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.

The delayed 2020 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale due to the pandemic has resulted in some unusual circumstances including the early arrival of a cracking colt foal this morning for a well bred mare due to be offered for sale on Tuesday.

Winner of the Group I ATC Australian Oaks in 2018, outstanding Fastnet Rock mare Unforgotten kept the big prices coming at the Gold Coast on late Monday afternoon when selling for $2.75 million at the Magic Millions National Sale.

Magic Millions set a new record in the Gold Coast sale ring on Monday afternoon when champion mare Sunlight was sold for $4.2million to the bid of Coolmore’s Tom Magnier to become the highest priced horse ever sold in Queensland.

Completely free of Danehill blood, Group I winning $3million earner Invincibella lit up the sale ring at the Gold Coast on Monday afternoon when fetching $1.3million to the bid of Coolmore’s Tom Magnier.

Yulong Investments have announced the arrival of the first foal by foundation stallion Grunt (NZ), a Group I winning son of champion sire O’Reilly.

An extra pair of hands will help guide the growing Valachi Downs Racing operation in the new season, with Kris Shailer joining Stephen Autridge in a training partnership from August 1.

A breakthrough season has ended on the perfect note for rising star Waikato Stud stallion Ocean Park, siring another impressive city winner on the final Saturday of the 2019-20 season.

We might be getting battered by an east coast low, but later this afternoon there will be plenty of interest in what’s happening at the Gold Coast sale ring when superstar mares Sunlight, Invincibella and Unforgotten are offered for sale.

Overnight results from the UK and Ireland have highlighted again the potency of the Galileo x Pivotal nick with yet another Group I victory for champion older mare Magical while Frankel’s progressive three year-old filly Franconia won the Listed Lyric Fillies Stakes (1m 2 ½ f) at York.

Prominent US businessman and well known bloodstock investor Jon S Kelly has died aged 84.

Here is the full list of 61 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Yu Long Investments homebred Yulong Holiday clung to a rapidly diminishing half-head victory in a 1400 metre maiden at Echuca on Sunday to credit his sire Headwater with his 13th individual winner and join Spill The Beans at the head of the first season sire table for number of winners.

Promising young Newgate Farm sire Super One added a ninth first crop winner to his tally with a debut winner on Sunday in One Lotto.

Outstanding three-year-old Travelling Light will head to Ruakaka next week as she continues her preparation for a raceday return in early September.

A full brother to Eleven Eleven, who made news this week after being elevated to the winner of the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas following the disqualification of Alligator Blood, promising two year-old War Memorial shed maiden status at Gosford on Saturday.

Promising young sire Outreach posted his sixth winner when the Chris Waller trained Castlecomer saluted at Gosford on Saturday.

Champion mare Enable only had to beat two rivals to win her third Group I King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (1m4f) at Ascot overnight and she did it in style.

Now based at Woodside Park in Victoria, Foxwedge featured in South Africa on Saturday when his talented five year-old Infamous Fox took out the Listed Greyville Thukela Handicap.

Here is the full list of 93 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A quick overview of today's results covering maiden winners, first season sire placegetters, second season sire winners and highest priced winners.

Trainer Kris Lees and Australian Bloodstock have plenty to look forward to in the spring after their imports Mugatoo (IRE) and Korcho (GB) scored impressive wins at Rosehill on Saturday.

Gerald Ryan always maintained Rubick was one of the fastest horses he has trained and he no doubt has a lot of time for his talented son The Face , who made an eye-catching debut at Gosford on Saturday.

Featured by Mark Smith as his weekend Best on Breeding tip, I Am Invincible filly Parlophone was heavily backed to win the Listed SAJC Lightning Stakes (1050m) and justified the faith of punters when racing to a commanding victory confirming her potential as a racehorse rather than a rodeo bronc.

Pukekohe trainer Nigel Tiley continued his fine run of form when he saddled four winners at Avondale on Saturday.

While he may not have lived up to his rising superstar status predicted after winning his first four starts, Viridine has proved himself a wonderful servant for Godolphin.

A great day at the office for Stockwall Thoroughbreds Al Maher with his three-year-old daughters Chassis and Dancing Gidget winner at Caulfield and Rosehill respectively while the seven-year-old mare Bertwhistle kept her recent good form going when successful at Morphettville.

Given a cosy run from an inside barrier, Flinders River made his supporters sweat as Craig Williams desperately searched for a seam in the straight, but when finding clear air the consistent Fighting Sun gelding ran out a dominant winner of Saturday’s VOBIS Gold Ingot (1400m) at Caulfield.

Racing at Rosehill on Saturday started on a sobering note with a dreadful fall in the opening race involving popular rider Andrew Adkins, who was taken to hospital.

Australian breeders have the opportunity this spring to send mares to the European Champion 2YO and 3YO Colt of 2018, 2019 in Too Darn Hot (GB), whose expensive full brother made it two wins in as many starts at Newmarket in the UK on Friday.

The Inglis Digital July (Late) Online Sale has opened for bidding with another intriguing catalogue of 224 lots, including 15 fillies and mares offered by Coolmore Stud (as agent).

One of the standout two year-olds offered at the Inglis Ready 2Race Sale last year showed at the Warwick Farm trials this morning that he might now be ready to deliver on promise.

Vinery Stud will soon head north (COVID permitting) for the 2020 Magic Millions National Weanling Sale to present these six cracking youngsters.

The decision to strip Alligator Blood of his first placing in the $2million Magic Millions 3YO Guineas due to a positive drug test will have some interesting ramifications, but one person that will gain some benefit if the decision stands is Ian Smith, who bred and sold the runner-up Eleven Eleven, now afforded status as a Black Type winner.

You would like to think a filly sired by American Pharoah from Champion 3YO Filly Chicquita would have above average ability and it certainly appears the case for two year-old filly Nicest, who opened her account with a win at Leopardstown in Ireland on Thursday.

Stakes winners Gem Song, Haunted and Plague Stone are among the star offerings in a select catalogue for the 2020 Magic Millions National Racehorse Sale.

As a result of the restrictions currently in place in Victoria, the Great Southern Sale will now form part of the Inglis Digital August (Early) Online Sale, which will be held over five days from August 7-12.

I Am Invincible is finishing the season in top gear with 15 winners in the past seven days and 40 in the past 30.

Brisbane based breeder Rick Hill got an understandably massive thrill watching Even So (Camelot) winning last weekend’s Group I Irish Oaks at The Curragh as he is fortunate to own her winning High Chaparral half-sister So Ard,.

A quick overview of today's results covering maiden winners, first season sire placegetters, second season sire winners and highest priced winners.

Here is the full list of 36 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Golden Slipper winner Vancouver has gathered momentum in the latter part of this season adding a new debut winner to his tally when Royal Exit saluted as favourite at Warrnambool on Thursday.

An outstanding, once in a lifetime opportunity, to wake up with racecourse views every day has arisen with the listing of a coveted penthouse residence in ‘The Stables’ overlooking Royal Randwick Racecourse.

New Year’s Day 2020 must have dawned full of hope for the connections of the royally-bred, I Am Invincible, filly Parlophone as she set off for her career debut at Flemington.

World renowned sire Shamardal is already leaving a lasting legacy through his sire sons with Wyndholm Park based Crackerjack King (IRE) adding to their success and offering budget conscious breeders the opportunity to access this highly progressive sireline.

Magic Millions is excited to announce entries are now open for the 2021 Yearling Sales Series around Australia.

An association that was struck nearly 40 years ago between trans-Tasman trainers was once again to the fore on Wednesday.

The Group I Epsom Derby is not a race that Australian breeders see as having a huge influence on our breeding industry, but the reality is the winner of that race in 2002 is having a profound effect.

A Group I winner last year of the Newmarket Cheveley Park Stakes and Champion European 2YO Filly for 2019, Starspangledbanner filly Millisle struck top form overnight with a resounding victory in the Group III Ballyogan stakes (6f) at Naas for fillies and mares.

Lime Country Thoroughbreds enjoyed great feedback on their ‘Legwork Done Documents' created for their broodmares for sale this year and have provided the same comprehensive information on all lots they will offer at next week's Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale.

A quick overview of today's results covering maiden winners, first season sire placegetters, second season sire winners and highest priced winners.

Here is the full list of 48 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Moe trainer Peter Gelagotis is now eyeing some spring targets for Blandford Lad after he made it back-to-back wins at Sandown on Wednesday.

Good looking gelding All Black Bourbon made a winning debut at Avondale on Wednesday for trainer Stephen Marsh.

Trainer Stephen Autridge saddled two runners at Avondale on Wednesday, with Savabeel three-year-old Prosperous making a good impression when winning by five lengths on debut, while well-bred colt Kurt was narrowly beaten into second.

With all sire titles all but decided for season 2019-20 the focus is on the first season sire battle for number of winners, which is going right down to the wire.

Nicconi might be best known as the sire of the country’s best sprinter Nature Strip, but he’s also a prolific sire of winners including Wednesday’s debut juvenile winner Celestine, another successful debutante for the James Harron Bloodstock Fillies Syndication enterprise.

Blue-blooded Redoute’s Choice filly Redoute’s Image opened her account at Canterbury on Wednesday with a determined victory in the Australian Bloodstock colours bringing a timely pedigree update for her Magic Millions bound half-brother.

Former outstanding racehorse Criterion has had well documented fertility troubles at stud producing just 14 foals from his first crop and one of them made an impressive winning debut at Canterbury on Wednesday.

The famed colours of US based Stonestreet Stables were in the winner’s circle at Wyong on Tuesday with promising two year-old Zoustar filly Yangarra Rose.

A quick overview of today's results covering maiden winners, first season sire placegetters, second season sire winners and highest priced winners.

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

The lone two-year-old in a field of six three-year-olds in a 1200m maiden on the Pakenham synthetic track on Tuesday, the Archie Alexander-trained colt Dewhurst did everything like a little professional at his career debut to credit his sire Kermadec with his third winner.

Bruce Perry Bloodstock is becoming a family affair with Perry’s daughter Becca joining the Wairarapa-based bloodstock agency.

South Auckland trainers Peter and Dawn Williams will take just one runner to Avondale on Wednesday, but they believe that is enough to pick up a cheque.

Victoria's oldest commercial horse stud, Chatswood Stud are pleased to announce the implementation of the following agistment refund scheme:

Due to the challenging circumstances within Victoria, conducting a formal open day / stallion parade with a large group clearly presents an impossibility.

Graduates of New Zealand Bloodstock Sales claimed six trophies at Hong Kong’s 2019-20 Champion Awards dinner at Sha Tin, with superstar four-year-old Golden Sixty (Medaglia d’Oro) leading the charge.

Here is the full list of 22 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

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.

Australasian mares having been kicking goals around the globe of late so we thought it would be timely to add another one to the list and this mare is no stranger to regular readers.

He’s a half-brother to a Group I winner by Golden Slipper winner Vancouver and this promising two year-old is a maiden no more after saluting at Goulburn on Monday.

Woodside Park Stud’s Foxwedge has sired stakes-winners all over the world with the latest success story coming from Macau where his four year-old Australian bred gelding Sacred Magnate won the Macau Derby on the weekend.

Karaka graduate Sacred Capital marked the anniversary of his Macau Derby (1800m) heroics with another stellar performance at the same meeting.

The NZ suffix dominated proceedings at Pakenham on Sunday, with all six jumping races taken out by Kiwi horses.

Next week's Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale will now feature the past two winners of the Gai Waterhouse Classic with a recent supplementary entry as well as the result of the listed race at Ipswich on Saturday.

Leaving a couple of their star gallopers over in New South Wales to spell after their autumn campaigns is proving to be a masterstroke by Te Akau principal David Ellis.

The upcoming Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale has investors all over the country salivating over the smorgasboard of elite mares on offer, but are some of the real stars flying under the radar?

Rosemont Stud’s Starspangledbanner added a new Group II winner to his resume overnight in Ireland where promising two year-old filly Aloha Star took out the Group II Airlie Stud Stakes (6f) at The Curragh.

Winner of the Group I French Two Thousand Guineas last year, the Godolphin co-owned Kingman entire Persian King claimed his first Group I success in 2020 when taking out the Prix d’Ispahan (1m1f) at Chantilly overnight.

It’s been a productive 24 hours for promising young sire Pride of Dubai with two new winners, one in each hemisphere.

Here is the full list of 65 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Widden Stud will offer an outstanding consignment of 30 mares at the 2020 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale and while their champion racemare Sunlight is in a class of her own, there is plenty of depth in the draft with a selection of mares in foal to the farm’s young guns sires Trapeze Artist and Written By.

Willow Park Stud are presenting a sensational draft of 38 mares at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale and one of them had a major pedigree update from the US on Saturday with her classy half-brother Paret a gallant second in track record time in the $315,000 Group I United Nations Stakes at Monmouth on turf.

Placed at every run he’s had this year, talented Rubick gelding Wilmot Pass scored a well deserved victory at Flemington on Saturday.

Deep Field three year-old Spaceboy has struck a real purple patch of form during the winter months landing his third consecutive win at Randwick on Saturday for the Gary Portelli stable.

The Group I Irish Oaks (1m4f) at The Curragh on Saturday delivered another classic winner for Montjeu’s Epsom Derby winning son Camelot with victory going to progressive filly Even So, whose dam started her stud career in Australasia.

Here is the full list of 103 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Talented Zoustar mare Solar Star was rewarded for her consistency when scoring an all the way win in the Listed Gai Waterhouse Classic (1350m) at Ipswich on Saturday providing the perfect pedigree update ahead of her appearance at the Gold Coast sale ring where she will be offered at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale.

With the loss of stable stalwart Scales Of Justice, it has not been the best of weeks for the Lindsay Smith stable, however it ended on a high note when Chantrea extended her winning streak to six in Saturday’s Listed Belmont Classic (2200m).

The Kelly Purdy-trained gelding Bandipur has not had much luck go his way of late and for a long while in Saturday’s Listed Eye Liner Stakes (1200m) at Ipswich it looked as if nothing had changed.

A $500,000 yearling and a half-sister to an $800,000 yearling and a $700,000 yearling, Celebrity Girl looked to be an exceptional broodmare prospect, particularly after she had won her first start at Sandown and the Listed Cap D'Antibes Stakes at Flemington at her second back in 2011.

Opinions were divided on the merit of the win, however there is no denying that Godolphin’s Alcyone still looks an untapped talent after he opened his winning account over 1800 metres at Flemington on Saturday.

Champion Queensland galloper Chief de Beers has been laid to rest at age 28 at Living Legends in Victoria.

The Queen has been enjoying good success with talented Group II winning Toronado two year-old Tactical and she has no doubt become an admirer of his sire as he gave her another winner overnight in Cloud Drift.

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

New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) have announced that stakes levels for the 2020/21 racing season will return to those in the 2019/20 season pre-COVID-19.

Securing a lifetime breeding right to a young stallion on the up can be one of the best decisions a savvy breeder will ever make.

The catalogue for the Mungrup Stud Complete Dispersal Online Sale is now online and will present buyers with an opportunity to tap into the success of one of the country's best stakes producing farms.

Australian bred Medaglia D'Oro (USA) gelding Golden Sixty was crowned Four-Year-Old Champion at the Hong Kong Horse of the Year Awards on Thursday.