Recently crowned New Zealand Horse of the Year, Melody Belle made it Group One victory number eight in emphatic fashion when she dominated her rivals in the Group I Windsor Park Plate (1600m) at Hastings.

The Group II ATC Tea Rose Stakes at Randwick on Saturday was expected to be won by boom filly Libertini stepping up to 1400 metres for the first time, but it narrowly proved a bridge too far.

The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained Aretha opened her three-year-old account in dramatic fashion when she took out the Group III Hawke’s Bay Breeders’ Gold Trail Stakes (1200m) in a grandstand finish.

Cambridge Stud’s Manchu added serious momentum to her classic campaign this afternoon with a gallant victory at Hastings.

John Thompson’s gallant five-year-old mare Sweet Deal earned a well-deserved maiden stakes win in Friday’s $160,000 Group III Tibbie Stakes (1400m) at Newcastle.

Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott's world traveller Hush Writer (JPN) scored a fighting win in Friday's $200,000 Group III Newcastle Gold Cup (2300m).

A patient approach with progressive Pierro four year-old gelding Rock paid big dividends at Newcastle on Friday when he stormed into contention for the Group I ATC Epsom Handicap with a barnstorming victory in the Group III Cameron Handicap.

A pair of Damien Lane-prepared 2YOs stole the show at today’s Warwick Farm breeze ups ahead of the 2019 Inglis Ready2Race Sale.

30 years ago today a very special filly was born at Newhaven Park and today she celebrated a milestone birthday.

A colt by leading Widden Stud sire Zoustar was amongst the youngsters to shine at today's Seymour breeze-up session in preparation for next month'sMagic Millions Gold Coast 2Yos in Training Sale.

Some families experience a period of fame then disappear just as quickly but one family that has stood the test of time is that of the Sir Dane mare Sasha whose only claim to fame could easily have been as the first metropolitan winner for Malcolm Johnston.

The official Sydney two year-old trials will be run on the Kensington track on Monday morning with 11 heats featuring a big selection of youngsters including plenty of runners by first season sires including Golden Slipper winner Vancouver.

So You Think and Dundeel have set a high standard for sire sons of the late Epsom Derby winner High Chaparral (IRE) with Swettenham Stud’s Toronado (IRE) also showing the promise of good things to come after making a strong start to the new season with his fifth winner since August 1 at Sale on Thursday.

The new season two-year-olds have started trialling with seven heats in the past week involving youngsters, so here are the placegetters with breeding and sales results.

It’s been a big week of trials and at this time of the season there's plenty of interest in the three-year-olds so here’s all the placegetters with breeding and sales results.

The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained Madison County will have his first hit-out of the spring when he steps out at Caulfield on Saturday to compete in the Group I  Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes (1400m).

French Import  SINGING (FR), a son of leading sire Singspiel is being relocated to Thunder Ridge Stud at Deuchar (Warwick) Queensland and will be available to selected staying mares for a $2,000 fee.

Torrential rain in Sydney has put doubts over whether trainer Jamie Richards will start quality gallopers Probabeel and Avantage in their respective races at Randwick on Saturday.

Like their sire, when Tosen Stardom ((Jpn)  dropped from the sky in his emphatic G1 Emirates Stakes victory, Tosen Stardom’s first foals have also dropped and are now creating their own hype.

Bob and Sandra Peters have had phenomenal success with their homebreds including current superstar mare Arcadia Queen, but it was a filly they purchased from Inglis Easter that caught our eye as a ‘One to Watch’ on Wednesday at Belmont.

Talented Rubick gelding Erno overcame a very heavy track at Warwick Farm on Wednesday to post his third win and first for the new season.

To produce one Group I winner for any mare is an amazing achievement , but to produce two and another Group III winner puts you in the class of a blue hen, which is why Damien Kirwan and his team at Peppertree Farm were devastated last week to lose St Therese, but take heart from the fact her final foal is a filly.

The stage is set for some early fireworks in the 2019-20 New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series, with a high-quality field assembled for Saturday’s first leg, the $70,000 Group 3 Hawke’s Bay Breeders Gold Trail Stakes (1200m) at Hastings.

There was plenty of hype surrounding Harlech heading into his raceday resumption at Matamata on Wednesday and the exciting three-year-old duly delivered, taking out the Waharoa Transport CO(1995) Ltd 1200.

With his first Southern Hemisphere bred yearlings to be offered at Australasian sales in 2020 it's good to see Coolmore's Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (USA) getting diverse winners on varying surfaces in different locations.

 What makes these stallions so special.

Exciting galloper Catalyst has made the perfect start to his three-year-old season with his two stakes victories to date, and leading Australian form analyst Daniel O’Sullivan believes the son of Darci Brahma will only get better.

For the past two seasons, the world’s richest sprint, The Everest has been won by Redzel setting his sire Snitzel up for successive Australian Champion Sire titles, but this year there is change in the air.

Peter Dunn’s Dodmark Thoroughbreds already have an exciting spring prospect and Derby contender in Just Thinkin’ and will be hoping to unleash another at Warwick Farm later this afternoon.

The first of the Nostradamus (Medaglia D'Oro – Leone Chiara) progeny to trial has proven to be a big surprise packet for star Queensland trainer Liam Birchley.

Champion Victorian sire Written Tycoon has a number of brilliant sons now at stud, but the first to retire was Rich Enuff and the Woodside Park based sire produced an impressive trial winner at Toowoomba on Tuesday morning.

New Zealand Bloodstock Insurance, in association with New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing, is proud to announce three new Triple Crown Series for the 2019-20 New Zealand racing season.

The latest round of Thoroughbred Sport Horse Association classes took place at the big Willinga Park show last weekend at picturesque Bawley Point on the South Coast of NSW where the best showjumpers in the country gathered for four hot days of competition.

The quality and athleticism of Deep Impact stallion Satono Aladdin’s first Japanese foals created a big impression in July at the prestigious JRA 2019 Select Sale, his foals averaging a massive NZ$613,000 and with his first New Zealand progeny now arriving, they look set to make a similar impression with Australasian breeders.

Such confidence does Allandale Park have in Carry On Rocking that they are excited to announce that the unraced but regally bred bay will be making his stud debut at the Hobbys Yards farm this spring.

A colt by former Australian Horse of the Year Dissident impressed at the first breeze-up session leading into next month's Magic Millions Gold Coast 2YOs in Training Sale.

Three young women working in the thoroughbred industry are heading overseas early next year to enhance their careers thanks to scholarships promoted by the NZTBA Sunline Education Trust.

It may start sounding like a broken record but the incomparable Galileo sired a further two Group 1 winners at the Curragh on Sunday to take his Group 1 tally over the two-day Irish Champions carnival to four.

Exciting young sire Deep Field sired three winners over the weekend headed by his talented three year-old Californiadeepshot, who kept his undefeated record intact with anther impressive win at Kembla, where he broke the track record on debut last month.

Sun Stud have Tweeted their first season shuttler National Defense (IRE) has his first mare safely in foal.

The Group II VRC Danehill Stakes at Flemington on Saturday produced some fine performances for several classy three year-olds including Wandjina colt Express Pass, who charged home for third to Dalasan and Dubious.

When Pinatubo disappeared into the distance for a nine length win in Sunday’s Group 1 National Stakes at the Curragh, the two-year-old son of Shamardal (USA) ran the seven furlongs in a time that was a full 2.

If you own a Lonhro mare, you will want to read this story.

So You Think had a fruitful weekend with a new stakes-winner in Just Thinkin’ and two horses that just missed in Group II races in Fasika and Miss Siska, while at Sha Tin on Sunday his progressive four year-old Buddies stamped himself as a bright prospect going forward which is good news for his half-brother headed to Inglis Ready2Race.

It was a Needs Further domination at the Tasmanian Horse Of The Year Awards, Armidale Stud's outstanding young stallion stamping his name on all seven equine award categories.

Rich Hill Stud principal John Thompson was a happy man as he reflected on a wonderful week for his resident stallion Shocking while sipping on his Sunday morning coffee.

Robust competition for Thoroughbred racing prospects continued Saturday during the fifth session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, which included the sale of a colt by Candy Ride (ARG) for $1 million to Speedway Stable to increase the number of seven-figure horses at the auction to 22 and drive cumulative sales for 785 yearlings to $258,048,000.

A trio of star Inglis 3YOs appear set for big spring campaigns – and a pair of 4YO Zoustar sprinters could be destined for G1 glory – following another dominant day for Inglis graduates at Stakes level.

As a $2,300,000 sales-topping brother to triple Group 1 winner Shoals, much was expected of the Fastnet Rock colt Groundswell who paid his first dividend at his second start with an authoritative win in a maiden over 1218 metres at Geelong on Sunday.

For the eighth time that in his wonderful career, Galileo supplied the first three home in a Group 1, but that was not the end of his domination of the opening day of Irish Champions Weekend at Leopardstown on Saturday.

Frankels’ crowd pleasing roan son Logician kept his record at a perfect five for five in Saturday’s Group 1 St Leger at Doncaster.

Seymour Bloodstock’s Spanish Whisper has the race performance and pedigree to grace any broodmare paddock in the land but that has been put on hold as she strives for that elusive Group 1 victory.

Highly rated Pierro mare Arcadia Queen was the horse generating the most interest at Rosehill on Saturday and she lived up to expectation when zooming clear to win the Group II ATC Theo Marks Stakes (1300m) as she pleased.

Widden Stud’s champion young stallion Zoustar delivered a Group II double in two states on Saturday courtesy of quality mare Mizzy and Zoutori, who became his tenth stakes-winner with an explosive victory in the Group II VRC Bobby Lewis Stakes at Flemington.

The flags were flying proudly in Perth on Saturday as shortly after their champion Arcadia Queen captured the Group II Theo Marks Stakes (1300m) at Rosehill with a minimum of fuss, the hard-knocking Gatting did what he failed to achieve in three starts at home, win a race at the highest level.

Back on a firm track, Godolphin’s Exceed And Excel colt Bivouac turned the tables on his San Domenico Stakes conqueror Exceedance in Saturday’s Group II Run To The Rose (1200m) at Rosehill Gardens.

You’d love to own a broodmare, whose first three foals to race are all stakes-winners.

Striking looking chestnut Dalasan rated through the roof when he defeated the subsequent Group I winner Scales Of Justice in the Group III Spring Stakes at Morphettville and that form worked out well for Saturday’s Group II Danehill Stakes (1200m) at Flemington.

Talented winter galloper Herengawe came of age at Awapuni on Saturday when he out-toughed his rivals to score his first win at stakes level when he took out the Group III Boehringer Ingelheim Metric Mile (1600m).

Boom three-year-old Catalyst treated his three-year-old rivals with contempt when he produced a devastating home straight sprint to capture the Group III  Cambridge Stud Northland Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) at Ruakaka.

The deceased Widden stallion Stratum came close to having a stakes-winner from his final full crop when Absolute Flirt was a luckless second on the Listed Cap D'Antibes Stakes at Flemington but thirty five minutes later he struck with the John Moloney-trained Legionnaire who broke his maiden in the Listed Exford Plate (1400m).

The well-supported Wayupinthesky made the trip down from Sydney worthwhile when opening her stakes account in Saturday’s Listed Cap D'Antibes Stakes (1100m) at Flemington.

Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale resumed Friday, the first day of the two-day Book 2 catalog, with strong trade among a roster of prominent buyers led by the partnership of SF/Starlight/Madaket, whose spending spree included the purchase of four of the day’s six top-priced horses, including a Union Rags colt for $1 million.

Mum-to-be Consensus will take the next step towards a Victorian campaign when she tackles the Patron's Trophy (1200m) at Ruakaka on Saturday.

The build-up to the 2019 Inglis Ready2Race Sale gathered further momentum today with the first of five breeze up sessions.

Just eight runners but what a quality field of three-year-olds Saturday’s $200,000 Group II Run To The Rose (1200m) at Rosehill Gardens has drawn.

Powerfully built Redoute’s Choice mare Enbihaar took her seasonal tally to four wins from five starts when grinding out a short-head success over the three-year-old Galileo filly Delphinia in Thursday’s Group II Park Hill Stakes (1m6½f) at Doncaster.

The countdown is underway to Australasia’s leading two-year-old sale, with the catalogue now released for the 2019 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds.

Dagny (NZ) – the multiple city-winning daughter of Darci Brahma - has topped the Inglis Digital September (Early) Online Auction, selling to Kitchwin Hills for $140,000.

It was a battle of the giants in a 1100 metres maiden at Hawkesbury on Thursday when Fairway Thoroughbreds $650,000 I Am Invincible filly Sangria bettered Spendthrift Farms $800,000 Written Tycoon colt Dirty Work by three and a half lengths.

Group One winner Volpe Veloce will have the opportunity to continue an impressive streak when she lines-up in the Group II  Theo Marks Stakes (1300m) at Rosehill on Saturday.

Rahotu couple Philly and Paddy Mullin consider themselves new to the breeding game, and are absolutely delighted to have bred their first stakes winner Cooga Doon.

An Uncle Mo half-sister to Group II Silver Shadow Stakes winner and Group 1 Golden Rose runner-up Omei Sword out of Fastnet Rock’s Gr1 MRC One Thousand Guineas winner Irish Lights was purchased by Ben McElroy for $650,000 on the third day of Book 1 of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale but it’s hard to go past American Pharoah (USA) for the days highlights.

The new season two-year-olds have started trialling with seven heats in the past week involving youngsters, so here are the placegetters with breeding and sales results.

It’s been a big week of trials and at this time of the season there's plenty of interest in the three-year-olds so here’s all the placegetters with breeding and sales results.

A filly by Triple Crown winner American Pharoah who is a half-sister to four-time champion Beholder, Grade 1 winner Mendelssohn and Grade 1 winner and leading sire Into Mischief sold for a record $8,200,000 to Mandy Pope’s Whisper Hill Farm to headline Wednesday’s powerhouse day of trade at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

The third and final session of Book 1 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale is underway with a colt by Coolmore’s Triple Crown hero American Pharaoh setting the rarely pace at $1,3milion.

Trainer Danny O’Brien and champion jockey Damien Oliver combined to win three races at Bendigo on Wednesday and there was none more impressive than the three-year-old Reliable Man filly Miami Bound.

The Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Big Brown (USA) proved a major disappointment in his four seasons at stud in Australia but he has an honest toiler in the Tony and Calvin McEvoy-trained Brown Ben who earned a second stakes success in Wednesday’s $100,000 Listed Heiniger Balaklava Cup (1600m).

Punters reasoned that a last start third behind the unbeaten Yao Dash in a maiden at Canterbury on August 28 looked good form for Colada in Wednesday’s opener over 1500 metres at Canterbury and they were on the mark.

Aside from giving the local industry a collective pat on the back after Lonhro’s Group 1 winning daughter Bounding produced the US$4,100,000 session topping colt at Keeneland it’s once again time to learn the lesson of writing off a stallion too quickly.

I would think the Magic Millions or William Inglis would be mortified at a pass-in rate of 30 percent at their flagship sales but that is what the first two sessions of Book 1 at Keenland is batting.

When New Zealand owner Gary Harding bought a Lonhro filly from Believe'n' Succeed out of the Willow Park draft at the 2012 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale for $425,000 it's fairly safe to say he never ever thought her future would unfold quite like this.

Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s Godolphin continued its dominance of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale during Tuesday’s second session by purchasing the day’s two highest-priced yearlings, headlined by the $4,1 million Curlin colt out of New Zealand champion sprinter Bounding (AUS), who is the most expensive September Sale yearling since 2010.

Setting the pace during the second session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale Book 1 at $4,1million is the Curlin colt from Australian bred Group I winner Bounding.

The Greatest - Always -  This is the tagline of Racing Victoria’s 2019 Spring Racing campaign and it is a fitting sentiment for the next edition of ‘Where are they now.

Shelling out $1,500,000 for a filly who won little more than a maiden at Kembla Grange from three starts sounds a risky business but it is working out well for Hill ’n’ Dale owner, John Sikura.

New season two year old trials in Queensland this morning produced interesting winners at the Gold Coast, Doomben and Toowomba with an impressive winner by Vinery Stud’s first season sire Press Statement.

The Group III ATC Concorde Stakes might have been a mini-Everest last Saturday, but many would think the real horse to beat was at the Randwick trials this morning and while he was spectacular, his stablemate in the same ownership gave promise of good things to come this season.

Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s Godolphin acquired the two top-priced horses of Monday’s rousing opening session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale which featured seven youngsters selling for $1million or more.

The Keeneland September Yearling Sale is now underway with Godolphin securing the top two lots sold so far, both blue-blooded colts by Tapit and Medaglia D'Oro.

She will never be as quick as five time Group I wining Australian Horse of the Year Lankan Rupee, but his three-quarter sister Art Collection is now a winner after saluting in style at Wodonga on Monday.

Murray Baker has now been recognised with two of the highest honours in New Zealand racing, but he’s not about to rest on his laurels.

A pinhook winner in the sale ring earlier this year for Coolmore’s exciting young shuttle sire No Nay Never (USA) looks like he may soon become a racetrack winner as well after scoring a stylish barrier trial win at Ashburton in New Zealand on Monday morning.

The much-admired half-sister by Deep Impact to Winx won’t be the only foal born in Australia this spring by the late Japanese wonder sire, whose global influence was highlighted again at the weekend with the Yoshida family owned two year-old filly Savarin capturing the Group III Prix D’Aumale at Longchamp to stay undefeated.

With a sensational five Group 1 victories to her name during the 2018-19 season, superstar Karaka graduateMelody Belle(NZ) (Commands) was a runaway winner of the New Zealand Horse of the Year title at Sunday night’s awards ceremony at Ellerslie Racecourse.

The victory of promising three-year-old filly Riva Capri in Saturday’s Listed The O’Learys Fillies Stakes (1200m) at Wanganui conjured up mixed emotions for well known bloodstock agent Bruce Perry.

Glamour galloper Melody Belle has added the New Zealand Horse of the Year title to her growing list of achievements.

It’s been an interesting start to the racing season with six stallions having already accumulated over $1million in progeny earnings headed by Arrowfield Stud’s Not a Single Doubt.

Stakes-placed earlier this year in Adelaide, three year-old Zoustar filly Sisstar was given an easy maiden assignment when resuming from a spell at Murray Bridge on Sunday and duly broke the ice with a resounding victory as a hot favourite.