New Zealand Bloodstock 3YO Filly of the Year Jennifer Eccles is set to be sold on the Gavelhouse Plus online platform next month.
Monday June 28
With a runaway victory in Saturday’s A$125,000 Listed Tattersall’s Life Member Stakes (1830m) at Eagle Farm, blue-blooded Karaka graduate Tutukaka (NZ) (Tavistock) delivered a tantalising taste of what could lie ahead in his three-year-old season. 
Sunday June 27
Darley’s Night of Thunder (IRE) shuttled to Australia for just one season making a huge impression with that lone crop including Group I Queensland Derby winner Kukeracha and the Dubawi stallion was making news overnight in Europe with his second Group I winner when Thundering Nights took out the Group I Pretty Polly Stakes (1m 2f) at The Curragh.
Sunday June 27
The ownership group of Prince Fawaz are proud to announce the retirement of their Group 1 winner to Oaklands Stud in Queensland for the 2021 breeding season.
Sunday June 27
A long-range plan set in place for royally bred Savabeel mare Zayydani came to fruition at Eagle Farm on Saturday when she strode to a comprehensive victory in the Listed Tattersall’s Gold Crown (2137m).
Sunday June 27
Here is the full list of 75 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Sunday June 27
The Group I Tatts Tiara at Eagle Fam last Saturday won by Tofane was the final Group I contest of the Australian racing season, so we’ve had a look through the stats to see where the best of the best have come from.
Sunday June 27
A striking half-brother to prolific Listed Australian winner Zoustyle has sold for a sale-topping bid of HK$5 million (A$848,162) at the Hong Kong International Sale at the Sha Tin Parade Ring on Sunday, 27 June, as all 16 lots offered for sold for a total of HK$47.2 million ($8,006,650).
Sunday June 27
Heavily backed to make a winning career debut in a 1009m maiden on the Tapeta at Devonport on Sunday, Alpine Wolf made it look all so easy with a four-length romp to credit his sire Alpine Eagle with his first winner.
Sunday June 27
The Exceed And Excel mare Chil Chil may have earned a shot at the Group 1 July Cup at Newmarket on July 10 following a victory at her stakes debut in Saturday’s Group III Chipchase Stakes (6f) on the Tapeta at Newcastle.
Sunday June 27
We’ve been keeping tabs on the dams of Australasian Group I winners this season to see what they were up to in the 2020 stud season and Saturday’s Tatts Tiara marks the conclusion of Group I racing in Australia for the season, so we’ve updated the list.
Saturday June 26
Juddmonte Farm’s champion sire Frankel delivered Epsom Derby success this year for Godolphin with quality colt Adayar and has also given them victory in the Group I Irish Derby (1m4f), which was won overnight at the Curragh by Hurricane Lane.
Saturday June 26
Here is the full list of 96 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday June 26
Casino Prine's charismatic daughter Sweet Deal may have been demoted from second to third in the Group 1 Tatts Tiara at Eagle Farm. Still, there was better news for Vinery Stud's evergreen stallion at Rosehill when Bandersnatch triumphed in the Listed Civic Stakes (1200m).
Saturday June 26
Winless since capturing the Group II Percy Sykes Stakes at Randwick fourteen months ago, Away Game might have earned a trip to the Breeders’ Cup meeting at Del Mar in November following a fast-finishing win in Saturday’s Group III Healy Stakes (1200m) at Eagle Farm.
Saturday June 26
A gun front-running ride by Jonathan Riddell and the pugnacious nature of Popstar Princess combined to provide the pair with a memorable victory in the feature race at Tauranga on Saturday, the Listed Team Wealleans Tauranga Classic (1400m).
Saturday June 26
Outstanding mare Tofane added Saturday's final Group 1 of the season, the $600,000 Tatts Tiara (1400m) at Eagle Farm, to her last start win in the Group 1 Stradbroke and join Dane Ripper and Srikandi to achieve the notable double.
Saturday June 26
In his biggest test to date, Incentivise put a class field of stayers to the sword in Saturday’s $200,000 Group III Tattersall’s Cup (2400m) at Eagle Farm.
Saturday June 26
The newly formed partnership of Ben and JD Hayes is off and running, with their first winner coming with Zayydani in Saturday's $200,000 Listed Tattersall's Gold Crown (2137m) at Eagle Farm.
Saturday June 26
A homebred for the Alderson family, the Cindy Alderson trained colt Jigsaw has a debut victory over Blue Diamond winner Artorius on his resume so always looked a good thing when resuming from a spell in a mid-winter event at Caulfield on Saturday.
Saturday June 26
Trainer Sally McKay made the long trip north from her Invercargill base to Riccarton with butterflies in her stomach and a host of doubts as to whether she had done the right thing with her stable runner Palmetto, who was making his raceday debut on Saturday.
Saturday June 26
Melody Belle's half-brother Tutukaka will target the Victoria Derby in the spring after breaking his maiden with little more than a working gallop in Saturday's Listed Tattersall's Life Member Stakes (1830m) at Eagle Farm.
Friday June 25
Galileo’s champion son Churchill (IRE) is due back in Australia this spring for Coolmore and he sired an impressive winner overnight at Doncaster in the UK where Encountered won as he pleased.
Friday June 25
An exceptional catalogue of 561 lots has opened for bidding this afternoon in the Inglis Digital June (Late) Online Sale, headlined by 2YO Stakes winner Volcanic Rock (Hinchinbrook) and a number of Stakes-performed mares in the broodmare category.
Friday June 25
Here is the full list of 35 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Friday June 25
A champion on and off the track, Cassandra Go’s death at Ballyhimikin Stud at the age of 25 will be sadly mourned, but what a legacy she left.
Friday June 25
A small set of trials on the polytrack at Warwick Farm on Friday morning included only two heats for juveniles, but one of those winners was a talented Deep Field colt having his first public outing
Friday June 25
Triple Crown hero American Pharoah has been in hot form in the Northern Hemisphere this week posting his third new stakes-winner since last Saturday when progressive gelding King of Miami took out the $150,000 Mystic Lake Derby (1m).
Thursday June 24
The Breednet Price Point stories have been super popular and are now archived on the site, so will remain a great source of information and reference as we move towards the breeding season and with 22 horses priced at $16,500 there is huge competition in this sector.
Thursday June 24
Capitalist will have to wait for another day to post his 20th first crop winner after his two year-old filly Girl Mania came up short at Kembla on Thursday against the Joe Pride trained Rubick filly Rubinocchi.
Thursday June 24
Here is the full list of 34 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Thursday June 24
There are few more intriguing races for the two-year-olds on Saturday than the opening event, the GH Mumm Maiden Plate (1100m), at Morphettville.  A debutant crossing the border from Victoria is the Ben and JD Hayes-trained Extreme Choice filly Extreme Step.
Thursday June 24
A strong supplementary catalogue of 53 lots – including weanlings by some of Australia’s most exciting stallions, as well as black type performed mares and mares carrying desirable pregnancies – has been confirmed for the Great Southern Sale.
Thursday June 24
A filly who was no certainty to survive her first 24 hours of life is now a winner on the racetrack.
Thursday June 24
Tamac Stud Farm is situated 4500 feet above sea level at Walcha with the cold climate offering so many benefits for the raising of quality horses and this well run farm has current availability for new clients .
Wednesday June 23
Bred in the purple being from 2007 Champion European 3YO Filly Peeping Fawn, progressive American Pharoah  filly Willow showed her staying credentials at Naas in Ireland overnight winning the Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Oaks Trial (1m2f).
Wednesday June 23
There have been a string of high profile Australian bred mares producing winners in the UK and Ireland in recent weeks including Mossfun, Amicus, Nechita and Zouzou with Melito adding her name to the list with an overnight winner at Salisbury.
Wednesday June 23
Here is the full list of 42 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Wednesday June 23
Featured in a recent Breednet story, former classy stayer and now promising sire Dandino (GB) posted his fifth winner at Cranbourne on Wednesday.
Wednesday June 23
Just one of the six starters in Wednesday's Vinery Stud Maiden Hcp (1250m) at Canterbury had a start under their belt, and it was one of the newcomers, Minsk Moment, who prevailed.
Wednesday June 23
 Punters were made to sweat before Hugh Bowman found a narrow seam at the 100m on the heavily backed favourite Miss In Charge, who opened her winning account in the Microphone@Darley Maiden Hcp (1250m) at Canterbury on Wednesday.
Wednesday June 23
The Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained Elusive Express made a winning debut in the Polytrack Maiden Plate (1200m) at Cranbourne on Wednesday to give another reason to mourn the early death of her sire Jakkalberry (IRE).
Tuesday June 22
The Hong Kong International Sale will be conducted at Sha Tin this Sunday June 27 featuring a select catalogue of 23 sourced from all over the world with 11 purchased from Australia and New Zealand.
Tuesday June 22
A change of scenery seems to have worked wonders with blue blooded three year-old Exceed and Excel filly Covent Garden, the half-sister to world champion racehorse Winx opening her account on Tuesday at Pakenham at her first start for new trainer Peter Moody.
Tuesday June 22
Newgate Farm’s Capitalist is the leading sire of Australian two year-old winners this season with the Bon Ho owned gelding Sniper Legend adding to the tally on Tuesday at Hawkesbury.
Tuesday June 22
Here is the full list of 23 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Tuesday June 22
With all the excitement of Royal Ascot last week it’s not surprising the second winner for Golden Slipper winner Mossfun was overlooked, but as a Frankel colt that won by seven and a half lengths we thought he was worth a story.
Tuesday June 22
Go Racing syndicator Albert Bosma believes the best time to send New Zealand horses to Australia is when they’re on the way up rather than when there’s nothing left to prove at home.
Tuesday June 22
The curtain will come down this weekend on what has been a long but fruitful season for Coventina Bay.
Tuesday June 22
Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young believe Sierra Sue is a big hope in the Gr.1 Tattersall’s Tiara (1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday, she just needs a start.
Monday June 21
The Breednet Price Point stories have been super popular and are now archived on the site, so will remain a great source of information and reference as we move towards the breeding season and as we slide below the $22,000 point, let’s not forget that the three stallions topping the current Australian General Sires List by earnings all started their stud careers at fees below $20,000.
Monday June 21
Media reports indicate champion Japanese sire Heart’s Cry has been retired from active service at age 20.