An outstanding draft of racing stock presented by Godolphin resulted in a perfect clearance rate, highlighted by the top-priced Lot at a successful December Thoroughbred Sale at Oaklands Junction today.

Pierro posted his 20th Australian winner of the season with a tenacious victory at Mornington on Friday for the half-sister to classy Group II winners Star of Giselle and Solicit.

38 winners in 30 days made November a month to remember for I Am Invincible and December is shaping as more of the same with nine winners in the first eight days of December including brilliant Group I winner Viddora.

The $30,000 Starmaker Plate for two year-olds at Muswellbrook on Friday was supposed to provide the Waterhouse and Bott trained runner Whitely with a soft kill on debut, but that plan unravelled when the favourite missed the start.

The Stephen McKee-trained Group I  Zabeel Classic winner Consensus (NZ) (Postponed) could provide her dam Kate Cross (NZ) (Cape Cross) with a timely pedigree boost when she lines up in the Group I Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) at Trentham on Saturday.

Keep a close watch on Werther in the parade ring before Sunday’s Group I Longines Hong Kong Cup (2000m) and it might provide a clue as to the New Zealand-bred’s chances at Sha Tin.

The sales source of Summer Carnival Group One stars Black Heart Bart and Great Shot is ready to deliver more life changers with the release of the catalogue for the 2018 Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale.

Te Akau Racing will ramp up their Group I Sistema Railway (1200m) offensive when Group One winners Heroic Valour and Melody Belle tackle Saturday's Ray White NZ 1200m at Ellerslie.

The most expensive yearling filly sold in 2017 is listed to make her debut at Moonee Valley on Friday night.

An excellent opportunity to gain an understanding of the workings of Australia’s number one thoroughbred auctioneer has become available with an Inglis Bloodstock Internship.

It’s getting close to yearling sale time so in the interests of helping pursue the dream, we thought we’d take a look at the yearling photos of the top class horses of recent years.

One of the world’s most successful shuttle sires, Exceed And Excel recently recorded a significant 250th Stakes win for his progeny.

What an amazing journey it’s been for Bloodstockauction,com with just 27 Lots in our first auction, to now delivering on average 120 horses each and every auction.

Siblings to the likes of Group 1 winners Happy Trails, Faint Perfume, Ortensia, Alinghi, Le Romain and Extreme Choice headline a stellar catalogue for the 2018 Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale, to be held from March 4-7.

I Am Invincible’s Tassie sprint star I’m Wesley added another feature win to his growing resume when taking out the $100,000 Listed Conquering at Launceston on Wednesday.

The Greyville meeting in South Africa on Wednesday produced an interesting winner with the half-brother to in-form stakes-winning sprinter Monsieur Gustave opening his account.

Earlier this week we ran a story highlighting the amazing achievement of stellar producer She’s Discreet in producing 13 foals that are all winners, so we asked our audience for suggestions of other mares with remarkable records.

Cox Plate winner Ocean Park has been enjoying a flurry of success in recent weeks with seven winners since November 22 including his first stakes-winner Ocean Jewel, his latest winner coming at Warwick Farm on Wednesday for the Chris Waller stable.

Champion sire Fastnet Rock has been in the news this week for producing million dollar mares at the Tattersalls Breeding Stock Sale in the UK, but at Bendigo on Wednesday we saw a taste of his new season Australian two year-olds with a stylish debut win for High Ratio.

A hot start to Nirvana In Fire’s career has the precocious youngster on target for a crack at the country’s richest prize.

Five sons of Galileo are likely to form part of six-time Melbourne Cup-winning owner Lloyd Williams’ assault on the 2018 edition of Australia’s great race.

Vastly-experienced thoroughbred identity Henry Plumptre is to play a leading hand in the future of powerhouse New Zealand nursery Cambridge Stud.

The European record for a thoroughbred at auction was broken on the second day of the Tattersalls December Mare Sale when the dual-Group 1 winner MARSHA sold for 6,000,000 guineas to the bid of MV Magnier.

James Harron Bloodstock is proud to announce that Jim Clarke will be joining the team ahead of the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale in January.

Keeneland has cataloged 1,582 horses for its 60th January Horses of All Ages Sale, to be held January 8-11, 2018 including yearlings by Triple Crown winner American Pharoah.

The Magic Millions updated order of entry for the 2YO Classic and 3YO Guineas have been released with I Am Invincible providing the highest rated contender for both races and fillies dominating the overall picture.

Victoria is to have a new $1m race for two-year-olds.

Four juvenile heats at Warwick Farm on Tuesday morning produced some interesting winners with the fastest sporting the China Horse Club colours and trained by John O’Shea.

A Terang meeting on a Monday is not the sort of place I usually look for an interesting breeding story, but a comment on Twitter this morning drew my attention to the win of this filly, who is certainly worth a mention as she is the last foal of a mare we’d all love to own.

Overnight at the Tattersalls December Mares Sales, the first mare to be sold in foal to Chatswood Stud's young shuttle sire Ajaya (GB) went through the ring.

The catalogue for the 2018 Australian Easter Yearling Sale is taking shape, with an elite line up set to grace Riverside Stables on April 9-11.

The Tattersalls December Mare Sale got off to a strong start with the Group 1 winning Fastnet Rock filly INTRICATELY selling for 1,700,000 guineas.

‘Supply and demand’ is not just the name of a good galloper from the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable, it’s also a basic principle of doing business and at the yearling sales of 2018 we’re going to see an interesting phenomenon with the first progeny to be offered of two full brothers.

This Sunday the first conference dedicated to the retraining and rehoming of racehorses after their race careers have ended, was held during the last day of the 2017 Salon du Cheval in Paris.

Covering statistics from the Northern Hemisphere for 2017 highlight the increasing acceptance of top class Australian thoroughbreds with Vancouver (Golden Slipper) and Pride of Dubai (Blue Diamond) the busiest of stallions that travelled from here according to the Australian Studbook.

Young Warwick Farm-based trainer Richard Litt celebrated his good fortune when  gavelhouse graduate Ashkannd shone under lights at Canterbury on Friday night to notch up his first victory in his new colours.

Connections of the promising three-year-old Persian Empire are keen to send him home on a Group One mission.

Well-performed Karaka graduate Nova Strike (NZ) (Red Giant) overpowered his opposition in a runaway victory in Sunday’s S$175,000 Listed Colonial Chief Stakes (1700m) on Kranji’s PolyTrack surface.

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 unbeaten Hong Kong trained three year-old Hot King Prawn, who scored his fourth successive win at Sha Tin on Sunday.

It has been a massive couple of months for Melbourne based writer and pedigree analyst Kristen Manning who is excited about what 2018 may bring with her home-bred galloper Quilate being aimed at the Melbourne and Adelaide autumn carnivals.

Few missed the trial of the David Atkins-trained Jonker on the Beaumont track back on November 21, so it was no surprise that he was sent off an odds-on favourite at his career debut in Sunday’s Max Lees Classic (900m).

Pierro posted his fourth winner in three days with a debut victory at Newcastle on Sunday for a three year-old gelding who carries the same colours as his sire.

A big team of Blueblood Thoroughbreds celebrated a smart Rosehill win on Saturday with progressive Sebring mare Sedanzer, a $125,000 Magic Millions purchase from the Three Bridges Thoroughbreds draft.

Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week including a $1,8 million winner, so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.

Greg Hickman has always had a huge opinion of three year-old Pierro colt Pierata and it proved justified at Doomben on Saturday when he powered clear to win the $100,000 BRC Winning Rupert Plate by nearly three lengths.

Following a heart-breaking second in the Group 1 Moir Stakes (1000m) and a close-up fourth in the Group 1 Manikato Stakes, Viddora rewarded connections with a maiden Group 1 success in Saturday’s $1 million Winterbottom Stakes (1200m).

Peter Lock might not have to wait too much longer for the first Group One success of his lengthy training career.

Patrick Moloney showed his quality at Ellerslie aboard a willing partner in On The Rocks to boost long-term classic hopes for the well-related colt.

Kevin Gray was given further encouragement on Saturday to raise his sights with his in-form staying mare All In Vogue.

There’s no doubt the Al Maher gelding Monsieur Gustave is in the form of his life.

A timely win for Egyptian Symbol in Saturday’s Listed Starlight Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill as her half-sister by Smart Missile will soon be departing for the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling sale.

With earnings of over $1,300,000 it’s no surprise the Testa Rossa gelding Testashadow is a stable favourite in the Portelli yard.

Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott sent out three of the seven starters in Saturday’s Listed ATC Cup (2000m) at Rosehill and they made quite a sight being three abreast in the lead coming around the home turn.

The Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Pretty Fast made it four wins in succession following a dominant performance in Saturday’s Listed Bobby Clarke Mode Plate (1200m) at Doomben.

A gloomy old day at Sandown was brightened up by a first starter with a future.

Pierro had the race favourite Patrina for the 1100 metre three year-old maiden at Canterbury on Friday night, but when she was scratched at the barrier, the Golden Slipper winning sire quickly found an able substitute.

Coming off a chart-topping month with 38 winners, I Am Invincible will be out to start the new month by claiming an honour that has so far eluded him this season, a Group 1 winner.

Group One-winning trainer Fraser Auret has believed for some time that Matchbreaker is a special talent.

The trials and tribulations of Chambord form a lengthy list, but at Otaki he showed exactly what he is capable of when injury-free.

The Hunter’s Thoroughbred Breeding Industry notes the Government’s prohibition of open cut mining on the Drayton South site but this alone does not provide the Hunter’s breeding industry with the certainty it has been calling on for over 6 years now.

Newgate Farm’s dashing grey shuttler The Factor (USA) opened his account in Australia on Friday with a stylish last to first win at Canberra for promising two year-old The Unknown Factor.

Patrick Moloney’s brief New Zealand stint got away to a cracking start on Friday when he guided the precocious youngster Bocce to victory at Otaki, the win a timely update for his full sister that will be offered at Karaka next year.

Keeneland’s upcoming January Horses of All Ages Sale, to be held January 8-11, affords Australasian horsemen value, and thus profit, in a market rich in quality breeding stock.

Day 2 of the Tattersalls December Foal Sale continued in robust fashion with rises across the board and two lots topping the 200,000 guineas mark.

Pierro has had a very good run towards the end of 2017 and has a first starter at Canterbury tonight that will wear his famous blue colours with the red lightning bolt.

38 winners in 30 days made November a month to remember for this red hot sire, who has 44 entries for Magic Millions and if you were having a guess, is not Snitzel!.

As Victoria Derby hero Ace High continues a well-earned break in the spelling paddock, trainer David Payne is already plotting the next chapter of his success which may ultimately lead to a stud career at a major farm.

The following story by Tony Arrold about Magnus gelding Great Shot and his Victorian breeding background was printed in the Australian and published by Thoroughbred Breeders Victoria following his big Group 1 win in the Railway Stakes in Perth on Saturday.

Opening his account with a win at his second start at Vaal in South Africa on Wednesday was three year-old Foxwedge colt The Rocketman.

Popular syndicators Star Thoroughbreds and Prime Thoroughbreds enjoyed metropolitan success with Sebring three year-olds on Wednesday.

Pierata’s owners knocked back a $1m offer and Warwick Farm trainer Greg Hickman thinks the colt can potentially win more than that over the Queensland summer carnival.

Being the last foal of celebrated producer Procrastinate by the great champion So You Think always made this filly a moral to be our ‘One to Watch’ on Wednesday when she opened her account at the ATC metro meeting Wyong.

Stephen Marsh is prepared to have one less exciting galloper in his stable after Thursday’s Avondale meeting.

Cambridge Stud, New Zealand’s most iconic stud, is about to change hands and, very importantly for the New Zealand thoroughbred industry, it will re-main proudly Kiwi-owned.

Currently the leading Australian third crop sire, Sepoy featured in France overnight where he sired three year-old filly Indian Blessing to win the Listed Prix Petite Etoile at Deauville.

Four juvenile heats conducted at Randwick on Tuesday morning were all won by Magic Millions sales graduates with the fastest trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott.

One of Australia's most progressive yearling auctions is ready to deliver more life changing racetrack stars this February with an outstanding line up of youngsters to go under the hammer.

A field of 13 sprinters will compete at weight-for-age in Saturday’s Group I Winterbottom Stakes (1200m) at Ascot.

Powerful syndicates geared to purchasing expensive yearling colts as sire prospects of the future can often salvage something worthwhile from the wreckage through a sale to Hong Kong.

Retired from stud duty in 2012, Flying Spur was back in the Group I groove last month when his son Boom Time won the Caulfield Cup and he may yet add further to his Group I tally in New Zealand.

With both Singular Sensation and Secret Lady effectively now qualified for the 2018 Magic Millions 2YO Classic (1200m) on the Gold Coast, the all women owned pair of fillies are also in the running for a $500,000 Racing Women’s Bonus.

Haunui Farm stallion Showcasing (GB) (Oasis Dream) has enjoyed a strong run of success on both sides of the Tasman in the last ten days, with a Group winner and three further stakes performers as summer racing starts to heat up.

It may have only been a maiden race at Te Rapa, but the win of debutante Capucine is sure to be celebrated as far away as France.

Nigel Tiley unleashed another exciting black-type winner at his local meeting last Saturday and will be hoping he can add his New Zealand Derby prospect Demonetization to that list this weekend.

 The NZB Ready To Race Sale of 2YOs is always one targeted strongly by the pinhookers and there were plenty of winners at last week’s 2017 edition of the sale.

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.

Waikato Stud’s Ocean Park notched up his first stakes-winner on Saturday with another of his daughters up for grabs today in a three in one package on gavelhouse,com.

Cheval Grand played second fiddle to Kitasan Black for the past 12 months but with the addition of the all-conquering Hugh Bowman in the saddle he turned the tables on his old foe and the rising star Rey de Oro in the 37th running of the Group 1 Japan Cup (2400m) at Tokyo Racecourse on Sunday.

A debut winner at Turffontein in Southa Africa on the weekend, three year-old filly Radiant Splendour has a half-sister headed to the 2018 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale.

The memory of the great champion So You Think was recalled at Te Rapa on Sunday when a three-quarter sister-in-blood to the ten time Group I winner saluted on debut.

Snitzel five year-old Dark Eyes won the Listed Canberra Cup earlier this year and the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained gelding added another feature win to his resume when taking out the $150,000 Goulburn Cup on Sunday.

Thoroughbred Breeders Australia’s first Chinese internship program will come to an end on Monday.

Gary Portelli won the Group I ATC Golden Slipper last season with She Will Reign and now has his eye on the rich $2million Magic Millions 2YO Classic with promising Choisir filly Secret Lady.

With just 15 live foals from the last five seasons at stud, the Canny Lad stallion Grande Reve is hardly the epitome of fashion.

There was drama at the start of Saturday’s Listed Magic Millions - Tattersall's Cup (2100m) when the favourite Royal Star was scratched at the barriers.

A $31 shot usually silences the punters but not so for those on track at Ascot on Saturday who welcomed the local hope Great Shot after he turned back the challenge of the eastern state invaders in the $1 million Group 1 James Boag's Premium-Railway Stakes (1600m).

Raised and sold by Newgate Farm, well bred filly Ocean Jewel became the first stakes-winner for her Cox Plate winning sire Ocean Park when taking out the Listed WATC Placid Ark Stakes in Perth on Saturday.

Prolific owner Bob Peters did not have long to stew on the disappointment of Royal Star being withdrawn at the barriers in the Tattersalls Cup when that filly’s sister Perfect Jewel captured the $500,000 Group II Sky Racing - W.

Consistent Sebring mare Notonyourlife scored a valuable Black Type win in the Listed BRC Ubet Classic at Doomben on Saturday providing a great result for her owners Eureka Stud.

Local hero Willie Pike and trainer Adam Durrant made it two stakes winners in the space of 35 minutes when Celebrity Dream stormed home to win Saturday’s Crown Perth-Jungle Classic (1200m) at Ascot.