The three-year-old fillies Still a Star and Mystical Pursuit are building a great rivalry and they took the battle to Hobart on Sunday for the Listed Strutt Stakes (2100m).

The 2020 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale extends well into Tuesday with a bumper Highway Session and Holbrook Thoroughbreds will keep the nice horses coming with their remaining five youngsters that are all BOBS eligible and include a colt from the family of current star 3YO sprinter Standout.

Windsor Park Stud’s young guns have dominated the limelight in recent times with first-season sire titles for Shamexpress and Charm Spirit, but Saturday was all about Rip Van Winkle.

He had the ‘wow factor’ at the Easter Yearling Sale and today, exciting 3YO Alabama Express (Redoute’s Choice) proved himself one of the most sought-after stallion prospects in the country with a devastating victory in the G1 CF Orr Stakes at Caulfield.

Multiple stakes winning 2YO and autumn Group One sprint contender, I AM IMMORTAL, will stand at Victoria’s Swettenham Stud in 2020.

Gemma's Son confirmed his status as Western Australia's best juvenile by extending his unbeaten career in today's $250,000 Magic Millions WA 2YO Classic (RL, 1200m) at Pinjarra.

Snitzel’s determined daughter Sylvia's Mother gradually wore down the in-form Magnus mare News Girl in Saturday’s Group III Geoffrey Bellmaine Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield to earn a maiden stakes win and become the 98th stakes-winner for the 3-time Champion Australian stallion and his second on the day at Caulfield.

She might be a half-sister to champion sprinter Hay List, but So You Think mare Miss Siska prefers a longer trip and claimed her first Black Type success at Caulfield on Saturday with a much-deserved win in the Group III MRC Carlyon Cup (1600m).

Already a three-time Group winner before Saturday, quality sprinting filly Anaheed gave promise of moving to a new level this autumn when resuming from a spell to score a brilliant win in the Group II MRC Rubiton Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield.

More than likely another stallion stall will be cleaned out at Arrowfield Stud to house the progressive colt Alabama Express who became the first three-year-old since All Too Hard in 2013 to claim the Group 1 CF Orr Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield, a race won 20 years ago by his legendary sire Redoute's Choice.

Last seasons Champion two-year-old Microphone opened his three-year-old account when running down Banquo in the final few strides of Saturday’s $200,000 Group II Hyland Race Colour Autumn Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.

Excitement machine Te Akau Shark sent out an ominous warning to his Australian rivals as he finally got a deserved Group One prize when taking out the BCD Group Sprint (1400m) with a scintillating performance.

Godolphin’s wonderful Street Boss (USA) colt Hanseatic had plenty of reasons to lose his unbeaten tag in Saturday’s $200,000 Group III Neds Blue Diamond Prelude (c&g) (1100m) at Caulfield but just as he has done at his previous two starts, he attacked the line in the style of a topliner.

The favoured pair of Fresh and A Beautiful Night were nowhere to be seen in Saturday’s $200,000 Group II Neds Blue Diamond Prelude (1100m) for fillies at Caulfield, which might have seen the emergence of a new star in the Snitzel filly Letzbeglam.

A nail-biting finish to the Group I Herbie Dyke Stakes (2000m) at Te Rapa was settled in favour of last year’s runner-up Tiptronic when he stuck his nose in front at just the right time to down a gallant True Enough in the day’s middle-distance weight-for-age feature.

The Roger James and Robert Wellwood-trained Two Illicit announced herself as a serious Group I Vodafone New Zealand Derby (2400m) contender when she simply blew her rivals off the track at Te Rapa on Saturday.

A picture-perfect ride from Jason Waddell allowed class act Jennifer Eccles to show her undoubted quality as she dashed away from her age-group rivals to take out the Group II  David & Karyn Ellis Fillies Classic (2000m) at Te Rapa.

One of just 12 live foals left by the Group 1 Prix Morny Stakes winner The Wow Signal (IRE) in Australia, the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained filly How Womantic kept her record at a perfect four for four with a hard-fought win in Saturday’s $160,000 Group III Kevin Hayes Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.

Vendors of the 15 lots by Shooting To Win catalogued for Inglis Classic Yearling Sale received a fillip when the Henry Dwyer trained filly Ms Catherine stayed perfect at two for two when she gave her rivals a thumping by upwards of four and a half lengths over 1000 metres at Moonee Valley on Friday night.

The thoroughbred industry has come together to announce a strategy to develop a national horse welfare regime.

There’s more than $250,000 in prizemoney riding on short-priced favourite Gemma’s Son in the RL Magic Millions WA 2YO Classic (1200m).

Dreams are free! That's Karen Parson's response to any suggestion she could land a Group One double with Kiwi Ida and Camino Rocoso at Te Rapa on Saturday.

Clocking up 101 individual winners for the season, Woodside Park Stud’s Written Tycoon is a sire on fire, as he continues to produce the goods.

Vinery Stud’s first season sire Star Turn was very well received at Magic Millions and with 27 listed for sale at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale we thought we’d better look them over.

Spendthrift Australia will have two quality colts heading through the ring at the 2020 Inglis Classic Sale, offered through the expert drafts of Widden Stud and KBL Thoroughbreds on Monday 10th February.

Plenty for the racing enthusiast to enjoy this weekend, with seven stakes races at Caulfield on Saturday highlighted by the Group 1 CF Orr Stakes with the juveniles continuing their quest for the Blue Diamond in the divisions of the Blue Diamond Prelude, while up at Warwick Farm the babies will battle it out in the $2million Inglis Millennium and the Listed Lonhro Plate.

Five-year-old mare Sinarahma landed some valuable black-type when taking out the Listed Property Brokers Wairarapa Thoroughbred Breeders' Stakes (1600m) at Tauherenikau on Thursday.

A proven source of Group I stakes performers, the Cornish family owned Torryburn Stud will present another great draft of eight quality youngsters at the 2020 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale starting this Sunday highlighted by the half-brother to Group III winner Diddums.

There were plenty of interesting juvenile barrier trials at Randwick this morning, including a heat winner with a full brother headed to Inglis Classic and the reappearance of disgraced $2.8 million Snitzel colt Mount Fuji.

Julie Harris and her team at Holbrook Thoroughbreds are presenting a great draft of 11 yearlings for the 2020 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale including an eye-catching Nicconi colt with a strong resemblance to the sire’s superstar sprinter Nature Strip.

Winning Saturday's Group II Legacy Lodge Waikato Guineas isn't a critical element of Dragon Leap's campaign, according to Matamata trainer Lance O'Sullivan.

Exciting Rubick filly Rubisaki is the latest star performer to emerge from Ian Smith’s Edinburgh Park and Sydney racegoers will see her in action on Saturday when she steps out in the $1million Inglis Sprint (1200m).

The famed Shadwell colours were carried to an easy debut victory at Bendigo on Wednesday by this homebred daughter of the late Sebring.

Artie Schiller (USA) is one of those underestimated sires that continually bobs up with a good horse and we may have seen one at Randwick on Wednesday when the Gooree Stud homebred two year old filly Kaakit Akit made a winning debut.

Group One winning miler Wyndspelle has been retired after suffering an injury while preparing for a tilt at the Gr.1 Haunui Farm WFA Classic (1600m) later this month.

Yarradale Stud launched its consignment of 29 yearlings to the Perth Magic Millions with an unprecedented winning streak at Ascot in November and December.

Australia’s best known and most successful horse racing identity, Lloyd Williams, has put his state-of-the-art racehorse training, Macedon Lodge - the training ground for four Melbourne Cup winners - on the market.

Tim and Celie Nolan of Hunter Valley based Murrulla Stud are no stranger to Inglis Classic success having sold multiple Group I winner and now leading young sire Brazen Beau with their 2020 draft featuring 23 youngsters including two top class colts by champion Victorian sire Written Tycoon.

The horses are making their way into the Riverside Stables complex at Warwick Farm ahead of the start of the 2020 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale this Sunday and for those planning inspections today, the list of arrivals is a must read.

In just their second year of selling, Olly Tait and his team at Twin Hills Stud have established a great reputation for producing quality youngsters with a 100% clearance rate and total sales of $2,085,000 at the recent Magic Millions Yearling Sale starting their year on a high.

Surely there must be some black-type in the not to distant future for Fairway Thoroughbreds talented Sangria after the daughter of I Am Invincible treated her five overmatched rivals with contempt over 1000 metres at Gosford on Tuesday.   

Mike O’Donnell’s Fairhill Farm is a proven source of quality yearlings at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale with past star graduates headed by outstanding I Am Invincible filly Fiesta, who has a close relation to be offered at Inglis Classic 2020.

A top class dual Group I winner, who is also a three-quarter brother to this season’s undefeated 2YO Prague, Stratum Star is making a good impression with his first yearlings that include nine to be offered at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale.

Fresh from siring his first winner last week, Widden Stud’s promising young sire Outreach has five entries for the upcoming Inglis Classic Yearling Sale with the quality of his pedigree again highlighted at Randwick on Saturday when his full brother Standout won the Group II ATC Expressway Stakes.

Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Karuta Qeen was making news last month when her Written Tycoon filly made $1.5 million at Magic Millions 2020 and on Monday she produced another smart winner at Werribee.

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.

Outstanding three year-old sprinter Yes Yes Yes has been retired to stud due to injury, the Everest winning son of Rubick to stand at Coolmore Australia in 2020.

The 2020 Inglis Classic Yearling starting this Sunday offers Australian investors the next opportunity to purchase the offspring of American Pharoah, Coolmore’s Triple Crown winner making news in the US on the weekend when siring his fifth stakes-winner.

The 2020 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale is next on the agenda for Aquis Farm and they are confident in your success with a sensational draft featuring pedigrees that have a proven record in the Cox Plate, Oakleigh Plate, Manikato Stakes, Blue Diamond, Caulfield Cup, Queen Of The Turf, Golden Slipper, Australian Derby, Sires’ Produce and many more of Australia’s top Group I races.

The auction which gives buyers more incentives than any other, the 2020 Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale, is now online.

Owner-trainer duo Antony and Sarah Fuller’s $700 gavelhouse.com buy Valetti was quick to repay their faith when breaking his maiden at Matamata on Sunday.

The first winner is always a milestone for any stallion but for Fastnet Rock’s son Dedline he did not leave it there because a half an hour later he had his second.

Outstanding G1-winning mare Unforgotten (Fastnet Rock) headlines early entries for the Inglis Chairman’s Sale.

Every buyer that arrives at Riverside Stables for Inglis Classic this week would love to take home a horse like Mildred and Grahame and Neville Begg found her in the Middlebrook Valley Lodge draft, so let’s take a look to see what they have on show this year.

Already the sire of 20 stakes-winners worldwide, Scat Daddy’s first son to stud No Nay Never (USA) posted his first Australian bred winner when the Te Akau owned two year-old Need I Say more scored an impressive debut victory at Matamata in New Zealand on Sunday.

The winning roll of Te Akau Racing continued unabated on their home track at Matamata on Sunday when exciting prospect Phantom Witness provided an early highlight for the day when making it two wins in as many starts.

The Karaka Book 1 Sale last week enjoyed a strong middle market that fuelled a good level of success for pinhookers with 10 horses all achieving a profit of $100,000 or more and the two best results coming out of the same draft at the 2019 Magic Millions National Weanling Sale.

Bonita Aurelia (NZ) cost only $500 as a weanling at the 2018 Karaka May Sale, but on Saturday she scored a valuable victory in the $70,000 Group 3 Woburn Farm 2YO Classic (1200m) at New Plymouth becoming the first stakes-winner  for her sire Sweynesse, a son of champion sire Lonhro.

Outstanding 3YO Super Seth and brilliant 2YO Mildred announced themselves as autumn power players with dominant first-up wins at Caulfield today.

Yutaka Take guided the Takashi Saito-trained Lauda Sion to a 2-length win in Saturday’s Listed Crocus Stakes (1400m) at Tokyo to credit the Group 1 ATC George Ryder Stakes and Group 1 Yasuda Kinen winner Real Impact with his first stakes-winner.

The Listed Tasmanian Derby (2200m) was run at Hobart on Saturday with victory going to the Scott Brunton trained Stratum gelding Vamos Raffa over Nicconi gelding Skyt.

Trainer Mick Bell has always described Jungle Edge as a horse of a lifetime and as solid rain fell before Saturday's Listed W J Adams Stakes (1000m) at Caulfield, the noted mudlark added another chapter to his wonderful story.

The Chittick family of Waikato Stud let out a collective sigh of relief when the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas hero Super Seth made his 2020 bow in Saturday’s $160,000 Group III Manfred Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield and showed he had lost nothing in the interim..

With his baldy face and flaxen mane, powerhouse chestnut colt Standout is an easy horse to spot in a race and he proved too good for the older sprinters when powering clear to win the Group II ATC Expressway Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday.

A busy and successful juvenile in the spring when she won two of three starts, the Grahame Begg trained Hinchinbrook filly Mildred picked up where she left off at Caulfield on Saturday when scoring a stylish victory in the Group III MRC Chairman’s Stakes (1000m).

The combination of John & Karen Parsons and rider Tina Comignaghi completed a clean sweep of the stakes races at Wingatui on Saturday when they scored in the day’s feature event, the time-honoured Gr.3 White Robe Lodge Weight For Age (1600m).

After a touch-and-go few days, emerging staying mare Sitarist headed to Wingatui and was part of a super Saturday for trainers John and Karen Parsons and jockey Tina Comignaghi.

Exciting up-and-comer Prise De Fer extended his winning sequence to five with another supreme performance in Saturday’s Group III Powerworx Taranaki Cup (1800m) at New Plymouth.

A big result for Aquis Farm in Saturday’s Group III  Iron Jack Canonbury Stakes (1100m) at Randwick with the stud’s colours carried by the winner, the $1,600,000 Redoute’s Choice colt Prague and the runner-up, the Breeders’ Plate winner Global Quest.

The judge at New Plymouth had his work cut out on Saturday when less than half a length separated six of the fillies engaged in the Listed Fasttrack Insurance Oaks Prelude (1800m) at the finish line.

Magic Millions 2yo Classic heroine Away Game led home a Snitzel 1-2-3 in Saturday’s Group III Widden Stakes (1100m) at Randwick.

For the second time in four years, John and Karen Parsons have turned a Gore failure into an upset triumph in the Listed Mediaworks Dunedin Guineas (1500m).

A powerful finishing burst carried lightly raced filly Bonita Aurelia to her first career victory when she downed the favourites in Saturday’s Group III Woburn Farm 2YO Classic (1200m) at New Plymouth.

Champion sire Fastnet Rock has had eight winners in the past seven days, three of them on Friday with a metropolitan double at Canterbury courtesy of Maddi Rocks and Zeppelin and a ‘One to Watch’ earlier in the day at Bathurst.

With the dust settling on a record breaking 2020 Gold Coast Yearling Sale and The Star Gold Coast Raceday, Magic Millions is pleased to confirm the dates for the next four years. 

There were just five runners in Friday’s Canterbury League Club Maiden, which turned into a very messy race with less than two lengths covering all the runners at the finish, but there was a worthy winner in the Chris Waller-trained Spokesman who became the first winner for Vinery Stud’s dual Group 1 winner Press Statement.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s 94th National Yearling Sale Series ended today, with the final day of Book 2 Lots going under the hammer followed immediately by Book 3 yearlings at the iconic Karaka Sales Complex.

There’s not too many fillies bred like this one going around at Bathurst on a Friday.

Highview Stud’s Brent Gillovic is over the moon with the reception first season sire Wrote has received at Karaka this week.

Yearlings by four-time Group One winner Preferment were offered at Karaka for the first time this week and it was apt that three were purchased by Guy Mulcaster.

Paul Chow went home with the yearling he wanted at Karaka on Friday.

With stakes racing for two year-olds in Sydney and Melbourne on Saturday the race towards the Blue Diamond and Golden Slipper is in full swing, but well worth watching will be the two year-old maiden at Canterbury this evening which features the debut of the full brother to Royal Ascot hero Merchant Navy.

The star quality of Pencarrow Stud’s select draft of yearlings was enthusiastically received by buyers during Book 1 of the 2020 New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale at Karaka.

The strong demand for New Zealand-based first season sires continued into the second day of Book 2 at New Zealand Bloodstock’s 94th National Yearling Sale Series, with kiwi stallions currently leading the sire charts.

Widden Stud’s blue-blooded Exceed and Excel stallion Outreach posted his first winner at Scone on Thursday with an impressive victory for Pee Dee.

The great More Than Ready (USA) fired off two consecutive Gold Slipper winners in Sebring and Phelan Ready and after an eleven year wait is it time for a third?.

Palmerston North trainer Lisa Latta went to $125,000 to purchase lot 944, the Brazen Beau filly out of Veuvelicious, making her the most expensive filly sold so far at Karaka Book 2.

Former New Zealand jockey turned trainer Quinton Cassidy returned to his homeland this week to assist his employer Mr Tao Gu select yearlings at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale for his international racing operation.

An attractive colt by Rich Hill Stud stallion Proisir set in motion a fierce bidding dual to liven up the mid-stages of day five at the National Yearling Sale on Thursday.

Bloodstock agents Merrick Staunton and Bill Wong liked what they saw when inspecting lot 932, the Redwood colt out of Testa Rossa mare Trista Rossa, at Karaka and went to $130,000 to secure him under their Simple Bloodstock Services banner.

The progeny of first season sire Vadamos have left quite an impression on Paul Moroney.

South Australian trainer Michael Hickmott has made his presence felt at Karaka from the start of the National Yearling Sale and was at it again on the second day of the Book 2 session.

There is no shortage of horses with Victorian breeding links that are vying for a ticket into the second edition of the $5 million weight-for-age All Star Mile at Caulfield on March 14.

New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame has announced their intention to induct Sir Peter Vela, principal of New Zealand Bloodstock and Pencarrow Stud, into the Racing Hall of Fame.

Hong Kong resident Ben Kwok’s eyes gleam when you start to talk racing and breeding with him.

Established by astute horseman Fergal Connolly in May 2018, Hunter Valley based Valiant Stud is a relatively new vendor at our major sales, but has quickly earned a reputation for producing quality yearlings that are well prepared for the next stage of their career.

Lightly raced Deep Field three year-old Californiadeepshot made a winning debut at Happy Valley in Hong Kong on Wednesday after winning his only two previous starts in Australia for Peter and Paul Snowden.

The first Inglis Digital Online Sale of 2020 has continued the platform’s million-dollar sequence with the 315-strong catalogue grossing in excess of $1.97 million, the eighth sale in a row to reach the seven-figure mark and the second highest gross on record.

Brazen Beau gave us a ‘One to Watch’ at Geelong on Wednesday and he has a full brother headed to the Inglis Classic next month.

On the opening day of Book 2 at New Zealand Bloodstock’s 94th National Yearling Sale Series, Australian Bloodstock agent John Foote continued his spending spree off the back of a strong Book 1 Sale.