Thursday August 6
Australia’s biggest showcase for foals is now up and running for the new season with a small selection already on board for what is one of the most popular pages on our website.
Thursday August 6
The flag is certainly being flown high by exciting jumper Ablaze for his White Robe Lodge sire and the spinoff is being felt at the leading South Island stud.
Wednesday August 5
Grade 1 winner and millionaire Concrete Rose will be offered as a racing or broodmare prospect during the premier Book 1 of this year’s Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, which begins Monday, Nov. 9, and follows the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Keeneland on Nov. 6-7.
Wednesday August 5
The Listed ATC Rosebud Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill this Saturday showcases some talented types gearing up for spring with a horse we featured from the trials earlier this week accepting for the race.
Wednesday August 5
Here is the full list of 35 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Wednesday August 5
A quick overview of today's results covering maiden winners, first season sire placegetters, second season sire winners and highest priced winners.
Wednesday August 5
Four year-old Sebring mare Emeralds contested some of the best three year-old fillies races last season and was never beaten far, so always looked a good thing in a Benchmark 72 race at Canterbury on a Wednesday.
Wednesday August 5
The 2020 renewal of the Inglis Ready2Race Sale is certain to be the strongest yet – in terms of quality of both horses and vendors.
Wednesday August 5
Former Kiwi three-year-old Wertheimer didn’t take long to make his presence felt across the Tasman.
Wednesday August 5
Group One winner Wyndspelle will be on parade at the Hawera racecourse on Saturday ahead of his debut season at stud.
Wednesday August 5
Bennelong Bloodstock have bred some nice horses including Group II winner Jessy Belle, whose three year-old half-brother Tectonicus carried their colours to victory at Canterbury on Wednesday.
Wednesday August 5
Shaune Ritchie was beaming after Jennifer Eccles’ 1050m trial at Ruakaka on Tuesday.
Wednesday August 5
A son of Wootton Bassett out of the Australian-bred, Manhattan Rain mare, The Hunt Is On, Midlife Crisis was the talk of Deauville on Tuesday when he bettered a field of bluebloods by a widening five lengths over 7-furlongs at his career debut.
Tuesday August 4
Arrowfield Stud shuttler Shalaa (IRE) was making news this week when siring the top lot at the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale and featured overnight with a new winner in Cream of the Crop.
Tuesday August 4
A remarkable 2020 Magic Millions National Sale came to a close on the Gold Coast today with progeny of Lonhro starring across the day.
Tuesday August 4
Earlier this week we ran a story highlighting those special stallions that consistently deliver two year-old winners and while we’re all awake to Snitzel, I Am Invincible, Not a Single Doubt and Exceed and Excel, there is another name that really should be added to that list.
Tuesday August 4
With just two more days until he arrives on farm, Haunui’s exciting young sire BELARDO (IRE) (Lope De Vega) is making his presence felt in both hemispheres.
Tuesday August 4
Group One winner Sentimental Miss will head across the Tasman this spring to try and add to her burgeoning CV.
Tuesday August 4
With no new season juveniles for a while yet our look at the Rosehill trials this morning will focus on a couple of Golden Rose nominated three year old colts that looked to have come back in great shape for Team Hawkes.
Tuesday August 4
In the politically correct world we now live in where Coon Cheese is to be renamed and Redskins are no more, how is that a horse called The Fat White is allowed to race - are we not worried that fat white people – and there are millions of them in Australia– will be offended?
Tuesday August 4
Thoroughbred Breeders Australia (TBA) encourages all breeders sending mares interstate for the coming season to consider their transport plans well ahead of any movements.
Monday August 3
Cornerstone Stud shuttler Sir Prancealot (IRE) featured in Ireland overnight with a new stakes-winner after promising 2YO Miss Amulet took out the Listed Marwell Stakes (5f) at Naas.
Monday August 3
A regally bred colt by Shalaa has topped Day One of the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale at the Gold Coast.
Monday August 3
The first Southern Hemisphere foal by Valachi Downs shuttle stallion U S Navy Flag (USA) has been born at Riversdale Farm in New South Wales.
Monday August 3
Here is the full list of 16 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Monday August 3
A quick overview of today's results covering maiden winners, first season sire placegetters, second season sire winners and highest priced winners.
Monday August 3
Waikato Stud has confirmed that the 2020 book is full for rising star stallion Ocean Park (NZ). The Cox Plate winner served 153 mares in 2019 and had been available for a service fee of $20,000 for the upcoming breeding season.
Monday August 3
Australian bred sires filled the first ten places on the Australian General Sires List this year giving rise to a pride filled Tweet from Aushorse highlighting this fact, but before you go all anti- shuttle, do have a thought on how those Australian stallions were made and consider a few facts on how tough it is for a shuttle stallion to succeed.
Monday August 3
The Auckland Racing Club (ARC) has announced that it will be increasing stakes above minimum levels for this season by contributing close to $1,000,000 of its own monies.
Monday August 3
Chatswood Stud mainstay Reward For Effort ended the 2019/20 season as Victoria's leading active sire of winners, amassing 95 individual winners and $4,704,380 in prize-money.
Monday August 3
Emma Evans didn’t get the send-off her long-time trainer Wayne Hillis had hoped to provide for her at Matamata on Saturday, but she will be long remembered for her involvement in the racing industry as a passionate owner and breeder.
Sunday August 2
Entries are now open for the 2021 Inglis Select Yearling Sales Series.
Sunday August 2
Choisir’s Group I winning son Olympic Glory (IRE) shuttled to Arrowfield Stud for just three seasons and while he’s yet to produce a stakes-winner here, he does have a very good mare in Europe called Watch Me, who won the Group I Prix Rothschild (1m) at Deauville overnight.
Sunday August 2
Getting the best results from valuable breeding stock is a topic that interests everyone.
Sunday August 2
The ability to regularly sire plentiful juvenile winners is a unique talent possessed by few stallions and in recent years that title of most successful Australian sire by juvenile winners has been dominated by a handful of stallions.
Sunday August 2
Kiwi jumpers were again to the fore at Sandown on Grand National Hurdle day, taking out the two jumping features.
Sunday August 2
Ex-pat Kiwi trainer Bjorn Baker enjoyed a breakout season at the metropolitan level in Sydney over the past twelve months and continued that momentum on Saturday with a winning double at Randwick.
Sunday August 2
Caroline Searcy’s Bred To Win returns to our screens this Tuesday August 4, 2020 at 8.30pm on Sky Thoroughbred Central (Foxtel Ch 528).
Sunday August 2
Twin Hill Stud’s Hallowed Crown has a very promising colt in England in the Richard Hughes-trained Karibana.
Sunday August 2
It was a disappointing field of just three runners in Saturday’s Group II Qatar Lillie Langtry Stakes at Goodwood where the imposing figure of the five-year-old Redoute’s Choice mare Enbihaar monstered a pair of three-year-old fillies to retain the crown she won 12 months ago.
Saturday August 1
It is with a heavy heart that Windsor Park Stud announce the loss of their very successful sire Rip Van Winkle following a short illness.
Saturday August 1
Coolmore’s two time Group I winner Fancy Blue is not the only classy Deep Impact three year-old filly running in Europe this year with the Al Shaqab homebred Katara scoring her first Black Type success overnight taking out the Listed Chalice Stakes (1m4f) at Newmarket.
Saturday August 1
Here is the full list of 92 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday August 1
A quick overview of today's results covering maiden winners, first season sire placegetters, second season sire winners and highest priced winners.
Saturday August 1
The Nick Ryan-trained Mahamedeis is rapidly closing in on becoming the fifth millionaire for Sun Stud’s Magnus following a second win in the space of seven days when carrying topweight to a hard fought victory in Saturday’s Vale Rob Gaylard Handicap (2020m) at Moonee Valley.
Saturday August 1
Not since his own grandsire Danehill dominated the Australian Sire Championships at the start of the millennium has a stallion equalled the feat of Snitzel who was crowned champion sire for the fourth consecutive time at seasons end on Friday.
Saturday August 1
There will be few better omen bets anywhere on Saturday than the four-year-old Snitzel mare De Grawin who claimed the Four Time Champion Sire Snitzel Sprint (1000m) at Randwick.
Saturday August 1
Joe O’Neill of Prime Thoroughbreds has a happy knack for finding quality fillies for not a lot of money and he’s got another one in the shape of Super One filly Miss Divine Em, who scored a thrilling victory at Moonee Valley on Saturday.
Saturday August 1
With his oldest Australian progeny just turned three, Golden Slipper winning sire Vancouver has enjoyed a successful first season with 11 winners and five stakes horses in the Southern Hemisphere, while in the US his progeny include talented filly Madone, who scored a stylish debut victory at Del Mar on Friday.
Saturday August 1
Impressive triallist Show Bazz made an eye-catching debut when he trounced his maiden rivals over 1200m at Ashburton on Saturday.
Saturday August 1
After making a successful career debut in the Group III Maribyrnong Plate at Flemington on Victoria Oaks day last November, the royally-bred All Too Hard x Snitzerland colt Hard Landing disappointed at his next start in the Group III Blue Diamond Prelude in February, which was put down to a severe respiratory infection, and he was done for the season.
Friday July 31
Dual Group I winning Fastnet Rock mare One Master was back to her best at Goodwood overnight winning the Group III Saint Clair Oak Tree Stakes (7f) and her half-brother Prompting was also successful on the same program.
Friday July 31
Here is the full list of 40 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Friday July 31
A quick overview of today's results covering maiden winners, first season sire placegetters, second season sire winners and highest priced winners.
Friday July 31
The Champion 2YO Colt of his generation and a dominant winner of the Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes, Written Tycoon’s brilliant son Written By has produced his first foal with the arrival of a gorgeous chestnut filly at Torryburn Stud.
Friday July 31
A colt by exciting first season sire Merchant Navy topped Day Two of the 2020 Magic Millions National Weanling Sale at the Gold Coast today.
Friday July 31
Wairarapa nursery Little Avondale Stud has added another major milestone to its rich history, celebrating 80 years of operation.
Friday July 31
Twelve months after being crowned New Zealand’s champion first season sire, Windsor Park shuttle stallion Charm Spirit has added a second season title to his CV.
Friday July 31
The champion first season sire for 2019-20 is Novara Park’s Sweynesse, who sired three winners including Bonita Aurelia, who won the Gr.3 Taranaki 2YO Classic (1200m) and placed in the Gr.2 Matamata Breeders’ Stakes (1200m).
Friday July 31
The majority of Stallion farms in the Hunter Valley have made the difficult decision to cancel their public parades which were scheduled for late August 2020.
Friday July 31
It took until the last day of the racing season, but Widden Stud’s flagship sire Zoustar became the youngest sire to join the century club this season, when posting his 100th winner at Geelong on Friday following an impressive debut victory for Sweetzou.
Friday July 31
Three trials for Group and Listed horses at Randwick on Friday morning showcased a number of leading spring contenders with the heats won by Home of the Brave, Savatiano and New Zealand Horse of the Year Melody Belle, but some of the beaten runners really caught our eye.
Friday July 31
Snitzel’s fourth consecutive General Sires’ Premiership, won with $17.8 million prizemoney, more than $2 million clear of I Am Invincible and Pierro, confirms Arrowfield’s superstar as the dominant Australian sire of his era.
Thursday July 30
A last start winner of the Prix de Diane (French Oaks), Coolmore’s blue-blooded Deep Impact filly Fancy Blue kept up the good work with a determined victory overnight in the Group I Nassau Stakes (1m2f) at Goodwood.
Thursday July 30
A close relation to Darley’s brilliant shuttler Harry Angel (IRE), two year-old colt Supremacy announced himself as a serious player on the juvenile front in Europe overnight with a dominant win a Goodwood in the Group II Richmond Stakes (6f).
Thursday July 30
Here is the full list of 30 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Thursday July 30
A quick overview of today's results covering maiden winners, first season sire placegetters, second season sire winners and highest priced winners.
Thursday July 30
An outstanding colt by leading sire Zoustar has topped Day One of the 2020 Magic Millions National Weanling Sale at the Gold Coast.
Thursday July 30
Never off the board in five starts, the Rubick filly Peggy Selene looks well-placed to add a second win to her record at the first metropolitan meeting of the new season at Moonee Valley on Saturday.
Thursday July 30
Yulong were the biggest buyer at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale this week signing for 15 mares for a grand total of $9.9million, but it was a mare they bought at the same sale in 2017 for $1.75 million that gave them an impressive winner at Ballarat on Thursday.
Thursday July 30
Mapperley Stud stallion Complacent made the perfect start to his stallion career at Ipswich on Thursday when his first starter Calm Seeker was victorious over 1350m.
Thursday July 30
Rivercrest Park Stud in Western Australia is home to exciting young Snitzel stakes-winner Ducimus, who was the most popular first season sire in the West last year covering an impressive list of proven stakes producers.
Thursday July 30
Stakes winner Santa Catarina has joined the Melbourne stable of Mike Moroney and will have her first hit-out of the new season at Moonee Valley on Saturday.
Thursday July 30
The MM National Yearling Sale will be held next Monday and Tuesday (August 3 and 4 ) and Hunter Valley nursery Valiant Stud will present a quality draft of eight featuring the progeny of proven favourites like So You Think and popular newcomers Shalaa (IRE) and Astern, not to mention an eye-catching grey colt by Reliable Man (GB).
Thursday July 30
The foals are starting to come not only in Australia, but also New Zealand with Valachi Downs tweeting the arrival of their first foal of the season.
Thursday July 30
With three metropolitan winners last Saturday and another winner on Sunday, Stockwell Thoroughbreds based Al Maher has again reminded breeders of his great reliability and affordability as we head into another breeding season.
Wednesday July 29
The Group I Sussex Stakes (1m) at Goodwood last night looked a great contest with English and Irish Two Thousand Guineas winners Kameko and Siskin engaged as well as Queen Anne Stakes winner Circus Maximus, but at the winning post the victor was none of them.
Wednesday July 29
Inglis Digital is celebrating a momentous 2019/20 season with the conclusion of the July (Late) Online Sale this evening, which grossed $2.1 million – bringing the overall season total to over $40 million.
Wednesday July 29
Former star galloper and exciting young broodmare Viddora has topped the final day of the National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast selling for $2.55 million to Yulong, who finished the sale as leading buyer.
Wednesday July 29
The Testa Rossa filly Twilight Royale has taken several sets of her connections on the ride of a lifetime after being purchased for $45,000 by trainer Bjorn Baker out of the Kitchwin Hills draft at the 2012 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale.
Wednesday July 29
Aquis have consigned their largest ever draft for the 2020 Magic Millions National Weaning Sale with an outstanding array of well conformed individuals featuring youngsters by a host of Aquis sires who will be represented by their first crop
Wednesday July 29
Record breaking night for Bloodstockauction.com on Tuesday night, with the beautifully bred daughter of Fastnet Rock, Paprena, selling for $174,070.
Wednesday July 29
Here is the full list of 46 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Wednesday July 29
A quick overview of today's results covering maiden winners, first season sire placegetters, second season sire winners and highest priced winners.
Wednesday July 29
Mornington trainer David Brideoake has big expectations with Group One winner Princess Jenni heading into the Melbourne Spring Carnival, which will come as good news for Yulong, who purchased her dam Glitzabeel at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on Tuesday for $400,000.
Wednesday July 29
The delayed Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale as a result of pandemic has resulted in a number of mares producing foals before the sale, two of them offered by Willow Park Stud on Wednesday.
Wednesday July 29
Dual Group I wining I Am Invincible mare Viddora was tipped as the highlight mare on day three of the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale and duly produced some fiscal fireworks when purchased by Yulong for $2.55million.
Wednesday July 29
The undisrupted portion of New Zealand’s 2019-20 racing season marked the 48th year of New Zealand Bloodstock’s highly prestigious Filly of the Year Series.
Tuesday July 28
Glorious Goodwood got underway in the UK last night with the world’s best turf stayer Stradivarius taking out the Group I Goodwood Cup (2m) and blue-blooded Coolmore owned colt Battleground landing the Group II Veuve Clicquot Vintage Stakes (7f).
Tuesday July 28
Pierro's full sister Right Chord created history on Day Two of the 2020 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale at the Gold Coast today when selling for $1.05 million.
Tuesday July 28
The second session of the 2020 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale at the Gold Coast on Tuesday was highlighted by Godolphin selling a full sister to Pierro that fetched $1,050,000, while mares in foal to the outstanding young sire were also in demand.
Tuesday July 28
The picture of Sunlight’s strapper and best friend Sarah Rutten taken moments after she was sold has generated huge interest on social media and while this story is a little close to the bone for me as anyone who knows me would realise, Racenet’s Ben Dorries has written something special for all those who love horses.
Tuesday July 28
A quick overview of today's results covering maiden winners, first season sire placegetters, second season sire winners and highest priced winners.
Tuesday July 28
Here is the full list of 23 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Tuesday July 28
When you breed as many horses as John Singleton does you would not think you would have to be buying yearlings, but one that he did purchase in 2019 broke the ice as a short priced favourite at Taree on Tuesday.
Tuesday July 28
It’s been a record breaking season for Newgate Farm’s Deep Field and the winners keep coming for the son of Northern Meteor, who added a 16th two year-old winner to his tally on Tuesday.
Monday July 27
Champion mare Sunlight smashed the all time Magic Millions auction record when she sold for $4.2 million on a spectacular Day One of the National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast on Monday with three of the top four mares sold all to visit Coolmore's Triple Crown winner Justify this spring.
Monday July 27
Here is the full list of 15 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Monday July 27
A quick overview of today's results covering maiden winners, first season sire placegetters, second season sire winners and highest priced winners.
Monday July 27
Turangga Farm bred Champagne Cuddles might not be a Group I winner, but she had Group I talent which is why Tom Magnier bid $2million at the Magic Millions National Sale on Monday to secure the five year-old daughter of Not a Single Doubt.