The Group I Queen Anne Stakes (1m) produced a blow out result to start the Royal Ascot meeting overnight with Accidental Agent zooming home from last to spring a 33/1 surprise.

The weanling catalogue of the 2018 Inglis Great Southern Sale concluded today with a total of 444 weanlings being sold.

The Waikato Stud colours were to the fore at Pakenham on Tuesday when She’s Popular notched her second win from eight starts when successful over 1400m.

It might look a fairly mundane midweek meeting on a heavy11 track at Pukekohe on Wednesday but don’t be surprised if a future staying talent is unearthed.

Less than 24 hours before the running of this year’s Group I King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot, the 2007 winner of that race, Miss Andretti, has at long last produced her first winner.

Royal Ascot starts tonight and while there are no Aussies in action to cheer on, there are some interesting races featuring horses we should know more about and with three runners in the Group II Coventry Stakes, Scat Daddy’s promising young son No Nay Never (USA) will have the eyes of the world on him.

On the eve of Royal Ascot, the Goffs London Sale produced some strong results albeit failing to achieve the heights of last year, but among the sales was an interesting one for Australia with a stakes-winning son of So You Think headed for the Melbourne Spring Carnival.

Demand for Champion Victorian Sire Written Tycoon was strong as the Woodside Park resident was responsible for the top three lots on day two of the 2018 Inglis Great Southern Sale.

Young gun sire sensation Spirit of Boom has been setting a cracking pace as the leading sire of two year-old winners in the country this season, but had a rival draw level with him on 17 winners on Monday.

Stakes winning mare Ellicazoom is a late supplementary entry for theMagic Millions Perth Winter Thoroughbred Sale and will go under the hammer this Sunday.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club held its first June session of the Hong Kong International Sale at the Sha Tin Racecourse Parade last Friday and all 14 lots offered sold for an aggregate of HK$24,2 million with the top lot by Shamardal and two Kiwi bred geldings rounding out the top three sold.

Graduates of New Zealand Bloodstock Sales won five races at Kranji on Sunday, and remarkably that winning quintet included two half-brothers – Refresh (NZ) (Rock ‘N’ Pop) and Soonbaby (NZ) (Redwood).

Announced last week as being available for Southern Hemisphere time coverings by Aga Khan Studs, Siyouni was making news at the weekend when his top class filly Laurens won the Group I Prix de Diane at Chantilly.

Champion Australian sire Lonhro made his presence felt in the US last week when his promising son Gronkowski finished second to Justify in the Group I Belmont Stakes and he may well make an impact at Royal Ascot with his smart sprinting son Cardsharp, a winner overnight of the Listed Cathedral Stakes at Salisbury.

Fastnet Rock continued a great sales season as lot 97, a weanling colt offered by Rosemont Stud, topped the opening day of the 2018 Inglis Great Southern Sale at Oaklands Junction.

A powerful colt by champion sire Fastnet Rock was a pedigree standout and duly topped the first day of the Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale in Melbourne on Sunday when fetching $300,000 for Rosemont Stud.

Ironmere Broodmare Farm is located on rolling hills with productive creek flats and fronting Lake Eppalock - it is a boutique farm which specialises in breeding and raising winners of the future.

Despite being caught wide the trip and hanging in all the way down the straight, the Phillip Stokes-trained filly Assertive Play made a winning career debut at Morphettville on Saturday to credit Akeed Mofeed (GB) with his third winner.

The current gavelhouse Australia catalogue has something for everyone including pin-hookers, people looking for racing prospects and breeders.

Today's 2018 Inglis Great Southern Sale catalogue received a timely pedigree update with Single Note winning at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

Darley shuttler Dawn Approach (IRE) had a good Saturday in two hemispheres with a stylish winner at Moonee Valley in Tahitian Dancer and also a new stakes-winner at Sandown in the UK when Haddaf captured the Listed Scurry Stakes.

The $100,000 Listed Gai Waterhouse Classic at Ipswich on Saturday was won by progressive Star Witness mare Magic Alibi.

After taking seven starts to break his maiden at Rockhampton, I’m A Rippa looked an unlikely future millionaire, yet here he is breaking through the magical seven-figure barrier following a courageous performance in Saturday’s Listed Eye Liner Stakes (1350m) at Ipswich.

The 6yo gelding Tradesman joined the growing list of former Western Australian horses to win a stakes for Darren Weir when he scored a fighting win in Saturday’s Listed Ipswich Cup (2150m).

A stakes-winner at three, Godolphin’s smart Benfica gelding Eusebio had too much class over his rivals when resuming from a spell at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

Just seven days back, Santa Ana Lane stormed home in the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap to give a timely reminder of the loss to the local industry of Lope de Vega (IRE) who failed to return to Australia after covering 144 mares in 2014.

The Thousand Guineas Prelude (1400m) at Caulfield in September is on the radar for Tahitian Dancer after the Dawn Approach (IRE) filly broke her maiden at the second time of asking in Saturday's Ladbrokes Info Hub Handicap (1200m) at Moonee Valley.

Windsor Park shuttler Charm Spirit (IRE) added another winner to his tally with a Sandown success overnight in the UK for two year-old colt Oberyn Martell.

The feel good foaling story of the year in 2014 revolved around Group I South Australian Oaks winner Asia, who had delivered her first living foal at age 17 following a long and sorry history of not carrying foals to term.

Record breaking Australian first season sire ZOUSTAR, part-owned by Qatar Racing, will stand at Tweenhills Stud in Gloucestershire for the 2019 breeding season.

New to Twin Hills Stud this spring, Smart Missile passed the milestone of siring his first seasonal century of winners with a smart two year-old winner from the Gerald Ryan stable on Friday.

A conversation at the recent broodmare sale on the Gold Coast has resulted in Australian Bloodstock agent Mark Pilkington acquiring a controlling interest in Group One placed two-year-old Kiwi filly Spanish Whisper for client, Seymour Bloodstock.

Scat Daddy’s brilliant son No Nay Never (USA) added a new winner to his tally with an impressive victory overnight at Leopardstown for two year-old colt Parkers Hill.

The Star Entertainment Group is delighted to announce the best three-year-old filly in Australia will be the company’s entry for the world’s richest turf race – The Everest – at Royal Randwick on October 13.

Since Twin Hills Stud made the decision to stand Smart Missile at their Cootamundra farm, the son of Fastnet Rock has knocked up siring winners with a debut juvenile winner at Gosford on Thursday bringing him to 99 winners for the season.

Gilgai Farm’s Rick Jamieson was entitled to feel a degree of optimism when he retired his Savabeel filly My Emotion to the broodmare paddock s 2011.

Lonhro’s Group I wining son Denman is one of the quiet achievers on the Darley NSW roster, but has a star on the rise in exciting Hong Kong trained three year-old Hot King Prawn, who scored his ficth win from six starts at Happy Valley on Wednesday night.

New Zealand Bloodstock announced today their plans for a major move into the standardbred market where they will offer a full complement of their leading auction sales and ancillary services.

Godolphin has shown its support for the VOBIS Sires initiative having nominated all their Victorian-based Darley stallions for the 2018 season.

The Aga Khan Studs SIYOUNI, who has created a sensation in the European bloodstock ranks and made his mark in Australia this season as the sire of leading juvenile colt Aylmerton, is to be offered to Southern Hemisphere breeders at the Haras de Bonneval.

Bought for $260,000 by Spicer Thoroughbreds at the Magic Millions from the Milburn Creek draft, two year-old Hinchinbrook filly Bubbles’n’troubles was syndicated to an all woman group of owners and while they didn’t make it to the Magic Millions 2YO Classic it would appear they do have a very nice filly going forward.

A strong supplementary catalogue including stallion prospect Hardham and multiple Stakes winner He Or She has taken the Great Southern Sale catalogue to 1070 Lots.

Gelding seems to have been a good gear change for promising Star Witness three year-old Sparkly Star, who returned from a spell to score a stylish win at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

The leading sire of two year-old winners in Australia this season, Eureka Stud’s sire sensation Spirit of Boom added a 17th juvenile winner to his tally at Toowoomba on Wednesday.

Spendthrift Australia are pleased to announce that Gold Standard and Overshare have arrived at their Romsey farm and are available for inspection.

Spieth the sprinting sensation by the ill-fated Champion Sire Thorn Park, who missed taking out the Group I  Newmarket Handicap and Group I Darley Classic by the narrowest of margins, has been retired to stand at Aquis in the Hunter Valley for the upcoming breeding season.

Confidence in Stratum mare Miss Wilson’s Australian Group One prospects have been boosted.

If you are going to pay a big service fee on a proven sire, you want to see them on this list.

New South Wales owner/ breeder Kate Nivison of Etak Thoroughbreds is looking forward to the Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale which has proven a fruitful option for her breeding enterprise in the past with seven cracking youngsters set to add to her success at Oaklands next week.

Fairly safe to say we have never found a ‘One to Watch’ at Corowa, but when the last foal of a Golden Slipper winner breaks his maiden in style in the middle of winter it’s only fair to give him his moment to shine.

Mikayla Jeffcoat will join Lime Country Thoroughbreds as yearling manager in July.

Super Easy gelding Easy Eddie highlighted his readiness for loftier targets on Monday when he won the Invictus Sprint (1100m) by nearly four lengths at Randwick’s Kensington track.

The Randwick trials on Tuesday morning featured eight heats for two year-olds and saw the return of stakes-placed youngster Plague Stone and a raft of up and comers including a half-brother to a four-time Group I winner.

The lure of the Group I BRC Tatts Tiara on June 23, the last Group I of the Australian racing season, has kept a number of quality mares in work with several trialling at Randwick on Tuesday morning including Domesday’s Group I ATC Coolmore Classic winner Daysee Doom.

Santa Ana Lane (Aus) (Lope De Vega) continued a fantastic season for Lope De Vega (Ire) (Shamardal) when taking out the G1 Stradbroke Handicap at Doomben on Saturday making it back-to-back G1 successes after victory in the G1 Goodwood in the middle of May, and in doing so, created history as the first horse to ever achieve the Stradbroke/Goodwood double.

Hinchinbrook’s hot run of two year-old winners continued on Monday when King’s Trust scored at Randwick to become his 13th Australian juvenile winner of the season.

Foxwedge has made his name with Group I winning fillies Foxplay and Volpe Veloce and a recent spate of smart winners includes two more promising girls with stakes potential.

Dundeel’s first winner Irukandji captured the Group III ATC Schweppervescence (T L Baillieu) Stakes and there looks to better things ahead for Dundeel’s second Australian winner, Dealmaker, who toughed it out impressively in the 2YO 0SC HCP (1550m) on the Kensington track at Randwick on Monday.

In the news as the sire of Saturday’s Group 1 winner The Autumn Sun, Arrowfield Stud’s breed-shaper Redoute’s Choice featured in another role at Tokyo on Sunday as the sire of the dam of the Group III Epsom Cup (1800m) winner Satono Arthur.

Aquis shuttler Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) has been in top form this year and has a very bright prospect in German bred filly Well Timed, who won the Group II Hoppegarten Diana Trial on the weekend.

Darwin-based trainer Carl Spry celebrated his third win in a row with $10,000 gavelhouse purchase Cunning Moves taking his earnings for his new connections to $46,675.

Cambridge trainer Tony Pike enjoyed a red-letter day at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday with a winning treble that included victory in the feature race, the Listed Daybreak Lover (1200m), with The Bostonian.

gavelhouse graduate Heel Be Jack recorded his second win in succession at Riccarton on Wednesday quickly rewarding the stable by taking his earnings since his purchase less than two months ago to over $14,500.

Darley shuttler Teofilo (IRE) added a new stakes-winner to his tally when Aussie bred three year-old Yakeen beat older horses at Turffontein on Sunday to win the Group III Jubilee Handicap.

Cambridge bloodstock agent Michael Wallace has played a prominent role in American racing history with the win of Justify in Sunday’s (NZ time) Group I Belmont Stakes (2400m).

Eddie Rigg has conjured up a second Group 1 in two years to promote All American at Geisel Park Stud in WA.

It may be a week into winter but The Autumn Sun shone brightly at Doomben.

The Listed Devon Air Stakes at Greyville on Sunday was won by two year-old Bernardini (USA) filly Firdoas, a homebred for Shadwell that was foaled and raised at Yarraman Park.

For so long living in the shadow of his outstanding stablemate Buffering, Hopfgarten created his own little bit of history at Doomben on Saturday by winning the Listed Wayne Wilson Mile (1600m) for the second time.

Bone dry for the greater part of the year, Sydney has not been the place for noted mudlark Jungle Edge, but he found conditions to suit on a cold and dreary day at Randwick to earn a fourth stakes win in Saturday’s Listed June Stakes (1100m) and take his earnings to over a million dollars.

Darren Weir has put the polish on two of Teofilo’s best in the Group 1 winners Palentino and Humidor and the leading trainer has another likely type in the 3yo filly Raptarun who broke her maiden at the first time of asking in a 3yo maiden plate over 1200 metres at Swan Hill on Sunday.

With the magnificent Highland Reel joining the Swettenham Stud roster in 2018, his sister Via Condotti carried the colours of John Camilleri’s Fairway Thoroughbreds to a timely maiden win over ten furlongs at Compiegne on Friday.

After waiting 37 years for a Triple Crown winner we now have two in four years after Justify led every step of the way in the 150th running of the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes (12f).

Star Thoroughbreds and champion trainer Chris Waller celebrated another feature race win at Doomben on Saturday with progressive I Am Invincible mare Invincibella claiming her first Black Type win in the Group II BRC Dane Ripper Stakes.

The Kembla Grange-based trainer Kerry Parker scored a career highlight win in Saturday’s $600,000 Group 1 Queensland Derby (2400m) at Doomben with the All American gelding Dark Dream.

Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman won’t be in any hurry to press the promising Peaceful into action in her classic season.

From maiden to Group 1 winner in the space of six weeks, the rising young star The Autumn Sun kept his unbeaten record intact in Saturday’s $600,000 Group 1 JJ Atkins Plate (1600m) at Doomben.

To say Santa Ana Lane finds it hard to get a lot of love in the betting ring would be an understatement as the shortest price he has started in his three Group 1 triumphs is $12, which came when the son of Lope de Vega put then to the sword in Saturday’s $1,500,000 Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1350m) at Doomben.

Tracking the pace of the free-wheeling Naval Warfare, Tim Clark set the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Sedanzer to an all-out drive before the home turn in Saturday’s $300,000 Group II Brisbane Cup (2200m) at Doomben and the daughter of Sebring was up to the task.

Scratched after raring up in the barriers in the Fred Best Stakes two weeks back, the Chris Waller-trained Sambro was on his best behaviour in Saturday’s $350,000 Group II Queensland Guineas (1600m).

Despite flying under the radar for the greater portion of her career to date, the striking black mare Savanna Amour has been a little star for connections.

It’s 30 years since Bravery achieved the Queensland Oaks / Derby double, a feat the Chris Waller trained filly Youngstar will be attempting later today.

A wide barrier poses a significant challenge to former New Zealand-trained galloper Lucky For All when he tackles Saturday’s Group I Queensland Derby (2200m) at Doomben for trainer Darren Weir.

Back in 2013, Northern Meteor tied up first season sire honours when he quinelled the final Group 1 race for juveniles, the JJ Atkins Stakes, with Romantic Touch and Zoustar.

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.

It may be just early winter but already breeders of the thoroughbred are thinking of the spring, making their plans, thinking about which stallion is going to be the perfect mate for their mares.

Hinchinbrook has had a great season with his juveniles and added an 11th two year-old winner to his tally at Ballarat on Thursday carrying the colours of Peter Moody.

Sun Stud has announced that highly respected industry professional, Robyn Wise, will join its nominations team.

Records have fallen as the curtain came down on what officials have declared as a "phenomenal" 2018 Magic Millions Gold Coast National Sale.

Highly Recommended 3YO Jamie delivered on his trainer’s high expectations at Riccarton yesterday, winning at just his second raceday appearance by two lengths.

Well-related Redoute’s Choice mare Redscilla offered in foal to four-time Group One winner Turn Me Loose in the latest gavelhouse New Zealand auction.

With a new $5 million purse on offer, the Moonee Valley Racing Club (MVRC) has issued thirteen invitations to the world’s best Weight-for-Age gallopers to compete in the 2018 Ladbrokes Cox Plate on October 27 at The Valley.

Darley have enjoyed success through sending top class Australian bred mares to join their breeding program in the Northern Hemisphere and the practice delivered an interesting result in the UK overnight with Lonhro stakes-winner Dysphonia producing another winner in two year-old colt Burj.

China Horse Club International, Head of Plains Partners, Starlight Racing and WinStar Farm’s undefeated Justify, sold for $500,000 at Keeneland’s 2016 September Yearling Sale, will capture the Triple Crown with a victory in Saturday’s 150th running of the $1.

A colt by New Zealand based sire Tavistock led the way to top Day Two of the Magic Millions Gold Coast National Yearling Sale today.

Leading Queensland trainer Tony Gollan took the wraps of his highly rated two year-old So You Think filly at the Gold Coast on Wednesday and you can’t help thinking he believes she might be a classic contender at the Brisbane Winter Carnival next year.

Successful sire ARTIE SCHILLER (USA), who returns to Victoria this season, unearthed another potential star and completed an outstanding week of winners with lightly raced Hawkish strolling to an impressive three length win in the Gr 2 Penn Mile, on turf in the US on Sunday.

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Thoroughbred Breeders Australia is launching a new national training scheme called Fast Track, which will provide a clear pathway for young people to enter the breeding industry.

Widden Stud’s Cox Plate winner Shamus Award featured at the Gold Coast on Wednesday with an impressive debut winner in Malahide.