By the time a stallion’s oldest progeny turn four and we move to the back end of the season it’s fair to say that judgement can be made on whether a sire can be seen as a success or otherwise.

SUN STUD, Victoria’s premier stallion farm, will field an 11-strong roster for the 2018 breeding season, which includes exciting newcomers NATIONAL DEFENSE and THRONUM.

A Spirit of Boom colt today became the highest-priced horse ever sold at an Inglis VOBIS Gold Yearling Sale.

Golden Slipper winner Pierro just keeps producing nice winners including a well-bred filly that carried the Blue Sky Bloodstock colours to victory at Goulburn on Sunday.

Fresh from siring brilliant two year-old filly Seabrook to win the Group I ATC Champagne Stakes at Randwick on Saturday, Hinchinbrook quickly added another juvenile winner to his tally when Hinchrider bolted in at Ballarat on Sunday.

Woodside Park Stud is thrilled to announce that they will be standing the dual Group 1 winner, Tosen Stardom this season for the highly competitive 2018 service fee of $17,500 plus GST.

At Riccarton Park on Saturday, War Front stallion Sweet Orange (USA) recorded his first winner with the very smart 2YO Khimar War.

As Snitzel’s seasonal earnings rocket to over an astonishing $26,000,000, his 4-year-old daughter Sprightly Lass has played her part with a record of five wins and two seconds from seven starts.

Promising filly Thrillster kept up her recent good form with a dominant win in the $300,000 MRC VOBIS Gold Sires at Caulfield on Saturday.

Irish bred Fastnet Rock gelding Fastnet Tempest (IRE) scored his first Black Type win when taking out the Listed MRC Anniversary Vase at Caulfield on Saturday for the Hayes / Dabernig training partnership.

I Am Invincible posted a stakes double at Doomben on Saturday with speedy three year-old Whypeeo taking out the Listed BRC Invader at Aquis Mick Dittman Plate, while classy mare With a Promise captured the Listed BRC Tails Stakes.

So You Think was in hot form on Saturday with two new Group winners after Higher Ground won the Group III ATC Frank Packer Plate at Randwick followed by a scintillating victory in the Group III SAJC Auraria Stakes in Adelaide for exciting filly Sopressa, whose yearling half-brother will be offered at the Inglis VOBIS Gold Sale today.

Australia’s leading second season sire Pierro added a new stakes-winner to his tally on Saturday when his improving gelding Action scored a resounding win in the Group II WATC Derby at Ascot in Perth.

Godolphin’s Street Cry (IRE) gelding  Tally looked top drawer as a three-year-old when he reeled off four consecutive wins including a Group II double before finishing third in Tavago’s Group 1 ATC Derby.

Tick off another box for Snitzel’s high-class son Trapeze Artist who showed he was up for a fight when outpointing a stubborn Le Romain in Saturday’s $600,000 Group 1 Schweppes All Aged Stakes (1400m).

If ever a trainer needed a drink it was Sally McKay after her courageous filly Courte Zarindi upstaged a northern invasion in the Listed $50,000 NZ Bloodstock Warstep Stakes (2000m) at Riccarton.

Lisa Allpress was both surprised and full of praise for Saint Emilion after the Cambridge warhorse fought back to score in a thrilling finish to the Group III Coca-Cola Canterbury Gold Cup (2000m) at Riccarton on Saturday.

Triple Crown may have come up short with Mossman’s $1,300,000 earner Dothraki in the Group III Hall Mark Stakes but they did not have to wait long to strike gold with a highly promising daughter of Mossman in the Group III JHB Carr Stakes (1400m) at Randwick.

Fillies have had the upper hand in the 2YO Triple Crown this year with Estijaab (Golden Slipper) and El Dorado Dreaming (Sires Produce) taking out the first two legs and resilient Hinchinbrook filly Seabrook triumphing in the Group I ATC champagne Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.

Local trainer Nigel Tiley achieved a perfect result on his home patch when he provided the quinella in the day’s feature event, the Group II Manco Easter Handicap (1600m).

Progressive So You Think three year-old Higher Ground is set to make his mark on the upcoming Brisbane Winter Carnival following a tenacious win in the Group III ATC Frank Packer Plate at Randwick on Saturday.

Winless in six starts since the Group III Healey Stakes at Doomben back in June last year when trained by James Cummings, Burning Passion gave the combination of jockey Josh Parr and trainer Mark Newnham a running double at Randwick on Saturday courtesy of a courageous performance in the Group III Hall Mark Stakes.

A bold front-running ride by Jockey’s Premiership leader Samantha Collett landed local runner Azaboy a handsome winner of the Group II  Valachi Downs Championship Stakes (2200m) at Pukekohe.

The powerful Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman training partnership struck gold in the first stakes race on the card at Pukekohe on Saturday when Rubira and Ole Ole fought out the finish of the Listed Diamond Lodge Champagne Stakes (1600m).

The story behind hobby breeder Michael Thomas’ success with the half-brothers Happy Clapper and Not A Single Cent dates back a long way before the purchase of their dam Busking.

Well related More Than Ready colt World Force made a timely debut on Friday, winning the Star Kingdom 2YO Handicap at Muswellbrook.

A day after racking up his 12th winner, boom first season sire Spirit Of Boom produced the 13th.

At the close of New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2018 South Island Sale the key trend that prevailed throughout the day was demand for new blood – with the top three leading sires by average, with three or more sold, featuring Zacinto, Proisir and Ghibellines respectively.

With tomorrow’s Randwick meeting bringing the curtain down on Group One racing for the Sydney autumn we thought we’d have a look at how the sires are faring to this point in the season.

At age 19, Medaglia d’Oro (USA) has handed in his frequent flyer card and will not shuttle to Darley this spring, but we were reminded of his value at Wyong on Thursday with a brilliant win for this three year-old filly.

Rich Hill Stud are expecting new stallion Satono Aladdin to find widespread Australasian favour after setting his service fee for 2018.

gavelhouse Australia graduate Rocksetta has now strung two wins together for Roma-based trainer Craig Smith.

Breeders, trainers and owners alike will flock to NZB's Karaka May Sale on 7 and 8 May to tap into New Zealand’s matriarchal strength that is the impeccable pedigrees of New Zealand-bred mares.

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.

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 the Group III Nell Gwynn Stakes at Newmarket won by a daughter of Lonhro stakes-winner Dysphonia.

Announced as a new addition to the Twin Hills roster this spring last Sunday, Smart Missile was quick to keep himself in the news when siring a smart winner at Randwick on Wednesday for Team Hawkes.

Stakes-placed at Flemington last spring, All Too Hard filly Warranty looks set to gain further Black Type this preparation following a strong finishing win on the Kensington track at Randwick on Wednesday.

Yearlings by the likes of Snitzel, Spirit of Boom, Written Tycoon, Zoustar and More Than Ready highlight a strong Supplementary catalogue for Sunday’s VOBIS Gold Yearling Sale at Oaklands.

Haunui Farm in conjunction with Whitsbury Manor Stud have announced today that Showcasing will no longer shuttle to the Southern Hemisphere.

Cambridge trainer Stephen Marsh is eyeing up his fourth straight win in the Listed Waikato Equine Veterinary Centre 2YO Stakes (1100m) at Te Rapa next month.

Set to stand at the increased fee of $55,000 at Eureka Stud this spring, Spirit of Boom sired his 12th individual winner at Murray Bridge on Wednesday with a facile debut victory for Heaven’s Deal.

Bruce McHugh’s Tamalee Farm near Tamworth is holding an on farm Dispersal Sale on Sunday May 6 featuring broodmares, weanlings, yearlings, racehorses and the resident stallion Arlington, as well as the dam of Group III winner Spright.

An exciting New Zealand Bloodstock Southern Filly of the Year Series draws to a close in Saturday’s $50,000 Listed New Zealand Bloodstock Warstep Stakes (2000m) at Riccarton, with four fillies lining up to take their shot at the title.

Since setting up the Australian base of their global operation in the Macedon Ranges, Spendthrift’s commitment to the Victorian breeding industry has been unwavering.

The Southern Hemisphere's number one weanling sale is ready to deliver more life changing opportunities for buyers.

Coolmore have announced the sad passing of Giant’s Causeway, who died last night aged 21 at his Kentucky birthplace Ashford Stud, after a brief illness.

The hammer came down on the final Lot of the Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale this evening, bringing an end to an historic first Easter sales period at Riverside Stables.

Champion sire Exceed and Excel had a couple of well-bred fillies in the juvenile maiden at Hawkesbury on Tuesday, but while his expensive one failed to fire, the other won like a filly going places with a shot at Black Type looming on the horizon.

For owner Yvette Pearce and the team at Torryburn Stud, the prospect of El Dorado Dreaming crossing the line to win the G1 Sires Produce Stakes at Randwick last Saturday seemed like a pipe dream.

Unforgotten’s victory in the Group I Australian Oaks (2400m) provided a pair of New Zealand racing identities with a result to savour.

At the close of trade on Tuesday, Aquis were the leading buyer at the Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale outlaying $636,000 on 14 lovely mares, plus another in partnership with Rothwell Park that will be covered by Invader.

The 2018 Karaka May Sale is exhibiting a major enhancement to the Yearling section with all yearlings offered now eligible to be nominated for the lucrative Karaka Million Series.

Gavelhouse graduate Scandalo took his earnings past the $100,000 mark when winning at Hastings on Saturday over 1400m.

With the autumn carnival all but over and the back end of the season approaching, the 2YO trials get interesting with the late season types coming out so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information from the past week.

A juvenile maiden at Hawkesbury on Tuesday has drawn an interesting field including the most expensive filly ever sired by Exceed and Excel and the full brother to Group I winner Sweet Idea.

Street Cry mare Ghenwaa – in foal to Golden Slipper winner Sebring – topped Day 2 of the Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale at $300,000 at Riverside Stables today.

Widden Stud have announced fees on an outstanding roster of eight stallions headed by the mighty Sebring and Champion Australian First Season Sire elect Zoustar.

Every time a horse wins a stakes race he or she brings added value to their entire family so Breednet have taken a look at the dams of these stakes-winners from last week to see what’s in the pipeline.

The 2018 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale produced some dazzling results with 334 horses sold to some of the biggest buyers in the world, but a recent email from one of our readers reminds us that sometimes the good judges do not find the good horses.

Eureka Stud have set fees for their stallions including first season sire sensation Spirit of Boom, who will jump from $11,000 to $55,000.

Aquis have made a big impression in every area of the Australian bloodstock market and featured on Saturday not only as the buyer of smart Adelaide two year-old stakes-winner Fundamentalist, but also as the vendor of the other stakes-winner on the Morphettville program in Spring Choice.

Pop Diva provided Te Awamutu-based trainer Clint Isdale with a promising debut at Waipa on Wednesday, running on well for third in the NZB Pearl Series Race.

Recent Group 1-performing Kiwi-breds have provided a timely boost to several pedigree pages, along with other outstanding performances, for the upcoming NZB South Island Sale held at the Riding for the Disabled Building at the Canterbury Agricultural Park in Christchurch on 20 April.

The griffin race at Sha tin on Sunday was won in explosive fashion by exciting Starspangledbanner two year-old Styling City, his most expensive yearling sold in 2017.

Sebring posted an international stakes double on Saturday with promising two year-old filly Futooh winning the Listed ATC Fernhill Handicap at Randwick, while in Macau progressive three year-old Bring Me Speed landed the Lisboa Challenge.

Unforgottwen(Fastnet Rock) stormed home for an impressive win in Saturday’s A$1 million Group 1 James Boag’s Premium Australian Oaks (2400m) at Randwick, becoming the fourth consecutive Karaka graduate to win Sydney’s prestigious fillies’ classic.

The first Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale at Riverside Stables has begun in outstanding fashion, with a top price of $255,000 and clearance rate of 92% on Day 1.

Smart Missile, Australia’s leading third crop sire by winners, will stand at Twin Hills Stud in Cootamundra for the 2018 season at a fee of $13,200.

2018 has seen yearling vendors achieve great pin-hooking successes and turnover some very handsome profits selling yearlings that were purchased from Aquis’ 2017 weanling drafts.

Less than 24 hours after watching his pride and joy, Who Shot Thebarman, seal his first Sydney victory in thrilling fashion in the Group I Sydney Cup (3200m), part-owner Dan O’Leary admits he is still walking on air.

On a day when the Chris Waller stable won three Group I races at Randwick, the success continued interstate with Yarraman Park bred and sold Hinchinbrook filly Improvise winning the Listed Princess Stakes at the Sunshine Coast.

A horse named after his Lot number at Karaka has delivered a big black-type win for his connections, taking out Saturday’s A$150,000 Listed Ladbrokes Galilee Series Final (2400m) at Caulfield.

Progressive Choisir gelding Spring Choice is building an impressive record for the Leon and Troy Corstens stable stepping up to stakes class at Morphettville on Saturday to win the Listed SAJC Port Adelaide Guineas.

Arrowfield Stud’s Not A Single Doubt had an interstate stakes double on Saturday and they came at opposite sides of the distance and starting price spectrum.

In a tremendous boost to Australia’s stallion ranks, Swettenham Stud has announced that globe-trotting great, HIGHLAND REEL (IRE), will stand in Victoria this spring.

Alizee has not had the rub of the green in three starts since winning the Group II Light Fingers Stakes back in February but the brilliant daughter of Sepoy was back to her explosive best in Saturday’s $1 million Group I Coolmore Legacy Stakes (1600m) at Randwick.

The Inglis Easter sale-topper and three stakes-winners at Randwick on the second day of The Championships including Group I ATC Australian Oaks winner Unforgotten made this a week to remember for Coolmore’s champion sire Fastnet Rock.

Twelve months ago Who Shot Thebarman fell in the Sydney Cup and many thought they had seen the last of the honest stayer.

With her facile victory in Saturday’s $4 million Longines Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m), Winx equalled the record of the undefeated Black Caviar with 25 wins in succession and this one must rate highly on her exceptional regime.

A brilliant winner of the Group I MRC Blue Diamond last season at two, classy Fastnet Rock filly Catchy produced her very best at Randwick on Saturday to score a scintillating last to first win in the $600,000 Group II ATC Arrowfield Sprint against the colts.

Yarraman Park’s I Am Invincible showed why he was one of the most popular stallions at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale this week when his talented two year-old daughters Pure Elation and Fiesta fought out the finish of the $600,000 Group II ATC Percy Sykes Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.

Fresh from dominating at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale earlier this week where he was the leading sire by average, champion sire Fastnet Rock was quickly into the frame at Randwick on the second day of The Championships when California Turbo won the Listed ATC South Pacific Classic.

Trelawney Stud enjoyed a stellar Saturday with a stakes double at Hastings following results to savour in Australia.

There is no black-type for the Polytrack Provincial Championship final (1400) at Royal Randwick but the connections of Serene Miss can console themselves with the $270,000 winner’s cheque.

At her most recent start, Futooh never saw daylight when beaten out of a place in the Group III Baillieu Handicap at Rosehill and for a good while in Saturday’s Listed China Horse Club Mile (Fernhill Stakes) (1600m) at Randwick, a similar scenario looked likely.

In 2010, a new farm was foaling down for the first time and towards the end of the season a chestnut filly arrived by Choisir from the well related American mare Chello Chello (USA).

Quality Irish sprinter miler Psychedelic Fun made a winning seasonal return at Naas overnight, the four year-old son of Choisir scoring a dominant win in the Group III Gladness Stakes.

A quality line up of gallopers will go under the hammer next Friday (April 20) when the 2018 Magic Millions Perth Autumn Racehorse Sale is held at Belmont Park Racecourse.

One of the most interesting aspects of the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale is always the performance of first season sires and this year it was I Am Invincible’s first son to go to stud, Brazen Beau that finished on top by average for three or more sold.

When a mare throws a yearling that sells for seven figures, everyone would like a part of the action.

Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas winner Divine Prophet received a warm welcome at Aquis in the Hunter Valley last spring when covering his first book of 170 mares and two of those mares were sold at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale last night selling for $200,000 and $170,000.

Snitzel’s brilliant Group I winning son Invader is an exciting addition to the Aquis roster and will not be short of quality partners with two outstanding young mares secured at last night’s Inglis Chairman’s Sale set to join his debut book of mares.

Larneuk Stud's Neville Murdoch enjoyed a great day at Randwick last Saturday, excited enough when his home-bred O' So Hazy was a gallant third after facing the breeze in the Country Championship Final and just over an hour later delighted when El Dorado Dreaming broke her maiden in spectacular fashion in the Gr.

Coolmore have announced fees on an exceptional Australian roster of 15 stallions including exciting prospect Merchant Navy, who will stand alongside his champion sire Fastnet Rock.

Group 1-placed mare Gypsy Diamond topped the Chairman’s Sale Breeding Prospects at Riverside Stables at $1,350,000.

In the midst of a week including two Championships meetings and the Easter Sale, there’s an unheralded debutant in a Newcastle maiden on Saturday that will likely have her name up in lights one way or another in this same famous week going forward.

A three-time Group-winning mare offered by Newhaven Park Stud in foal to one of the best stallions in the country changed hands for $1,35 million at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale – Elite Breeding Prospects on Thursday.

The $1million Group I ATC Australian Oaks at Randwick this Saturday has drawn a quality field of 13, but with VRC Oaks winner Pinot absent there are plenty of up and comers looking to win this time-honoured classic.

NZB’s upcoming Karaka May Sale has gained widespread attention from racing enthusiasts with proven racetrack success coupled with a golden opportunity for pinhooking prowess.

First season sire Vadamos is represented by his first in-foal mare for sale on gavelhouse,com.