Racenet’s Brad Waters highlighted this two year old colt by I Am Invincible as the best of the juvenile trial winners at Cranbourne on Tuesday morning.

Group One winner Summer Passage won’t be returning to New Zealand, but he will be staying in the family.

On behalf of the leading thoroughbred breeders of Australasia, Magic Millions is proud to announce the star studded catalogue for the 2018 Gold Coast Yearling Sale is now online.

With his first Australian two year-olds now out and running, Darley’s Epaulette is coming to the end of his first season with Northern Hemisphere runners and posted his 20th overnight in Italy.

Pages and pages have been written about the double Danehill cross and its much speculated on performance, but comparatively very little is written about the double cross of champion sire Zabeel, who was born in the same year as Danehill, 1986.

Your Song gave us a ‘One to Watch’ at Gosford on Tuesday with an impressive return from a spell for this three year-old in the Segenhoe Thoroughbreds colours.

La Diosa is in prime order as she bids to add another Riccarton feature to her record.

New Zealand’s champion sire Savabeel has continued to scale new heights as a sire in recent weeks, with his progeny extending his number of individual Group One winners to fourteen.

The all-conquering Danehill sireline produced nine of the 25 stakes-winners at Flemington last week including the Group I winners Redzel, Merchant Navy and Shoals.

Astute Warwick Farm trainer Bjorn Baker is not afraid to venture out of the metropolitan area in search of success and produced a two year-old quinella at Queanbeyan on Monday with a pair of Magic Millions purchased youngsters by Hinchinbrook.

What are the chances of a stallion with just four named foals in his debut crop producing a stakes winner?.

David Ellis believes Gingernuts’ nature will stand the four-year-old in good stead during his recovery from serious injury.

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Aquis Farm is delighted to announce the appointment of Tony Scott to the position of Stud Manager.

Kiwi super sire Savabeel enjoyed a high profile double on Saturday with Group I winner Embellish and Group II winner Savapinski, both horses purchased as yearlings at Karaka.

$10,000 Festival Sale purchase Gilt Complex (NZ) (Gold Centre) hit the pinnacle of Singapore racing with a superb fightback victory in Sunday’s S$1.

The Thoroughbred Breeders Queensland Association has applauded the Queensland Labor Government for its support of the breeding and racing industry.

Redzel proved himself the best sprinter in the land and capped off a big day for Inglis graduates on both sides of the Tasman with a courageous all-the-way victory in today’s Group 1 Darley Sprint (1200m) at Flemington.

Foxwedge has been enjoying a winning run of late with seven Southern Hemisphere winners since the start of this month and a new stakes-winner in the Northern Hemisphere on Sunday with Sadilla taking out Listed Premio Buontalenta Mem G Valiani in Italy.

Newgate Farm shuttler The Factor added an eighth stakes-winner to his tally in the US over the weekend with promising two year-old colt A Different World taking out the $100,000 Grade III James Lewis Stakes at Laurel.

A CT scan on Monday morning will determine the immediate future for popular kiwi galloper Gingernuts who suffered a serious injury during his preliminary for the Gr.

The win by Hawkes Racing’s progressive Dream Ahead (USA) gelding Intueri at Rosehill on Saturday proved the perfect lead-in for the Sir Michael Stoute-trained Dream Of Dreams to become the 16th stakes-winner for Dream Ahead (USA) in the Listed Wentworth Stakes (6f) at Doncaster.

The flat season is drawing to a close in Europe, so it proved a timely win for Fastnet Rock’s 3-year-old daughter Star Rock in the Listed Gillies Fillies' Stakes at Doncaster.

Aquis Farm’s ever-reliable Al Maher struck with a stakes double at Ascot on Saturday and both winners look capable of adding further glory over the Perth Summer Carnival.

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.

There was a South African double for Australian breds on Saturday starting with an impressive debut by an $875,000 yearling.

Local mare Aspen Lass belatedly turned her racing fortunes around on her home turf on Saturday with a commanding performance earning her a first stakes success.

Untamed Diamond gained an invaluable black type victory at Te Rapa and connections will now raise their sights with the mare.

For a horrifyingly long time it looked as if Tosen Stardom (JPN) was going to have about as much luck as his stablemate Raw Impulse had earlier in the day, but much to the relief of jockey Damian Lane, trainer Darren Weir and owners Australian Bloodstock, the Japanese came with a barnstorming finish to claim the $2 million Group 1 Emirates Classic (2000m) at Flemington.

The 2017 Melbourne Cup Carnival will be remembered as the point in time when Coolmore’s Golden Slipper winning young gun Pierro came of age as a sire.

Snitzel gelding Redzel left no doubt he is the top seed among the sprinters with another dominant performance in Saturday’s $1 million Group 1 Darley Classic (1200m) at Flemington and it’s becoming terrifying just how much he will bank for connections by the time his racing days are over.

Not long after the Savabeel colt Embellish claimed the NZ 2000 Guineas at Riccarton, Savabeel earned further honours when his daughter Savapinski kept the ball rolling for the training partnership of Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott by making every post a winner in Saturday’s 7News Matriarch Stakes (2000m).

Hopes of a lucrative life after racing for Embellish were significantly boosted at Riccarton where he added a further top-flight victory to his family’s roll of honour.

Winner of the Geelong Cup on October 25, Vengeur Masque (IRE) missed out on a free ticket to the Melbourne Cup when second to Cismontane in the Lexus Stakes, however, it set him up well for Saturday’s $300,000 Group III Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2600m) at Flemington.

A great-great grandson of the champion Emancipation, the Tony McEvoy-trained 2-year-old colt Run Naan did his ancestor proud when he stormed home to capture Saturday’s $150,000 Group III AAMI Maribyrnong Plate (100m) at Flemington.

Eureka Stud’s brilliant Group I winning sprinter Spirit of Boom posted his second winner on Friday with a debut victory for Legal Ties at Rockhampton.

Making a quick back-up from winning a mares race over 1700 metres at Flemington on Melbourne Cup day, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum’s Tahanee (ARG) gets a chance to add to her stakes haul in Saturday’s $300,000 Group II Matriarch Stakes (2000m) at Flemington.

England’s Cheveley Park Stud Ltd paid $1 million for Group 2 producer Fools in Love on Thursday during the third session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Pierro filly Pinot gave her sire his first Group 1 win and her trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott their first Victorian Oaks success with a runaway victory at Flemington today.

Australian bred three year-olds scored a winning double at Turffontein in South Africa on Thursday with a brilliant debut victory for San Fermin and a return to form for Group I placed Naafer.

Little known Tasmanian sire Swinging Bachelor posted a winning treble at Launceston on Wednesday with all three of his winners prepared by Royston Carr.

Aquis Farm has announced an exciting new partnership with Tara Stud, Co Meath, Ireland,which will see leading sprinter-miler and popular freshman sire Divine Prophet shuttle to stand the 2018 Northern Hemisphere season.

Already a stakes-winner in Australia last season, Irish bred Holy Roman Emperor gelding Duca Valentinois (IRE) capped a successful day for Godolphin when winning the $150,000 Listed Ladies Day Cup at Hawkesbury on Thursday.

It hasn’t been the most rewarding Flemington carnival for Godolphin but they did finish Oaks day in style when the Exceed And Excel filly Jorda claimed the Group III VRC Kennedy Plate (1100m).

He might be a Golden Slipper winner, but Pierro has also now proven himself as a Classic sire with his royally bred daughter Pinot scoring a dominant victory in the $1million Group I VRC Oaks at Flemington on Thursday.

All Too Huiying has finally learned what winning is all about and he looks like he is beginning to enjoy it.

With drop back in class and distance, Wednesday’s $150,000 Group III Absolut Stakes (1000m) set up perfectly for the Joe Pride-trained Ball Of Muscle to break back into the winner's circle and he didn’t disappoint.

Tasmanian racing fans have had The Cleaner to cheer for at past Melbourne Spring Carnivals, but at Flemington on Oaks Day it was another Tasmanian idol that hit the heights on the mainland with Hellova Street scoring a bold front running win in the Group III VRC TCL TV Stakes.

Leading Group I prospect Ever Loyal has changed hands ahead of Saturday’s classic at Riccarton.

The Melbourne Spring Carnival provided an exciting start on the Victoria Derby Day when Ready to Run Sale graduate Luvaluva (NZ) (Mastercraftsman) came from the back to score an outstanding win in the Group 2 Wakeful Stakes.

For Royalty, dam of Grade 1 winner Constellation in foal to Bernardini, sold to Summer Wind Equine for $2,1 million to lead today’s second session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, which saw increases in average and median prices and the sale of eight broodmares and broodmare prospects and one weanling for $1 million or more each.

Australian breeders that are using Darley’s Medaglia D’Oro (USA) this spring can congratulate themselves on having secured a rare bargain with the superstar son of El Prado having his US fee for 2018 raised to $250,000 in the wake of siring two Group I Breeders’ Cup winners.

The racing world turned its attention to Melbourne yesterday for the race that stops a nation, and it was on this grand stage that Inglewood Stud’s young sire Zacinto produced his first Australian Stakes Winner.

The Group I VRC Oaks is worth $1million making it the premium spring event for three year-old fillies, but at a marathon distance of 2500 metres it’s not always every girl’s cup of tea and as we saw last year with Lasqueti Spirit, it’s race that can throw up a long shot winner.

The top-priced weanling during the opening session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale was a daughter of Tapit out of Grade 1 winner My Conquestadory that sold for $775,000 to Baccari Bloodstock.

Following the unbridled success of the inaugural The Everest, Racing NSW and the Australian Turf Club have announced prizemoney increases for 2018 and future years as follows.

Champion Stellar Wind will be retired and bred to Triple Crown winner American Pharoah after selling for $6 million to Coolmore’s MV Magnier to top Tuesday’s opening session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, which saw brisk trade from both domestic and international buyers.

THE EVEREST winner Redzel will be chasing a sixth consecutive win on Saturday as he looks to cement his position as one of the world's best sprinters in the $1 Million Group 1 Darley Classic at Flemington.

With the major North American breeding stock sales underway in Kentucky the impact of US bred mares was highlighted at Flemington on Tuesday with stakes-winners Odeon, Ocean Embers and Pedrena all produced from mares carrying the USA suffix.

Newgate Farm's exciting young sire Sizzling made his mark on Cup Day to sire his very first winner.

Two Australian bred three year-olds by More than Ready (USA) and Medaglia D’Oro (USA) posted a winning double at Vaal in South Africa on Tuesday for the Mike de Kock stable, both of them purchased from the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

The first weanlings offered at public auction by Triple Crown legend American Pharoah were in hot demand at the 2017 Fasig-Tipton November Sale on Monday.

Flemington was not the only location for stakes racing on Cup Day with the Listed WATC Burgess Queen Stakes at Ascot in Perth producing a quinella for Widden Stud’s flagship sire Sebring led by unbeaten filly Mikimoto.

he A$150,000 Listed James Boag’s Premium Stakes (1800m) on Melbourne Cup day at Flemington was taken out in impressive style by Odeon (NZ) (Zacinto), who was bought for $77,500 at the 2015 Select Sale at Karaka and was passed in at the Ready to Run Sale the same year.

Chance To Dance bounced back from a baffling last-start defeat to show his true form under top rider Opie Bosson at Ellerslie.

The 5-year-old Beneteau mare Ocean Embers earned a third stakes win in Tuesday’s Listed Mss Security Sprint down the straight at Flemington.

The expectations were high at a packed-out Fasig-Tipton November Sale with two world-class mare Songbird and Tepin due to go under the hammer and they didn’t disappoint.

A sixth Melbourne Cup for owner Lloyd Williams, a second for jockey Corey Brown and a first for 24-year-old trainer Joseph O’Brien when the youngest horse in the race Rekindling (GB) finished best to defeat Johannes Vermeer (IRE), trained by Aidan O’Brien, and claim the lion share of the $6.

Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott know a thing or two about Star Witness fillies thanks to dual Group I winner Global Glamour and seem to have another good one in the pipeline in Our Crown Mistress, who scored a bold victory at Flemington on Cup Day.

Brilliant Choisir filly Setsuna won the $250,000 MVRC Inglis Banner on Cox Plate Day and showed her class again at Flemington on Cup Day when leading throughout to win the Group III VRC Ottawa Stakes with authority.

As anticipation grows in the countdown to this month’s NZB Ready to Run Sale at Karaka, another big race has been added to the impressive roll of honour for Ready to Run Sale graduates.

Animal Kingdom (USA) featured with a winning double at Ballarat on Monday with two well bred colts saluting, one a half-brother to Weekend Hussler and the other from a daughter of Alinghi.

Coolmore have added two more Group I winning sons of champion sire Galileo to their roster for Ireland in 2018.

The Warwick Farm trials were run on the synthetic track on Monday morning with two juvenile heats won by a Pierro filly and a colt by I Am Invincible that is closely related to this season’s stakes-winning two year-old filly Setsuna, who runs at Flemington on Cup Day.

Victory Thoroughbreds’ Gavelhouse purchase Brassy Belle is already providing returns to her new ownership group having run second first up before going one better on Saturday.

On Cup Day last year Gai Waterhouse unleashed a brilliant two year-old I Am Invincible filly called Invincible Star to win the Group III VRC Ottawa Stakes on debut and she returned to finish a close second in the Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes on Saturday, so we thought a closer look at the field this year was warranted.

A sparkling run for second in his final dress rehearsal has promising three-year-old Scott Base primed and ready for a big effort in the Group I  Al Basti Equiworld New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton on Saturday.

A wish granted at the weekend could be the forerunner to wilder celebrations for the Carter family, who bred leading Cup fancy Humidor.

Kiwi connections are serving Kylie Little well as she bids to upstage some of Australia’s most powerful stables at Flemington on Tuesday with Lucyinrio.

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 resumed from a break to win at Sha Tin on Sunday.

The three year-old division this spring has offered a fast changing picture with colts that star one week relegated to also rans the next, but our two Group I winning heroes on Saturday have the bloodlines to make an impact far into the future.

With the 2017 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale now just a couple of weeks away, a graduate of last year’s Sale has starred on one of Australasian racing’s greatest stages and her half-brother will be offered at the same sale this month.

Star Witness featured at Turffontein in South Africa on Saturday with a winning double of three year-olds, both owned by Sheikh Hamdan’s Shadwell Stud and trained by Mike de Kock.

Despite enjoying some truly remarkable achievements over many years, local thoroughbred identity Christopher Grace has no hesitation in labelling the results from Flemington on Saturday as the pinnacle of his racing and breeding career to date.

Twice beaten into second place in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, Medaglia d’Oro (USA) has certainly gained some revenge in the end of year championship through progeny such as Songbird and New Money Honey.

The strong association between Inglis graduates and the stallion-making Coolmore Stud Stakes continued at Flemington today when Merchant Navy won the Group 1 event.

 Twenty-four hours after Rushing Ready gave More Than Ready (USA) his fourth Breeder’s Cup winner when she triumphed in the BC Juvenile Filly Turf, Roy H credited the Vinery shuttler with his fifth Breeders’ Cup winner when blitzing the field in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.

Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past wee so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.

The Tony Gollan-trained Ef Troop kick-started his career with a fighting win over 1050 metres at Doomben on Saturday to credit his sire Spirit Of Boom with his first winner.

A hugely popular win to wrap up Derby day at Flemington with the Udyta Clarke-trained Rich Charm coming with a barnstorming finish under Patrick Moloney to claim the $300,000 Group II TAB Multiplier (Linlithgow) Stakes (1200m).

Trying to follow the form of Savabeel’s daughter Shillelagh could drive you to drink, however, there is no denying her class and she was at the top of her game when downing stablemate Tom Melbourne in Saturday’s $1 million Group 1 Kennedy Mile (Cantala Stakes) at Flemington.

An amazing day out at Flemington for Coolmore stallions with the flagship Fastnet Rock claiming a Group 1 double with Merchant Navy in the Coolmore Stud Stakes and Shoals in the Myer Classic while Pierro chipped in with the Group III Carbine Club Stakes winner Lavendi, but we were again handed another reminder, if one was needed, of the tragic loss of High Chaparral (IRE).

Australia’s best bred filly Shoals raised the bar in impressive style at Flemington Saturday to beat the older mares and win the Group I VRC Myer Classic.

The best way to describe Saturday’s $300,000 Group III Lexus Stakes (2400m) winner Cismontane is that he is a tough, gritty, no-nonsense professional, a typical product of Tulloch Lodge.

It only seemed fitting that a royally bred colt by Coolmore’s champion sire Fastnet Rock should win the $1million Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.

In a head-bobbing finish the 5yo Turffontein mare Lyuba earned a first black-type success in Saturday’s $200,000 Group III Skip Sprint (1100m) at Flemington.

The 2017 NZB Ready to Run Sale of 2YO’s will be held later this month at Karaka and got the best boost possible when the Group II VRC Wakeful Stakes was won by Luvaluva, who was bought out of the sale last year by her trainer John Sargent.

Luckless when finishing sixth in the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas, Pierro colt Levendi turned that disappointment around with a stylish victory in the Group III VRC Carbine Club Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.

Rushing Fall has clinched a fourth Breeders’ Cup Turf title for More Than Ready with a decisive victory in the BC Juvenile Fillies-Group I at Del Mar.

Randwick Bloodstock’s Brett Howard will be in attendance at the upcoming Fasig-Tipton & Keeneland Breeding Stock Sales (November 6th – 18th) - “The World’s Greatest Annual Collection of Breeding Stock”.