Wednesday June 9
Here is the full list of 34 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Wednesday June 9
The Julius Sandhu debutant Sharp Response kick-started what could be an important week for his sire Maurice (JPN) with an impressive performance over 1100m at Sale on Wednesday.
Wednesday June 9
Newgate Farm’s Flying Artie has been having a great season with his first two year-olds and added a ninth winner to the tally on Wednesday when the Team Hawkes trained Almighty Rising led all the way to win at Canterbury.
Wednesday June 9
Brian and Lorraine Anderton’s White Robe Lodge will welcome the addition of Ancient Spirit to their stallion roster this coming breeding season.
Tuesday June 8
If you’ve just bought a mare at the recent sales, you’ll now be pondering which stallion could be her perfect match, so we’re going to look hard at the options in various price points in coming weeks offering facts and statistics that might bring clarity for the undecided.
Tuesday June 8
Winner of the Group I VRC Oaks last spring, the Lindsay Park trained and Coolmore owned Fastnet Rock filly Personal will do her future racing in North America.
Tuesday June 8
Here is the full list of 21 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Tuesday June 8
The catalogues for the upcoming Magic Millions Perth Winter Racehorse, Yearling and Thoroughbred Sales are now online.
Tuesday June 8
There seems to be a charge for the finish line with trainers keen to get their two year-olds out to the races before the end of the season with nine heats at the Randwick trials on Tuesday morning won by juveniles and four of those winners sired by I Am Invincible.
Tuesday June 8
Exciting 2YO Verbek (Turn Me Loose) secured black-type at just his fourth start and looked a promising 3YO prospect when filling the runnerup position in the Listed The Phoenix Stakes in Brisbane at the weekend.
Tuesday June 8
Off the back of a strong season on the track in Australasia, Novara Park stallion Sweynesse’s service fee will rise to $9,000+GST for the forthcoming breeding season.
Tuesday June 8
With an impressive performance in Saturday’s $50,000 Listed John Turkington Forestry Castletown Stakes (1200m) at Whanganui, exciting talent Danger Strykes (NZ) (Astern) became the eighth individual stakes winner this season to come out of Karaka 2020.
Monday June 7
Some older stallions gradually fade away, but that’s not the case for Coolmore’s perennial favourite Fastnet Rock, who turns 20 this year and has sired more Australian stakes-winners this season than any other sire.
Monday June 7
Million dollar mares have been a hot topic in the wake of the recent booming Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale and the mare that topped that sale in 2013 when sold for $1.55million produced an interesting winner in Ireland last week.
Monday June 7
A high class genuine stayer by outstanding sire Dansili, Bombora Downs based Dandino (GB) was always going to come into his own as his progeny reached their classic season and two quick winners since the start of June has his supporters feeling optimistic.
Monday June 7
Here is the full list of 34 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Monday June 7
It’s been a few years now since Gai and Rob Waterhouse were active in the tried horse market in New Zealand, but that is all about to change.
Monday June 7
Kris Lees is never afraid to send a talented horse up the line to break his maiden in the country and he did it on Monday with a very nice juvenile carrying the Australian Bloodstock colours that has a half-brother entered for the Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale.
Monday June 7
If you’ve just bought a mare at the recent sales, you’ll now be pondering which stallion could be her perfect match, so we’re going to look hard at the options in various price points in coming weeks offering facts and statistics that might bring clarity for the undecided.
Monday June 7
Entries are now open for the 2021 Inglis Ready2Race Sale, the auction that has in recent years produced the likes of dual G1 winner Nettoyer, this season’s G2-winning 2YO Lightsaber (pictured), Hong Kong star Wishful Thinker, Allibor, Trumbull, See You In Spring etc.
Sunday June 6
The Group I Prix du Jockey Club (2100m) was run overnight at Chantilly in France with victory going to Coolmore’s remarkable Siyouni colt St Mark’s Basilica, who demonstrated a rare talent to stretch his speed from six furlongs to a Classic trip.
Sunday June 6
Brilliant grey dual Group I winning sprinter Caravaggio (USA) shuttled for just one season to Coolmore Australia and that crop of foals have been sold at our yearling sales this year, the son of Scat Daddy making news overnight siring his first stakes-winner.
Sunday June 6
Here is the full list of 74 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Sunday June 6
Goldin Farms have announced Dubawi’s proven sire son Akeed Mofeed (GB) will relocate back to South Australia after spending the past two years in Victoria.
Sunday June 6
Not content with a 1-3 finish in the Derby at Epsom, Godolphin went 1-2 in Saturday's Grade 1 Longines Just a Game Stakes at Belmont Park before the Brad Cox-trained Essential Quality put the cherry on top in the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes.
Sunday June 6
The most expensive yearling from the first crop of another of the Newgate Farm young guns in Winning Rupert, Team Hawkes trained Tonneofgrit opened his winning account at Geelong on Sunday.
Sunday June 6
Jimmy Creed (USA), a five-season shuttler to Spendthrift Australia, was represented by his first Grade 1 winner following a breathtaking performance by Casa Creed in the $400,000 Jaipur Stakes (6f) on the turf at Belmont.
Sunday June 6
Undefeated Pride of Dubai filly Just Beautiful became the tenth stakes-winner for her sire when winning the Listed Musselburgh Maggie Dickson Stakes (7f) in the UK on Saturday.
Sunday June 6
Capitalist added a 17th winner to his tally on Saturday when the Peter and Paul Snowden trained filly Satin Ribbons scored a tough win at Newcastle in the 900m maiden.
Saturday June 5
The Group I Epsom Derby (1m4f) was run overnight with Godolphin’s homebred Frankel colt Adayar out running all the more favoured runners to score a surprise victory.
Saturday June 5
Bob and Sandra Peters have bid farewell in recent weeks to two of their Group I superstar mares in Arcadia Queen and Celebrity Queen, both sold at broodmare sales for a combined total of $5.7million, but there are always more stakes-winning fillies emerging from their breeding operation and we saw a new one on Saturday in Graceful Girl.
Saturday June 5
Here is the full list of 109 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday June 5
Expensive Fastnet Rock colt Setanta may never be as good as his famous Royal Ascot conquering full brother Merchant Navy, but he is now a stakes-winner after scoring a determined win in the $200,000 Listed BRC Queensland Day Stakes (1200m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
Saturday June 5
Irish bred So You think gelding Knights Order won the Listed ATC Tatts Club Cup last October and claimed his second Black Type win of the season when taking out the Listed ATC Winter Cup (2400m) at Rosehill on Saturday.
Saturday June 5
The $500,000 Magic Millions National Classic (1600m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday did not carry Black Type, but it was the richest race on the program outside of the Queensland Oaks and the winner Nudge will head next to the Group I Tattersalls Tiara on June 26.
Saturday June 5
An incredible day for Rosemont Stud’s Shamus Award at Eagle Farm began with a nine-length winner, Incentivise, and ended with the Edward Cummings-trained Duais, the runaway winner of the $600,000 Group 1 James Squire Queensland Oaks (2200m).
Saturday June 5
Racing in career best form, the four-year-old Foxwedge mare Charleise sprouted wins over the final 100m to earn a first stakes success in Saturday’s Listed Nuturf Spear Chief Hcp (1500m) at Eagle Farm.
Saturday June 5
Saturday was a good day at the office for young Darley sire Astern, who posted a new stakes-winner in New Zealand and a debut winner at Morphettville in Adelaide.
Saturday June 5
Outstanding racemare Supreme Heights was back doing what she does best as she added a further black type title to her career record when taking out the feature event at Whanganui, the Listed AGC Training Stakes (1600m).
Saturday June 5
Promising Deep Field filly Oseleta confirmed her liking for rain affected tracks when she downed a handy line up of three-year-old rivals over 1200m at Ellerslie on Saturday.
Saturday June 5
Under a rails-hugging ride by Glen Boss, Baller dominated the Group II Ascot Green Moreton Cup (1200m) at Eagle Farm, but trainer Tony Gollan is unlikely to be tempted to back up the High Chaparral (IRE) gelding in the $1million Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap.
Saturday June 5
A promising colt by Golden Slipper winning sire Vancouver, Cape Breton made it two wins from two starts when he saluted at Rosehill on Saturday over 1400m and may have earned himself a shot at Group I glory.
Saturday June 5
Possibly the most anticipated non-stakes of the season, the VRC Member Philip Jacobsen Hcp (1100m) for two-year-old fillies at Flemington featuring two bluebloods making their career debuts.
Saturday June 5
Easing favourite Usmanov went straight to the front in Saturday’s Listed Grinders Coffee Lightning Hcp (1000m) at Eagle Farm, and the strapping son of Choisir simply ran his opponents off their legs.
Saturday June 5
Given a positive ride by Craig Williams, the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Volcanic Rock opened his stakes account in Saturday’s Listed Authentic Security The Phoenix (1500m) at Eagle Farm, which likely earned him a shot in next weeks $1million Group 1 JJ Atkins.
Friday June 4
Coolmore have already enjoyed success at the highest level through the use of the late Deep Impact, notably through dual Group I winner Saxon Warrior (Jpn) and they have another superstar by the Japanese champion sire in Snowfall, who won the Group I Epsom Oaks (1m 4f) overnight by a staggering 16 lengths.
Friday June 4
Here is the full list of 40 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Friday June 4
There were six heats for juveniles run at the Rosehill trials this morning and plenty of interesting winners, but none more so than a baldy faced filly by the sire that has everyone talking in Extreme Choice.
Friday June 4
Some of the best breeding stock ever to be offered anywhere in the world on an online sale highlights a stunning catalogue for the Inglis Digital June (Early) auction.
Friday June 4
Eureka Stud’s gun sire Spirit of Boom passed a milestone on Friday siring his 100th winner of the season becoming the 13th stallion to achieve the feat.
Friday June 4
This week’s Bloodstockauction catalogue offers a great opportunity to secure a successful son of champion sire SNITZEL.
Friday June 4
Created to give off the track thoroughbreds a performance pathway away from the race track, the Thoroughbred Sport Horse Association has now issued over 900 competition licences and will hold classes at more than 60 shows in NSW, Queensland and South Australia this year, but the best is still to come!
Friday June 4
Promising juvenile Verbek has made quite the impression on trainers Luke and Robert Price.
Thursday June 3
If you’ve just bought a mare at the recent sales, you’ll now be pondering which stallion could be her perfect match, so we’re going to look hard at the options in various price points in coming weeks offering facts and statistics that might bring clarity for the undecided.
Thursday June 3
Galileo’s champion son Highland Reel (IRE) has been a popular shuttler to Swettenham Stud in Victoria for the past three season covering over 400 mares and he posted his first Northern Hemisphere winner overnight in the UK with Highland Premiere saluting.
Thursday June 3
Here is the full list of 36 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Thursday June 3
Despite the stakes action centring around Group 1 Queensland Oaks day at Eagle Farm on Saturday, a two-year-old fillies race at Flemington is, understandably, generating enormous interest.
Thursday June 3
Stakes performed galloper Phaistos was the highest seller on the final day of a record breaking National Sale on the Gold Coast today.
Thursday June 3
Thoroughbreds Breeders’ NSW is saddened to learn of the death of Barador Stud’s founder Jim Bartholomew at the age of 87, a Life Member of the Association and former President.
Thursday June 3
West Australians are awake up to promising young sire I’m All the Talk, who had a stylish two year-old winner at Wyong on Thursday in Walkin’talkin’, who is prepared by his former trainer Gary Portelli.
Thursday June 3
If you’ve just bought a mare at the recent sales, you’ll now be pondering which stallion could be her perfect match, so we’re going to look hard at the options in various price points in coming days and weeks offering facts and statistics that might bring clarity for the undecided.
Wednesday June 2
Galileo’s champion son Churchill (IRE) is on the board with his first winner after promising colt Il Grande Gatsby saluted at Rome in Italy.
Wednesday June 2
For seasonal breeders such as the horse, the lengthening days of spring have long been associated with increased fertility, enhanced performance, improved coat condition and better health and well-being.
Wednesday June 2
Here is the full list of 45 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Wednesday June 2
The third last lot in the ring, a filly bred and offered for sale by Melbourne Cup winning jockey Scott Seamer, proved the day's top seller on Day Two at the 2021 Magic Millions National Yearling Sale on the Gold Coast late this afternoon.
Wednesday June 2
Still, in his first preparation, the David Vandyke-trained Orbisyn was quoted a $34 chance for the TAB Everest after keeping his record at a perfect four for four over 1350m at Doomben on Wednesday.
Wednesday June 2
The Annabel Neasham-trained Verne may have earned a trip to Brisbane for the Listed Oxlade Stakes at Eagle Farm on Stradbroke Handicap Day after the two-year-old son of Snitzel overcame a troubled run to break his maiden at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
Wednesday June 2
Mick Price had the honour of training the first winner for his VRC Derby hero Tarzino when Jungle Magnate made a winning career debut over 1400m at Sandown-Hillside on Wednesday.
Wednesday June 2
A trio of expensive yearling purchases searching for their first win did battle over 1400m in the opening event at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
Wednesday June 2
The Inglis Digital June (Early) Online Sale catalogue is shaping as “the best ever’’ in terms of breeding stock, with several high-profile entries already confirmed.
Tuesday June 1
A colt by champion sire Snitzel topped Day One of the 2021 Magic Millions National Yearling Sale when selling for $500,000 at the Gold Coast today.
Tuesday June 1
Here is the full list of 30 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Tuesday June 1
Given the evolving Covid situation in Victoria, the Great Southern Sale will be pushed back three weeks to the new dates of Sunday July 4 and Monday July 5 at Oaklands.
Tuesday June 1
There are only two yearlings by Newgate Farm’s red hot sire Extreme Choice entered for the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale and the first of them sold on Tuesday with Bowness Stud enjoying a great result with their filly from She Brings Hope, a mare they purchased for just $2,500 at the 2018 Inglis Great Southern Sale.
Tuesday June 1
21-year-old New Zealander Charlie King has gained a place on the prestigious Godolphin Flying Start, a two-year Thoroughbred Industry Management and Leadership Programme, which commences in Ireland in August.
Tuesday June 1
Promising juvenile Tutukaka will be out to break maiden ranks when he contests the Listed The Phoenix (1500m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
Tuesday June 1
The very last yearling by Arrowfield Stud’s champion sire Redoute’s Choice was offered for sale this morning at the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale and will have every opportunity to succeed having been snapped up by Waller Racing/ Mulcaster Bloodstock for $210,000.
Monday May 31
Here is the full list of 16 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Monday May 31
Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week with Not A Single Doubt suggesting he’ll go out with a bang, so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.
Monday May 31
The difference between the price a horse makes as a yearling and then 12 months on when he’s found to be a limited racehorse was highlighted by an interesting winner at Port Macquarie on Monday.
Monday May 31
John Messara AM was today unanimously appointed by the Directors of Racing Australia as an Independent Director and elected as Chair of Racing Australia, replacing Greg Nichols whose term as Chair concluded in April 2021.
Monday May 31
Widden Stud Victoria, in collaboration with renowned horseman Matt Upton, are delighted to introduce our complete pre-training and spelling facility, available to both home and offsite clients.
Monday May 31
The three day Magic Millions National Yearling Sale begins on Tuesday at the Gold Coast featuring a large and diverse catalogue that includes several siblings to recent stakes-winners that have come along this year, so let’s take a look at them.
Monday May 31
A heart-stopping win by Kukeracha (NZ) (Night of Thunder) in Saturday’s A$600,000 Group One Moet & Chandon Queensland Derby (2400m) at Eagle Farm completed an incredible clean sweep of all six Derby races in Australia this season by three-year-olds sourced in New Zealand.
Sunday May 30
Kiwi bred four year-old Sky Darci was last seen winning the Hong Kong Derby (2000m) at Sha Tin back in March and he returned to that venue on Sunday to win the Group III Lion Rock Trophy Handicap (1600m).
Sunday May 30
Here is the full list of 70 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Sunday May 30
The winning run of Efforia (JPN) has come to an end after he was nosed out by Shahryar (JPN) in a pulsating finish to the Tokyo Yushun (2400m) (Japanese Derby) at Tokyo racecourse on Sunday.
Sunday May 30
With five winners around Australia on Saturday, Widden Stud Victoria’s Nicconi quietly passed the milestone of 100 winners for the season over the weekend and mong those winners was the talented Gary Portelli trained filly Nicci’s Fling.
Sunday May 30
Red hot young sire Extreme Choice shot back to the top of the leading 2YO sires list on the weekend thanks to exciting colt Tiger of Malay, but with less than 30 living yearlings in his second crop, time is fast running out to buy one this year.
Sunday May 30
It was a case of pure elation for Dr Chris Phillips at Eagle Farm on Saturday as the respected equine veterinarian watched on as three-year-old Kukeracha, a horse he bred, triumphed in the Gr.1 Queensland Derby (2400m).
Sunday May 30
Talented Easter 2YO Tiger Of Malay (Extreme Choice) firmed from $21 into $7 with TAB for the G1 JJ Atkins in a fortnight following a strong win in the $1m G2 BRC Sires Produce Stakes at Eagle Farm.
Saturday May 29
Here is the full list of 125 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday May 29
Torryburn Stud are nearly at the end of a long and very successful sales season with a small draft of four for the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale this week that includes a cracking I Am Invincible colt that should have been sold earlier this year if things had gone to plan.
Saturday May 29
A trio of 4yo Godolphin stalwarts that have won $5million between them tackled Saturday's Listed Magic Millions Helen Coughlan Stakes (1200m) for fillies and mares at Eagle Farm. It was the expensive purchase Exhilarates that came up trumps.
Saturday May 29
Spirit of Boom is fast closing in on 100 winners for the season and went close to siring his first Group I winner on Saturday when Jonker beat all bar Vega One in the BRC Kingsford Smith Cup, so the Edinburgh Park draft featuring two of his yearlings to be offered at the Magic Millions National Sale next Tuesday will be a must inspect.
Saturday May 29
Last with just 200 metres left to run, Jamie Kah threaded the needle on Vega One (Lope De Vega) to snatch an unbelievable win in Saturday’s $700,000 Group 1 Kingsford Smith Cup (1300m) at Eagle Farm.
Saturday May 29
With seven of the 18 runners in Saturday’s $600,000 Group 1 Moet and Chandon Queensland Derby (2400m) at Eagle Farm, supporters of the Chris Waller stable were spoiled for choice.
Saturday May 29
The Group II BRC Sires Produce Stakes (1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday carried a whopping $1million in prizemoney with the winner Tiger of Malay becoming the third stakes-winner for Newgate Farm’s Extreme Choice, who has now moved back to the top of the Australian 2YO Sires List by earnings.
Saturday May 29
Strapping two-year-old Atullibigeal gained revenge on his last start conqueror when he strode clear in the closing stages to take out the Listed Mainland Auckland Futurity Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie.
Saturday May 29
After 15 starts and over two years out of the winners stall, the 4yo Snitzel gelding reloaded made it two wins on the bounce with a dominant performance in Saturday’s Group III Lord Mayors Cup (1800m) at Eagle Farm.