The most expensive yearling by Foxwedge sold in 2018, four year-old mare Villami was a stakes-winner last season and looks to be headed back to Black Type races this spring after making a winning return at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

Smart Missile featured with an early double at Warwick Farm on Wednesday with impressive maiden winner Only Mine followed by progressive three year old filly Ballistic Lover, who won a very competitive Benchmark 68 in a thrilling finish.

Peter and Dawn Williams unleashed a three-year-old filly of promise when Il Affare broke maiden ranks over 1600m at Avondale on Wednesday.

To the delight of his supporters that backed him into favouritism, the big, bold striding Far Enough made a winning career debut in a 1000 metre maiden at Bendigo on Wednesday.

The Jamie Richards-trained juvenile Sophisticardo proved too good for his rivals when winning over 800m at Avondale on Wednesday.

Last night Treasurer Josh Frydenberg handed down the most important Budget in many years, a Budget targeted at getting a bruised and sluggish Covid-19 affected economy back on track.

The Equilume Stable Lighting System is a breakthrough in lighting technology that provides biologically effective light that mimics daylight for the stabled horse.

Book 1 of the eagerly anticipated Tattersalls October Yearling Sale got off to a strong start with the highest priced yearling in Europe or North America this year as four lots sold for 1,000,000 guineas or more, but the overall statistics declined from last year.

For a stallion that has never stood in this country Deep Impact has been making quite an impact this season, racking up his fifth Australian winner since August 1 with a blue-blooded Goulburn maiden winner on Tuesday.

 Keeneland has cataloged 3,777 horses for the 2020 November Breeding Stock Sale, which opens Monday, Nov. 9, two days after Keeneland hosts the Breeders’ Cup World Championships for the second time. Buyers will be able to participate in the auction remotely through online and telephone bidding options successfully introduced at the September Yearling Sale, while the new bidding location

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

James Harron Bloodstock have today announced brilliant I Am Invincible mare Libertini will take their slot for the $15million Everest on October 17.

A brilliant last start winner of the Group II MVRC Stutt Stakes, Glenfiddich is out of Saturday’s Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas after developing a wind problem.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale at Karaka features an outstanding selection of up-and-coming sires with exciting racetrack potential.

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.

After missing in 2017 and 2018, the Street Cry (IRE) mare Tallow welcomed a half-brother to the newly crowned Champion Two-Year-Old Farnan (Not A Single Doubt) into the world at Vinery Stud on Saturday night.

Spendthrift Farm’s reigning champion general sire Into Mischief, the sire of Kentucky Derby winner Authentic, will stand in 2021 for a fee of $225,000 S&N.

Gifted sprinter Nature Strip was named the 2019-20 Australian Horse of the Year on Monday night.

Well, that was quick! MAGNUS sprinter, Black Magnum, has toppled both the hot priced favourite AND the Canterbury track record with a sizzling display in the Bowermans Commercial Furniture Handicap on Wednesday.

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

Undefeated Vancouver filly Madone kept her record perfect at Santa Anita on Sunday when taking out the $102,000 Surfer Girl Stakes (1m) on turf.

Wagga trainer Tim Donnelly cleaned up at his local meeting on Saturday, claiming three of the six winners on the card, including the heavily backed Mongolian Brave, which was supported from $5 into $1.90 favourite on debut.

Given a patient ride by Rachel King, Godolphin’s three-year-old Medaglia d”Oro (USA) colt Namazu shed his maiden status at his sixth start over 1550m at Canterbury on Monday.

Weekend racing saw yet another stakes winner for BELARDO (IRE) (Lope De Vega) as LULLABY MOON (IRE) added to her G3 placing last month, with a win in the Listed Redcar 2YO Trophy over 6f.

Arrowfield Stud had a perfect start to a new season of juvenile racing with their current sires Written Tycoon and Shalaa (IRE) providing the winners of the Group III ATC Gimcrack Stakes (Enthaar) and Group III ATC Breeders Plate (Shaquero), both of those winners produced by daughters of their now pensioned stalwart Not a Single Doubt.

Montefilia is set to be given the chance to achieve the rare feat of winning two G1 races in a week following her success in the Flight Stakes at Randwick.

Plenty to cheer about at the Taylor family’s historic Trelawney Stud overnight with the 3yo colt In Swoop (Adlerflug), a half-brother to Trelawney’s Group III winning Galileo mare Igraine (GER), running the race of his life to be narrowly beaten in the  Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

Six year-old Fastnet Rock mare One Master loves a trip to France at this time of year and for the third year running was able to win the Group I Prix de la Foret (1400m) becoming the first ever three-time winner of this race.

A bottomless heavy track and the withdrawal of all four of the Ballydoyle trained runners due to a possible feed contamination made for a less than inspiring Group I Arc de Triomphe overnight at Longchamp with no fairytale result for champion mare Enable.

Promising Snitzel three year-old Real Gone Kid opened his account at Durbanville in South Africa on Saturday at his second start.

Here is the full list of 67 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Flying the flag for American Pharoah in Japan with great success has been three year-old colt  Café Pharoah , who added a third stakes win to his resume on Saturday with a victory in the Group III Sirius Stakes at Chukyo.

A gallant effort for third by Kiwi-bred galloper Riodini in Saturday’s Gr.1 Epsom Handicap (1600m) gave co-owner and breeder Alan Galbraith a massive thrill.

From the family of multiple Group 1 winners Nicconi and Niconero, the three-year-old So You Think colt Defence Force made a winning career debut over 1212m at Kyneton on Sunday.

The Kentucky Oaks runner-up Swiss Skydiver outbattled Kentucky Derby hero Authentic to become the sixth filly to win the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico and the first since Rachel Alexandra in 2009.

A total of 19 horses went under the hammer at the Arc Sale held at Saint-Cloud, with 11 lots changing hands for an average of €277,273.

Winless in three starts since pocketing the $450,000 winners cheque for The Showdown at Caulfield back in April, the Matt Cumani-trained Khoekhoe opened his stakes account when defeating a field of promising young stayers in Saturday’s Listed Super Impose Stakes (1800m) at Flemington.

Golden Slipper winning sire Vancouver had a productive Saturday with promising filly Vancity Gem keeping her unbeaten record intact in Adelaide, talented Vangelic finishing third in the Group I ATC Flight Stakes and in South Africa his quality colt Mount Pleasant resumed from a spell to win the Group II Johannesburg Spring Challenge (1450m) at Turffontein.

Here is the full list of 125 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

He is arguably the best bred horse to race anywhere in the world this weekend, the seven-year-old Frankel entire Mirage Dancer (GB), who credited his dual Group 1 winning dam Heat Wave (Danehill) with her first winner at the elite level in Saturday’s $750,000 ATC Heineken Metropolitan Handicap (2400m) at Randwick.

Everest betting was thrown into turmoil after the Group II ATC Premiere Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill on Saturday when favourite Nature Strip was beaten out of a place while  I Am Invincible mare Libertini cruised past Classique Legend to win with ease.

They don’t come much tougher than Verry Elleegant who took her Group 1 tally to five with a typically gritty performance in Saturday’s Group 1 Turnbull Stakes (2000m) at Flemington.

Probabeel and Funstar are just about on first name terms having fought out several stirring duals but the New Zealander has had the wood on Funstar of late and it was the case again in Saturday’s $1,000,000 Group 1 Epsom Handicap (1600m) at Randwick.

It’s been some day at Randwick for prominent owner Neville Morgan whose colours were carried to victory by Shaquero in the Group III Breeders’ Plate and Kolding in the Group II Hill Stakes and while the Group 1 Darley Flight Stakes winner Montefilia didn’t sport his silks the David Payne-trained filly did become the first stakes-winner for Morgan’s dual Group 1 winner Kerma

He might be by a Golden Slipper winner in Pierro from a Coolmore Classic winner in Ofcourseican, but four year-old stallion Persan is a stayer and he’ll be running in the Melbourne Cup after securing his slot with a stylish victory in the Group III VRC The Bart Cummings (2500m) at Flemington on Saturday.

If Chris Waller was using Saturday’s Group II $500,000 Hill Stakes (2000m) as a guide to Kolding’s chances in the WS Cox Plate, then the five-year-old son of Ocean Park passed his audition impressively.

In a thrilling finish to the Gr.1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m) at Hastings it was the Jamie Richards-trained pair of Melody Belle and Avantage who produced a one-two result for their Matamata mentor.

A Group III winner last season at two, Thermosphere found the competition a bit hot in the Princess Series in Sydney this spring, but switched to Melbourne for the Group II VRC Edward Manifold Stakes (1600m) she returned to winning form.

Arrowfield Stud’s shuttler Shalaa (IRE) became the third first crop stallion to open their winning account on Saturday and the second to have a stakes-winner after the Chris Waller-trained colt Shaquero did the right thing by the sponsor with a dominant win in the Group III Arrowfield Breeders’ Plate (1000m) at Randwick.

The judge has his work cut out at Hastings on Saturday as he perused the photo finish to one of the day’s feature events, the Gr.2 Dundeel at Arrowfield Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m).

Slick Zoustar sprinter Zoutori was too good for the big guns Tofane and Santa Ana Lane in the Group II VRC Gilgai Stakes (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday.

Destined to join the stable of Chris Waller, local filly Matchmaker gave her rivals a start and a beating when she took out Saturday’s Listed New Zealand Bloodstock Canterbury Belle Stakes (1200m) at Riccarton.

Talented Deep Field gelding Riddle Me That closed out his three year-old season with a win in the Listed Bendigo Guineas and hit top form at his third run back from a spell to take out the Listed VRC Paris Lane Stakes (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday.

From the first time she stepped out in public at the trials , Enthaar has looked something special and the daughter of Written Tycoon would have added a legion of fans after making a stunning racetrack debut in the Group III Keeneland Gimcrack Stakes (1000m) at Randwick.

Speedy Exceed and Excel filly September Run again showed her liking for the Flemington straight when charging home to score a dominant win in the Listed VRC Poseidon Stakes (1100m) on Saturday.

A one-two for first season sires in the opening event over 1000m at Eagle Farm on Saturday with Flying Artie’s Princess Bojack leading home Star Turn’s luckless Stellar Magic.

Earlier this week Breednet highlighted the prospects of Darley shuttler Frosted (USA) enjoying immediate success this weekend and the champion son of Tapit duly delivered producing first and third in the Listed VRC Maribyrnong Trial (1000m) at Flemington on Saturday for Godolphin.

Exciting young sire Pride of Dubai was in hot form overnight with two new stakes-winners in Zaffy’s Pride and Telepatic Glances  that saluted in Listed races in Ireland and Italy.

Here is the full list of 45 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Friday with winners and result details.

Talented Pride of Dubai gelding Tanker was the first Australian stakes-winner for his sire when winning the Listed MRC Debutant Stakes last year and bounced back to his best form to win at Moonee Valley on Friday night.

An exciting crop of juveniles will be out in force, with New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2020 Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds providing unmatched access to new stallions embarking on exciting stud careers.

Punters betting into early markets for the Grroup I  Al Basti Equiworld Dubai 48th New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) should tread warily with Friday's impressive Te Rapa winner Mega Bourbon.

The Bloodstockauction.com catalogue for October 1 – 6 is now online featuring a strong selection of racehorses, yearlings and broodmares with our team also wishing to thank studs that donated services for charity in august and September.

The first European bred yearlings by Galileo’s champion son Churchill made a good impression at the 2020 Goffs Orby Yearling Sale this week.

There was a scarcity of Australian-bred mares at the Goffs Orby Sale with one notable exception being Nechita who had a Galileo filly, but in these tough times not even Galileo was spared.

Yet another stakes-winner bred and sold by Segenhoe Stud, talented Exceed and Excel four yea-rold Computer Patch put in a career best performance to win the Group III National Day Cup (1000m) a Sha Tin on Thursday.

Goffs Orby 2020 drew to a close with an 80% clearance rate recorded across the two-day sale that was held at the Goffs sales complex in Doncaster and the top lot on day two was a close relation of Swettenham Stud's popular sire Puissance de Lune. 

Deep Field has made a big impression in Hong Kong with a string of promising winners and one of his most impressive winners last season was Sky Field, who went on his winning way at Sha Tin on Thursday.

Here is the full list of 40 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Stakes success at Riccarton on Saturday would continue a run of success that Indian-born Sydneysider Manoj Wanzare can scarcely believe he's been part of.

There will be a total of sixteen stakes race run at Randwick and Flemington on Saturday highlighted by three Group Ones at Randwick (Epsom, Metropolitan and Flight Stakes), the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington and a chance to see the new season babies in the Gimcrack Stakes, Breeders’ Plate and Maribyrnong Trial Stakes, what more could you possibly want.

Vendors at one of racing's most successful sales are hoping racetrack results can help overcome closed borders for the first time in the history of New Zealand's thoroughbred sales industry.

Juvenile stakes racing returns this weekend in Sydney and Melbourne and first season sires are well represented so let’s take a look at their chances of success with one of the most interesting sires to watch this weekend being Frosted (USA).

A huge group of buyers descended on Doncaster for the relocated 2020 Goffs Orby Sale which recorded an 81% clearance rate for today’s opening session, but recorded marked decreases in aggregate and average.

Dual Group 3 winning mare Jamaican Rain (Manhattan Rain) has become the most expensive mare sold through the broodmare category on Inglis Digital topping the September (Late) Online Sale at $280,000.

Here is the full list of 43 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

He’s taken a little while to come to hand, but the half-brother to Champion 3YO Filly Sunlight showed potential when bolting clear to win as he pleased at Murray Bridge on Wednesday.

The first two races at Randwick on Wednesday on the Kensington track were won in good style by a pair of Pierro three year-olds with spring stakes goals on the agenda that were both bred by Greg and Donna Kolivos.

The first three home in the 1600m maiden at Ballarat on Wednesday were all nominated for either the VRC Derby or Oaks and while Crackerjack King (IRE) colt Crackerjack Prince had to settle for second to Redwood Shadow, his effort was another indication of the growing esteem in which his sire is held.

One of the saddest foaling stories to emerge this spring came from Coolmore last month when they reported the tragic death of Fastnet Rock’s champion daughter Atlantic Jewel, but a month on and her orphaned colt foal by Justify (USA) has not only survived, but he has thrived!

Thoroughbred Breeders WA has appointed Ann Croucher to fill the role as its Executive Officer.

A decision to invest in a handful of yearlings at Karaka last year is looking set to payoff for a group of American investors.

Champion trainer Chris Waller has a lot of bluebloods in his stable, but the half-brother by Medaglia D’Oro (USA) to triple Group I winner Shoals would be right up there at the top of the pile.

Astute Australian thoroughbred breeders are warming to the use of Equilume lighting to achieve the very best results with their prized bloodstock.

Stakes racing kicks off this weekend for the babies with the Breeders Plate and Gimcrack Stakes at Randwick and the Maribyrnong Trial Stakes at Flemington, so here are the juvenile trial placegetters so far with breeding and sale info.

Here is the full list of 21 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Four heats for juveniles at Eagle Farm on Tuesday morning included some impressive winners headed by a homebred Shalaa (IRE) filly for Rothfire’s breeders Gleeson Thoroughbreds that bolted away to win in the fastest time of the session.

Outside of Danehill (USA), only two shuttle stallions have ever taken the title of Champion Australian Sire by earnings, one of them is Street Cry (IRE) and the other is Last Tycoon (IRE).

Grade 1 winner Lady Prancealot (IRE), who was third in the Sept. 26 Rodeo Drive (G1) at Santa Anita, will be offered as a racing or broodmare prospect during the premier Book 1 of Keeneland’s November Breeding Stock Sale on Nov. 9. Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, will consign the 4-year-old daughter of Sir Prancealot (IRE), who has earned more than $640,000 while competing against the best

Here is the full list of 30 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

It was all happening at the Rosehill trials on Monday morning with Nature Strip passing his barrier test and Gytrash given a good blow out as well two heats for juveniles won by the progeny of first season sire Star Turn and champion sire I Am Invincible.

The huge Australian fanbase of the 2014 Melbourne Cup winner Protectionist will be pleased to learn that the son of Monsun is off the mark as a stallion with the Gestüt Paschberg homebred Sporting opening his account over 1600 metres at Weidenpesch, Cologne.

Charismatic black Lonhro stallion Kementari was a Group I star on the track for Godolphin and there was huge expectation when ‘Special K’ retired to Darley last spring, but as is sadly sometimes the case things did not go according to plan.

It’s something of an understatement to suggest that BEL ESPRIT has been a star from the get go.

Karaka graduates enjoyed a weekend of success in Asia with Golden Sixty spectacular in Hong Kong and Inferno capturing the Singapore Guineas. 

Aussie bred HK superstar Golden Sixty took the first step on his path toward the 2020 LONGINES Hong Kong International Races with an impressive win in the Group III Celebration Cup Handicap (1400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday.

We know how good a sire Lope de Vega is and his dual Group I winning son Belardo (IRE) looks like following in his footsteps, the Haunui Farm shuttler adding a new stakes-winner to his tally overnight when two year-old filly Elysium won the Group III Curragh Park Stakes (7f) in Ireland.

It took Written Tycoon less than 24 hours to compile a memorable Group I double and claim the No. 1 spot on the General Sires’ Premiership and take over the leading sire of 3YO’s list.

The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained mare High Emocean was in her class of her own in Sunday’s Listed RM Ansett Classic (2415m) at Mornington.

Sad news from Leneva Park in Victoria with the loss of proven stallion and Melbourne Cup place-getter Lucas Cranach (Ger) due to a freak paddock accident.