Entries are now open for a high calibre broodmare sale set to be hosted on leading online auction platform Gavelhouse Plus.

The racing industry is mourning the loss of Queanbeyan-based horse trainer Mr Neville ‘Nifty’ Layt, who passed away yesterday aged 76 following an illness.

Here is the full list of 44 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The ‘One to Watch’ on Wednesday is a debut winning three year-old by Deep Field named in honour of the bloodstock agent that purchased him.

Australian Horse of the Year and five-time Group 1 winner Dissident has been secured by Dr Kevin Pendergast to continue his stallion career at Riverdene Stud in the Riverina region of NSW.

Cambridge horseman Paul Mirabelli celebrated a winning double a Tauranga on Wednesday, the first in his training career.

Newgate has announced Australia’s current Leading Sire of 2YOs and Leading First Crop Sire EXTREME CHOICE as PRIVATE for the 2021 season.

Group One-producing stallion Contributer will headline Mapperley Stud’s stallion roster for the upcoming breeding season where he will stand at their Matamata property for a fee of $22,000 +GST.

With the first season stallions going 1-2-3-4 in the fillies division, it took the champion Snitzel to halt the run in the colts and gelding division of the 2yo maiden (1200m) at Canterbury, when the favourite Cork Harbour rallied to hold the challenge of the Star Turn colt Astrologer.

The two year-old fillies maiden at Canterbury on Wednesday proved a showcase for first season sires who provided the first four home led by the favourite Xtremetime.

The stylish Frankel gelding Yangtze Rapids booked his ticket to Brisbane for the Queensland Derby when he led home a Chris Waller 1-2-3 over 1550m at Canterbury on Wednesday.

Promising filly Gin Martini was purchased at Karaka as an Oaks prospect, but she has quickly found herself tackling elite-level targets as a juvenile.

Australian yearling buyers have been impressed this year with the first and only Australian crop by dual Group I winning sprinter Caravaggio (USA), who sired his second winner in Ireland overnight and interestingly Elliptic is from a daughter of Fastnet Rock.

Champion Group 1 sprinter-miler OLE KIRK will head Vinery Stud’s roster this year at a $55,000 (inc GST) service fee.

It’s getting late in the season so the opportunity for this three year-old to win a Derby is fast disappearing, but his pedigree suggests a classic stayer in the making so we need to take a closer look.

Here is the full list of 25 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A dispersal of 135 Lots for the Inner Mongolia Rider Horse Industry (NZ) Ltd group is now live online on gavelhouse.com.

Champion jockey Craig Williams had nothing but praise for this debut two year-old winner at Geelong on Tuesday, whose pedigree suggests there will be a lot more to come next season.

Barrier trials at Randwick on Tuesday morning featured five heats for juveniles with plenty of interest in a superbly bred Capitalist filly that is yet to taste defeat at the trials.

The stars are aligning for young talented sire Shamexpress who was at the forefront of this week's racing. A Group 1 placing for Coventina Bay and a smart win by unbeaten 2YO colt Rangi Toa topped off a great week for the Windsor Park Stud resident stallion.

Breeders that go to Written Tycoon this spring at his new home at Yulong Stud may reap the rewards for years to come from his one year stint at Arrowfield Stud in the Hunter Valley.

Widden Stud Victoria launched officially with an open day at the Romsey farm on Sunday featuring a parade of stallions including newcomers Russian Camelot (IRE) and Doubtland as well as proven Group I sires Nicconi and Star Witness, who have transferred from the Hunter Valley.

Fees have been announced for the 20 G1-winning Darley stallions who will stand in New South Wales and Victoria for the 2021 breeding season.

With Ambidexter relocating to Tasmania, Cornerstone Stud is backing Valentia and Sir Prancealot in 2021.

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

Yulong Stud is excited to announced superstar sire Written Tycoon will join its stallion roster this spring.

Consistent filly Babylon Berlin will be looking for her first stakes victory at Te Rapa on Saturday-week when she contests the Gr.3 Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes (1200m).

Proven Group I sire Wootton Bassett (GB) is shuttling to Australian this spring for Coolmore and he featured in the UK overnight when his stakes-winning juvenile of last season Chindit, returned to win the Group III Greenham Stakes (7f) at Newbury.

The Listed World Sports Sledgehammer Stakes (1750m) at Scottsville in South Africa on Sunday was won by Aussie bred gelding Crown Towers, another successful Mill Park graduate.

He may not receive worldwide acclaim of last week’s charismatic Oka Sho heroine Sodashi, but the world will be hearing plenty more about Sunday’s Group 1 Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas) winner Efforia (JPN).

Two of the best-looking stallions around, Kitchwin Hills Sooboog and Vinery Stud’s Star Turn, had their supporters for Champion First Season Sire for number of winners and they are giving the faithful a run for their money.

Following the win of Finance Tycoon in the $1million Showdown at Caulfield on Saturday the battle for Champion Sire has heated up as Arrowfield Stud’s recruit Written Tycoon moves within $50,000 of the Arrowfield pensioned stalwart Not A Single Doubt.

The two-year-olds in Western Australia seem to have been dividing up the stakes races until the Group III WATC Gimcrack Stakes winner Hoi An staged a last to first performance in Saturday’s $200,000 Group III WA Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m) at Ascot.

Magic Millions is proud to announce the star studded catalogues for the breed shaping National Broodmare and Weanling Sales are now online.

The Magic Millions National Weanling Sale has a history of pinhooking success stories and recent history shows you can belt it out of the park on any budget.

Widden Stud recruit Magnus showed why he is the king of VOBIS stallions when his son Mahamedeis captured the $250,000 Surewise Vobis Gold Heath at Caulfield - but that was the appetizer for a day when winners came from as far afield as Alice Springs, Kalgoorlie and Kyneton and a Group III triumph at Morphettville.

I Am Invincible filly Muntaseera has been threatening to win a stakes race since finishing second in the Group III VRC Ottawa Stakes as a spring two year-old and finally got the job done in Adelaide on Saturday when taking out the Listed SAJC Redelva Stakes (1100m).

Widden Stud's champion sire Zoustar had a  great day on Saturday with Sunlight’s little sister Sisstar claiming another Black Type win in the Listed MRC Bel Esprit Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield, while in Brisbane blue-blooded mare Zaniah scored a valuable win in the Listed BRC Ascot Handicap (1000m).

Talented mare Fasika was fit and ready to rumble at her first run back from a spell at Randwick on Saturday and scored a tenacious win in the Group II ATC Sapphire Stakes (1200m).

On the go since finishing second to General Beau in the Darley Spring Preview at Flemington back on September 23, the Written Tycoon colt Finance Tycoon put in a career best in the $1million Showdown (1200m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

Here is the full list of 104 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Back at the scene of their biggest wins, Doncaster Mile heroine Nettoyer edged out Epsom Handicap heroine Probabeel in a thrilling finish to Saturday’s $1million Group 1 Moet and Chandon Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m) at Randwick.

With just two and a half lengths covering the field of seven starters in the $4million, Group 1 Longines Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) at Randwick, it was the defending champion Addeybb (IRE) who found when it mattered most.

Selino (GB) arrived in Australia with a consistent record of two wins and seven placings from 19 starts, including a last start second in the Group II Doncaster Cup for trainer James Fanshawe.

There was definitely a catch in the voice of co-trainer Shaun Phelan as he described just what the victory of stable favourite Big Mike means to his family after he led all-the-way to win the Listed Power Farming Hawke’s Bay Cup (2200m) at Hastings.

Matamata visitor Roch ‘N’ Horse put a disappointing last start performance behind her when she produced a powerful closing burst to take out the Listed Power Turf Sprint (1200m) at Hastings.

The Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale is offering up any amount of opportunity for the buyer with 112 stakes winning mares and 39 dams of stakes winners so here is the full list for your perusal.The 774 lot catalogue includes 205 race fillies and maiden mares with all of the below mares set to sell on the first day, May 25.STAKES WINNING MARES

With the looks befitting a half million dollar yearling, Wild Ruler has also been blessed with plenty of ticker, which he needed to call on to turn back the challenge of a hard-charging Isotope in the $1million Group II Arrowfield 3yo Sprint (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday.

Despite being delayed a week, the Gr.1 Fiber Fresh New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m) lived up to its billing as one of the races of the season, as plucky mare Avantage made it Group One win number nine with a thrilling victory.

Shortly after the two-year-old Frankel gelding Converge opened his stakes account in the Listed Fernhill Hcp, Frankel’s star three-year-old daughter Hungry Heart added a second Group 1 to her CV with a dominant performance in the $1million ATC The Star Australian Oaks (2400m) at Randwick.

Trained at Nowra by Robert and Luke Price, the highly promising Headwater filly Jamaea lowered the boom on a field of blueblood fillies in Saturday’s $1million Group II Heineken Percy Sykes Stakes (1200m) at Randwick.

Making his first start since finishing third at Randwick on Boxing Day, the Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou-trained Ellsberg made every post a winner in Saturday’s Listed Bisley Workwear South Pacific Stakes (1400m) to become the second stakes-winner for his deceased sire Spill The Beans.

Two-year-old Frankel gelding Converge has next week’s Group 1 Champagne Stakes in his sights following a convincing win in Saturday’s Listed The Agency Real Estate Mile (Fernhill Hcp) (1600m) at Randwick.

Champion French based sire Siyouni has a great record in Australia and we saw an impressive debut juvenile winner for him at Cranbourne on Friday evening.

Capitalist might be leading the way on the Australian first season sires list with eight Aussie winners on the board, but there have been a raft of sires on five winners apiece until Friday when Star Turn added a sixth to the tally.

Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week including a win for Star Turn’s promising Astrologer heading into winter, so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.

Astute Warwick Farm trainer Bjorn Baker is never afraid to travel his horses and a trip to Orange on Friday proved a fruitful one for two year-old Vancouver colt Overpass who won the $30,000 Silver Apple (1000m).

A lot can change in a week and the misfortune of the races being abandoned mid program at Te Aroha has resulted in leading jockey Danielle Johnson picking up the plumb ride on champion Fastnet Rock mare Avantage in Saturday’s rescheduled Gr.1 Fiber Fresh New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m) at Te Rapa.

The Godolphin team unleashed a serious contender for the Group I Newmarket 2,000 Guineas overnight in the UK and he’s a close relation to last Saturday’s Group I ATC Doncaster Handicap winner Cascadian (IRE)

The Star Entertainment Group and breeding powerhouse Arrowfield have today announced a partnership to run as joint slot holders for The Everest – the world’s richest race on turf - from 2021 to 2024.

The dust has barely settled at the new home of Widden Victoria following the arrival of Nicconi and Star Witness at the Romsey property earlier this week, and already the Widden team are delighted to announce two exciting new stallions who will make their debut at the inaugural Open Day and the official launch of Widden Stud Victoria this Sunday.

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

Newhaven Park has announced their Group I winning son of Savabeel, Cool Aza Beel (NZ), will stand his first season at a fee of $16,500 (inc GST).

The $1million Group I ATC Australian Oaks (2400m) on Saturday at Randwick has attracted an interesting field with three established Group I winners facing seven wannabes and in a race where class only takes you so far some staying blood may be required.

A Group II carrying a prize of $1million, the Percy Sykes Stakes at Randwick on Saturday has been the goal of many of the nation's most promising two-year-old fillies.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s annual South Island Sale saw its second-ever online session conclude on Gavelhouse Plus on Wednesday 14 April. 

This Saturday’s Group I ATC Queen of the Turf Stakes (1600m) at Randwick features the best mares in training, so what genetics go into making these glamour girls destined to be the star broodmares of the future.

It’s official - Bloodstockauction.com is holding an Online Yearling Sale before its regular weekly sale this April!

A third member of New Zealand thoroughbred breeding’s elite broodmare ranks will be honoured when Sunbride joins iconic producers Eulogy and Eight Carat in the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame.

The success of New Zealand-bred horses in the Gr.1 Australian Derby (2400m) continued last Saturday with Explosive Jack taking out the Sydney Classic.

Interesting winner at Beverly overnight in the UK with two year-old Brazen Beau colt Boonie making an impressive winning debut for Seymour Bloodstock.

A homebred for Her Majesty The Queen, exciting three year-old Tactical made a winning return to the track overnight at Newmarket taking out the Listed European Free Handicap (7f).

A Snitzel mare in foal to exciting first crop sire Brutal has fetched more than two and a half times her reserve, in topping the Inglis Digital April (Early) Online Sale this evening, which grossed $2.56 million.

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

A Breednet' One To Watch' following a fast-finishing win over 1200m at Newcastle on March 30, the Kris Lees-trained filly I Say Hello came from near the tail of the field to score a dramatic win in an action-packed Benchmark 72 over 1300m at Hawkesbury on Wednesday.

As a sister to the triple Group II winner and multiple Group 1 placed Libertini, much was expected of De An Andretti when she made her career debut over 1100m at Hawkesbury on Wednesday.

Following another terrific season of racing results, the Whishaw family are ecstatic to announce the return of their Group One sire Needs Further who will head Armidale Stud's stallion roster in 2021.

Metropolitan meetings at Hawkesbury and Bendigo on Wednesday both produced promising debut winners for Golden Slipper winning sire Vancouver with 2YO Aslav scoring at the former and Kiwi blueblood 3YO filly Miss Tainui saluting at the latter.

Champion trainer Chris Waller produced a promising debut two year-old winner by Vancouver at the metro meeting at Hawkesbury on Wednesday with Aslav carrying the James Harron Bloodstock colours to victory.

Leading Sydney jockey James McDonald can’t wait to hop back aboard Verry Elleegant and act out their revenge against Addeybb in the Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) at Randwick on Saturday.

A data glitch  has been discovered in our sales results that has led to one significant change to our hugely popular story Sire Averages for All Sales – Food for Thought story with first season Tasmanian based sire Zululand featuring prominently on the table highlighting stallions that did well in terms of multiple of fee.

The first season sire division has been action packed this season and key players like Capitalist, Shalaa (IRE) and Frosted (USA)all have runners today.

Here is the full list of 25 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Cairns trainer Mark Dale bought an unraced three year-old filly from the 2019 Inglis Digital November (Late) Sale for $1,250 and what a great buy she’s turned out to be winning her fifth race from eight starts at Cairns on Tuesday.

One of the highlights of the Mornington program on Tuesday was the dominant victory of lightly-tried New Zealand bred three-year-old Made By Khan.

If I heard it once last week at Inglis Easter, I’ve heard it a thousand times at sales over the years - ‘Ladies and gentlemen, he’s a November foal, all he’s going to do is improve’, so what does it mean and why bother to announce it? Statistics would suggest it’s a positive for the purchaser.

The 2021 South Island Sale hosted on Gavelhouse Plus affords buyers the opportunity to secure progeny by an array of freshman sires based around the country, many of which proved popular at New Zealand Bloodstock’s 95th National Yearling Sales Series in January.

Australian bred and raced  Danehill (USA) mare Al Anood  has done an amazing job for her owner Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Maktoum leaving three stakes-winners among her six winners headed by dual Group I winner and sire Pride of Dubai and she featured overnight with a winner at Windsor in the UK.

Kia Ora Stud are turning a new page this spring in standing their first stallion with Golden Slipper winner Farnan sure to be a popular addition in the Hunter Valley.

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

The number of $1m-plus lots sold at last week’s Easter Yearling Sale has increased to 23 following the purchase by Vic Bates of an I Am Invincible x Listen Here filly for $1,050,000.

The pointy end of the Australian bloodstock market was highlighted at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale last week where we saw an average price $369,876, but one swallow does not make a summer and when assessing the true commercial performance of any stallion, a look at the overall average for all sales this year is a must.

Thoroughbred breeders often make the annual pilgrimage to the yearling sales at Karaka hoping for the result to be life changing.

The Cambridge Stud colours of Brendan and Jo Lindsay will be in full force on Saturday in Sydney through top-class mare Probabeel in the Gr.1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m), while ownership-mate Bavella will also be making a hit-and-run raid across the Tasman with the 98-rater set to contest the Gr.2 Sapphire Stakes (1200m).

The stamina and class of New Zealand-sourced three-year-olds has again shone through on the big stage in Australia with a New Zealand-bred, Karaka-sold trifecta in Saturday’s A$2m Group One Bentley Australian Derby (2400m) at Randwick.

Exciting filly Llanacord is giving trainer and part-owner Stephen Nickalls the ride of his life and he is hoping that will continue in Australia in the coming month.

The omens were good for Divine Shadow in Sunday’s Listed Pinjarra Cup (2300m) when the five-year-old gelding’s year younger sister Lady Duckworth won the previous race over the same distance by a widening five and a half lengths.

Epsom Derby winner New Approach and his sire son Dawn Approach both featured at Randwick on the first day of The Championships, the former siring Cascadian to win the Doncaster, while the latter sired Paulele to win the Group III Kindergarten and he followed up to sire a promising three year-old stakes-winner at Leopardstown overnight.

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 at the halfway mark in The Championships with two more big Sydney carnival meetings we’re updated the list.

A $35,000 juvenile event at Ballarat on Sunday was won in dominant style by progressive Sebring colt Three Kings.