New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale of 2YO's has cemented itself as the leading sale of its kind in Australasia with an incomparable 17 Group One wins and 117 stakes wins claimed by graduates of the Sale in the last five seasons.

On a day that features nine stakes races across Australia, Saturday’s Super Vobis 3-Y-O Hcp (1500m) at Moonee Valley carries no black-type and may get lost in the scheme of things, but it will go a long way in determining the classic aspirations of several of the runners.

Gerald Ryan does love a Snitzel and this easy debut winner at Gosford on Thursday looks to have well above average ability, despite his lack of appeal when offered for sale as a yearling.

Anyone who knows Chrissy Bambry knows she is passionate about her horses.

On-site inspections for tomorrow’s Spring Thoroughbred Sale – which features the Group 2 winner Tiamo Grace (lot 24) - at Oaklands Junction begin this morning, Thursday September 6.

Talented galloper Humidor secured his third Group One victory in last Saturday’s New Zealand Bloodstock Memsie Stakes (1400m) and the Teofilo gelding will now be set on a path towards the Group I Cox Plate (2040m) next month, where he will attempt to spoil Winx’s party.

In an exciting move for the Mitchell family, Bill and James have joined forces to form Mitchell Bloodstock.

The famed international colours of US based Stonestreet Stables were carried to victory at Randwick on Wednesday by promising I Am Invincible filly She’s Furline, who is also co-owned by Aquis Farm and Peter Leidel.

Champion sire Redoute’s Choice featured at Randwick on Wednesday when his progressive colt Brilliant Choice cast off maiden status with a bold front running win for Team Hawkes.

Ballarat trainer Matt Cumani has always had a good opinion of Nicconi colt Akkadian, who resumed from a spell at his home track on Wednesday to score a tenacious win.

Group One winning galloper Age Of Fire has joined the stable of champion Victorian trainer Darren Weir in a bid to find his mojo this spring.

Paul Fudge’s Waratah Thoroughbreds is beginning to reap the rewards from a buying spree at the 2011 Tattersalls December sales at Newmarket.

Kris Lees has a crackerjack team of three year-olds this spring and unleashed another stakes prospect at Newcastle on Tuesday with a scintillating debut win for a three year-old daughter of global sire sensation Frankel.

Robert and Barbara McLure of Morning Rise Stud celebrated a debut winner by Pierro at Bairnsdale on Tuesday.

Lester O'Grady of Mount Brown International in Victoria is pleased to announced proven stakes sire Roman Emperor will relocate from Princes' Farm in New South Wales to join Diamond Tathagata this spring offering breeders a chance to get 'stuck into Montjeu'.

TRIPLE CROWN have selected and syndicated the leading Australian progeny of no less than four individual sires during the 2017/18 season, in further testament to Triple Crown’s superior selection of quality and affordable racehorses.

Following extensive discussions with clients, Inglis is today announcing a number of improvements to the sale format for 2019.

Comin’ Through? He did - Pure Elation? You betcha!.

The most expensive yearling ever sold in Victoria, excitingI Am Invincible colt Octane opened his account with a dominant win at Wangaratta on Monday.

The Rosehill barrier trials on Monday morning featured a heat for new season two year-olds with Coolmore based young gun Rubick providing the runaway winner Krameric.

Two up and comers in the Kiwi sire ranks celebrated a milestone last week with the first trial winners for Charm Spirit and Proisir adding extra appeal to associated Lots in the current gavelhouse  auction.

It’s been a slow start to the new season for Eureka Stud’s young sire sensation Spirit of Boom, but that could change quickly judging by a brilliant barrier trial win at Rosehill on Monday morning for his star performer Ef Troop.

Outstanding juvenile Melt is back bigger and better if Saturday’s winning performance at Ruakaka is anything to go by.

Three-time Group One winner and equine cult-hero Gingernuts has been officially retired.

The $60,000 Ready to Run Sale recruit Nova Strike (NZ) (Red Giant) collected the second stakes win of his career with an impressive performance in Sunday’s S$200,000 Listed Moonbeam Vase (1600m) at Kranji.

Leading European first crop sire No Nay Never’s first-crop continue to excite with the Aidan O’Brien trained colt Ten Sovereigns bolting away to win the Group III Round Tower Stake at the Curragh on Saturday.

The $57,500 Premier Sale purchase Melody Belle(NZ) (Commands) became a millionaire when she scored her second Group One victory in Saturday’s $200,000 Tarzino Trophy (1400m) at Hastings.

Theanswermyfriend(High Chaparral), who cost $70,000 at the 2015 Premier Sale, took his earnings to the brink of A$500,000 with victory in Saturday’s A$100,000 Listed Penny Edition Stakes (1400m) at Morphettville.

Scoring a dominant debut win at Kenilworth in South Africa on Saturday was Australian bred three year-old Camelot (IRE) filly Crown Towers.

Champion two-year-old Avantage and stakes winner Chance to Dance took the opportunity of an exhibition gallop between races at Hastings on Saturday, a day that saw the powerful Te Akau Racing team produce a notable winning double.

Call Me Handsome (IRE) arrived in Australia off the back of a third behind rising young star Pakistan Star in a Griffin race over 1200 metres at Sha Tin back in July 2016.

Recently purchased for a record $420,000 by Kitchwin Hills at the Magic Millions Perth Winter Sale, Ellicazoom returned an instant dividend to her new owners when she came with a barnstorming finish to win Saturday’s Group III Ladbrokes Cockram Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.

Any breeder would be over the moon to have a mare that produced one horse that could earn over a million dollars so what about one that produced four millionaires and a $670,000 earner?.

The Group II ATC Darley Furious Stakes is the second leg of the Darley Princess Series and produced a quinella for leading sire I Am Invincible with his brilliant grey filly Pure Elation prevailing over Fiesta, who won the first leg of the series, the Group II ATC Silver Shadow Stakes last month.

Teofilo’s outstanding son Humidor completed a 5-timer for champion trainer Darren Weir at Caulfield when he came with a weaving run to claim the $1 million Group 1 NZ Bloodstock Memsie Stakes (1400m).

A career best for Sepoy’s consistent son Native Soldier who turned a competitive looking Group III H.

A brilliant winner of the Group I ATC Australian Oaks in the autumn, exciting Fastnet Rock mare Unforgotten was a well backed favourite in the Group II ATC Chelmsford Stakes at Randwick on Saturday and showed her class with a powerful win in the weight-for-age test over 1600m.

Last seen winning the Group I BRC Doomben Cup back in May, five year-old Fastnet Rock gelding Comin’ Through showed he will be a serious contender for further Group I success this season when resuming with a hard fought win in the Group II ATC Tramway Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.

Powerhouse sprinter Redzel made an emphatic statement with his first-up win in Saturday’s Group III Concorde Stakes (1000m) at Randwick.

The grit and determination of high-class galloper Melody Belle was plain for all to see at Hastings today as she triumphed in the season’s opening Group One feature, the Tarzino Trophy (1400m).

The first black-type prize of the Hastings Spring Carnival is heading back to Cambridge after the Tony Pike trained Cyber Attack claimed the Listed El Roca-Sir Colin Meads Trophy (1200m) on Saturday.

Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum's strapping Frankel colt Farooq made an impressive seasonal debut in Saturday's Sabois 3YO BM 70 Hcp (1250m) at Morphettville Parks.

Hot favourite More Sundays proved disappointing at Randwick on Saturday in an exciting three year-old race packed with spring contenders including promising All Too Hard filly Reginae who claimed a stylish victory.

Given a positive ride by Kerrin McEvoy from an outside barrier, Godolphin’s progressive mare Savatiano eyeballed her biggest danger Shumookh throughout the running of Thursday’s Listed Mona Lisa Stakes (1350m) at Wyong and to go on and earn a well-deserved maiden stakes victory.

French bred Zoffany gelding Carzoff (Fr) gave champion trainer Chris Waller another feature race win when taking out the $160,000 Listed Wyong Cup on Friday.

The most anticipated runner at the big Wyong meeting on Friday was the unbeaten Kris Lees trained filly Smart Melody, who kept her perfect record intact.

The famed Arrowfield Stud colours were carried to victory at Wyong on Friday by promising Redoute’s Choice filly Panzerfaust.

Twin Hills Stud’s Smart Missile finished last season with all guns blazing and has powered through August in similar form racking up his 25th winner of the month at Goulburn on Friday with a stylish debut victory for Torryburn Stud homebred The Soloist.

Thoroughbred ownership for all one step closer: miRunners launches industry-first community partnership program, Geelong Racing Club first partner.

Coolmore favourites Fastnet Rock and Choisir featured overnight in Ireland with smart stakes-winners at Tipperary.

A sire of winners, Ambidexter is quickly making a name for himself as one of the best value sires in Australia, proving successful on the track and in the sales ring.

New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) has welcomed the findings of the Messara Report into the state of thoroughbred racing in New Zealand.

Well known WA owner breeders Bob and Sandra Peters have already had some luck with Pierro, who sired their Group II WA Derby winner Action and they will no doubt have similar aspirations for his brother-in-blood who won easily at Belmont on Thursday.

John Singleton’s homebred mare Girl Tuesday was made a Breednet “One To Watch’ following a winning career debut in a 1400 metre maiden at Newcastle last Saturday and a colt from this celebrated family steps out in the same colours at Royal Randwick on Saturday.

Trainer Mick Price has elected to run O’Reilly entire Grunt in Saturday’s Group I Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield after he grew concerned with the four week gap between runs.

The first of the new seasons 2YO trials were conducted at Te Teko on Tuesday with a colt from Charm Spirit’s (Invincible Spirit) first Southern Hemisphere crop leading his trial field home for Cambridge trainer Tony Pike and owners Frontier Bloodstock.

Champion trainer Chris Waller already has two stakes-winning colts by Zoustar and may well have a future stakes-winning filly in his stable judging by the brilliant return win of Madam Rouge at Canterbury on Wednesday.

Promising O’Reilly mare Our Libretto has kept her undefeated Australian record intact after storming home late to win the Ladbrokes Multiverse Handicap (1600m) by a length at Sandown on Wednesday.

The bidding has finished for the Coolmore Nominations Charity Auction to assist farmers facing drought crisis and the winning bids are as follows.

While the official start to the breeding season is almost upon us and the green pastures in Nagambie are becoming busy with newborn foals, the Victorian breeding industry is aware that for studs and farms further north in NSW and Queensland, their paddocks tell a very different story.

It has been an exceptional first four years for Segenhoe Stud not only blazing a trail in the sales ring, but more importantly the results are showing on the racetrack worldwide.

The opening maiden event at Sandown on Wednesday was supposed to provide Black Caviar’s second born Prince of Caviar with his first win, but at the post the best he could do was second behind another very promising colt by Domesday.

Rich Hill Stud’s stallions were showcased before an enthusiastic audience of nearly 300 at the Walton farm during Saturday’s New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association Gavelhouse Waikato Stallion Parade.

Following an exciting first leg of the NZB Caulfield Spring WFA Championship, an even bigger clash looms on Saturday in Melbourne’s first Group 1 race of the 2018-19 season – the A$1 million New Zealand Bloodstock Memsie Stakes (1400m).

I have lost count of how many people in the Hunter Valley last week mentioned to me about my annual Breednet A to Z of the stallion parades, but at the risk of disappointing some people, I just wasn’t there long enough to do it properly, so have found ‘Six Things’ instead.

This short priced favourite at Pakenham on Tuesday gave Arrowfield Stud’s promising young sire Dundeel another smart winner with staying potential.

An astute $600 gavelhouse purchase provided Nikki White and jockey Lee Callaway’s new training partnership with their coveted first winner.

2019 will see a new union between Greg and Jo Griffin’s Lime Country Thoroughbreds and Tony Santic’s Makybe Stud.

The first two year-old trial in Sydney of the new season was run at Randwick on Tuesday morning with Mark Newnham producing a very smart Star Witness colt.

The catalogue for Australia's best performingbreeze up style auction, the 2018 Magic Millions Gold Coast 2YOs in Training Sale, is now online.

Juvenile stakes winner Vassilator will kick-off his three-year-old season at Caulfield on Saturday when he tackles the Group III McNeil Stakes (1200m).

To assist with easing the crisis faced by farmers during the current drought in New South Wales, Coolmore Australia will donate a nomination to three of its most exciting young stallions – Pierro, So You Think and Rubick.

Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young are no strangers to having runners in the Victoria Derby and a debut winner they produced at Echuca on Monday has a pedigree to suggest that may be a viable option for him as the spring unfolds.

Brilliant Group winning Snitzel sprinter Jukebox will be a popular new late addition at Aquis’ Hunter Valley base this spring at a fee of $10,000 plus GST.

The commercial focus of thoroughbred breeding does tend to concentrate on the stallions, but when a former top class mare delivers two winners in two days and one of them looks like a future stakes-winner, we like to give her the recognition she deserves.

The arrival of a new generation of foals every spring is the source of much delight and excitement to their owners, but the path from cute furry foal to stakes-winner is not always smooth which is why the win of Danawi in the Group III ATC Ming Dynasty on Saturday was quite possibly the highlight of the year for Stud Manager Scott Holcombe and his team at Milburn Creek Thoroughbreds.

The annual Yarraman Park stallion parade last Friday celebrated the success of flagship sire I Am Invincible and put the spotlight on his exciting Group I winning son Hellbent.

Graduates of the Karaka sales complex had a spectacular night at Sunday’s New Zealand Thoroughbred Horse of the Year Awards in Auckland, scooping seven awards including a second Horse of the Year title for Bonneval(NZ) (Makfi).

A 10-strong stallion lineup and warm weather saw a record crowd of 300 plus flock to Sun Stud on Friday 17 August for the 2018 Sun Stud Stallion Parade.

The Australian Stablehand and Trackrider Alliance (ASTA) has been launched to address the staffing crisis currently impacting Australia’s thoroughbred industry.

To assist with easing the crisis faced by farmers during the current drought in New South Wales, Coolmore Australia will donate a nomination to three of its most exciting young stallions – Pierro, So You Think and Rubick.

Coolmore have outlaid considerable investment on Australian bred mares that have been sent to stud in Ireland and one of those mares featured with an impressive stakes-winner overnight with exciting prospect Anthony Van Dyck upping the ante to win the Group II Futurity Stakes at The Curragh.

Bonneval has become a dual Horse of the Year winner, while Fastnet Rock filly Avantage was a resounding top choice as Champion 2YO.

Currently on his 18th consecutive tour of duty to Australia, More Than Ready (USA) will not be returning in 2019.

Dundeel was not the only sire son of High Chaparral (IRE) to have an impressive debut winner at Cranbourne on Sunday.

Arrowfield Stud’s Champion 3YO and Australian Derby hero Dundeel has had just the sort of weekend you would like to see with a new stakes horse in Dealmaker and an impressive debut winner at Cranbourne on Sunday that has connections ‘Derby dreaming‘.

Welcomed back to Aquis Farm in Queensland last weekend for another breeding season, world renowned shuttle sire Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) added a 13th Group I winner to his tally in the US on the weekend when Glorious Empire captured the $1million Sword Dancer Stakes at Saratoga.

Champion Vinery Stud shuttler More Than Ready (USA) is back in Australia for a record breaking 18th consecutive season and if we needed a reminder as to just how a good a stallion he is we saw it in the US on Saturday when his high class colt Catholic Boy won the $1,250,000 Group I Travers Stakes at Saratoga.

Zoustar narrowly missed posting a new stakes-winner on Saturday at Rosehill when Mizzy came up short by a nose when second in the Group III ATC Ming Dynasty, while his two star colts Zousain and Lean Mean Machine showed they were on track for spring when participating in a raceday barrier trial for notorious non starter Chautauqua.

Impressive debut winner Brutal(NZ) (O’Reilly) stepped up to stakes level on Saturday and kept his unbeaten record intact, heading a Karaka quinella in the A$120,000 Listed McMahon’s Dairy McKenzie Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley.

Promising three year-old Snitzel filly Deerupt opened her account at Turffontein in South Africa on Saturday.

To assist with easing the crisis faced by farmers during the current drought in New South Wales, Coolmore Australia will donate a nomination to three of its most exciting young stallions – Pierro, So You Think and Rubick.

It was the final race of the day at Newcastle but it was worth waiting for.

The run of success being enjoyed by Widden Stud’s Nicconi continued on Saturday when his six year-old gelding Faatinah resumed from a spell to score a brilliant victory in the Listed MVRC Carlyon Stakes at Moonee Valley.

Godolphin’s impressive import Avilius (GB) made it two wins from as many starts in Australia following a fast-finishing win in Saturday’s Group III Premier’s Cup (1900m) at Rosehill Gardens.

A five length debut winner at Caulfield back in July, O’Reilly colt Brutal was a raging hot favourite for the Listed MVRC Mitchell McKenzie Stakes over 1200 metres at Moonee Valley on Saturday and kept his unbeaten record intact.

The Group III ATC Ming Dynasty Quality at Rosehill on Saturday produced a thrilling contest with three highly promising three year-olds fighting out the finish.

Unbeaten Star Witness colt Graff made a brilliant return to racing at Rosehill on Saturday with a stylish victory in the Group III ATC San Domenico Stakes prompting his trainer Kris Lees to declare him the ‘best colt’ he’s ever had.

To assist with easing the crisis faced by farmers during the current drought in New South Wales, Coolmore Australia will donate a nomination to three of its most exciting young stallions – Pierro, So You Think and Rubick.

Perfect weather for the Darley stallion parade on Friday at Aberdeen had breeders and owners enjoying a stunning social event while viewing some of the very best stallions in the country.