The catalogue for the Tattersalls December Foal Sale is online now and will be available in print on October 21st.

The record price at Book 2 of th Tattersalls October Yearling Sale was broken twice on the opening day, initially when a colt by NO NAY NEVER sold for 900,000 to MV Magnier and then a couple of hours later when Shadwell Estates secured a DARK ANGEL filly for 1,050,000 guineas.

The latest round of Thoroughbred Sport Horse classes were contested at the Tamworth World Cup Jumping Show last weekend with more happy horses and owners and a big thankyou for class sponsors Jodie and Greg White of Robrick Lodge.

A quality colt by Deep Field topped Day One of the 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast 2YOs in Training Sale on Monday night when selling for $210,000.

Two heats for juveniles at the Randwick barrier trials on Monday morning produced two super interesting winners with a victory for a $1million yearling purchase and a super impressive win for a first crop son of fertility troubled $7million earner Criterion.

The Moonee Valley Racing Club (MVRC) faces a major selection dilemma next week when assembling the field for this year’s A$5 million Group I Cox Plate (2040m).

$360,000 Book 1 purchase Craftsmanship(NZ) (Savabeel) stepped up to stakes class with a strong performance in Saturday’s $100,000 Listed Hill Smith Stakes (1800m) at Morphettville and is entered for the Group I VRC Victoria Derby.

Inglis Classic star Shadow Hero gave Sweetbriar Equine a memorable first Australian G1 victory when successful in the Spring Champion Stakes at Randwick.

Anthony Freedman had one goal with Inglis Easter star Super Seth at the start of this preparation – to win a stallion-making race with him.

A bumper Saturday of stakes racing in Sydney and Melbourne has delivered change to the Australian General Sires List with a new front runner, a stallion with a bullet and a stallion who may be the best value sire in the Hunter Valley this spring.

The mighty Pinatubo denied exciting young sire No Nay Never (USA) another Group I winner over the weekend when his classy colts Arizona and Wichita placed in the Group I Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket, but the sire was quick to add another new stakes-winner to his tally on Sunday with Tango taking out the Listed Legacy Stakes at the Curragh.

The loss of Japanese super sire Deep Impact this year has been felt keenly by breeders right around the world with his progeny delivering Group I success in Australia last Saturday with the Matt Smith trained stallion Fierce Impact (Jpn) winning the Group I MRC Toorak Handicap, while in Ireland overnight Coolmore produced another promising two year old stakes-winner by the ill-fated champion sire.

Beginning his preparation back in April and still in his first preparation since his importation, the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained Dr Drill (GB) showed few signs of feeling effects from his extended campaign with a barnstorming win in Sunday’s $400,000 Listed Cranbourne Cup (2025m).

Tavisan is a rare Tavistock that finds the minimum distance more to his liking than the classic distance, which held in in good stead for Sunday’s $100,000 Apache Cat Classic (1000m) at Cranbourne.

New Zealand stayer The Chosen One (NZ) (Savabeel) has earned a ticket into the Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) with a hard-fought victory in Saturday's Group II Herbert Power Stakes (2400m).

It’s exciting to contemplate that in the not too distant future the imperious Pinatubo may shuttle to Australia but in the meantime, we get to marvel at his exploits on the track.

Godolphin will have a second runner in the $14 million Everest at Randwick if they accept with Trekking who earned a golden ticket with his win in Saturday's Schillaci Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield.

They don’t come much more honest than the 4yo Magnus gelding Kemalpasa who took his record to seven wins from his last 10 starts when opening his stakes account in Saturday’s Listed Durbridge Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville.

Darley Stud’s dual Group 1 winner Brazen Beau was represented by his third stakes winner and first Group winner when the Gerald Ryan-trained gelding Colada scored an upset win in Saturday’s Group II Stan Fox Stakes (1500m) at Randwick.

The Anthony Freedman-trained Super Seth powered home to defeat the previously unbeaten Alligator Blood in Saturday’s Group 1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m) to credit Arrowfield Stud’s Dundeel with his fourth winner at the highest level but the big payday didn’t end there.

Golden Slipper winner Pierro has made a brilliant start to the new season and has two favourites for The Everest in Pierata and Arcadia Queen, but he also has a new Group I winning three year-old with exciting young stayer Shadow Hero scoring a dominant win in the Group I ATC Spring Champion Stakes over 2000 metres at Randwick.

Talented Sebring mare Nettoyer again showed her liking for the Randwick mile scoring her second Graded win at the distance when taking out the Group III ATC Angst Quality on Saturday.

Well-respected Warwick Farm-based trainer Matthew Smith has worked his magic on the imported Deep Impact entire Fierce Impact (JPN) who looked to have lost all form in England and is now a Group 1 winner after a brilliant performance in Saturday’s Toorak Handicap (1600m) at Caulfield.

The great Galileo is now just one Group 1 winner behind Danehill after Coolmore’s royally-bred Cape Of Good Hope (IRE) made a winning Australian debut when edging out a rejuvenated Black Heart Bart in Saturday’s $1,000,000 Group 1 Ladbrokes (Caulfield Stakes (2000m) at Caulfield.

A heady ride by in-form jockey Rosie Myers paved the way for Awapuni galloper Secret Allure to add further black type to a burgeoning pedigree page when she stormed home from near last to capture the Group III Rich Hill Stud Taranaki Breeders’ Stakes (1400m) at Hawera.

Matamata mare Polly Grey scored her biggest career victory when she stormed to a convincing victory in Saturday’s Listed Team Wealleans Matamata Cup (1600m).

Saturday’s Group 1 Schweppes Thousand Guineas (1600m) was a three-horse war over the final 300 metres and it was Godolphin’s race favourite Flit that edged out Missile Mantra and Southbank and had James Cummings contemplating a run in the Group I Ladbrokes Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley in a fortnight.

A brilliant Group III winner last season at two, exciting Deep Field colt showed he was ready for his spring grand final of the Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes with a brilliant front running win in the Group II ATC Roman Consul Stakes at Randwick on Saturday running race record time.

It’s what dreams are made of, going to a sale, picking up a winning daughter of the all-conquering Galileo for $23,000, then seeing a three-quarter sister and half-sister come out and win at the highest level, then to top it all off, have a stakes-winning daughter of her own.

Saturday’s Thoroughbred Club Stakes at Caulfield was dominated by two fillies by I Am Invincible although for most punters the wrong one won.

Just a few weeks into the new season, Pride Of Dubai has made an exciting start to his stud career with two winners including a stakes-winner.

The vagaries of thoroughbred racehorse breeding never fail to fascinate.

The scene is set for next week's Magic Millions Gold Coast 2YOs in Training Sale following a successful breeze up session at the Gold Coast Turf Club this morning.

There was a big rap on Okay Pal heading into his debut performance at Phar Lap Raceway on Friday and the Michael and Matthew Pitman-trained three-year-old didn’t disappoint.

Bylong Park is on the market and it offers all of this and more.

Cambridge Stud is delighted to be involved in the purchase of exciting UK sprinter, HELLO YOUMZAIN.

The new season two-year-old trials are gathering some pace, so here are the placegetters with breeding and sales results.

John Camilleri's Fairway Thoroughbreds were the latest to have seven figure success at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 overnight when their Kingman colt made 1,800,000 guineas.

Chris Waller Racing has announced the Group I-placed Rubick colt Yes Yes Yes as it's representative after he was forced to replace Enticing Star after she failed in her return to racing in the Group II ATC Golden Pendant Stakes last month and was retired.

Champion sire power is the key defining factor of the Aquis Farm draft with over 20 lots to be offered at the 2019 Magic Millions 2YOs In Training Sale at the Gold Coast next week.

Multiple G1-winning mare Alizee is to run in Godolphin’s The Everest slot with Bivouac to be kept to races against his own age in the immediate future.

Very sad to learn that Noor Elaine Farm lost their much loved 22-year-old stallion Oamaru Force last month.

Wellfield Lodge stallion Vespa picked up his first win as a sire when Piaggio took out the NZB Insurance Pearl Series Race (1000m) at Tauherenikau on Thursday.

Exciting American Pharoah filly Sweet Melania moved to the lead on the backstretch and then charged away down the running to post a five and a half length victory in the $200,000 Group II JPMorgan Chase Jessamine Stakes for 2-year-olds fillies on turf at Keeneland on Wednesday.

Burgundy’s 3yo daughter Burgundy Rose added another chapter of success for the family of successful trainer Jamie Richards at Taupo on Wednesday.

The 2019 New Zealand Bloodstock Caulfield WFA Championship is set to go right down to the wire in Saturday’s fourth and final leg, the A$1 million Group One Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes (2000m).

There were more big results at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 overnight with a colt bred by Australian breeder Bob Scarborough selling for 1,300,000 guineas.

A half-sister to Group I winners Maid of Heaven and Castelvecchio, Group III winning Redoute's Choice mare Mirrasalo produced her second winner this week when Maningi Indaba scored at Durbanville on Wednesday in South Africa.

A 25% share in Caulfield and Melbourne Cups prospect Mustajeer has sold to Richard Pegum for $320,000 through the Inglis Digital Online Sale platform.

With the acquisition of Pierata and our ever-growing stallion numbers, the decision has been made by the Board of Directors to separate our stud farm operations across three states from our Australian and international racing businesses.

Next week's Magic Millions Gold Coast 2YOs in Training Sale has been boosted with today's release of the catalogue for the Spring Racehorse Sale.

Leading consigner Newsells Park Stud struck gold on Day 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale with a 1,000,000 guineas son of Dubawi and will be hoping for a similar result when they offer a powerfully built Galileo colt out of the top-class Redoute’s Choice mare Melito on day 3.

Yarraman Park’s champion sire I Am Invincible kickstarted the Kensington track meeting at Randwick on Wednesday with two impressive three year-old maiden winners in Willowheart and Faretti, who topped the 2018 Magic Millions Yearling Sale.

Cambridge trainer Tony Pike is aiming to secure a spot in the A$14 million The Everest (1200m) on Saturday when his quality sprinter The Bostonian contests the Group II  Schillaci Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield.

While Sun Stud clearly took the honours with their 3,600,000 guineas session topping son of Dubawi, there was plenty of other Australian action on the opening day of Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.

Nicconi's star sprinter Nature Strip has gained a slot for the $14million Everest with James Harron Bloodstock declaring him as their runner.

The broodmare paddock is beckoning Art Deco, but she will attempt to add a stakes victory to her resume before then when she starts in the Group III  Rich Hill Stud Taranaki Breeders' (1400m) at Hawera on Saturday.

The barrier trials at Warwick Farm on Tuesday morning featured two heats for juveniles with winners by Zoustar and Wandjina.

The Tattersalls October Yearling Sale got off to a strong start on the opening day with the world's highest price for a yearling colt this year of 3,600,000 guineas and three lots topping the million guineas mark.

World renowned sire Shamardal has never been going better with three undefeated Group I winning two year-old colts in Europe this year for Godolphin and Victorian breeders have access to his bloodline this spring through not only promising sire Puissance de Lune (IRE), but also the Wyndholm Park based Crackerjack King (IRE).

It must have been a painful decision to geld this $700,000 son of I Am Invincible.

Swettenham Stud's progressive young sire Puissance de Lune (IRE) posted his first stakes-winner when Moonlight Maid won the Group II VRC Edward Manifold Stakes at Flemington last Saturday and he sired another promising winner with classic aspirations on Tuesday in Southern Moon.

A full sister to this year’s brilliant Group II winning juvenile Arizona, US based filly Nay Lady Nay claimed her first Black Type success when powering home to win the $77,500 Parx Fall Oaks on Monday and is the 18th stakes-winner from the first two crops of Coolmore shuttler No Nay Never (USA).

The racetrack achievements by graduates of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale of 2YO's at Karaka sit head and shoulders above any other Sale of its kind in the southern hemisphere.

There’s no shortage of Aussie interest over the three days of Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale and while Atlantic Jewel’s Galileo filly takes centre stage there can be no denying that the influx of European-breds to Australia in the past decade has been a positive for many a pedigree page.

Last weekend marked the return of juvenile stakes racing in Australia and saw seven of our first season sires have runners and while none posted a winner, Coolmore’s Golden Slipper winner Vancouver had an outstanding result with his first two runners both earning Black type with terrific performances at Randwick.

Australia’s most successful trainer Chris Waller was in hot form last weekend winning all four Group I races in Australia with Kolding, Funstar, Come Play With Me and Kings Will Dream and he was also doing his part for thoroughbreds post racing as a sponsor of the latest round of Thoroughbred Sport Horse Association classes at the Glen Innes Spring Showjumping Weekend.

Quality Foxwedge mare Into the Abyss has been taking on tough Black Type races since resuming from a spell and dropped back to midweek grade at Warwick Farm on Monday was able to return to winning form with a powerful victory under 60kg.

Ex-Kiwi trainer John Sargent has a happy knack for producing quality three year-old fillies that invariably run well in Oaks races and we may have seen a contender for the Group I VRC Oaks ta Warwick Farm on Monday.

Reigning New Zealand Horse of the Year Melody Belle will head across the Tasman in the coming weeks after becoming the first horse to win the Hawke’s Bay Triple Crown at Hastings on Saturday.

Dick Karreman has certainly confirmed his desire to enjoy racing top-class horses as he chases further Group One success.

Keeneland has catalogued 4,549 horses for the 2019 November Breeding Stock Sale, which will be held November 6-17 and begin with an exclusive Book 1 featuring 275 graded stakes-winning fillies and mares and notable weanlings.

Saturday’s time-honoured and prestigious A$1 million Group 1 TAB Epsom (1600m) at Randwick turned into an all-Kiwi affair.

When Olly Koolman was forming his short list at the 2018 Australian Easter Yearling Sale, he had an ace up his sleeve few knew about.

Champion Australian sire Fastnet Rock featured at Longchamp in France on Arc day siring five year-old mare One Master to win the Group I Prix de la Foret, a race she also won last year.

Champion mare Enable was out to make history in the Group I Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp overnight, bidding to become the first horse ever to win three in a row, but she came up short with Galileo stallion Waldgeist storming home to win by a length and three-quarters.

In the aftermath of lightly-tried stayer Surprise Baby’s victory in the Group III Bart Cummings (2500m) at Flemington on Saturday, a ballot-free exemption race for the Group I  Melbourne Cup (3200m), it was hard not to spare a thought for Rich Hill Stud principal John Thompson.

Following the win of his 2yo son Global Quest in the Breeders’ Plate at Randwick on Saturday, the ageless More Than Ready (USA) struck at the highest level in the United States when the Chad Brown-trained Uni (GB) claimed the $400,000 First Lady Stakes on the turf at Keeneland in course record time.

Former Wood Nook Stud proprietor, Bob Scarborough, the breeder of this year's 2,000 Guineas winner Magna Grecia, made his mark at The Arc Sale when he paid the second top price of €750,000, through Belmont Bloodstock, for three-year-old filly Cartiem.

Rangal Park Stud’s evergreen stallion Danerich is rarely without a good horse with Udyta Clarke’s super popular Rich Charm doing the heavy lifting in recent years however trainer Shawn Mathrick puts the polish on Danerich’s latest stakes winner Rich Itch, hero of Saturday’s Listed Paris Lane Stakes at Flemington.

Back on Wednesday, September 11 at Bendigo many would have black-booked two three-year-olds by Puissance de Lune (IRL) and trained by Mitchell Freedman.

A powerful nick between champion Darley sires Lonhro and Exceed and Excel produced it's tenth stakes-winner on Saturday.

A $65,000 Magic Millions Adelaide purchase from the draft of Mill Park Stud for Sam Freedman and De Burgh Equine, promising staying three year-old Warning announced himself as a Victoria Derby contender with a strong finishing win in the Listed VRC Super Impose Stakes.

Winner of the $400,000 Group II Adelaide Cup (3200m) in March, the $5,5000 Gavelhouse purchase Surprise Baby earned a ticket to the $8 million Melbourne Cup on November 5 when he stormed home to win Saturday’s $500,000 Group III The Bart Cummings (2520m) at Flemington.

Zoustar’s champion mare Sunlight was in hot form at Flemington on Saturday winning the Group II VRC Gilgai Stakes as her lead up to the $14million Everest, but she wasn’t the only Group winner on the card by Widden Stud’s young super sire.

Former Western Australians have been in red-hot form of late and quite often have been a dagger to the heart of punters but the Blackfriars gelding Come Play With Me had a legion of supporters to give Chris Waller a clean sweep of the day’s four Group 1 races in The Metropolitan (2600m) at Randwick and he didn’t disappoint.

The Chris Waller-trained import Kings Will Dream (IRE) scored an emotional win in Saturday’s $500,000 Group 1 Turnbull Stakes (2000m) at Flemington at the expense of his better-fancied stablemate Finche (GB).

What a day out for the New Zealanders at Royal Randwick and we are not just talking about Chris Waller and James McDonald.

Champion trainer Chris Waller will sit down with connections to determine whether to target the Cox Plate or Caulfield Cup with the four-year-old mare Verry Elleegant who scored a last stride win over the oh so gallant Samadoubt in Saturday’s Group II Hill Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill.

Newgate Farm purchased an interest in Brutal after he won the Group 1 Doncaster Mile in April and the decision to keep the handsome son of O’Reilly in training as a 4-year-old looks set to pay off bigtime following an impressive return to racing in Saturday’s $500,000 Group II Premiere Stakes (1200m).

Megastar Melody Belle earned two slices of New Zealand racing history on Saturday with another commanding performance in the Group I Livamol Classic (2040m) at Hastings.

Talented Cambridge galloper True Enough has made the perfect start to a new campaign, scoring a smart first-up win in the Group III Red Badge Spring Sprint (1400m) at Hastings on Saturday.

The Group I ATC Flight Stakes at Randwick on Saturday proved a procession for exciting filly Funstar, a first crop daughter of Coolmore’s Cox Plate hero Adelaide (IRE).

Bottled up between runners, James McDonald was sweating on a run race favourite Global Quest and when it appeared the son of More Than Ready (USA) let down impressively to capture Saturday’s Group III Breeders’ Plate (1000m) at Randwick.

The first two year-old winner in Australia this season when scoring at Flemington last month, the Grahame Begg trained Hinchinbrook filly Mildred kept the good form coming when beating the colts to win the Listed VRC Maribyrnong Trial at Flemington on Saturday.

Catalyst continued his dominance of spring three-year-old racing with another breathtaking performance in Saturday’s Group II Sacred Falls Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m).

Darby Racing have enjoyed Group I success in recent years with star fillies She Will Reign and Yankee Rose and look to have a another exciting prospect in flashy chestnut Choisir filly Every Rose, who looked the consummate professional in scoring a dominant debut victory in the Group III ATC Gimcrack Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.

Newgate Farm young guns Deep Field and Wandjina both posted stylish winners at the Moonee Valley meeting on Friday night with Meteorite impressive in the first race on the card, while brilliant filly Hearty Lass won a round of the Ladbroke's 55 second Challenge.

At the 2019 NSW Country and Provincial Racing Awards Dinner held on Friday evening, 4 October 2019 at Four Seasons Hotel, winners of the various categories were announced and acknowledged for making a significant contribution to Country and Provincial racing.

A dashing grey filly from the family of brilliant Australian Group II winner Pure Elation was a One to Watch in Friday in New Zealand.