Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week including a couple of winners for freshman sire Star Turn, so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.

Fifth in last Saturday’s Group I WATC Kingston Town Classic, grand old warrior Gailo Chop (Fr) has been retired from racing at age 10.

Bruce Slade’s Kestrel Thoroughbreds is set to join forces with leading trainers Adrian Bott and Gai Waterhouse from 2021.

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

Last weekend’s Sydney Jump Club Championships were held at their Clarendon grounds which are a stone’s throw from the Hawkesbury racecourse, but the thoroughbreds performing at this venue were showing their talents at jumping up off the ground rather than galloping across it!

If Westbury Stud needs a highlight reel for its stallions ahead of the 2021 yearling sales, it won’t need to look far beyond Saturday’s racing.

Trainer Leanne Elliot is pleased with the way Group I Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) winner Rock On Wood has come through his exertions on Saturday but isn’t rushing to make immediate plans for his next start.

The late Tavistock has been one of the success stories of the New Zealand breeding industry in recent times and a new stakes-winner in Australia last Saturday in She’s Alight has us thinking about what nicks work best for the son of Montjeu outside of the much documented affinity he shares with Zabeel.

 $26,000 purchase at the 2016 Festival Sale at Karaka took a popular family to racing’s pinnacle in the $200,000 Group One Rydges Wellington Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) at Trentham on Saturday.

The same connections that won last year’s S$125,000 Golden Horseshoe (1200m) in Singapore with superstar Karaka graduate Inferno (Holy Roman Emperor) struck again on Saturday with a repeat result at Kranji. 

Karaka-sourced She’s Alight (NZ) (Tavistock) added valuable black type to her quality pedigree page with a determined win in Saturday’s A$100,000 Listed Ascend Sales Jungle Dawn Classic (1400m) at Ascot. 

As predicted by Breednet last Friday, one of our two current big gun sires was going to hit the 100 winners for the season milestone over the weekend and he did it with a treble of winners on Sunday.

Four decades on from the inaugural Japan Cup, launched to test and improve the quality of home-bred horses, the bloodstock world’s respect for Japanese breeding & racing is now well-established. 

Here is the full list of 56 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Having purchased the talented racemare Transonic for $6,000 at the Inglis March Online Sale, Telemon Thoroughbreds would be feeling mighty pleased after Transonic's son Sonic Tycoon demolished a field of maidens over 1500m at Hawkesbury at his career debut on Sunday.

Popular South Canterbury horseman Michael Daly passed away on Friday afternoon just minutes before quality sprinter Don Carlo tried to provide his former mentor with a final win at Riccarton.

I Am Invincible is drawing closer to the seasonal milestone of being the first stallion to sire 100 winners since August 1, racking up his 99th winner at Hawkesbury on Sunday when Hurt Money broke his maiden for Peter and Paul Snowden.

As one of the highest-profile new recruits among New Zealand’s stallion ranks, Cambridge Stud shuttler Almanzor is set to make waves with his first yearlings at Karaka next month.

Well-travelled sprinter/miler Endless Drama has been retired after failing to find his best form in his latest campaign.

The celebrations started early at Westbury Stud on Saturday when Stormy claimed the Group II Wakefield Challenge at Trentham to become the first stakes-winner for Telperion. However, the celebrations were no less muted at Ascot when Telperion's often-maligned, but much-loved, half-brother Kementari stormed home to win the Group III A J Scahill Stakes.

From the time Brad Parnham and his brother Chris quinelled the opening race for their father Neville on Kingston Town Classic day at Ascot, it was all leading up to something memorable for Western Australia's premier racing family.

Here is the full list of 111 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Part of a five runner entry by trainer Dan Morton, the Written Tycoon filly Kissonallforcheeks came with a barnstorming finish to open her stakes account in Saturday's Listed Tabtouch-Sir Ernest Lee-Steere (1400m) at Ascot.

Deep Field filly Isotope has always had a boom on her since winning on debut in April this year by 10 lengths, but the Tony Gollan trained three year-old now looks ready to come of age after powering to an explosive win in the Listed BRC Mode Plate (1200m) at Doomben on Saturday.

Taking on stakes company for the first time in her career, the five-year-old Tavistock mare She’s Alight came out on top in a driving finish to the Listed Ascend - Jungle Dawn Classic (1400m) for fillies and mares at Ascot on Saturday.

Given a ground-saving ride by Brad Stewart, the rejuvenated seven-year-old gelding Hard Empire overpowered the favourite Jonker in the closing stages of Saturday’s Group III George Moore Stakes (1200m) at Doomben.

Underrated filly Opalescence dented several reputations when she swept to victory in Saturday’s Gr.3 Mitchell Family Bonecrusher Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie.

Punters were on the ball in Saturday's $300,000 Listed Sportsbet Pakenham Cup (2500m), hammering the Matthew Smith-trained Attorney (FR) into favouritism.

Mogumber Park Stud’s Rommel became the 11th first-crop sire to get off the mark before Christmas when the Neville Parnham-trained filly Ultimare Comand made a winning career debut at Ascot.

Quality galloper Rock On Wood shed the tag of a Group One winner in waiting in emphatic fashion when he dashed home to take out the Group I Rydges Wellington Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) at Trentham bringing a big update for his Karaka bound full sister.

Gilgai Farm have bred and sold some amazingly good horses including current star Ole Kirk as well as Black Caviar, All Too Hard, Jameka and The Quarterback, so while the Gilgai bred and sold three year-old Epaulette gelding Oscar Zulu is not in their class yet, he is an up and comer with a lot more to offer.

Flashy chestnut colt Stormy repaid the faith of punters who installed him as a $1.50 favourite as he powered to victory in the Group II Pete’s Joinery, Precise Design & Build Wakefield Challenge Stakes (1100m) at Trentham providing his young Westbury Stud based sire Telperion with his first stakes-winner.

Third behind You'll Be Mist when on debut at the Sunshine Coast on November 21, the Matthew Dunn-trained Subterranean left that filly in her wake over 1200 metres at Doomben on Saturday to credit the former top-class sprinter Rebel Dane with his first winner.

Promising galloper Invisible Spirit made a winning return to the track when he led throughout to capture the first event at Trentham on Saturday.

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

Les Bridge might have lost his stable star Classique Legend to Hong Kong, but gee he has a nice three year-old to attempt to fill the void and he’s a son of Shamus Award, who is a young sire that has come of age in 2020.

She might have only won by a small margin, but three year-old Lonhro filly Tiny highlighted a super successful nick when she scored her second win from three starts at Randwick on Friday afternoon.

Each year, New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales Series features a number of quality thoroughbred youngsters that catch the eye of astute pinhookers looking to further their investments.

The Michael and Matthew Pitman-trained Marine has been sold to clients of Hong Kong trainer Caspar Fownes and will do his future racing in the Asian racing jurisdiction.

With an overseas sale off the agenda for now, Te Awamutu trainer Stephen Ralph is free to dream big with highly talented three-year-old Explosively – starting with a first black-type test in Saturday’s Gr.3 Mitchell Family Bonecrusher Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie.

There’s a head to head rivalry at the top of the Australian Sires List between two of our big guns, who are vying to be the first stallion this season to crack 100 winners.

The jewel of the North East Thoroughbred region of Victoria, Woodside Park Stud’s Morningside is a world-class property with a history the envy of any thoroughbred breeder.

The Tattersalls December Sale concluded with a spirited fourth and final session of the December Mares Sale that brought the curtain down on the 2020 renewal of Europe’s premier foal and breeding stock sale .

Here is the full list of 38 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Thursday with winners and result details.

Cambridge trainer Tony Pike will head south to Trentham on Saturday to a wet welcome, with rain forest for the weekend’s premier meeting.

The Matthew Cumani-trained Tycoon Bec made a belated start to her career worth the wait when she caned a field of maiden fillies and mares by upwards of four and a half lengths over 1450m at Kyneton on Thursday.

With just three stakes races and a scarcity of two-year-old action around Australia on Saturday, it looks a suitable time for a stallion to get off the mark.

For a first season sire whose yearlings were not exactly selling like hotcakes earlier this year, Flying Artie has made a great start to his stud career and at the Newcastle trials on Thursday morning we saw a colt that may well add to his success sooner rather than later.

The sire of last weekend’s Japan Cup winner Almond Eye, Lord Kanaloa has been announced as the most expensive publicly-priced member of the 30-strong roster at Shadai Stallion Station in Japan for 2021.

Fillies from the drafts of Juddmonte Farms, Godolphin and Shadwell Estates were the flavour of the day on the third and penultimate day of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. Leading the way was the Juddmonte filly CRESSIDA at 360,000 guineas on a day that saw 11 lots sell for 100,000 guineas or more and a clearance rate of 88%.  

Astute Victorian bloodstock agent Sheamus Mills does know how to find a nice filly and his decision to purchase the most expensive filly by Al Maher sold in 2019 looks like a good one as she won by five lengths at Sandown on Wednesday.

Punters got it right at Sandown on Wednesday when Team Hawkes unleashed exciting Vancouver filly Vandoula Lass as a short priced favourite in the juvenile fillies event.

Bringing an important Magic Millions pedigree update after breaking his maiden at Echuca on Wednesday was Sebring gelding Nuclear Energy, who has had three starts in three states for three different trainers.

Well-related three-year-old Cheaperthandivorce made the perfect start to her racing career on Wednesday winning the TW Moore 1400 at Rotorua for Roger James and Robert Wellwood.

After an action-packed two days of trading both physically and virtually, final results have been accumulated for NZB’s 2020 Ready to Run Sale. 

Happy versus Grumpy - Not a clash between two of the seven dwarves but a snapshot of trainers Roger James and Robert Wellwood's two contestants for Saturday's Gr.1 Rydges Wellington Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) at Trentham.

BEACH FROLIC, the dam of Cartier Champion PALACE PIER, was the star turn on the second day of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale, selling for 2,200,000 guineas to MV Magnier. Turnover fell just shy of 25 million during the session with seven lots selling for 500,000 guineas or more. 

A two year-old fillies event at Sandown this afternoon offers interest for the first season sire division with runners engaged by Victorian based sires Frosted (USA), Palentino and Holler.

The second session of the Tattersalls December Broodmare Sale is underway with the appearance of the dam of this year’s dual Group I winning three year-old Palace Pier sparking keen competition.

Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.

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

Regular users of the Breednet race results each day will have noted the inclusion of nicks information for all winners into our daily results, but for those who’ve never used them now is the time to start if you want to improve your knowledge of pedigrees.

From the last Australian crop of foals by Teofilo (IRE), who sired Twilight Payment to win this year’s Melbourne Cup, two year-old filly Vianello was featured in a recent ‘Juvenile Trial Watch’ story and made her race day debut at Newcastle on Tuesday with a dominant win.

The Tattersalls December Mares Sale got off to a strong start on the opening day with the two-year-old filly AUNTY BRIDY topping proceedings at 410,000 guineas and a clearance rate of 89%. The turnover, average and median all compared favourably with last year’s corresponding session given that the Waddesdon Stud dispersal, which realised almost 3 million guineas, was the feature of that ope

Hot weather did not dampen enthusiasm for the latest round of Thoroughbred Sport Horse Classes held at the Stonewall Showjumping last weekend on the Central Coast.

Deep Field narrowly missed siring two stakes-winners last Saturday with Deep Speed and Spaceboy both finishing second in Black Type races in Melbourne and Sydney, but he’s had a string of promising winners of late including this debut winner at Wangaratta on Monday.

The career-ending accident sustained by jockey Tye Angland is widely known in the racing industry. Now wheelchair-bound, Tye has demonstrated great resilience and a determination to make the best of his situation.

It was a busy morning for the two year-olds at Rosehill on Monday with six heats for juveniles and while spring stakes-winner Fake Love looked in top form with an easy win there were plenty of interesting unraced winners including three by first season sires Sooboog, Maurice (Jpn) and Star Turn.

Medaglia D’Oro (USA) already has the best horse in Hong Kong on current form in Aussie bred Golden Sixty and he also has a serious contender for the future after ex Godolphin horse Chenier made a winning HK debut at Sha Tin on Sunday under his new name of Enrich Delight.

At home he’s an eccentric whose curling lips make him seem like he’s got a trunk - On the racetrack, though, Elephant is one of the more promising gallopers in New Zealand, unbeaten in two starts, the latest of which came in the Rating 65 Stella Artois 1500 Championship Qualifier (1400m) at Ellerslie on Saturday.

Ocean Park has become a big favourite with Australian investors thanks to the deeds of his Group I stars Kolding and Tofane along with Group winners Oceanex and Another Dollar with Ocean Beyond, his new Melbourne stakes-winner last Saturday, highlighting a successful nick for the Cox Plate winning sire.

A horse that caught the eye of trainer Daniel Bowman at the 2019 Ready to Run Sale at Karaka is now an unbeaten stakes winner in Victoria. 

Progressive Australian bred Camelot (GB) stayer Anse Lanzio won his fourth race in South Africa on Sunday when scoring an easy win at Scottsville adding a pedigree update for his half-brother headed to the 2021 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale.

Setting the pace on the Australian General Sires List by earnings, Not a Single Doubt added a new stakes-winner  to his tally on Saturday and Niedorp has a half-sister headed to the 2021 Magic Millions.

A Saratoga Grade III winner for American Pharoah earlier in the year, Turned Aside added a second stakes win to his record in the $100,000 Listed Aqueduct Turf Sprint Championship Stakes on Saturday.

Grangewilliam Stud stallion Zed is having a spring to remember and as we venture into summer the juggernaut continued as his six-year-old son Count Zero raced away with the A$300,000 Haymes Paint Jericho Cup (4600m) at Warrnambool for local trainer Symon Wilde.

A huge crowd at Cromwell on Sunday was treated to an extended glimpse of the silky skills of Chris Johnson as the rider they call the magic man guided enigmatic galloper Camino Rocoso to victory in the Loveracing.nz Cromwell Cup (2030m).

Amidst the hustle and bustle of another busy morning at Waikato Stud, principal Mark Chittick was pleased to be able to sit down and catch his breath as he reflected on another stellar 48 hours for the iconic Matamata nursery.

Champion mare Almond Eye claimed a second Group 1 Japan Cup at Tokyo on Saturday to bow out of racing with her record as one of the all-time greats intact.

Shane Oxlade’s One More Jack boasts a record that has earned the respect of punters, yet he sent pedigree buffs scurrying to the Stud Book when he became a milestone first stakes-winner for the unheralded Typhon in Saturday’s Listed  City Of Marion Stakes at Morphettville.

Australian Group I winner Sweet Idea looked an intriguing addition to The Queen’s broodmare band when she was exported to the UK in 2015 and on Friday produced her first winner for Her Majesty.

Coolmore young gun Saxon Warrior (Jpn) is the only son of Japanese sire sensation Deep Impact standing in the Hunter Valley this spring and his first foals had everyone paying attention at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale during the week.

A selection of the first Northern Hemisphere bred foals by champion Australian sire Zoustar met with a warm response at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale this week.

The Tattersalls December Foal Sale came to a close on the fourth and final day with the sale continuing in robust fashion and a colt by SIOUX NATION topping proceedings at 88,000 guineas. A strong final day clearance of 78% saw turnover for the sale of 26,255,100 guineas, at an average of 41,807 guineas, the fifth highest at the fixture, and a median of 20,000 guineas.

Here is the full list of 107 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Saturday with winners and result details.

A maiden just five months ago,  the four-year-old Street Boss (USA) gelding Elite Street continued on his remarkable rise to the top with a dominant performance in Saturday’s $1 million Group 1 Crown Perth – Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot.

Champion sire Fastnet Rock landed his 164th stakes-winner at Doomben on Saturday with seven year-old gelding The Harrovian, who may be one of his most interesting stakes-winners of all.

The temptation would be to keep a mare in foal to I Am Invincible wrapped in cotton wool however Sledmere Stud's Catriona and Royston Murphy had some unfinished business with the Exceed And Excel mare Invictus Salute.

Mark Newnham has a lot of horses in his stable, but Greysful Glamour lays claim to being the favourite of them all having been with him from the start.

After falling short thirteen times previously at stakes level, the stars finally aligned for Outrageous in Saturday’s Group III Fujitsu General Festival Stakes at Rosehill Gardens bringing an important pedigree update for his Magic Millions bound half-brother.

It took every metre of the Ellerslie home straight for consistent galloper Gino Severini to finally gain the upper hand over his rivals as the Fastnet Rock gelding captured his first stakes victory in the Group III Eagle Technology Stakes (1600m).

Ocean Beyond and Deep Speed engaged in a two-horse war in Saturday's Listed McMahon's Dairy McKenzie Stakes at Moonee Valley with the waife-like Ocean Beyond doing just enough in the closing stages to open his stakes account.

Promising three-year-old Tellall enhanced his credentials for some of the summer age group features when he registered his first victory at stakes level when taking out the Listed Trevor Eagle Memorial 3YO (1500m) at Ellerslie to become the first stakes-winner for Aquis Farm's ill-fated stallion Spill the Beans.

Evergreen galloper Hunta Pence was rewarded for his perseverance when he took out the Listed Steelform Roofing Group Wanganui Cup (2040m) after finishing runner-up in the race in the past two years.

A homebred for Ingham Racing, promising two year-old Nicconi colt Conexy made amends for his debut defeat two weeks ago when scoring a dominant win at Doomben on Saturday to become the 50th winner for his sire this season.

There was no shortage of connections wiling to back their judgment in the opening event of 1100 metres for two-year-olds at Rosehill on Saturday.

Jamie Richards and Te Akau Racing continued their dominance of spring two-year-old racing when they notched their sixth individual juvenile winner at Ellerslie on Saturday, while also adding the quinella for good measure.

The Tattersalls December Foal Sale continued in robust fashion on the third day with the equal second highest price for a colt at this fixture of 700,000 guineas for a DUBAWI colt and 21 foals selling for 200,000 guineas or more. Turnover fell marginally short of last year’s figures whilst the clearance rate improved to an impressive 87%. 

Here is the full list of 70 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Friday with winners and result details.

The first race at Canterbury on Friday night produced an impressive So You Think winner that delivered an exciting pedigree update for his half-brother being taken to Magic Millions in January by Valiant Stud.