New Zealand Bloodstock’s annual Ready to Run Sale Breeze Ups saw 255 two-year-olds gallop down the home straight of Te Rapa Racecourse earlier this week. 

Otaki trainers Johno Benner and Hollie Wynyard have plenty to look forward to this season with a trio of promising three-year-old fillies.

First season sires will have runners in races on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, so let’s take a look and see who is in the running to post an all important winner.

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

A delighted Daniel Nakhle and Darren Brady are reaching for the stallion register tonight before popping corks, having managed to ward off strong international competition to buy out shareholders in Spanish Whisper (Lope De Vega) for an online record-setting AU$1,202,500.

With six stakes-winners already this season, headed by the Group 1 winners Ole Kirk, Pippie and Odeum, Written Tycoon has a near $2 million gap to his closest pursuer for the sire title. Yet come Sunday morning there will be a new name atop the champion sire leader board.

Inspections begin tomorrow (Friday October 16) at Riverside Stables for Inglis’ Ready2Race Sale.

Superstar stallions have lit up racetracks on both sides of the Tasman this season, and now their two-year-olds are set to impress at the 2020 Ready to Run Sale, held on 18 and 19 November at the iconic Karaka Sales centre.

The use of stallions in their second season has led to the conception of some outstanding racetrack performers including Champion 2YO’s, Champion 3YO’s, Champion Stayers, Champion Sprinters and Champion Sires of the future.

The last of the Ebbett VW New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association National Breeding Awards have been announced.

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.

Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale came to a close with a further five lots selling for 300,000 guineas or more as demand for quality yearlings continued unabated. In total there were nineteen lots that sold for 300,000 guineas or more and 48 that sold for 200,000 guineas or more, both records for this fixture. 

Zhongli Thoroughbreds will offer a diverse draft of two year-olds at the upcoming Inglis Ready2Race Sale prepared and presented by various vendors, the draft featuring a cracking Deep Field colt that has Hong Kong written all over him and a Charge Forward colt the mirror image of his sire.

Oakland Park Stud’s handsome son of Lonhro, Sessions, is posting some outstanding figures and his progeny have only just turned 4.

12 upcoming shows with Thoroughbred Sport Horse Association classes including six shows in nine days across three states!

Here is the full list of 54 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

I Am Invincible filly Avenue of Pleasure has topped the Inglis Digital October (Early) Online Sale at $205,000, purchased by successful Victorian owner Gary Lechte.

The Danny O'Brien-trained pair of Sovereign Award and Fabric were the first two out of the barriers and the first two home in Wednesday's Group II Catanach's Ladies' Day Vase (1600m) at Caulfield.

Zhongli Thoroughbreds will offer a diverse draft of two year-olds at the upcoming Inglis Ready2Race Sale prepared and presented by various vendors, the draft featuring one of only two colts in the sale by red hot first season sire Frosted (USA).

Triple Group Two winner Spanish Whisper (AUS) (Lope de Vega) has broken the record price for online thoroughbred auctions with one day of bidding left on gavelhouse.

If Godolphin was looking for an omen for Bivouac in Saturday’s $15,000,000 TAB The Everest at Royal Randwick, they found it with Bivouac’s older brother Coruscate, who claimed Wednesday’s Listed Neds Village Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield with the minimum of fuss.

There were only three runners in the Group III MRC Blue Sapphire Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on Wednesday, but racegoers were treated to a clash of the titans as three terrific colts fought out the finish right to the line with less than half a length separating the trio on the post and Zoustar colt Ranting emerging as a maiden no more!

The Ultra Thoroughbreds colours have been carried by two champions in Shamus Award and Miss Andretti and they combine in the pedigree of progressive colt Embolism, who made it two wins from three starts when bolting in at Caulfield on Wednesday.

The Group III Neds Coongy Cup (2000m) at Caulfield on Wednesday changed compexion dramatically in the final 200 metres, as the leaders backed up it was Nonconformist and top-weight Harlem (GB) who settled down to fight the race out.

Australian breeder John Camiller bred and sold the top lot during the first session of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 2 and the second highest priced offering during the second session.

Just a few days after Chris Waller Racing announced that their dual Group II winning mare Haut Brion Her, a daughter of Champion First and Second Season sire Zoustar, will contest this year’s $15m The TAB Everest (1200m) at Royal Randwick, her well-related half-sister Lady Millions has come on the market.

The barrier drawn for this Saturday’s $15million The Everest was conducted last night with well fancied Libertini drawing the outside in 12.

B. Wayne Hughes’ Spendthrift Farm announced reduced stud fees for most of its current roster of stallions set to stand at the Lexington-based farm in 2021.

Day Two of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale Breeze Ups saw the final 126 two-year-olds sprint down the straight of Te Rapa Racecourse.

Earthlight, the emphatic winner of the G1 Prix Morny and G1 Middle Park Stakes, has been retired from racing and will stand at Kildangan Stud next year.

Here is the full list of 37 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A colt by Exceed and Excel's group performed son Outreach ran the quickest time during today's third breeze up session leading into next month's Magic Millions Gold Coast 2YOs in Training Sale.

In what is a unique move in Australia this year, the state of NSW will conduct its annual racing industry awards night, Racing’s Night of Champions, as a peopled event rather than remotely.

The breeding season brings tales of joy and sometimes tragedy and this spring the Winx fairytale took a sad turn when the four time Cox Plate winner lost her first foal overnight.

Earlier this year we ran a series of very popular stories titled ‘Closer Look’ delving into the crop by crop analysis of our champion sires and recent results have given us cause to update and revisit the story on Written Tycoon, who is enjoying a ground breaking season.

Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale got off to a strong start with five lots selling for 300,000 guineas or more and a son of KINGMAN topping proceedings at 400,000 guineas.

Last night Aquis announced Golden Slipper winner Farnan would not take his place in the Everest on Saturday with the slot to be filled by in form Melbourne sprinter Dollar for Dollar.

A homebred for Juddmonte Farms, two time Arc de Triomphe winner and 2017, 2019 European Horse of the year Enable has been retired to stud.

When a proven stallion changes location the new farm would always hope his past success follows with him and so it has been for this proven Group I sire.

Day One of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale Breeze Ups saw 129 two-year-olds gallop down the home straight of Te Rapa Racecourse.

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

A member of the first Australian crop of former Japanese champion Mikki Isle shone at today's Warwick Farm breeze ups leading into next month's Magic Millions Gold Coast 2YOs in Training Sale. 

Hastings galloper Callsign Mav came of age at his home track over the Hawke’s Bay Spring Carnival and has now been sent for a quick freshen-up ahead of summer targets.

Two juvenile heats at Randwick on Monday produced winners for champion sire Snitzel and Golden Slipper winner Capitalist.

The Noel Meade-trained Helvic Dream, a son of Oaklands Stud’s dual Group 1 winner Power, opened his stakes account with a seven and a half-length romp in the Group III  Novi IT Services International Stakes (10f) at the Curragh overnight.

Three Bridges Thoroughbreds and partners have reached an agreement with Waller Racing to acquire the final Everest slot for quality sprint mare Haut Brion Her.

A progressive pair of 3YOs combined at Morphettville on Saturday to give Dundeel his first stakes quinella, in the $100,000 SAJC Hill Smith S. 1800m LR.

There can be a lot of change between what happens at the end of one season and the unfolding of the next and this young stallion has the best three year-old filly in the country.

There was a tangerine glow to the 2020 New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing Awards, with the tangerine colours of Te Akau Racing the dominant element at the virtual event on Sunday night.

Here is the full list of 46 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

It’s been some weekend for the Starcraft mare Ain'tnofallenstar after her Dundeel three-year-old Ain'tnodeeldun opened his stakes account at Morphettville on Saturday before her Snitzel four-year-old Mighty Valour romped to a three lengths win over 1200m at Sha Tin on Sunday.

Set to have his first runners in Australia this season, Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (USA) posted his first Group I winner in North America when quality filly Harvey’s Lil Goil won the Group I Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup ( 1/8th mile) at Keeneland.

There’s no two ways about it – Inglis stars Ole Kirk, Dirty Work, Wild Ruler and Ain’tnodeeldun are four of the most valuable colts and entires in Australian racing following big-race wins on another phenomenal day of G1 racing.

Dual Group I winning sprinter, Extreme Choice posted his first stakes performer at Caulfield on Saturday when two year-old colt Extreme Warrior finish second to Fake Love in the Listed MRC Debutant Stakes (1000m).

Magnificent 3YO Montefilia did what no filly before her had managed, adding the G1 Spring Champion Stakes at Randwick to last week’s G1 Flight Stakes success.

Woodside Park stud shuttler Cable Bay (Invincible Spirit) was represented by his second stakes-winner at Newmarket overnight when the Henry Candy-trained filly Jouska powered home from near the tail of the field in the Listed Boadicea Stakes (6f).

Seven days after Frankel’s Mirage Dancer (IRE) won the Group 1 ATC Metropolitan, Frankel’s three-quarter brother Bullet Train (GB) sired the Caulfield Cup-bound Chapada, winner of the Group II Herbert Power Stakes at Caulfield, which came shortly after Buffalo Dancer (USA), a son of Frankel’s three-time Group 1-winning  brother Noble Mission, finished runner-up in the Group

Australian breeder Bob Scarborough has a small band of mares based in Ireland and one of them, 13YO Galileo mare Cabaret, produced the winner of the Group I Dewhurst Stakes (7f) at Newmarket overnight.

Here is the full list of 116 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Saturday’s Group 1 Lexus Toorak Hcp (1600m) at Caulfield was a triumph for South Australia as Jamie Kah guided the Phillip Stokes-trained Mr Quickie to an authoritative two lengths victory.

It was a Group 1 double in the space of seven days for the Kermadec filly Montefilia who downed the colts in Saturday’s $1,000,000 Moet & Chandon Spring Champion Stakes (2000m) at Randwick.

Four year-old Sebring mare Emeralds contested some of the best three year-old fillies races last season and was never beaten far, so her win in the Group III ATC Angst Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday was no surprise.

Forty minutes after Arrowfield Stud’s new recruit Written Tycoon celebrated the win of Odeum in the $1,000,000 Schweppes Thousand Guineas (1600m), Written Tycoon’s  Ole Kirk proved unstoppable in the $2,000,000 Group 1 Neds Caulfield Guineas (1600m).

A field of 13 well-performed fillies went to the post for Saturday’s Group 1 Schweppes Thousand Guineas (1600m) at Caulfield where the progressive Written Tycoon filly Odeum put them to the sword at just her fourth start.

Quality colt Peltzer has been threatening to win a stakes race and got the job done in style at Randwick on Saturday when leading all the way to take out the Group II ATC Stan Fox Stakes (1500m).

Popular equine star Tavi Mac provided his many followers with another thrilling performance when he dashed away with the feature race at Matamata on Saturday, the Listed Team Wealleans Matamata Cup (1400m).

Matamata mare Supreme Heights added a second stakes victory to her burgeoning record when she took out Saturday’s Gr.3 Wyndspelle Grangewilliam Stud Taranaki Breeders Stakes (1400m) at Hawera.

Many punters had the feeling Russian Camelot could go undefeated this spring following his dominant last start win in the Group I MRC Underwood Stakes, but quality Pierro mare Arcadia Queen made a lie of that assumption when she strolled straight past him to win the Group I MRC  Caulfield Stakes (2000m) on Saturday.

Talented four year-old Written Tycoon stallion Dirty Work has been progressing his way through the grades this year and claimed his biggest win at Caulfield on Saturday when scorching home from last to win the Group II MRC Schillaci Stakes (1100m).

A son of Snitzel and carrying the China Horse Club colours, Wild Ruler bears an uncanny resemblance to the 2016 Group II Roman Consul Stakes winner Russian Revolution and Wild Ruler has a Group 1 in his sights following his bloodless in the $300,000 feature at Randwick on Saturday.  

I Am Invincible racked up an early stakes double at Caulfield on Saturday with brilliant two year-old filly Fake Love scoring impressively on debut in the Listed MRC Debutant Stakes and then classy five year-old mare Fiesta burst back to top form to win the Group III MRC Northwood Plume Stakes (1200m).

A last-start winner of the Group III Scarborough Stakes at Moonee Valley, Shamus Award filly Swats That kept the ball rolling with a convincing win in Saturday’s Group III Thoroughbred Club Stakes at Caulfield.

First out and first home, the I Am Invincible filly Fake Love made the best possible start to her career with a thoroughly professional performance in Saturday’s Listed Magic Millions Debutant Stakes (1000m) at Caulfield, giving promise that she could be the second consecutive winner of the Magic Millions 2yo Classic for part-owner Hannah Mathiesen.

Loads of interest in first season sires on Saturday with runners in Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, where Frosted (USA) will attempt to keep his good run going.

Darley have announced the retirement of Pinatubo, the colt officially assessed as the best two-year-old Europe has seen in a quarter of a century.

One of the first Invincible Spirit sons to go to stud in Europe, Lawman delivered a Group I winner overnight when two year-old filly Pretty Gorgeous took out the Group I Fillies Mile (1m) at Newmarket, the race producing controversy with a mix up involving two Aidan O’Brien trained runners.

Here is the full list of 50 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

With first season sire Frosted (USA) earning a 1-3 finish in last Saturday’s Listed Maribyrnong Trial Stakes at Flemington and Love Tap putting his unbeaten record on the line in Saturday's Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes at Randwick, it is doubtful the stocks of champion North American stallion Tapit have been higher south of the equator.

A member of the first Southern Hemisphere crop of Invincible Spirit's group winning son Cable Bay shone at today's Seymour breeze ups in preparation for next month's Magic Millions Gold Coast 2YOs in Training Sale.

The retirement of triple Group Two winner and Group One placed mare Spanish Whisper will be bittersweet for connections as they seek to offer her unreserved via Gavelhouse Plus.

Group Two winner Hello It’s Me (NZ) (Darci Brahma) has been retired and is offered for sale on gavelhouse.com.

The Horse of the Year Awards held this week crowned two Kitchwin Hills bred horses the best of their category, when Everest winner Yes Yes Yes took out champion 3yo colt, and Melbourne Cup winner Vow and Declare champion stayer. 

A recent G1 winner with a nomination in the $7.5m Golden Eagle – as well as multiple Stakes performers - headline another outstanding catalogue for the Inglis Digital October (Early) Online Auction, which is now live and available for bidding.

Four heats for juveniles were conducted at Warwick Farm on Friday morning with Darley first season sire Astern producing a winner in the Star Thoroughbreds colours, while the most expensive Not a Single Doubt sold at the Gold Coast was also in the winner’s list.

Everest contenders Eduardo and Bivouac both won trials at Warwick Farm on Friday morning with the former burning the turf in impressive style to break 33 for his final 600m.

The leading first crop sire at the 2020 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book One by aggregate was Coolmore shuttler Churchill (IRE), whose first Southern Hemisphere bred yearlings will be a highlight at Australasian sales next year.

The Bloodstockauction.com catalogue for October 8 – 13 is now online featuring a strong selection of racehorses, yearlings and broodmares.

A pair of GALILEO yearlings set the sale ring alight on the third day of Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale as they became the two highest priced yearling fillies to be sold in the World in 2020, both bought by MV Magnier. A strong final session saw a further four lots sell for 1,000,000 guineas or more, taking the number of seven figure lots to nine for the sale.

Leading European sprinter Hello Youmzain has been retired and will begin his stallion career in France at Haras d’Etreham before shuttling to Cambridge Stud in New Zealand next year.

Here is the full list of 42 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

There will be another sixteen stakes in Australia on Saturday with Group 1 action at Randwick in the Spring Champion Stakes while at Caulfield a magnificent card is highlighted by the Caulfield Guineas, Caulfield Stakes, Thousand Guineas and Toorak Hcp.

Setting the pace on the Australian second crop sires list by earnings and winners, Pride of Dubai added a 12th Australian winner to his tally for the season on Thursday at Mornington.

Breeze Ups for New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds will take place next week on Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 October, commencing at 10am each day.

When John O'Shea went to the Karaka yearling sales 18 months ago intent on buying the progeny of Group One winner Contributer, one colt stood out.

Telemon Thoroughbreds Sidestep had the rare distinction of siring a Golden Slipper winner in his first crop however he is likely to garner almost as much publicity through the remarkable victory of the heavily backed Stock Legend at Happy Valley overnight.

Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale continued in solid fashion on the second day with Godolphin buying the top four priced lots.

Closing out his career with a win in the Group I Arc de Tropmphe last Sunday, Siyouni's champion son Sottsass has been retired to stud.

Currently leading the Australian General Sires List by earnings and stakes-winners, Written Tycoon is riding the crest of a winning wave this season and Valiant Stud are delighted to present an outstanding colt by the boom sire at Inglis Ready2Race on October 20.

Here is the full list of 32 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Sun Bloodstock’s Fortress Command looked to have a bright future when winning his first two starts before placing in the Group III Baillieu Hcp and finishing fourth in Castelvecchio’s Group 1 ATC Champagne Stakes at two, however he failed to hit the boards in four starts at three.