The Mick Price-trained Hiyaam came to Saturday’s $500,000 Group 1 Vinery Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill Gardens with just a win in a Ballarat maiden to her name but she proceeded to grind her twelve opponents into the ground with a front-running special by Michael Dee.

A stretch out in distance to 2,400 metres was all that the 2016 Melbourne Cup hero Almandin (GER) needed to make a return to the winner’s circle in Saturday’s $1,500,000 Group 1 H E Tancred Stakes at Rosehill Gardens.

Coolmore's Golden Slipper hero Pierro already has an Oaks winner on his sire resume in Pinot and may well end up with a Derby winner after progressive colt Levendi scored a determined victory in the Group II ATC Tulloch Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.

Our Abbadean completed a stellar black type day at Awapuni for her trainers and jockey with the first stakes victory of her career.

Less than a length covered the first six of the seven runners in Saturday’s $200,000 Group II Emancipation Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill Gardens and it was the brave Beneteau mare Prompt Response who emerged a worthy winner.

Outstanding Fastnet Rock filly Avantage won the rich Karaka Million back in January and at Awapuni on Saturday became the 33rd Group I winner for her champion sire when taking out the Group I Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes.

Former Singapore galloper Magnum opened his winning account in New Zealand with stakes success at Awapuni on Saturday.

A two time stakes-winner previously, talented Hinchinbrook mare Spright was right at the top of her game when resuming from a spell at Rosehill on Saturday to score a thrilling victory in the Group III ATC Star Kingdom Stakes.

Taking up his favoured front-running role, Arbeitsam turned back all challengers in Saturday’s Group III ATC Neville Sellwood Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill Gardens.

Rising star Sherrif put up a compelling argument for a trip to Australia with an emphatic performance at Awapuni.

Seven days after winning the Golden Slipper with Snitzel filly Estijaab, Team Hawkes struck again in the Group III ATC Schweppervescence (T L Baillieu) Handicap (1400m) at Rosehill Gardens with the Dundeel colt Irukandji who credited his sire with his first stakes-winner.

A three year-old Lonhro colt bred in North America and trained in the UK by Jeremey Noseda won the Listed Burradon Stakes on the all-weather track at Newcastle Friday securing a start in the Group I Kentucky Derby on May 5.

Lonhro stallion Demerit made it back to back winners of the Group III WATC Gimcrack Stakes at Ascot on Friday when two year-old filly Agent Pippa followed on from last year’s winner Kiss Bang Love.

With 16 women owners, the 2yo gelding Chix Pic had an enthusiastic cheer squad for Friday’s Listed Iron Jack – Perth Stakes (1100m) at Ascot and he didn’t let them down.

The biggest fortnight of horse auctions in the southern hemisphere is almost upon us, with on-site inspections for the Australian Easter Yearling Sale set to begin on Monday.

By now we have all been numbed by the dominance of European imports in our major staying races and Saturday’s $1,500,000 Tancred Stakes (2400m) at Rosehill Gardens is no different.

Brilliant sprinter Caravaggio (USA) will join Churchill on the stallion roster at Coolmore Australia for the 2018 season.

Our earlier story this week highlighting some Inglis Easter ‘Colts to Die for’’ was begging for a sequel, so here we are with a selection of jaw dropping fillies.

Darley’s value Redoute’s Choice son Albrecht sired his second winner on Thursday when the Darren Weirs stable produced a debut winner at Warrnambool called More Bricks.

Third in a Group III event at her previous start, this two year-old daughter of All Too Hard was always going to be a short priced favourite at Pakenham on Thursday evening.

With five new stakes horses in the past month there is a growing groundswell of evidence to suggest Vinery Stud’s All Too Hard is working up to something big.

John and Trish Muir’s Milburn Creek is a stud renowned for success with a history for producing Group I winners such as Sizzling and Hampton Court and sale ring favourites including the sale-topper at Inglis Easter in 2015.

Ruakaka trainer Chris Gibbs will line-up Danzdanzdance in the Group I Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill on Saturday ahead of her tilt at the Group I Australian Oaks (2400m) a fortnight later.

Australian gallopers have drawn starting positions on both sides of the Meydan straight track for Saturday’s $US1 million Al Quoz Sprint (1200m).

Brilliant sprinter Hellbent has been retired after scoring a scintillating win in the Group I MVRC William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley last Friday night.

A first pony at twelve years old and a deep interest in horses has led Bendigo’s Hannah Mika to take up equine studies at Marcus Oldham College.

The Thoroughbred Breeders Queensland Association President, Basil Nolan has praised both Magic Millions staff, and vendors of the Gold Coast Yearling Sale held last week.

Gelding might be the making of expensive Snitzel three year-old Dissolution, who now has his mind on the job and scored a stylish win at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

Second to Estijaab in the Group II ATC Reisling Stakes at her last outing, talented grey filly Pure Elation always looked to be a good thing at Warwick Farm on Wednesday and she duly led home a trifecta in the juvenile fillies maiden for her sire I Am Invincible.

Astute trainer David Payne has high hopes for his progressive gelding Momentum Factor, who cast off maiden status with a strong finishing win at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

Emotions ran high in the Matamata birdcage after Byzantine won Wednesday’s two-year-old event in the hands of Opie Bosson.

A stallion share in Reliable Man is a highlight in the current 86-Lot gavelhouse  New Zealand online auction which runs until 7pm on Tuesday 3 April.

In two weeks time the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale will be approaching the half-way point and while many buyers have been carrying out on farm inspections in recent weeks, the rest of us love to see the yearling images as they are uploaded to the Inglis site, so we’ve gone through and selected some exceptional colts that really caught our eye.

Hero Time became Mint Lane’s first Hong Kong winner on the 7th of March, while Willi Willi became his first stakes-winner after capturing the Listed Albury Gold Cup on March 23.

A hugely successful Inglis Classic Yearling Sale earlier this year to mark the opening of Riverside Stables has paved the way for much excitement as we head towards the 2018 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale (April 9, 10 and 11) with Widden Stud set to present a stunning draft showcasing their formidable array of stallion talent.

Champion two-year-old and dual Guineas winner Churchill (IRE) will stand at Coolmore Australia for the 2018 southern hemisphere season.

So You Think is on a winning roll with the likes of Group winners D’Argento, The Pinnacle and Think Bleue and with maiden winners like this one we saw at Hawkesbury on Tuesday, it’s a winning run set to continue.

Opening his account with a dominant debut victory at Hawkesbury on Tuesday was the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained three year old Royal Advance, a $150,000 Magic Millions purchase for Aquis from the Burnewang North draft.

Fresh from success at the recent Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale where they sold a Kuroshio colt for $45,000, Laurel Glen Equestrian Centre will present another quality draft of seven for the 2018 Capricornia Yearling Sale at Rockhampton on April 8.

Stakes-performed 3YO colts Siege Of Quebec (Fastnet Rock) and Assimilate (Sebring) highlight the early entries for The Chairman’s Sale Racing Prospects.

Due to asset protection and possible tax savings, a Self-Managed Super Fund (SMSF) is generally an attractive tax structure to hold eligible assets.

With the hype of Slipper week we’re a few days late with the 2YO trial report so are all the two-year-old barrier trial placegetters with their breeding and sale information from around Australia and in Hong Kong for the past 10 days.

Tonight at 8pm AEDT join Caroline Searcy to see if you can find another Golden Slipper winner in the 2018 Bred To WinInglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale Preview.

With all the excitement of Golden Slipper weekend it was easy to miss the first winner for young Darley sire Kuroshio, a son of champion sire Exceed and Excel.

Southern-based sires compose the majority of the 121-lot catalogue at New Zealand Bloodstock’s upcoming South Island Sale with the vendors offering a wide selection of the region’s best stock.

Golden Slipper winner Estijaab highlighted the sort of quality that can be found in a Newgate draft of premium mares, her dam Response sold by Newgate for $1,5 million at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale in 2015 to Katsumi Yoshida.

When Richard Anderson of Quilly Park in Victoria decided to purchase a young well-bred stallion and stand it in conjunction with John Pratt at Brooker Park last year, he could never have predicted he would be standing the half-brother to a Golden Slipper winner.

Brilliant stakes wins at her last two starts for speedy Snitzel filly I Am Excited have really put the spotlight on her yearling three-quarter brother that will be offered by Newgate Farm at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

Godolphin’s record-breaking dual European Champion miler Ribchester will shuttle to Kelvinside in New South Wales for the 2018 season.

It’s still the richest juvenile race in the world and has a profound influence over the Australian breeding industry so what did we take from the 2018 Group I ATC Golden Slipper.

After offering Group II ATC Todman Stakes winner Gunnison for a sale-topping $1,4 million in 2017, James Harron Bloodstock will offer a quality draft of three colts at the upcoming Inglis Chairman's Sale of Racing Prospects, highlighted by high-class 3YO colt Siege of Quebec on behalf of Coolmore Stud and partners.

RaceBets have released a market for this year’s leading UK first-season sire title by winners with Invincible Spirit’s champion son Kingman the favourite ahead of Coolmore shuttler No Nay Never (USA), who will have his first Australian yearlings selling next year.

The Group I ATC Golden Slipper produced a brilliant finish with the cream of the juvenile crop rising to the occasion and the top three in betting finding their way into the first four past the post, but the surprise packet in the first four was an I Am Invincible filly now undisputedly Australia’s best maiden.

She was described as a Queen when she was purchased at last year’s Australian Easter Yearling Sale and on Saturday Estijaab proved the Queen of her generation.

Three year-old Al Maher colt Money Maher posted his second stakes win of the season when taking out the Listed WATC JC Roberts Stakes at Ascot in Perth on Saturday.

The powerful Darren Weir stable was in top form on Saturday with a Group double at Rosehill and also feature race success at Mornington where Star Witness sprinter Stellar Collision took out the $200,000 Listed Hareeba Stakes.

After finishing third at Rippon at his first two starts, Kings Will Dream (IRE) broke his maiden over a mile at Pontefract back in July last year.

Darren Weir has become the go-to man for West Australians looking to make a statement on the east coast and his latest success has come with four-year-old mare Quilista.

After placing in three Group Ones, the Stradbroke Handicap, Tatt’s Tiara and Manikato Stakes the Benjamin Smith-trained In Her Time earned a belated win at the elite level in Saturday’s Group I The Galaxy (1100m) at Rosehill Gardens.

It may not have been a Golden Slipper for the battlers but It would certainly have been welcomed at the offices of William Inglis at Warwick Farm and at Arrowfield Stud on the Gundy Road, Scone and as far away as Japan and the United Arab Emirates.

The phenomenal Winx won her third consecutive $1 million Group 1 George Ryder Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill and in the process claimed a world record 17th Group One win.

Dual Cox Plate hero So You Think has quite literally hit a ‘purple’ patch of form in the past 24 hours with new stakes-winners Think Bleue and The Pinnacle followed by sensational grey colt D’Argento, who stormed to an eye catching win in the Group I ATC Rosehill Guineas at Rosehill on Slipper Day.

La Fille En Jeu provided Nigel Auret with a bittersweet victory at Riccarton on Saturday.

Champion Victorian trainer Darren Weir earned his first Group 1 win in Sydney in Saturday’s $700,000 Ranvet Stakes (2000m) and it could hardly have been an easier watch.

The Waratah Thoroughbreds colours were carried to victory in the Group III ATC Manion Cup at Rosehill on Slipper Day by tough stayer Master of Arts, a $110,000 Inglis Easter purchase from the draft of leading New Zealand nursery Trelawney Stud.

Cox Plate hero Ocean Park's trainer Gary Hennessy has an eye on Singapore with the well-bred entire Ocean Emperor.

Torryburn Stud celebrated an early stakes success on Golden Slipper day when their talented homebred So You Think mare The Pinnacle captured her first Black Type win in the Group III ATC Epona Stakes.

The progressive three-year-old filly I Am Excited continued on her upward spiral in Saturday’s Listed Darby Munro Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill Gardens when coming from midfield under a rails-hugging ride by Blake Shinn to make it three wins on the trot.

One of the greatest broodmares of the modern era, Hasili, the dam of five Group 1 winners and Champion Sire Dansili has passed away at Banstead Manor Stud at the age of 27 according to a tweet from Juddmonte Farms.

At her most recent start, Spanish Reef defeated Samovare by three-quarters of a length in the Group III Matron Stakes at Flemington but she left her old foe well and truly in her wake in Friday night’s Group II Sunline Stakes at Moonee Valley.

The 2014 Group I MVRC William Reid Stakes was won by Australia’s hottest young sire in Spirit of Boom and the 2018 edition has given us another future sire prospect with victory going to the hugely talented I Am Invincible entire Hellbent.

The Group III MVRC Alexandra Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday night was won by up and coming filly Think Bleue, a daughter of champion racehorse and dual Cox Plate winner So You Think.

Sun Stud’s first season sire, Fighting Sun was represented by his first stakes-winner when the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Chess Star led all the way under Mark Zahra in Friday’s Listed St Albans Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley.

As we march to the 2018 Golden Slipper, there is no doubt that it will be an incredible battle between Written Tycoon's tough and talented colt, Written By and Zoustar's exceptional and dominate filly, Sunlight.

The catalogue has been released for Inglis Digital’s March Online Auction, with 115 lots on offer.

The evolution of Aquis into a major player in the Australian bloodstock industry has been achieved through the dedication and talents of their staff including Pre-Training and Racing Manager Kacy Fogden, who was involved in the purchase and syndication of Golden Slipper runners Sunlight and Secret Lady.

With just 24 hours before the running of the $3,500,000 Golden Slipper at Rosehill Gardens, Written By’s trainer Grahame Begg must be reflecting on how his life has come full-circle since one of his darkest days thirteen years ago.

Media Sensation made her own headline at Avondale on Friday with a dashing debut win.

The Fairhill Farm dispersal of weanlings next month at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale (April 12) and Australian Weanling Sale (April 15) features two youngsters on the verge of major pedigree updates.

Inglis is thrilled to have up to three runners – Santos, Fiesta and Spin - eligible for the $1m Inglis Classic Bonus in Saturday’s Golden Slipper.

Imposing stallion SHARKBITE is looking for a new home.

Four stakes races at Moonee Valley on Friday night are highlighted by the Group I MVRC William Reid Stakes with last year’s Golden Slipper winner She Will Reign and Blue Diamond winner Catchy facing off against eight rivals, four of them entires looking for victory and a ticket to a stud career.

Snitzel is the sleeping giant on the Australian 2YO Sires List and with three runners in the Golden Slipper could shoot straight to the top of the list, but one of his nicer colts that did not quite make the Slipper field was a winner at Newcastle on Thursday.

One of a number of colts vying to win this year's Golden Slipper and secure a lucrative stud career is Performer, whose sire Exceed and Excel tasted success in 2013 with Overreach.

A year after $20,000 cheapie She Will Reign walked away with the Golden Slipper, the top end of town have a better hand this time but the cheapies won’t be giving it up lightly in this weekend’s running of the world’s richest two-year-old race.

WA based Universal Ruler sired his second stakes-winner of the week when Abdicator took out the Listed Rangeview Stud Classic at Bunbury on Wednesday.

The 2018 Capricornia Yearling Sale will be held in Rockhampton on the 8th of April this year - This annual sale is now one of only two independent thoroughbred yearling sales held in Australia today and offers a three day carnival of racing and sale related activities on the 6th, 7th and 8th April.

It’s been a long time since racetrack results generated by a first season sire have driven a sale ring frenzy, but that is what we are seeing in this country right now.

A misty, rainy day at the metropolitan meeting at Gosford on Wednesday produced some interesting winners including a half-sister to a dual Group I winner that is being targeted towards the Group I ATC Australian Oaks.

Having chased home Golden Slipper runners Santos and Aylmerton at his first two starts, a metropolitan juvenile maiden at Gosford on Wednesday always looked an easy target for expensive Redoute’s Choice colt Tchaikovsky, the Magic Millions sale-topper of 2017.

New Zealand-bred sprinters Music Magnate and D B Pin are both heading to Dubai in search for further Group One glory when they tackle their respective targets at Dubai’s World Cup meeting on March 31.

A full sister to this season’s stakes-winning two year-old Long Leaf, who runs in the Golden Slipper this weekend, three year-old filly Sacredvista broke her maiden in New Zealand on Wednesday.

Cornerstone Stud’s Zebedee (GB) has continued to turn heads with his great results at the sales this year, while continuing his march towards his first 2 year old runners.

The last two Golden slipper winners have been the progeny of stallions standing in Victoria.

On Saturday, 15 pairs lined up at the “Boulerie Jump” centre in Le Mans, for the inaugural stage of the first French show jumping competition reserved for ex-racehorses from the flat and jumps.

With two Golden Slipper winners already on the roster at Coolmore in Pierro and Vancouver, the global breeders have moved to secure a share in possibly another having confirmed their purchase of an interest in unbeaten Siyouni colt Aylmerton.

The insatiable appetite for the latest crop of youngsters by Australian first season sire sensation Spirit of Boom continued today with the Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale smashing records across the board.

Peter, Pauline, Jana and Toby Liston, together with the Three Bridges Thoroughbreds team are deeply saddened to announce the tragic loss of Unencumbered overnight.

This Group II winner at Rosehill last Saturday highlighted a powerful nick between two champion sires that may well be the best of them all.

Sun Stud’s Melbourne Cup hero Fiorente (IRE) has broken the ice with his first winner after Hawkshot won on debut at Ballarat on Tuesday.