At this time of year we find a lot of promising three year-olds popping up at provincial Saturday meetings as they seek to put runs on the board to earn a crack at spring Black Type and two such winners caught our eye at Newcastle on Saturday.

Enigmatic galloper So Si Bon had never won first up in five previous preparations, but the talented son of So You Think changed all that at Flemington on Saturday when powering clear to win the Group III VRC Aurie’s Star Handicap over 1200 metres.

Tasmania continues to punch well above its weight on the big stage with the latest star being the Scott Brunton-trained Dundeel gelding The Inevitable who made a winning seasonal debut over 1000 metres at Flemington on Saturday at the expense of the odd-on favourite Assertive Approach.

The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Dawn Passage stamped himself a colt with a future when he defeated a handy field by upwards of three and a half lengths when making his career debut at Randwick in January and it did not take long for the son of Dawn Approach (IRE) to stamp himself as a player in the big three-year-old races in the spring.

A fresh Alizee opened her five-year-old campaign with a win in Saturday’s Group II Missile Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill although supporters that backed her into odds-on favouritism were made to sweat in the closing stages.

The impressive run of form of progeny from the first-crop of Windsor Park's star miler Charm Spirit (IRE) continued on Saturday when Heirborn defied a moderate tempo and a wide passage to close well from the rear and claim the VRC Member Helen Saffin Handicap (1400m) at Flemington.

Talented grey Godolphin blue-blood Subedar is a descendant of the mighty mare Emancipation and kept his unbeaten record intact at his first metropolitan outing when saluting at Rosehill on Saturday.

The Group I Phoenix Stakes at The Curragh overnight couldn’t quite provide the dream result for Triple Crown hero American Pharoah with his quality colt Monarch of Egypt finishing second to the unbeaten Juddmonte Farms homebred Siskin.

  Cambridge Stud are pleased to advise that Roaring Lion returned to the farm yesterday at 1pm, following two colic surgeries in the last ten days.

The decision to race on for another season with Group I winning stallion Pierata looks like being a good one after the handsome son of Pierro cruised around under a hold in his first trial as a five year-old.

Stunning young Redoute’s Choice stallion Pariah had plenty of admirers at the Arrowfield stallion parades last spring and he’s certainly passed on his good looks to his first foal born this spring.

The Listed ATC Rosebud Stakes this Saturday has drawn a quality field and in 2015 this race was won by progressive colt Sebring Sun, who is now at stud and has his first foals on the ground this spring.

Contract Racing have announced via Twitter the sad passing of their much loved Blue Diamond winner Paint at the age of 26.

A brilliantly fast son of Widden Stud’s much missed favourite sire Sebring, Supido has his first foals arriving this spring with this stunning colt delighting the team at Widden Stud.

A big green baby by So You Think, this three year-old gelding bolted in at Warrnambool on Thursday at just his second start and is entered for the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas.

Not a great deal of guesswork in this week's Best On Breeding, a million colt out of a million mare, who romped home by seven lengths at his most recent start.

We made this blue-blooded filly by Darley's champion sire Exceed and Excel a ‘Juvenile Trial Watch’ horse on Breednet last month believing she had spring stakes potential and her maiden win today at Kembla only confirmed that opinion.

While the presentation of annual industry awards is the main objective of the NSW Racehorse Owners Association’s Racing’s Night of Champions, raising money via auction for charity is the another feature of the event, being held next Thursday evening.

For the first time in history, New Zealand breeders will have the opportunity to breed to a Champion European two and three-year-old sprinter who embodies the legendary Danzig-sireline.

The 2019 Breednet Foal Gallery is now open for business providing a great platform to showcase thoroughbred foals born right around Australia and New Zealand this spring integrating our traditional gallery sponsored by Coolmore with our accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to provide maximum exposure for your beautiful foals.

The Southern Hemisphere shareholders and UK partners of the promising first season sire Cable Bay, have agreed that the horse will travel to Australia for the 2019 breeding season.

An email from one of our readers highlighting the need to look past the traditional sire tables got us thinking.

I Am Invincible has already made a great start to his career as a sire of sires through Brazen Beau and this season we will see more foals from some of his up and coming sire sons including Aquis Farm’s Kobayashi.

Randwick Bloodstock's "The Stallion Nomination Centre" offers all broodmare owners an alternative source for securing stallion nominations.

The first Australian bred yearlings by Triple Crown hero American Pharoah will hit our sales in 2020 and his second North American crop proved a hot commodity at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale this week with six of his youngsters selling for up to $950,000.

Aquis Farm were active during the second session of the 2019 Saratoga Yearling Sale in North America securing the equal highest priced colt of the sale.

Darley’s Caulfield Guineas winner Shooting to Win posted his third winner since the start of the new season with an impressive debut victory at Ipswich on Wednesday for Battle Strike.

Westbury Stud recently launched a new industry initiative known as the GAMECHANGER, a programme which focuses on attracting and retaining talent in the thoroughbred industry.

Exciting performances at the Te Teko trials on Tuesday have put Matamata trainer Stephen Autridge back on the road towards the 2000 and 1000 Guineas at Riccarton in November.

The top priced offering at the 2018 Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale was a lovely colt by Epaulette that fetched $100,000 and he opened his account with a stylish win at Cranbourne on Wednesday.

Astute trainer Mark Newnham is tipping a bright future for progressive Star Witness three year-old Captain Stardust, who cast off maiden status with a bold win at Canterbury on Wednesday.

The Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas and Thousand Guineas are two of the most coveted spring races for three year-olds and a big increase to prizemoney and the addition of a bonus have led to a record number of entries that include established stars and horses that will make this spring their own.

Saturday’s Group III  Winter Cup (1600m) added some black-type lustre to a brief foray into thoroughbred breeding for Carole and Doug Isaacson, who can owe their success to a showjumping win.

The stocks of Darley’s promising young sire Brazen Beau have received a blow with news his star colt Tassort will not be racing this spring.

Just arrived back at Darley Victoria for his third Australian season, Tapit’s Group I winning son Frosted (USA) proved popular at the Saratoga August Yearling Sale during the first session with four yearlings averaging $US346,250 ($A512,238).

Epsom Derby winner Anthony Van Dyke is one of 27 international entries, along with Tasmanian superstar Mystic Journey and 48 three-year-olds for this year’s Group One Cox Plate at Moonee Valley.

Te Teko has come to be a great starting point for many of Te Akau’s top two-year-olds and trainer Jamie Richards is hoping this year is no different with one of his heat winners from the first crop of young Australian sire Bull Point.

Group One-winning owner Scott Richardson passed away on Monday after a lengthy battle with illness.

A strong set of heats on Tuesday morning took place at Rosehill featuring a host of spring hopefuls with the likes of established stars Avilius and Kiamichi, along with an impressive new import and an up and coming million dollar colt.

As they say in the classics, “Good news travels fast”, and over the years I’ve very much adopted this mantra when trying to decide what horse tax information I will share with you.

Making a winning debut at Echuca on Monday was a very promising three year-old by Dundeel.

Two Darling Downs studs have dominated this year’s Thoroughbred Breeders Queensland Association (TBQA) Queensland Champion Stallions Awards.

Queensland has a terrific line up of young stallions coming through and one of those is Grandview Stud’s Whittington, who had a metro winner on Saturday in Stampe and a new maiden winner at Mackay on Monday in Idle Jack.

The sale of Manaya (Hinchinbrook) for $400,000 to Glenlogan Park has rounded out a record breaking Inglis Digital Online Auction for July.

After a wet and windy start to the day the sun appeared on cue to give shareholders and local breeders an excellent first look at Rich Hill’s latest stallion recruit the dual Australian Group One winner Ace High (High Chaparral).

With nominations now in place for the 2020 Longines Golden Slipper, every owner and breeder can be forgiven for daydreaming about Australian racing and breeding’s most coveted prize.

With only two crops to race, Spirit of Boom has elevated himself to Champion Sire of Queensland.

Frankie Dettori, the biggest name in world racing is heading to the Gold Coast in January to take part in all that is on offer at The Star Gold Coast Magic Millions Carnival 2020.

New Zealand jumps jockey Aaron Kuru took home one of the biggest scalps in his riding career on Sunday after taking out the Grand National Hurdle (4200m) aboard Kiwi jumper Tallyho Twinkletoe at Sandown.

Cornerstone Stud’s dashing grey shuttler Zebedee (GB) added a new stakes-winner to his tally overnight when Major Jumbo captured the Listed Queensferry Stakes at Chester in the UK.

The leading sire in New Zealand last season for two year-old winners, former Haunui Farm shuttler Showcasing (GB) has an outstanding three year-old sprinter in Europe this year in Advertise, who won the Group I Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville overnight.

We are only four days into the new racing season and Coolmore’s Golden Slipper winning sire Pierro has hit the ground running reeling off seven winners including a metropolitan double at Sandown on Sunday that featured undefeated three year-old Peidra, who will be aimed towards the Caulfield Guineas.

The familiar colours of Adam Sangster's Swettenham Stud were to the fore at Newmarket on Saturday when Love So Deep (JPN), a 3yo daughter of the recently departed legend Deep Impact, opened her stakes account in the Listed Chalice Stakes.

It’s been a productive time in Europe of late for Arrowfield Stud’s late, great Redoute’s Choice with the Cox Plate bound Danceteria capturing the Group 1 Grosser Dallmayr-Preis in Munich last week, while at Glorious Goodwood on Saturday Enbihaar backed up her victory in the Lancashire Oaks with a thoroughly dominant performance in the Group II Lillie Langtry Stakes.

The Coolmore team in Ireland produced an interesting maiden winner overnight at Galway with two year-old Galileo colt Emperor of the Sun saluting at his second start.

Central Districts raider Dez took out Saturday’s Group III Winning Edge Presentations 122nd Winter Cup (1600m) at Riccarton courtesy of a peach of a ride from master jockey Chris Johnson.

Under a copybook ride by Luke Nolen, Shadwell Farm’s homebred Lonhro filly Taraayef flagged her spring credentials with a hard-fought win in Saturday's Hygain Tracktorque Handicap (1000m).

Exciting young sire Rubick has wasted no time posting his first winner of the new season with a well deserved victory at Moonee Valley on Saturday for super consistent Condo’s Express.

Talented Sebring colt Mandela sent his supporters to the bar after missing the start then laying in down the straight before nailing the Fastnet Rock pair Edison and Art Collection in an action-packed 1200 metre maiden at Randwick on Saturday.

Brilliant I Am Invincible mare Houtzen found her best form overnight at Glorious Goodwood in the UK to run a bold second in the Group II King George Stakes.

Newgate Farm’s Wandjina made a winning start to the new season with a debut winner on Friday from the powerful Lindsay Park racing team in Grand Diamond.

The Inglis Digital Online Auctions will move to a bimonthly schedule effective immediately following successive record sales.

The first Saturday of a new season and a rare stakes-free weekend however there are several very interesting races for the newly turned three-year-olds.

Reported by stewards for bucking twice at the start and racing greenly at his only previous outings to date, this well named blue-blood finally put his mind on the job at Wyong on Friday.

Sky Racing have today announced the passing of prolific sire of winners Magic Albert, who has been based at Kooringal Stud in the south west of NSW in recent years.

Some quality mares highlighted the July Inglis Digital Online Auction and while stakes-winner Pecans remains unsold after passing shy of her $400,000 reserve, young stakes-winner Kinky Boom fetched $150,000 as did the well bred broodmare Guelder, who was offered in foal to Zoustar.

Scoring an impressive debut victory at Laurel in North America on Thursday was talented colt King of Egypt, the seventh first crop winner for Coolmore's Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (USA).

With 107 winners of nearly $7million in prizemoney, All Too Hard has just finished a great season and put the writing on the wall for more good results to come with a ‘One to Watch’ at Hawkesbury on Thursday.

Telemon Thoroughbreds today paused to toast their Champion First Season sire SIDESTEP.

2018 European Horse of the Year, Roaring Lion (USA) underwent a second colic surgery at the Cambridge Equine Veterinary Hospital this morning.

Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the final week of the season so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.

Savabeel has broken his own domestic stakes earnings record, narrowly missing becoming the first stallion to hit $4 million in New Zealand in a season, as he stretched his Grosvenor Award winning streak to five years running.

New Zealand breeders will get their first opportunity to inspect Rich Hill Stud’s new season stallion Ace High for the first time at their Walton property (570 Landsdowne Road) on Sunday at 1pm.

Keeneland announced today that 4,644 yearlings have been cataloged for the 76th annual Keeneland September Yearling Sale to be held September 9-22.

Exciting young sire Cable Bay (IRE) is not certain to shuttle to Woodside Park Stud in Victoria this spring, but he’s going great guns in Europe and featured overnight when his quality filly Liberty Beach won the Group III Molecombe Stakes at Goodwood.

Thoroughbred Breeders Victoria (TBV) are celebrating the Horses' Birthday in Victoria with retired Victorian racehorse and VOBIS cult-hero, Burning Front.

The 2018/19 Racing Season is over and marks the first time that Victorian sire Reward For Effort joined the club of siring over 100 individual winners in a season.

It’s a new season and a time for reflection on who were the best sires of 2018/2019 and two stallions were clearly head and shoulders clear of the pack on the Australian General Sires List, while the youngest stallion in the Top 10 has a lot more to offer.

One Australian sire title not won by either Snitzel or I Am Invincible was the Champion Sire of 3YO’s and that one went to Widden Stud’s Zoustar, who has just finished serving his first Northern Hemisphere stud season in the UK at Tweenhills Stud.

Former champion racehorse So You Think has just finished his best ever season as a sire with 114 winners of over $8million in prizemoney and finished on a high today with an eye-catching two year-old winner from the powerful Lindsay Park training team.

On the last day of the Australian racing season the only first season sire to post a winner was Darley’s Caulfield Guineas hero Shooting to Win and he did it in style with a debut winner at Belmont in Perth.

When Anthony Cummings says he’ll be ‘disappointed if she isn’t a stakes-winner by the end of the spring’ , we naturally want to know more about this impressive winner at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

Godolphin returned to the yearling sales as significant purchasers in 2018 and gained a big result when one of those purchases Exhilarates won the Magic Millions 2YO Classic earlier this year and it was another filly they bought at auction that won them the first race of the last metropolitan meeting of the season in Sydney at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

Many of the greatest horses around the globe have been bred upon the adage of 'breed the best to the best and hope for the best,' and history shows that success often does create more success.

Thoroughbred Sport Horse Association is really excited to have secured sponsorship from Chris Waller Racing for the Glen Innes Spring Showjump Thoroughbred Series (October 5 - 7).

Cornerstone Stud’s Sir Prancelaot (IRE) was making news overnight at Goodwood where his classy sprinting son Sir Dancealot won the Group II Lennox Stakes for the second year in a row.

With the new season beginning on Thursday this will be our last Juvenile Trial Watch story for a while and it highlights a very interesting youngster who had his first public outing today and while his big brother Chautauqua is about to start a well-publicised new career as a show horse, this guy has it all in front of him on the track.

In breaking news from Japan it has been announced legendary Japanese stallion Deep Impact has died, aged 17.

One of our readers has sent in a compelling story on her experience with Racing Australia and their foal registration rules, while Mary Bray, who started the ball rolling on this contentious issue explains just where the conflict lies.

The Randwick barrier trials on Tuesday morning featured a host of stakes performers gearing up for spring including Godolphin’s multiple Group I winning mare Alizee and top class juvenile filly Anaheed, who was last seen winning the $1million Group II ATC Percy Sykes Stakes.

On a crisp winter’s evening last Sunday, the team at Yulong Investments welcomed what is believed to be this Victorian breeding season’s first thoroughbred foal.

It’s somewhat fitting that Saturday’s Listed TAB Lightning Stakes winner, Assertive Approach, is out of a mare called Arrival.

The thoroughbred industry has inherited the talents of Sir Mark Todd for the second time this century, with the legendary horseman returning to the training ranks in a full-time capacity after officially retiring from eventing on Monday.

At age 21, legendary sire Galileo has passed the milestone of 300 stakes-winners putting the spotlight on his small number of sire sons available to Australian breeders this spring headed by Churchill (IRE), Highland Reel (IRE) and Adelaide (IRE).

The powerful Ciaron Maher and David Eustace stable delivered an exciting new winner for Caulfield Guineas winning sire Shooting to Win on Monday.

In a major blow to the Western Australian breeding industry the excellent producing stallion Demerit was euthanized at his new location Rangeview Stud Burekup owned by Robert and Jody Gray early this morning.

The New South Wales Racehorse Owners’ Association is pleased to announce the 2018/19 finalists (in alphabetical order) for this year’s Racing’s Night of Champions, to be held on 15 August.

Seaway’s victory in the Listed Winter Challenge (1500m) at Rosehill on Saturday was a big result for Trevor Luke.

Yesterday’s impressive Australian 2YO winner Heirborn highlighted the weekend return of Leading First Season Sire Charm Spirit (Invincible Spirit) to his southern hemisphere base at Windsor Park Stud in Cambridge.

Star Emperor (NZ) (Red Giant) could have been bought for $10,000 at the 2015 Select Sale at Karaka, and on Sunday he scored a brilliant victory in the S$175,000 Jumbo Jet Trophy (1400m) at Kranji.