Sunday April 11
Here is the full list of 72 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Sunday April 11
First Light Racing and partners have a big group of owners involved in a well bred Not a Single Doubt filly that opened her account with a dominant win at Ballarat on Sunday.
Sunday April 11
Making her 2021 debut, snow-white filly Sodashi kept her record at a perfect five for five in Sunday's Group 1 Oka Sho (1600m) (Japanese 1000 Guineas) at Hanshin.
Sunday April 11
Trainer Robert Heathcote is excited for the future of his homebred Star Turn filly Startantes who turned over her last start conqueror, Military Gambler over 1200m at Doomben on Saturday.
Sunday April 11
Stakes winning filly Annavisto (NZ) (Reliable Man) turned a three-year-old handicap at Caulfield into a stroll in the park, when comfortably winning the Hylands Race Colours Handicap (1400m) on Saturday.
Sunday April 11
Arrowfield Stud’s Shalaa (IRE) joined five other first crop stallions with five winners when Orbis Bloodstock’s Hunnam broke through for his maiden success over 1000m at Caulfield on Saturday.
Saturday April 10
The exciting start made by Darley Stud’s Frosted (USA) has been among the highlights in what shapes as a stellar collection of first season sires.
Saturday April 10
Here is the full list of 137 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Saturday with winners and result details.
Saturday April 10
It may not have been worry-free; however, the odds-on favourite Western Empire did enough to win Saturday’s $400,000 Group II Schweppes - WATC Derby at Ascot
Saturday April 10
Group I ATC Australian Derby winner Explosive Jack was beaten at his previous run when finishing second in the $135,000 St Leger Trial at Bendigo and the horse that finished in front of him, Liqueuro franked the form by winning the Listed MRC Galilee Series Final (2400m) at Caulfield on Saturday.
Saturday April 10
Former kiwi Matchmaker opened her winning account for trainer Chris Waller when holding the challenge of the fast-finishing Marboosha in Saturday’s Group III China Horse Club PJ Bell Stakes (1200m) at Randwick.
Saturday April 10
So often a hard-luck story since transferring from Andre Fabre to James Cummings, Cascadian (GB) finally had the breaks go his way under a perfectly-timed ride by Jamie Kah in Saturday’s $3,000,000 The Star Doncaster Mile (1600m) at Randwick.
Saturday April 10
Glamour sprinter Nature Strip made it back to back wins in the Group I ATC TJ Smith Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday on his way to racking up $8million in earnings.
Saturday April 10
Promising galloper Whale Song got the big win he had hinted was coming when he dashed home along the inner to take out the Listed Christchurch Casino Easter Cup (1600m) at Riccarton on Saturday.
Saturday April 10
From a maiden at Swan Hill to a benchmark 64 at Kembla Grange, to a Tasmania Derby and everywhere in between, the well-travelled Explosive Jack gave the toffs a beating in an all-Karaka graduate finish to Saturday’s $2,000,000 Group 1 ATC Bentley Australian Derby (2400m) at Randwick.
Saturday April 10
Progressive three-year-old Atishu has left trainer Stephen Marsh in a bit of a quandary after she demolished her rivals to take out the Listed NZB Airfreight Stakes (1600m) at Riccarton.
Saturday April 10
Following a luckless second in the Golden Slipper, Godolphin’s Street Boss (USA) colt Anamoe gave the selectors of Champion two-Year-Old plenty to think about following a breathtaking performance in Saturday’s $1,000,000 Group 1 Inglis sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) at Randwick.
Saturday April 10
Winner of last year’s Group I ATC Australian Derby, quality stayer Quick Thinker hit top form on the first day of The Championships at Randwick to win the Group II ATC Chairmans Quality (2600m).
Saturday April 10
The purchase of a Johannesburg (USA) filly Meerlust for $22,000 at the 2009 Scone Yearling Sale is the gift that keeps on giving for the Matthew Irwin and the Harris family from Queensland.
Saturday April 10
A full sister to Group I VRC Newmarket Handicap winner Zoutori, three year-old Zoustar filly Kiku looked a stakes-winner in the making at her first two runs back from a spell in midweek company and she delivered on her potential when charging home to win the Group III ATC Carbine Club Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday.
Saturday April 10
Following wins at Moonee Valley and Randwick to kick-start his career, Paulele was far from disgraced when unplaced in the Group II Silver Slipper Stakes at Rosehill and the Group II VRC Sires' Produce Stakes at Flemington.
Friday April 9
Here is the full list of 49 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Friday with winners and result details.
Friday April 9
A Godolphin draft of seven racehorses highlights a 255-strong Inglis Digital April (Early) Online Sale, which opened for bidding this afternoon.
Friday April 9
A record breaking Inglis Easter made for some great results in the sale ring for breeders with plenty of stallions returning three times service fee and more.
Friday April 9
The Randwick barrier trials on Friday morning featured six juvenile heat winners, five of them by first season sires that aren’t Capitalist.
Friday April 9
Five-year-old mare Savy Yong Blonk proved a class above her rivals in the Gr.3 Japac Homes Manawatu Breeders’ Stakes (2000m) at Awapuni on Friday, with the daughter of Savabeel running out an easy three-length victor over Yatima and Platinum Rapper.
Friday April 9
Fresh from siring not one, but two individual million dollar yearlings at Inglis Easter this week, Newgate Farm’s Capitalist also added a ninth winner to his tally with a debut victory on Friday for Capital Reign.
Friday April 9
The 2021 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale this week generated phenomenal returns for our champion sires in the sale ring with Darley heavyweight Exceed and Excel leading the way with his five yearlings averaging $984,000, but where does that fit in the overall picture of all time sale averages in Australia?
Friday April 9
A strong catalogue of 339 yearlings has been finalised for the Gold Yearling Sale.
Friday April 9
The famed Fastnet Rock x Galileo cross has produced numerous Group I winners in Europe and Australasia, but we may one day add North America to that list after Star Devine made such an impressive debut at Aqueduct that she earned TDN Rising Star status.
Friday April 9
With New Zealand Bloodstock’s South Island Sale of yearlings now live to view on Gavelhouse Plus, a pair of graduates have provided a timely illustration of the quality product that routinely comes out of this value Sale.
Thursday April 8
Here is the full list of 55 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Thursday with winners and result details.
Thursday April 8
Pride of Dubai gave us the ‘One to Watch’ on Thursday with an ultra-impressive six length winner at Kilmore, whose scintillating victory gives me an opportunity to share some insight into my world at Daybreak Farm.
Thursday April 8
The Gary Portelli-trained 2yo colt Akihiro was sent off an odd-on-chance to better his elders in a 1350m maiden at Wyong on Thursday and did the job professionally to ring up the fifth winner for Maurice (JPN).
Thursday April 8
The Group I ATC Australian Derby (2400m) at Royal Randwick this Saturday is the Blue Riband every classic three year-old in Australasia would like to win and a full field of 16 will do battle for $2million in prizemoney.
Thursday April 8
It is Day One of The Championships at Royal Randwick on Saturday, and as per usual for this time of the year, connections will be looking skyward at the changeable Sydney weather.
Thursday April 8
All members of the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame have gained induction through their own set of unique qualities, but if there’s one amongst the equine members that stands apart it is Starcraft, winner of the 2004 ATC Australian Derby.
Thursday April 8
Aquis Farm is delighted to announce that outstanding 2YO Lean Mean Machine will be taking up residence in Queensland to bolster their stallion roster to 16. He will stand alongside Pierata and Invader in what will be Queensland’s largest stallion station.
Thursday April 8
Randwick trainer John Sargent is hoping he can win his home Derby for the first time on Saturday with Kiwi-bred gelding Favreau.
Thursday April 8
This Saturday’s Group I ATC TJ Smith Stakes (1200m) features a stellar field of the 11 best sprinters in the country, so respected pedigree analysts G1 Goldmine have produced an in-depth pedigree report for each runner to shed light on the genetics behind their phenomenal speed.
Wednesday April 7
Australian bred three year-old So You Think filly Safe to Assume, the most expensive yearling by her sire at Inglis Easter 2019, made a winning debut at Kenilworth in South Africa on Wednesday.
Wednesday April 7
After a superb Karaka 2021 yearling sale, attention quickly shifts to New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2021 South Island Sale, hosted for the second year on online subsidiary Gavelhouse Plus.
Wednesday April 7
The Easter Yearling Sale has again asserted itself as the Southern Hemisphere’s No.1 equine auction following a phenomenal two days of trade at Riverside.
Wednesday April 7
Maree McEwan has been flat out keeping up with all the happy people involved in Day Two at the booming Inglis Australian Easter Sale but she managed to speak to plenty of them.
Wednesday April 7
Newgate Farm’s young gun sire Capitalist got his first million dollar yearling at Inglis Easter on Tuesday and followed up quickly with his second on Wednesday when Torryburn Stud’s half-brother to Group II ATC Silver Slipper winner Home Affairs sold for $1,050,000.
Wednesday April 7
A champion on the track and an emerging champion sire So You Think produced the 20th individual million dollar yearling at Inglis Easter when the Segenhoe Stud consigned colt from Martilago sold for $1million on Wednesday.
Wednesday April 7
Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young have enjoyed enormous success with the progeny of Waikato Stud’s Savabeel, and they have another likely type in the two-year-old colt Tametomo.
Wednesday April 7
Talented racemare Lasqueti Spirit is fondly remembered as the filly that shocked a big Flemington Oaks Day crowd when she led all the way to win the Group I VRC Oaks as a 100-1 shot and she made her mark as a broodmare at Inglis Easter on Wednesday when her first foal, a colt by Pierro sold for $850,000.
Wednesday April 7
Earlier today Zoustar set a new benchmark for himself at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale when a colt from Fireworks sold for $1.15 million and that record has now been broken with the Widden Stud bred and sold colt from Lady Jivago selling for $1.25 million.
Wednesday April 7
Making her career debut, the royally-bred filly Billiondollarbaby made short work of a competitive looking field in a two-year-old maiden over 1200m at Canterbury on Wednesday.
Wednesday April 7
It’s been ‘I Am Invincible day’ at Inglis Easter on Wednesday with Yarraman Park’s champion sire producing his fifth seven figure yearling of the session – and his seventh for the sale - when Coolmore Stud’s I Am Invincible filly from Hips Don’t Lie sold for $1.95 million.
Wednesday April 7
Widden Stud’s Zoustar became the latest sire to join the million dollar sire club at Inglis Easter on Wednesday when his colt from Fireworks made $1.15 million for Segenhoe Stud.
Wednesday April 7
Kia Ora Stud produced their second million dollar colt at Inglis Easter on Wednesday morning when the Written Tycoon colt from US Group II winner Dream Play (USA) fetched $1.1million.
Wednesday April 7
Townsville based breeders Don and Judy Kelly are no strangers to the Inglis Easter sale ring having bought their Group I winning mare Cosmic Endeavour from Inglis Easter as a yearling in 2012 for $230,000 and they returned on Tuesday to sell her I Am Invincible colt for $1.4million.
Wednesday April 7
Lime Country celebrated a million-dollar milestone courtesy of outstanding breeder support at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale yesterday.
Wednesday April 7
The second lot into the ring at Riverside Stables on day two of the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale was the first foal of Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes winner Catchy and she sold for $1.2million.
Tuesday April 6
Darley’s champion sire Dubawi sired his 200th stakes-winner overnight and he did it with a filly that made 1,625,000 euros at Arqana in 2019 to top the sale when bought by Godolphin.
Tuesday April 6
An extraordinary opening day of Inglis Easter has resulted in a record individual day of trade for a Southern Hemisphere yearling sale, with $64,470,000 grossed at Riverside.
Tuesday April 6
Maree McEwan has been out and about speaking to people involved in a stunningly successful day at the Inglis Australian Easter Sale.
Tuesday April 6
The Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale got underway at Riverside Stables on Tuesday, with tone set early when lot five, a son of Exceed And Excel offered by Vinery Stud was purchased by Tony Fung for $2,100,000.
Tuesday April 6
Newgate Farm’s leading first season sire Capitalist went close to siring his first seven figure yearling at the Gold Coast earlier this year, but he passed the magical sale ring milestone at Riverside Stables on Tuesday at Inglis Easter when his colt from Bonnie Mac sold for $1,050,000.
Tuesday April 6
Widden Stud made a big investment at the 2019 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale paying $1million for stakes-winning Shamardal (USA) mare Vezalay in foal to I Am Invincible and the filly she was carrying hit a home run at Inglis Easter on Tuesday.
Tuesday April 6
New Zealand-bred horses took out the two feature races at Sha Tin on Monday.
Tuesday April 6
2021 has started in a memorable way for Vinery Stud with the announcement of exciting new stallion Ole Kirk, the satisfaction of selling another Group I winning 2YO in Artorius and now selling three colts for upwards of $1million at Inglis Easter on Tuesday.
Tuesday April 6
Group Two winning Savabeel mare Yearn has been retired and is likely to be sold as a broodmare prospect in the coming months.
Tuesday April 6
Hong Kong based Everest winning owner Bon Ho was one of the biggest buyers at Inglis Easter last year and stepped back into the fray at Riverside Stables on Tuesday to purchase a stunning Zoustar colt from Swiss Rose for $900,000.
Tuesday April 6
The catalogue for New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2021 National Weanling Sale, due to take place at Karaka on Friday 14 May, is now online and available to view here.
Tuesday April 6
Champion sire Fastnet Rock has never been in better form and provided the first seven figure filly at Inglis Easter this year when his gorgeous filly from Rostova made $1.1million for Coolmore Stud.
Tuesday April 6
Arrowfield Stud were absent from Inglis Easter last year after withdrawing their entire draft in favour of a private sale, but they have returned to Riverside Stables in force this year with a sensational draft that includes the Snitzel colt from Rising Romance that sold for $2.5million on Tuesday morning.
Tuesday April 6
We did not have to wait long to see the first million-dollar horse at the 2021 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale with Lot 5, a Vinery Stud consigned Exceed and Excel colt from Peace Force selling for $2.1million.
Tuesday April 6
A brilliant late burst carried Karaka graduate Amazing Star (NZ) (Darci Brahma) to a career-best victory in Monday’s HK$4.5m Group Two Sprint Cup (1200m) at Sha Tin.
Monday April 5
The European flat racing season has begun which means well bred promising three year-olds are starting to strut their stuff and an eye-catching debut winner overnight at Chantilly was the full brother to high class stayer Finche and he looks just like him!
Monday April 5
On the eve of the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale where he has 10 entries, Newgate Farm’s exciting young sire Capitalist delivered another smart winner with Gleneagles saluting at Hawkesbury on Easter Monday.
Monday April 5
It proved to be an easy watch for supporters that backed Maurice’s Medad into odds-on favouritism in a 1400m maiden at Hawkesbury on Monday.
Monday April 5
Yarraman Park have had a long and successful association with Sheikh Hamdan’s Shadwell Australia breeding operation with two year-old I Am Invincible colt Qeyaady the latest winner to emerge from the partnership.
Monday April 5
Classy filly Miss Tycoon Rose looked close to a good thing when resuming after a long break at Riverton on Monday and that was how it played out despite a mid-race scare.
Monday April 5
The Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale was topped last year by the first foal of a Group I winner, so we’d take a look at the first foals of Group I winning mares that will have progeny sell over the next two days.
Monday April 5
Twelve months on from an historic digital only sale, there is a buzz around the grounds at Riverside Stables on the eve of the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
Monday April 5
Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week including wins for a million dollar colt by Exceed And Excel and a $500,000 colt by Pride Of Dubai, so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.
Monday April 5
Darley have announced fees for their first season shuttles sires Pinatubo (Shamardal), Ghaiyyath (Dubawi) and Earthlight (Shamardal).
Monday April 5
In tax world, like fashion, often the timeless “everything old is new again” quote applies. Such is the case for the company ‘loss carry back’ rules.
Sunday April 4
The Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale kicks off on Tuesday and Maree McEwan has been on grounds speaking to some of the leading players.
Sunday April 4
A day after Brazen Beau sired his first Group I winner in On the Bubbles, Australian broodmare owners in Sydney for the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale were offered the opportunity on Sunday afternoon to inspect his imposing son North Pacific, who retires to Newgate Farm this spring.
Sunday April 4
The Group I HK Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes (1600m) at Turffontein on the weekend was won by the favourite Got the Greenlight, a horse whose sire and dam were both bred in Australia.
Sunday April 4
Although he playfully describes the talented two-year-old with the hard to pronounce name as “a bit of a clown”, trainer Carl Henderson knows he has some serious horsepower on his hands with impressive Ellerslie winner, Atullibigeal.
Sunday April 4
While Extreme Choice went to the top of the First Season Sire by Earnings table courtesy of Stay Inside’s Golden Slipper win, it’s impossible to escape the fact that Capitalist has had more runners, more winners and more stakes winners than any other freshman this season, and been the darling of the sales ring, so what do we make of him at Easter?
Sunday April 4
Here is the full list of 66 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Sunday April 4
The Mike Moroney-trained Hang Man (IRE) broke through for his first stakes win in Saturday’s Group III Easter Cup (2000m), adding further silverware for connections following successes in the Yarra Valley Cup and Benalla Gold Cup.
Saturday April 3
It’s time to take a look at what the best of Written Tycoon’s progeny looked like when offered as yearlings to see if there might be a trend to help in assessing the 15 on offer at this week’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
Saturday April 3
On Saturday, the Easter Yearling Sale provided buyers with yet another timely reminder as to why it’s the Southern Hemisphere’s No.1 equine auction with three Stakes winners and a massive G1 pedigree update ahead of this year’s renewal.
Saturday April 3
Here is the full list of 137 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday April 3
The WA Magic Millions 2yo Classic winner Ex Sport Man overcame a slow start to score a thrilling win in a driving finish to Saturday's $500,000 Group II Karrakatta Plate (1200m) at Ascot.
Saturday April 3
Registering his first win since the Group 1 Toorak Handicap at Caulfield last October, Mr Quickie lumped his top-weight to a hard-fought win over the game Tasmanian Still a Star in Saturday’s Group III Elvis Thurgood Victoria Hcp (1400m) at Caulfield.
Saturday April 3
Newhaven Park bred and sold Yao Dash became the 20th stakes-winner for his Twin Hills based sire Smart Missile when scoring a resounding victory in the Group III ATC Doncaster Prelude (1500m) at Rosehill on Saturday.
Saturday April 3
Getting back to the form that saw him win the Group 1 WS Cox Plate at Moonee Valley at his Australian debut last spring, Sir Dragonet was a class above in Saturday's $1,470,000 Kia Tancred Stakes (2400m) at Rosehill Gardens.
Saturday April 3
Yu Long Investments gorgeous homebred Frankel filly Hungry Heart overcame the track bias when coming from last to run down the brave favourite Harmony Rose in Saturday's Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill Gardens.
Saturday April 3
James Mcdonald has five wins from as many rides on the five-year-old Exceed And Excel entire Signore Fox, with four in stakes races, the latest coming in Saturday’s Group III Star Kingdom Stakes at Rosehill Gardens.
Saturday April 3
Hardly a week has gone past during the autumn carnival that we haven’t seen a stakes-winner by So You Think and he kept up the good work at Rosehill on Saturday when progressive mare Nimalee overpowered a gallant Greysful Glamour to win the Group II ATC Emancipation Stakes (1500m).
Saturday April 3
Awapuni has been the happiest of hunting grounds for Beauden, who returned to his favourite track on Saturday for a career-best victory in the Gr.2 City of Palmerston North Awapuni Gold Cup (2000m).
Saturday April 3
Bred in Victoria at Burnewang North, classy Aussie bred two year-old On the Bubbles became the first Group I winner for his sire Brazen Beau when winning the Group I Courtesy Ford Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) for Jamie Richards and Te Akau Racing.