Shaune Ritchie didn’t have to dig as deep as expected to secure a regally bred colt during the second session of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Book 1 National Yearling Sale.

Imprevu came within half a head of causing a major boilover in the Gr.2 Westbury Stud Classic (1400m) when runner-up to Australian raider Konasana at Ellerslie on Saturday, but it came as no surprise to trainer Janenne Dalley.

Waikato Stud and Wexford Stables have furthered their representation in the NZB Kiwi (1500m), with slot holder Waikato Thoroughbred Racing announcing their filly Sethito as their contender for the $3.5 million feature.

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

NZB’s National Yearling Sales Series started on the right note today, with a strong first day of trade for Book 1.

It was a healthy day of catalogue updates from the stakes races around Australia on Saturday so here’s the list.

New Zealand-based syndicator Go Racing have gone back to the proven well at Karaka to source what they hope to be their next champion juvenile.

The colts had taken centre-stage on the opening day at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale before lot 168, a well-bred daughter of Too Darn Hot, entered the Karaka auditorium and was knocked down for $675,000 to the bid of bloodstock agent James Harron.

Wootton Bassett (GB) was in vogue at Karaka on Sunday, with two of the top lots in the opening session of New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale sired by the Coolmore stallion.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club struck early at Karaka in the opening session of New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale, going to $625,000 to secure lot 11, the Savabeel colt out of Group Three performer Indecision, a half-sister to dual Group One winner Viadana.

Barneswood Farm have made the $1 million Elsdon Park Aotearoa Classic (1600m) their own, winning last year’s inaugural running with Desert Lightning, and backing that up as breeders of this year’s victor Orchestral.

With autumn features almost upon us, Inglis 2YOs stepped up in style today with a pair of Easter fillies running the quinella in the G3 Blue Diamond Preview and a Classic filly surging into contention for the $2m Inglis Millennium.

The first runner for Lovatsville’s first season sire Fierce Impact is now a winner after promising filly Zelia scored at Riccarton on Saturday.

Tough and talented mare Elettrica, who has a half-brother in the catalogue for Karaka 2025, added valuable black type to her CV with a dominant victory in Saturday’s Listed Coastline BMW Sunshine Coast Cup (1400m).

The well travelled Fastnet Rock six-year-old Coastwatch has a long range Group One Stradbroke plan after winning stakes race number four in the Evergreen Turf  John Dillon Stakes (1400m) at Sandown on Saturday.

Tough mare Prairie Flower became the 10th stakes winner for Vinery Stud’s Star Turn when winning the Listed Durbridge Stakes at Morphettville on Saturday with the half-sister set to sell at Inglis Premier.

Here is the full list of 105 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The full brother to Champion 2YO Colt Written By, promising Written Tycoon colt Royal Insignia showed more than a glimpse of the family ability when posting his first stakes win at Sandown on Saturday when taking out the $200,000 Group III MRC Manfred Stakes (1200m).

Last season’s champion male three-year-old Crocetti returned to his brilliant best at Ellerslie on Saturday, defeating a star-studded sprint field in the Gr.1 Sistema Railway (1200m).

Barely fourty minutes after taking their eighth individual Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m) contest with La Dorada, the Te Akau Racing team made it back-to-back successes on the night at Ellerslie with favourite Damask Rose scoring a brilliant victory in the Listed TAB Karaka Millions 3YO (1600m).

It wouldn’t be Karaka Millions night if the familiar tangerine and blue colours of Te Akau Racing were not front and centre in the finish of one of the two feature events, the Listed TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m) and the winenr has a half-brother going to the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale in Sydney.

Champion Sydney-based trainer Chris Waller turned back the clock at Ellerslie on Saturday with a heart-stopping victory by Australian owned Dundeel mare Konasana in the $600,000 Group II Westbury Classic (1400m).

Quality mare Orchestral set Ellerslie alight on Karaka Millions night in 2024 with a stunning victory in one of the feature events and she did it again in 2025 with another perfect performance to claim the $1million Listed Elsdon Park Aotearoa Classic (1600m).

A career-best campaign for Tumuch went up another level on Saturday when the five-year-old scored his first black-type win in the Listed Speight’s Timaru Stakes (1200m) at Riccarton.

Six years after landing a Group Three prize on Karaka Millions night with Ardrossan, trainer Stephen Marsh and jockey Michael McNab kept it in the family with his exciting daughter Ardalio winning Saturday’s Gr.3 Cambridge Stud Almanzor Trophy (1200m) at Ellerslie.

Another stakes race and another Inglis Digital success story with speedy Zoustar gelding Philosopher scoring an easy victory in the $175,000 Listed MRC WJ Adams Stakes (1000m) over another Zoustar gelding in Midwest.

The $250,000 Group III MRC Blue Diamond Preview (1000m) at Sandown on Saturday drew a classy field with a pair of spring stakes-winners engaged as well as several stakes-placed fillies, but it was the first starter My Gladiola that prevailed to win and she ran a second quicker than the colts division won by Shining Smile.

Moments after Spirit Of Boom sired his season leading seventh 2YO winner with Gin Spirit in Adelaide for Lindsay Park, he got his first 2YO stakes winner of the season when stablemate Shining Smile won the Listed MRC Blue Diamond Preview (1000m) for colts at Sandown-Lakeside.

A dual Group I winning juvenile by Redoute’s Choice, King’s Legacy posted his second winner at Randwick on Saturday with a debut victory for talented filly Open Secret, who scored a short half head win in a thriller over $1.75 million Snitzel colt United States.

Have you had a chat with Maree McEwan at Karaka? Catch up with all the sale video snippets in one place ahead of the NZB National Yearling Sale Series starting with Book 11 on Sunday.

The reigning Hong Kong Horse of the Year and winner of the 2023 Cox Plate in Australia, Romantic Warrior (IRE) was invincible last night at Meydan for James McDonald when powering to a scintillating victory in the Group I Jebel Hatta (1800m) in course record time.

Here is the full list of 56 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Rosemont Stud and partners had plenty to cheer about at Moonee Valley on Friday night when their blueblood Zoustar stallion Schwarz scored a brilliant all the way win in the $350,000 Group II MVRC Australia Stakes (1200m).

Kingman son Calyx (GB) shuttled to Coolmore for just two seasons and got his first Australian stakes-winner at Launceston on Friday night when talented gelding Likeakalix turned the Listed Launceston Guineas (2100m) into a procession.

Off the scene for nearly a year this lightly raced well bred four year-old Fastnet Rock mare made a winning return at Kilmore on Friday as a short priced favourite and has a half-sister headed to Inglis Easter.

The path to the $2million Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on February 22 begins on Saturday at Sandown with the running of the first round of official lead up races, the Group III MRC Blue Diamond Preview (1000m) for fillies and the colts equivalent which carries only Listed status which is a good thing this year given the skinny turnout.

On this weekend last year Chris Waller introduced us to $1.5million Snitzel colt Switzerland and at Randwick tomorrow he introduces us to a $1.75 million Snitzel colt, also geographically named, in what looks a most interesting juvenile race.

The best of his time and the likes of which we will never see again are just two of the many accolades being showered on Octagonal in the week announcing the champion galloper’s induction to the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame.

Hollie Wynyard knows what it takes to win a $1 million TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m), and on Saturday at Ellerslie she’ll be vying for her first crown as a solo trainer with Toretto and Sierra Leone.

Standout middle-distance mare Snazzytavi is set to shoot for a Group One treble after pleasing her connections at Thursday’s Pukekohe trials.

The Listed ATC Carrington Stakes (1000m) that was scheduled for this Saturday at Randwick was abandoned due to lack of entries, but the $350,000 Group II MVRC Australia Stakes (1200m) tonight at Moonee Valley has had no issue with nine acceptors that include two stallion prospects.

Here is the full list of 35 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Talented Hellbent filly Kristilli gave her owners a hell of a ride winning the $1million Group II ATC Percy Sykes Stakes and selling for $925,000 as a broodmare prospect and her full sister opened her account at Tamworth on Thursday.

Thanks to a series of big-race performances by high-class siblings, the catalogues for Karaka 2025 have received some significant pedigree updates in the countdown to the sale.

A wink could turn into the lion’s share of $1 million for trainer Gavin Sharrock on Saturday when he contests the TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m) with Daylight Robbery.

Four heats for juveniles at Rosehill this morning and two were won by unraced fillies by champion sire Snitzel and one of them has pedigree that will attract some interest.

For the stallions looking to chase down division leader Pride of Dubai in the race to be Australia’s Champion Sire by earnings in 2025, the task has gotten a little harder with Arion confirming a sum of $2million has been added to his tally earlier this week.

Flying three-year-old Poetic Champion will spearhead Tony Pike’s trio of sprinters contesting the Gr.3 Cambridge Stud Almanzor Trophy (1200m) on Karaka Millions Night, staged this Saturday at Ellerslie.

Awapuni trainer Roydon Bergerson finished runner-up in the 2022 running of the $1 million TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m) with Wolverine, and he is excited to have two bullets in the chamber to try and go one better in this year’s edition.

A stellar mix of representatives by Waikato Stud’s proven stallions and their exciting younger residents has the champion vendor ready for the defence of their Book 1 aggregate title at Karaka 2025.

Inglis Digital enjoyed a spectacular start to the new year with broodmare Fashion Faux Pas (USA) realising $1,150,000 late in today’s January (Late) Online Sale.

A self pronounced hobby breeder that has managed to produce the world’s best sprinter, a pair of Champion 3YO Colts and numerous Group I winners, Rick Jamieson rarely gives interviews as such, but we managed to get the next best thing with his Gilgai Farm Stud Manager Kelly Skillecorn as our guest this week on Breednet’s Tara Talks Racing podcast.

The stage is set for an action-packed 18th running of the $1m TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie on Saturday after a barrier draw that delivered mixed results for leading contenders.

Last year’s $1m TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m) runner-up Damask Rose (NZ) (Savabeel) will jump from an awkward position in gate 12 in her quest to go one better in the $1.5m TAB Karaka Millions 3YO (1600m) at Ellerslie on Saturday.

Too Darn Hot’s most expensive colt from 2023 is now a winner and on his way to larger targets after Shanwah broke his maiden at Morning on Wednesday.

Still basking in the glory of winning the $1million Magic Millions Snippets last Friday with I Am Invincible gelding Zarastro, Tony Gollan was back in the winner’s circle at Doomben on Wednesday with another Inglis Digital purchased son of I Am Invincible.

Vinery Stud’s Exceedance had an impressive new winner on the Kensington Track on Wednesday with the full sister entered for Inglis Classic.

A Hellbent two year-old filly from a famous female family made a winning debut at Doomben on Wednesday as a short priced favourite.

The TAB Racing Club could be in for an exciting couple of months with their juvenile filly In Haste, with the daughter of Snitzel set to tackle some stakes assignments following her dominant win at Matamata on Wednesday.

It was luck by name and luck by nature for Ben and Ryan Foote at the barrier draw for Saturday’s $1 million TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie.

This time last year New Zealand syndicator Go Racing celebrated one of their biggest moments when Velocious carried their silks to victory in the TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m), and this year, they will be out to add the 3YO crown to their mantle.

Lindsay Park will take aim at the first leg of a lucrative New Zealand double when Hello Romeo steps out at Ellerslie on Saturday.

The Dennis Brothers’ contribution to Southland racing will be acknowledged by their peers at Ascot Park on Thursday where the Southland Racing Club will hold the ‘Dennis Brothers Dynasty Day’.

We’re covering a lot of ground this week with MM race results, rising stars at Rosehill and we find out a lot more about the amazing nursery that is Gilgai Farm with special guest Kelly Skillecorn, also step back in time where were you in 2000?

Here is the full list of 16 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

As people that actually know me will realise, I am a horse person first and foremost and all this other media and journalism stuff is incidental, at the end of the day I’m a rider, so with my two best horses in the ‘children left home era’ moving towards their twilight years I had to make a decision, do I gracefully bow out with them or find a younger horse to take me into my six

Our gallery page for first season sire images is now live for Karaka 2025, so if you were impressed with what you saw at the Gold Coast from Noverre and Sword of State this is a great way to get a quick look at all of their yearlings to be offered in New Zealand in Book 1 from this Sunday and we’ll also take a peek at what Home Affairs has to offer.

The sale whose graduates take their connections to elite races around the world is poised to deliver more life changers following today's online release of the 2025 catalogue.

Bryce Newman was in familiar territory when he picked up a double at Wanganui on Monday, but a new challenge is now on the horizon for the Bulls trainer as he prepares Abbakiss for Saturday’s $1 million TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m).

The TAB Karaka Millions twilight meeting on Saturday is shaping to be another exciting spectacle for punters, and adding more excitement to the mix is the introduction of World Pool to the iconic event.

Group One power has fuelled Cambridge Stud’s 42-strong Book 1 draft at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale.

The first half a decade of Bourbon Lane Stable’s expansion into New Zealand has exceeded even the most optimistic predictions of the American investors.

The release of the Inglis Easter catalogue this week got me thinking about the past and a hunt through one of my cupboards produced a copy of the 2000 Inglis Easter Yearling catalogue and it turns out while some things have changed dramatically, others are pretty much the same!

There were some interesting trial results on Monday morning at Hawkesbury and Warwick Farm with Farnan colt North England back in action and while the $1million ATC Golden Gift that he won last year is not recognized as a Black Type race he is giving every indication that he can be a stakes-winner in 2025.

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

He Who Dares was one of the most sought-after lots in last year’s New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sales, and nearly 12 months later, he delivered on that promise on debut at Wanganui on Monday bringing a timely pedigree update for his half-sister by Savabeel headed to K1.

A Proisir filly out of Donna Marie put Hallmark Stud’s name up in lights at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales last year, and in a week’s time, Mark Baker is hoping for a similar result in the Karaka auditorium with Lot 564.

Mapperley Stud principal Simms Davison is heading towards New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales on a winning note after breeding last Saturday’s Gr.3 Wellington Cup (3200m) victor Wolfgang.

A pair of emerging fillies credited The Oaks Stud with a winning double at Pukekohe on Sunday with both homebreds promising to carry the Cambridge nursery’s colours to higher honours.

After 19 years of dominance in the Karaka sales auditorium as the leading buyer at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale, Te Akau Racing principal David Ellis will return to the South Auckland venue later this week in a bid to make it an even 20.

Armidale Stud celebrated a banner day with a quinella in the Listed Elwick Stakes for two-year-olds. The race was headlined by two fillies bred by the Whishaw family and sired by their resident stallions, Needs Further and Alpine Eagle.

Coming out of his most successful sale ever  in terms of average at Magic Millions, Snitzel is the most represented sire at Inglis Easter with 45 followed by Zoustar, whose draft of 36 is sure to include some million dollar yearlings that were missing for him at the Gold Coast this year.

Last year the Inglis Easter vendor break up was dominated by Arrowfield, who catalogued 20 more yearlings than anybody else, but this year’s select catalogue of 421 lots is a more balanced affair.

The 2025 NZB National Yearling Sale Series starts this Sunday at Karaka so we’ve used the Family Search on Breednet to seek out some yearlings that have exciting relatives to watch on the racetrack in 2025.

Here is the full list of 66 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Unbeaten three-year-old Dealt With has booked himself a ticket to the big dance with victory in Sunday’s Elsdon Park 1400, but it wasn’t without a heart-stopping moment in the home straight for Roger James and Robert Wellwood. 

Torryburn Stud’s ‘plain bay fellow’, and now established super star, Voyage Bubble added another jewel to his crown at Sha Tin on Sunday winning the Group I The Steward’s Cup.

The world’s best sprinter tag sits easily upon Ka Ying Rising who produced an utterly stunning display in winning the Group I Centenary Sprint Cup (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday.

It’s been a big weekend with the babies for Prime Thoroughbreds with their unbeaten Needs Further filly Zany Girl gaining a black type victory in the Kevin Sharkie Elwick Stakes in Tasmania.

The eyes of the bloodstock world will be on Riverside Stables on April 6 and 7 for this year’s Easter Yearling Sale, for which the catalogue is now available online.

Windsor Park Stud has drawn on a diverse range of sires from across Australasia to make up its Karaka 2025 yearling draft, but a week out from the sale, all eyes will be on one of their own stallions.

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

Talented Pierro gelding Osipenko has been winless for some time, but showed he’s still got what it takes with a well-deserved victory in the $200,000 Listed ATC January Cup (2000m) at Rosehill on Saturday.

Emerging filly Perfumist has extended her picket-fence form-line when leading throughout to score a decisive victory in the Racing And Sports Handicap (1500m) at Rosehill on Saturday and flagging her credentials for a lucrative target in New Zealand.

Improving three-year-old Garnacho scored a last-stride victory in the Howden Australian Guineas Day, 1 March (1600m) at Flemington on Saturday for trainers Emma-Lee and David Browne.

A long wait for Wolfgang’s day in the big-race spotlight came to a spectacular end at Trentham on Saturday when he overpowered his opposition in the Gr.3 NZCIS Wellington Cup (3200m).

Astute trainer David Payne is no stranger to G1 success and and has high hopes for  Supido filly Shohisha, who looked a future stakes-winner in the making when putting away a handy field of older gallopers at Rosehill on Saturday.

Rugged stayer Titicaca made light of a hefty 59.5kg on his back to capture a deserved victory in the second running of the Race With Te Akau Remutaka Classic (2100m) at Trentham.

Progressive stayer Mayor Of Norwood rewarded his many followers when he added to an outstanding record on his home track by capturing the WAE Waikouaiti Cup (2200m) at Wingatui.

Promising three-year-old Leica Lucy added another important black-type victory to her burgeoning record when she dashed clear to take out Saturday’s Gr.3 New Zealand Bloodstock Desert Gold Stakes (1600m) at Trentham.