Back on the 30th December 2017, Snitzkraft won the Listed Falvelon Quality (1100m) at Doomben to become the first stakes winner for the training partnership of the late Kelso Wood and Patricia Gesler.

The Paul Preusker-trained Surprise Baby first saw a racetrack last October and five starts later the four-year-old gelding made a one-act affair of Monday’s $400,000 Group II Adelaide Cup (3200m) to credit Rich Hill Stud’s 2009 Melbourne Cup hero Shocking with the second consecutive winner of the race.

If you are a NSW Junior rider (18 years and under) and compete on an Australian Studbook registered thoroughbred, Carbine Club of NSW, Ranvet and Independents Own are offering two prizes to the value of $2,500 each to assist you in caring for your thoroughbred.

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.

This week’s barrier trial report on the older unraced horses for the past week including all unraced triallers with breeding and sale data.

Astute Bloodstock reached a new milestone at Flemington on Saturday, with their European import and defending champion, HARLEM winning the $1,5 million Group 1 TAB Australian Cup.

LA’s Karaka drafts have provided another winner of the Sistema (formerly Diamond) Stakes, after Yourdeel (Dundeel-Miss Zapper by Red Ransom) scored a tough win in the 2YO (1200m) Group 1 contest at Ellerslie on Saturday.

A dead heat victory at Turffontein in South Africa on Saturday for two year-old colt Frosted Gold delivered a seventh stakes-winner for his Vinery Stud based sire All Too Hard.

Arrowfield Stud’s Not A Single Doubt has a productive Saturday at Randwick with Winter Bride winning the Gr III Wenona Girl Quality, while Fundamentalist gave The Autumn Sun the fright of his life in the Gr 1 Randwick Guineas, Dubious finished third in the Gr II Todman Stakes and Cool Passion was a meritorious fourth in the Gr 1 Canterbury Guineas.

It sounds like a broken record, Godolphin wins another stakes race for two-year-olds.

Four years after he won the Listed National Sprint, the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Snippets Land claimed the race again at Canberra on Sunday.

Four time Group I winning sprinter Trapeze Artist was in explosive form at Randwick on Saturday taking out the Group I ATC Canterbury Stakes in track record time with owner Bert Vieira revealing after the win his champion would be standing at Widden Stud this spring.

Making just his fourth trip to the races, the Mark Newnham-trained Final Award came from last to win Sunday’s Listed Canberra Guineas (1400m).

Former New Zealand-trained filly Spanish Whisper made a stunning return to the winner’s circle on Saturday when she overcame a wide run to take out the Group II Kewney Stakes (1400m) at Flemington.

Before he cheered on his homebred Trapeze Artist in the Group 1 Canterbury Stakes at Randwick, Bert Vieira had already enjoyed stakes success on Saturday as the breeder of the Mick Price-trained Anjana in the Listed Incognitus Stakes (1100m) at Flemington.

The Autumn Sun confirmed himself Australia’s Champion 3YO elect while Trapeze Artist made it a fourth Group 1 win as Inglis graduates dominated the big races at Randwick today.

Godolphin lost one major Golden Slipper hope in Tassort but added another two on Saturday with Tenley in the Group II Reisling Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill and La Tene in the Group II $200,000 MSS Security VRC Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m) at Flemington.

While Lope De Vega’s 4-time Group 1 winner Santa Ana Lane could not get the job done in Saturday’s Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m), the former Patinack Farm shuttler struck twice at Flemington to highlight once again what a loss he was to the local industry when he failed to return after the 2014 season.

A five year-old daughter of ill-fated Sebring, talented mare Nettoyer has been threatening to win a stakes race for some time now and got the job done at Randwick on Saturday when taking out the Group III ATC Aspiration Quality.

After winning last year’s Group 1 Australian Cup at Flemington as $61 chance, Lindsay Park’s import Harlem (GB) again drove a stake through the hearts of punters when he claimed the race again on Saturday as a $31 chance.

Rider Opie Bosson made it Group One-win number sixty-two when he guided hot favourite Yourdeel to victory in the Gr1 Sistema Stakes (1200m) at Ellerslie on Saturday.

Outstanding race-mare Melody Belle capped a wonderful season when she beat a quality field in Saturday’s Gr1 Bonecrusher New Zealand Stakes (2000m) at Ellerslie.

Punters that took the short odds on The Autumn Sun in Saturday's Group 1 Randwick Guineas (1600m) at Randwick were heading to the bar when the son of Redoute's Choice stood the leaders up to 15 lengths halfway through the running, but the Chris Waller-trained colt is a winner.

The residents of small rural township Waverley look set to rock and roll for the next few days as resident trainer Bill Thurlow and his gallant mare Glory Days did them proud when bolting home in the Gr.

Winless for almost 12 months, Trapeze Artist burst back to the winner's circle in Saturday's Group 1 Canterbury Stakes (1300m) at Randwick.

South African born jockey Barend Vorster did not have to wait long to make his mark in Australia and it came on board the star filly Sunlight who kept up a relentless gallop to win Saturday's Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington.

Yes Yes Yes became the first winner for Rubick when winning at Flemington back on December 15, then became the first stakes-winner for Coolmore Stud’s highly popular stallion with a dominant performance in Saturday’s Group II Todman Stakes at Randwick and is now favourite to give his sire his first Group 1 winner in the $3,500,000 Golden Slipper.

Another triumph for the Godolphin team in Saturday’s Group II Astus Australia Reisling Stakes (1200m) as Tenley made it three from three when defeating her Magic Millions 2yo Classic winning Exhilarates and book her ticket to the big dance, the $3,500,000 Golden Slipper at Rosehill on March 23.

The lightly raced Prophet's Thumb became the 44th stakes-winner and the 24th individual stakes winner this season for the unstoppable I Am Invincible, but she needed to overcome a troubled run and lower Redzel's track record in Saturday’s Listed Fireball Stakes to achieve it.

With Sweet Scandal, Za Zi Ba and In Good Time setting a hectic pace, Saturday's Group III Wenona Girl Quality (1200m) at Randwick was put on for the backmarkers with the Segenhoe Thoroughbreds Winter Bride proving the strongest in a driving finish.

Lester O’Grady of Mount Brown International is well pleased with his draft of four well grown athletic colts headed to the 2019 Magic Millions Yearling Sale in Adelaide.

Opening his account with an easy win at Cranbourne on Friday evening was promising Shooting to Win colt Treaty of Seville, a $180,000 Inglis Premier purchase from the Aquis Farm draft for John Foote Bloodstock/ Darren Weir Racing.

For the best part of eight months Princess Posh did not have a break longer than five weeks between starts, so the 14 weeks from her second to Cool Passion in the Group III Hong Kong Jockey Club Stakes at Flemington last November to her unplaced effort when resuming in the Group II Triscay Stakes at Randwick on February 16 was among the longest breaks in her 26-start career.

Aloisia – the 2017 G1 Thousand Guineas winner - is the latest high-profile entrant headed to the Inglis Chairman’s Sale.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales Series heads south to showcase the South Island Session with the 61-lot catalogue now online.

A busy yearling sale season for leading South Australian vendors Mill Park Stud continues in Adelaide next week at the Magic Millions with recent racetrack results for Mill Park graduates buoyed by the Group I success of Booker in the Group I MRC Oakleigh Plate.

Dual Group 1 winner Srikandi is the latest headline entry to the 2019 Inglis Chairman’s Sale.

Gold Coast-based 2KThoroughbreds will take an exciting new step in its evolution this month, with the first two yearlings under the banner of Sterling Bloodstock to be offered at the upcoming Magic Millions QTIS March sale (March 18-19).

Eight juvenile heats at the Warwick Farm trials on Thursday produced some intriguing winners with the fastest heat interestingly won by a youngster that on pedigree might be seen as more of a middle distance horse.

Widden Stud’s Zoustar has been a huge pinhook winner this year with his rising stocks proving a great catalyst for sale ring success.

The father son duo of I Am Invincible and Brazen Beau led the sire averages at Inglis Premier this week, but there was plenty of interest in first season sires with Darley's Kermadec setting the pace with six yearlings averaging $152,667.

Lightly raced I Am Invincible mare She's So High has been retired just days after winning  a Listed race at Flemington last Saturday.

Fergal Connolly's Valiant Stud have enjoyed great success as first time vendors at Magic Millions Book One and the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale with their attention now switched to Adelaide for the Magic Millions Yearling Sale next week.

The business of creating stallions is not an easy one and the Group II ATC Todman Stakes this Saturday is race that can be a game changer, but whose game will it change?.

Not a Single Doubt had two interesting winners at Randwick on Wednesday with a super impressive win for exciting three year-old Classique Legend and a second victory for $1,050,000 Inglis Easter purchase Stronger.

The Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale concluded with Book 2 today, wrapping up an encouraging week of trade at Oaklands.

The seven figure sale for star three-year-old Madison County may have fallen through, but the Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained galloper will now get the opportunity to add an Australian Group One to his tally on Saturday.

Deep Field produced his fourth winner for the season with an impressive debutante at Bunbury.

Like many others, I was saddened to hear of the recent death of Les Carlyon who wrote this humorous piece in the Age after Nick Columb’s $300,000 New Zealand purchase Courtza had won the 1989 Blue Diamond Stakes - Courtza is the great-granddam of this week’s Best On Breeding selection.

At the start of every breeding season there is always a new intake of sires to consider and they are invariably popular as everyone loves to discover the next big thing, so we've had a look at the covering stats for the new recruits of 2018 which include one high profile horse that is now back in training.

Book 1 of the Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale concluded at Oaklands this afternoon with the day’s top-two sales leaving their respective vendors with career-best results.

I Am Invincible leads the way with two year-old winners this season and added a 13th to the tally at Seymour on Tuesday with a debut victory for a talented filly, whose full brother will be offered at the 2019 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

The World Champion 2YO of 1991, Arazi (USA) is still going strong at age 30 at Stockwell Thoroughbreds in Victoria.

Renowned stud master Mike Becker from Stockwell Thoroughbreds is excited to announce that proven stallion Al Maher is heading down to Victoria to stand at the Diggers Rest based operation this season.

Multiple Group One-winning mare Melody Belle will take her place in the Group I  Bonecrusher New Zealand Stakes (2000m) at Ellerslie on Saturday after pleasing her connections in trackwork at Matamata on Tuesday.

Glamour Godolphin colt Tassort might be only 50/50 to run in the Golden Slipper according to his trainer James Cummings, but the way the yearlings by his sire Brazen Beau have sold in the past two days at Inglis Premier you would think he had already won it.

Moments after selling the top lot on Day 2 of the Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale, Gilgai Farm’s Kelly Skillecorn could barely contain his excitement.

The Australian Studbook released covering statistics in March for the 2018 breeding season revealing some 13 stallions covered books of 200 or more mares which was more than double the number from last year, so we thought we'd take a closer look at just why these guys were popular.

Saturday’s racing at Randwick produced two more youngsters that are exempt from ballot for the Golden Slipper with Anaheed (Fastnet Rock) and Microphone (Exceed and Excel) joining Time to Reign (Time for War) as being assured of a start.

Exciting young sire ShamExpress (O’Reilly) continued his golden run at the weekend with new 3YO stakes winner Qiji Express lifting his first-crop stakes winners to runners ratio to an impressive 10,3%.

As many of you pretty much know by now, any tax case to do with whether an activity is a “Business” or “Hobby” immediately attracts my attention as it is a “hot button” topic in horse tax world.

Four-year-old gavelhouse graduate Star Knight produced an eye-catching all-the-way victory from a wide barrier in his Singapore debut over 1150m on Saturday night.

Events from this week will have a huge bearing on the strength of Brendan and Jo Lindsay’s assault on the major juvenile races at the Sydney Autumn carnival.

A Brazen Beau colt stole the limelight early on Day 1 of the Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale, becoming the second-most expensive yearling ever sold in Victoria.

Karaka Million 2YO winner Probabeel will further her progress towards an upcoming Australian campaign when she steps out at the Rotorua trials on Tuesday.

From a Group 1, classic winning three-year-old at Ellerslie, to Listed winners at Ascot and Doomben, former Darley shuttler Medaglia d’Oro went on a stakes-winning blitz on Saturday.

The Group III Acacia Handicap at Turffontein on Saturday was won in good style by High Chaparral (IRE) mare High Seas Beauty, while the maiden event on the same program was won by Belton Road, who has a half-brother to be offered at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale on Monday.

Lightly raced I Am Invincible mare She’s So High won the Group III SAJC Proud Miss Stakes in May last year and picked up where she left off at her first run back from a lengthy spell when winning the Listed VRC ATA Bob Hosted Handicap at Flemington on Saturday.

Well known WA based owner breeders Bob and Sandra Peters have had a lot of success so far with Coolmore’s star young sire Pierro and it continued at Ascot on Saturday when Regal Power broke through for his first Black type win in the Listed WATC Lex Piper Stakes bringing a timely pedigree update for his Inglis Easter bound half-brother.

The Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale again flexed its muscle as being one of the best producing auctions in Australasia when Crown Prosecutor won today’s Group 1 New Zealand Derby.

Choisir is getting closer to that century of stakes-winners with the Edinburgh Park bred and sold two year-old filly Lady Naturaliste adding to his tally with a strong win in the Listed SAJC Cinderella Stakes at Morphettville on Saturday.

Saturday’s $70,000 Group 3 McKee Family Sunline Vase (2100m) was a second victory during the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series for Pinmedown (NZ) (Pins), who has moved into third on the table with 14 points.

Qiji Express NZ) (Shamexpress) and She's a Thief (NZ) (Showcasing) cost just $57,500 between them at Karaka in 2017, but they fought out the finish in a high-quality running of the $60,000 Listed Mufhasa FastTrack Stakes (1300m) at Ellerslie on Saturday.

Group 1 performer Princess Kereru (NZ) (Pins) broke through for her first stakes win in Saturday’s $100,000 Group 3 Waikato Stud Plate (1200m) at Ellerslie.

In the last few years, Australian trainers have found German-breds a rich source of staying talent and the Robert Hickmott-trainedIn the last few years Australian trainers have found German-breds a rich source of staying talent and the Robert Hickmott-trained Schabau (GER) is shaping as the next star.

At just her fifth race start, exciting filly Nakeeta Jane has become the fifth Group I winner for champion racehorse So You Think after scoring an amazing win in the Group I ATC Surround Stakes a Randwick on Saturday.

Talented filly Anaheed announced herself as a serious Golden Slipper contender at Randwick on Saturday with a stylish victory in the Group II ATC Sweet Embrace Stakes and was the first leg of a Group double for her champion sire Fastnet Rock.

Backing up off her maiden stakes win in the Group III Triscay Stakes, the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained mare Alassio added a gutsy win in Saturday’s Group II Guy Walter Proven Thoroughbreds Stakes (1400m) at Randwick.

Narrowly beaten in the Group III Frances Tressady Stakes (1400m) at Flemington 12 months ago, Oregon's Day avenged that defeat with a thoroughly game performance on Saturday, which edges her closer to the magical $1 million in earnings.

Cambridge trainer Stephen Marsh picked up his maiden Group1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) title at Ellerslie on Saturday but not with the horse that many felt would provide that honour.

Blake Shinn on Pat Webster's gallant gelding Happy Clapper sent a ripple through the crowd when he led by up to five lengths in the running of Saturday's $600,000 Group 1 Chipping Norton Stakes (1600m) at Randwick, but it was a bit like a cat playing with a mouse when Hugh Bowman sidled up alongside on old nemesis Winx.

Looking a picture of health in the saddling paddock, the pride of Tasmania, Mystic Journey, became the first Group 1 winner for trainer Adam Trinder, jockey Anthony Darmanin and Armidale Stud’s young stallion Needs Further following a dominant performance in Saturday’s $1 million Group 1 Australian Guineas (1600m) at Flemington.

A facile winner of the Listed Talindert Stakes at Flemington, Microphone took the trip north to Sydney for Saturday's Group II Schweppes Skyline Stakes (1200m) in his stride and punters did not forget to back him.

Trainer Brent Stanley will be sweating on a wildcard entry for the $5 million All-Star Mile with the Sebring gelding Violate following his fighting win in Saturday’s Group III Shaftesbury Avenue Stakes (1400m) at Flemington.

It was a real family affair at Flemington on Saturday with the two-year Mockery opening her account in the Listed Festival of Racing 1000 Stakes (1000m) before her dam's half-sister chipped in with the Listed ATA/Bob Hoysted Hcp winner She's So High.

The Australian Studbook have released official covering statistics as at March 1 for 2018 with Coolmore supplying four of the top 10 busiest sires including the man at the top of the list.

In the thoroughbred game, a once hugely successful commercial family can all but disappear in the space of a few generations, while a rare few can power on for centuries.

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.

This week’s barrier trial report on the older unraced horses for the past week, including plenty kicking off in Hong Kong – all unraced triallers with breeding and sale data.

Just about all the first season sires have something to offer at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale which kicks off on Sunday, so we've scooped them all up into one place in our galleries and thought we'd have a look at a few here as well.

On the eve of the Group I VRC Australian Guineas, which he won in 2015, Wandjina has posted a promising debut winner with a tenacious front running victory for Order of Valour at Kyneton on Thursday.

Remarkable producer Mica’s Pride, the dam of Group I superstars Criterion and Comin’ Through, made it 10 winners from 10 foals to race when three year-old Fastnet Rock gelding Sir Owen saluted at Wyong on Thursday.

Former Haunui Farm stallion Showcasing (GB) (Oasis Dream) has continued his dominance of 2YO racing in New Zealand with winner number 10 at Counties today, Enjoy The Show (NZ).

Inglis would like to extend a courteous reminder that entries remain open for the 2019 Chairman's Sale and the Australian Broodmare & Weanling Sale.

Progressive Victorian nursery Two Bays Farm has been purposefully developed to create an ideal environment for producing quality thoroughbreds and a top class draft of 17 youngsters to be offered at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale are a testament to the hard work and vision of Rob Carlile his team.

While Cambridge trainer Tony Pike has plenty to focus on in his homeland, with Surely Sacred the favourite for the Group I Vodafone New Zealand Derby (2400m), he will also have an eye across the Tasman shortly after the blue-riband event.

Yulong is delighted to announce that former Bloodstock Manager for Mick Price Racing, Luke Wilkinson will be joining the rapidly growing Yulong operation to head their bloodstock and racing division.

Just three days after an exciting Lowland Stakes at Hastings, the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series action continues thick and fast with the ninth leg, the $70,000 Group 3 McKee Family Sunline Vase (2100m) at Ellerslie on Saturday.

Popular Coolmore sire Choisir is working towards a century of stakes-winners, siring his 93rd stakes-winner at Launceston on Wednesday when Twitchy Frank captured the Group III TTC Vamos Stakes at Launceston.

After Wednesday’s $100,000 Group II Little Avondale Lowland Stakes (2100m) at Hastings, two fillies are deadlocked at the top of the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series points table with two races remaining.