Pride of Dubai mares can never be under-estimated and tough stayer Deny Knowledge (IRE) soared to new heights at Caulfield on Saturday when she led in the Group I MRC Might and Powers Stakes (2000m) and kicked away to beat hot favourite Mr Brightside by three-quarters of a length.

The 8-year-old Frankel gelding Herman Hesse (GB) is in the form of his life, backing up his win in the Listed Ansett Classic at Mornington with a dominant performance in Saturday’s Group II Sportsbet Herbert Power Stakes (2400m) at Caulfield.

Switzerland’s return to form in Saturday’s Group II Canadian Club Roman Consul Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill has set Coolmore a conundrum for their slot in The Everest next week.

Quality I Am Invincible colt Anode has shown glimpses of brilliance in his career to date, but he needs a good track to show his best and he got it at Rosehill to claim his first Black Type win in the $500,000 Listed ATC Tapp Craig (1400m).

A trophy that slipped through Brendan and Jo Lindsay’s grasp in their early days of racehorse ownership now has pride of place in the Cambridge Stud trophy cabinet, thanks to a stunning coming-of-age performance by Snazzytavi in Saturday’s Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2040m) at Te Rapa.

Exciting prospect Jimmysstar made a one-act affair of the Listed Weekend Hussler Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday when powering to a two and a quarter length victory.

North Island raider Raziah produced a brilliant burst of speed to make it back-to-back victories at stakes level when she took out the Gr.3 Barneswood Farm Stakes (1400m) at Ashburton on Saturday.

Spencer, the find of the winter sprinting ranks, showed he could be just as effective on better going when he claimed a decisive victory in the Gr.3 Valley D’Vine Restaurant Spring Sprint (1400m) at Te Rapa on Saturday.

Danny O’Brien was critical of Damian Lane’s ride on Grinzinger Belle in the Group II Stocks Stakes at Moonee Valley but was full of praise for the leading rider after he timed it inch perfect in Saturday’s Group III Catanach's 150 Years Vase (1600m).

Anthony Cummings is never frightened to set the bar high for a promising horse and when Castelvecchio three year-old El Castello broke his maiden at Warwick Farm at the start of September his trainer was talking G1 Spring Champion Stakes and that goal is well and truly on track.

Four-year-old gelding Medatsu notched his fourth victory from 11 starts when running out a strong winner of the Vale John Nicholson Handicap (2000m) at Rosehill on Saturday.

Price Bloodstock’s 4-year-old Smart Missile mare Aviatress put a competitive field of mares to the sword in Saturday’s Group III Senet Northwood Plume Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.

A $390,000 Inglis Premier purchase for Clarken Bloodstock / Ridgeport Holdings from the Yarraman Park draft, Written Tycoon filly Kuroyanagi was good enough to run third in the Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes last season and showed her class to win at Caulfield on Saturday.

It’s been a big week for Wootton Bassett (GB) with a new juvenile Group I winner last Sunday in Camille Pissarro, a 4.3million history making colt at Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 and then overnight his  five year-old son Topgear posted a career best win in the Group II Newmarket Challenge Stakes (7f).

Here is the full list of 57 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

With the defection of Pericles to the Hill Stakes at Rosehill, it leaves the door ajar for another son of Street Boss (USA), Another Wil, to register his first Group 1 success in the Hyland Race Colours Toorak Hcp (1600m) at Caulfield.

It’s been a great week for Cambridge Stud having  bred and sold Group I ATC Epsom Handicap winner Ceolwulf and our stallions Almanzor (Fr) and Hello Youmzain (Fr) have also been making their own news.

Busy covering an elite book of mares at Coolmore Australia this spring, Wootton Bassett is enjoying a benchmark year with his NH bred juveniles and his success has been reflected in the sale ring this week,

Racing Australia is pleased to announce that the Australian Pattern has been reviewed to form the new ‘Australian Black Type Guidelines’.

No one would bat an eyelid if Dom Sutton talked up Feroce's appearance in Saturday's $3 million Group One Caulfield  Guineas as the culmination of a plan he made when he first laid eyes on him.

With his first Aussie bred yearlings to be offered in 2025, St Mark’s Basilica has been super popular at European yearling sales this year and demand for progeny of the champion son of Siyouni continued at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 this week where he was the leading first season sire by average.

Ashburton couple Sarah and Chris Green and business partner Ger Beemsterboer have experienced plenty of highs in racing under their Barneswood Farm banner, but this weekend could prove to be the pinnacle in their racing endeavours.

Group One-winning Australian sprinter Uncommon James could be in line for a trip across the Tasman to contest the Gr.1 Telegraph (1200m) and Gr.1 Sistema Railway (1200m) in January.

Matamata trainers Graham Richardson and Rogan Norvall are on weather watch as they prepare to shoot for $650,000 in prizemoney across a pair of Group races this weekend.

The 2024-25 season is about to move up a gear for Lance Noble, who has eight entries this weekend including highly talented mare Luberon in Sunday’s Gr.3 Sweynesse Stakes (1215) at Rotorua.

When a young stallion has two winners and two placegetters amongst his first five runners from limited opportunities it is time to sit up and take notice!

Records continued to be shattered in the Tattersalls sale ring on the third and final day of Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale with a colt by Coolmore shuttler WOOTTON BASSETT selling for 4,300,000 guineas, the highest price for a yearling colt in the world in 2024 and a European record for a yearling colt.

Here is the full list of 38 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The New Stars classes at Equimillion this year were a fresh innovation designed to showcase the next wave of equestrian horses emerging from the racetrack and to be eligible the contenders needed an official retirement date with Racing Australia that was within 12 months of the show, so who were the 112 horses and riders that rose to the challenge.

Everest hero Yes Yes Yes posted a winning double on Thursday putting him to the top of the table of second crop sires by wins with his eight winners to date racking up 11 wins, which is one ahead of Too Darn Hot (GB).

Breeding and racing are all about youth and the future, and I’m not just talking about the horses.

New Zealand syndicator Fortuna’s silks have been to the fore during Melbourne Cup Week through the deeds of Melody Belle, and they are hoping they can feature prominently once more through their rising star Bellatrix Star, a daughter of Widden Victoria's Star Witness.

One of the stars of the 2020 Melbourne Spring Carnival was talented stallion Russian Camelot (IRE), who won the Group I MRC Underwood Stakes before placing in both the Group I MRC Caulfield Stakes and Cox Plate with his full brother a highlight horse at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 overnight selling for 600,000 guineas.

It came as no surprise to Steven Cole that Customized was unfazed by the lengthy trip south from Byerley Park to Christchurch.

Pride Of Jenni’s crowning as the 2023/24 Australian Horse of the Year provided breeder Trelawney Stud with a welcome change of fortune.

Southside Racing have unveiled a lucrative slot racing series this year, with each of the two A$1 million races in the series also becoming qualifying races for New Zealand’s inaugural Sport Nation Champion Sprint series.

Worth a whopping $3million, the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas (1600m) run this Saturday in Melbourne, has been won by some outstanding colts over the years, so we thought we’d take a look at the fortunes of the past winners who have gone to stud in Australasia.

The fireworks continued at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale on the second day with a full sister to CHARYN topping proceedings at 2,900,000 guineas, five million guineas lots and twenty six yearlings that realised 500,000 guineas or more.

The Inglis Digital October (Early) Online Sale has concluded this afternoon, with two lots realising $100,000 or more to bring to 94 the number of lots to reach that mark on Inglis Digital this year. 

Here is the full list of 38 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Super impressive when winning on debut at Canterbury back in July, three year-old Extreme Choice filly Extremely Hardys returned at Randwick on Wednesday in a Benchmark 72 event over 1250m and kept her record perfect.

Talented Rubick mare French Endeavour brought a touch of class to the midweek meeting at Randwick on Wednesday with a return to stakes company on the cards after her dominant length and three-quarter win.

Racing Australia is pleased to announce the elevation of two  major races to Group 1 Status.

It was all about Pride of Jenni at the star-studded Australian Racehorse of the Year Awards last night at the Wolf Blass Event Centre at Morphettville Racecourse.

New Zealand Horse of the Year Imperatriz had a near perfect season in Australia last term and was duly crowned Champion Sprinter at the Australian Horse of the Year Awards in Adelaide on Tuesday.

When Wootton Bassett (GB) first started shuttling to Coolmore Australia in 2021 there was much talk about what the future would hold for this exciting sire when his first Coolmore conceived progeny came online and if we fast forward three years the future is now.

The $3million MRC Caulfield Caulfield (1600m) is the highlight race for three year-olds this weekend and newly crowned Australian Champion 2YO 2023/2024 Broadsiding will run a short priced favourite.

Yulong purchased Group I ATC TJ Smith Stakes winner Chain of Lightning at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale this year for $2.5million and after two below par runs this spring, the $2.7million earner will now be retired to stud.

An electric atmosphere and frenzied trade characterised a remarkable opening session at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale with a FRANKEL filly realising 4,400,000 guineas, the second highest price for a yearling in European auction history, and eighteen lots realising 500,000 guineas or more.

A quality packed catalogue for the NZB Ready to Run Sale is now online and in the lead up to the sale we’ll go looking each week for some horses of interest that jump out on pedigree for various reasons

Here is the full list of 30 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

There were two juvenile heats at Randwick on Tuesday morning won by Gai and Adrian and also James Cummings, but before they were run the G1 stars stepped out in a rare heat where every runner was a G1 winner!

Proven stayer Mahrajaan remains firmly on target for a crack at the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) despite the weather ruling out an intended lead-up outing.

The last piece of Everest puzzle has fallen into place with news Yulong will  fill their slot for the $20million sprint on October 19 with three year-old Zoustar colt Growing Empire.

The Equimillion four day show at Sydney International Equestrian Centre wrapped up on Monday evening after a marathon day of showjumping and while there will be some follow up stories come out of it, yours truly is exhausted this morning so for now this just straight links to the various discipline results so if you had an interest in a particular horse or rider read on.

Australia is one of the great horse racing countries of the world, a fact that has come into sharp focus due to the world class performances of many of its racehorses on the world stage over the last twenty-five years. Consider the performances of the likes of Choisir, So You Think, Haradasun, Elvstroem, Black Caviar, Nature Strip and, of recent times, Asfoora, at Royal Ascot in the past 25 years.

New Zealand’s darling of the turf Orchestral is set to cross the Tasman this week to tackle the Gr.1 Toorak Handicap (1600m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

Multiple Group One winner Mustang Valley has joined her mother in the Windsor Park Stud broodmare band with both set to visit the Cambridge farm’s new stallion Paddington.

In form gelding Wolfgang has secured a plane ticket across the Tasman this week to tackle Saturday’s Gr.2 Herbert Power Stakes (2400m) at Caulfield.

Inglewood Stud is in the running to defend its title in the Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m).

Here is the full list of 34 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The Everest picture is just about finalised with Godolphin announcing their runner and the newly vacant slot held by Max Whitby, Neil Werrett and Col Madden making their selection after Saturday’s races.

There was much to like about the victory of the 3-year-old Written Tycoon gelding Hammett, who ran down the well-backed Frankel colt Viktor in the Racing And Sports Maiden Hcp (1600m) at Warwick Farm.

An electrifying performance from the Justify (USA) filly Ramatuelle, who demolished a quality field of sprinters in the Group 1 Qatar Prix de la Foret Presente par Education Above All (1400m) at Longchamp and stamped her ticket to the Breeders Cup Mile.

A record-breaking seventh winner of the Group 1 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (2400m) for Juddmonte Farms as Camelot’s daughter Bluestocking triumphed for Ralph Beckett and Rossa Ryan.

Coolmore hit the board on Day 2 at Longchamp when the 2-year-old colt Camille Pissarro emulated the feat of his sire Wootton Bassett (GB) in the Group 1 Qatar Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere (1400m).

A shock for punters to start Arc Day at Longchamp with the outsider Vertical Blue ending the unbeaten record of stablemate Zarigana in the Group 1 Qatar Prix Marcel Boussac - Criterium des Pouliches (1m) for 2yo fillies.

The debutant Swifties jumped a length in front when the barriers opened and that was as close as the opposition came to the daughter Capitalist in Sunday’s Tim Miller Electrical Maiden Plate (1000m) at Bendigo.

Plenty of encouragement is coming from Japan for supporters of Arrowfield Stud shuttler Admire Mars (JPN), who added another three first-crop winners on Saturday.  

Disappointment gave way to unbridled joy for Hermitage Thoroughbreds and Arrowfield Stud when Inglis Easter graduate Lady Shenandoah secured G1 glory in today’s Darley Flight Stakes over 1600m at Randwick.

We’re getting into the swing of things in podcast land so here we go again in a new episode where we talk racing and how it relates to breeding, listen in to Craig “Clocker’ Tompson and Tara Madgwick each week during spring as we talk about the past weekend where we saw the first of the new season juveniles – what do you think about two year-old racing? it seems to polarise

Three stakes races for new season juveniles were run in Sydney and Melbourne on Saturday delivering new stakes-winners for Extreme Choice and Hellbent, plus a first stakes-winner for Ole Kirk with his first runner.

Tough staying import Land Legend (Fr) got the ball rolling for his legendary sire Galileo when taking out the Group I ATC The Metropolitan at Randwick on Saturday and then overnight in France he sired two more Group I winners and a Group II winner for good measure.

Here is the full list of 127 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

There were seventeen stakes races Australia-wide on Saturday, and you would be hard-pressed to find a better ride than Willie Pike's on the favourite Starry Heights in the Listed XXXX Kalgoorlie Cup (23000m).

A race-to-race double at Flemington for Gilltown Stud’s Sea The Stars as Uncle Bryn (GB) caused a boilover in the Winning Edge Presentations Paris Lane Stakes (1400m) before Just Fine (IRE) went coast to coast in the Group III Bart Cummings.

A multiple Group II winner with a couple of G1 placings to her name, Russian Revolution mare Revolutionary Miss has had a change of trainer leading into a new campaign with Ciaron Maher taking over and he got an immediate result when she saluted in the Group II VRC Rose of Kingston Stakes (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday.

Supporters of Just Fine (IRE) headed to the bar after the son of Sea The Stars clung to a rapidly diminishing head victory in Saturday's $500,000 Group III The Lexus Bart Cummings (2520m) at Flemington, earning a Golden Ticket to the Melbourne Cup.

Progressive Zoustar mare Right to Party keeps stepping up through the grades and her liking for the straight track at Flemington delivered another feature win when she arrived on the line to win the Group II VRC Gilgai Stakes (1200m) on Saturday.

A two-time second placegetter at the elite level last autumn, Ceolwulf put the spotlight firmly on himself with a stunning coming-of-age performance in Saturday’s Gr.1 TAB Epsom Handicap (1600m) at Randwick.

The French-bred import Land Legend (FR) earned Chris Waller a sixth win in the James Squire Metropolitan (2400m) at Randwick, a first Group 1 for Reece Jones and an astonishing 102nd Group 1 winner for Galileo, but it did not come without drama.

If we needed a lesson as to why the Fastnet Rock x Galileo nick has been so amazingly successful we got it in the $750,000 Group I VRC Turnbull Stakes (2000m) at Flemington where the Chris Waller trained NH bred stablemates Via Sistina (IRE) and Buckaroo (IRE) went to the line locked together.

Autumn Glow's setback paved the way for Chris Waller's able back-up, Lady Shenandoah, to dominate in the Group 1 Darley Flight Stakes (1600m) at Randwick.

Two promising colts, First Settler and Reserve Bank, trained by Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr, fought out the finish of Saturday's Group II Danehill Stakes (1100m at Flemington and are expected to face off again in the Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes.

Everest intrigue intensified following the running of the $1million Group II ATC Premiere Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday with unheralded I Am Invincible gelding Airman producing a career best performance to hold off fast finishing G1 winners Mazu, Bella Nipotina and Giga Kick to score his first stakes win.

The Group II Tab Edward Manifold Stakes (1600m) at Flemington was run in appalling conditions, but there's little doubt the winner, Too Darn Discreet, is a filly going places.

Trainers Ben and Ryan Foote collected an early winning double at Tauranga on Saturday with a pair of gallopers that look destined for bigger things including a two year-old that is the first winner for Yulong based sire Lucky Vega (IRE).

New Zealand-breds have been a rich source of success for Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young in Australian three-year-old staying features, and that trend continued in Saturday’s Listed ABC Bullion Super Impose Stakes (1800m) at Flemington.

Newgate Farm’s Extreme Choice went very close to a juvenile stakes double at Randwick on Saturday with his colt Tempestuous going down by a head when second in the Group III ATC Breeders’ Plate and then his well related filly Bel Merci showed real class to win the Group III ATC Gimcrack Stakes (1000m).

The 3-year-old Exceedance gelding Swiftfalcon took another giant step in his fledgling career when putting a quality field to the sword in Saturday's Listed Drinkwise Dulcify Stakes (1600m) at Randwick.

A special week got even better on Saturday for trainer Robbie Patterson and owner-breeders Eddie and Nicola Bourke and Allan Piercy.

The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable have had good success with the progeny of Hellbent winning the $2million Inglis Millennium last season with one of his sons in Fully Lit and they took out the Listed VRC Maribyrnong Trial (1000m) at Flemington with his talented colt Tremonti.

A magnificent start for Vinery Stud's Written Tycoon stallion Ole Kirk as King Kirk came with a barnstorming finish to make a winning debut in the Group III Arrowfield Breeders' Plate (1000m) at Randwick.

There was no mistaking the most popular victory at Tauranga when promising three-year-old filly Sexy And I Moet had the grandstand rocking as she glided to the winning post in the Ultimate Mazda 3YO (1300m) for her connections, the Heels & Hooves Syndicate #2.

The first Australian two year-old race of the season was run in Brisbane at Doomben on Saturday with Zousain gelding Betterlucknextttime doing everything right to score a trouble free win.

Here is the full list of 50 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A lucky group of three Aussie owners are already experiencing what it feels like to race an exciting two year old by Coolmore shuttler Wootton Basset (GB) with their brilliant colt Maranoa Charlie stepping up to stakes class overnight at Saint-Cloud in France to win the Group III Prix Thomas Byron (1600m) in a canter.

Dressage classes took centre stage at Equimillion on Friday at the Sydney International Equestrian Centre and one of the most interesting winners was Sheane Lowings, who represented Australia at the Paris Olympics earlier this year and is forging a good partnership with up and coming young thoroughbred Yiyi.

Snitzel mare Angel Flight, being offered with a So You Think filly at foot, is one of several standout entries in the Inglis Digital October (Early) Online Sale, which is now open for bidding.

The Melbourne Racing Club (MRC) has announced that John Kanga has been appointed as its new Chairman.