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. 

Andrew Forsman always intended to aim Positivity at Saturday’s Gr.3 Bart Cummings (2500m) at Flemington, but the Cambridge trainer has been caught off guard by what his rising star stayer has already achieved this spring.

Graeme Rogerson has seen promising signs that Sharp ‘N’ Smart is rediscovering the form that earned him Horse of the Year honours as a three-year-old, but Saturday’s Gr.1 Turnbull Stakes (2000m) at Flemington will put his resurgence to the test.

The curtain will come down on 182 years of racing in Singapore on Saturday with the 100th and final running of the Singapore Gold Cup.

There were two heats for the babies run at Rosehill on Friday morning over 900m and again we saw a couple of promising youngsters by first season sires Farnan and Ole Kirk.

The build up to this month's Magic Millions Gold Coast Horses in Training Sale has heated up with three successful breeze up sessions conducted across three states.

Arrowfield Stud were dealt a character building blow this morning with news their star filly Autumn Glow would be scratched from the Group I ATC Flight Stakes for which she was a short priced favourite, but it’s not all bad news for John Messara and his team.

New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) is excited to announce that leading thoroughbred nursery, Waikato Stud, has secured a coveted slot in the NZB Kiwi (1500m).

Truth Or Dare’s performance in the Listed Super Impose Stakes (1800m) at Flemington on Saturday is set to give Te Akau Racing an indication of whether they have a Gr.1 Victoria Derby (2500m) contender on their hands.

Singapore will stage its last ever race meeting on Saturday, appropriately headlined by the iconic S$1.38m Grand Singapore Gold Cup (2000m) – a race whose 100-year history is littered with New Zealand-sourced success.

The 2024 Equimillion gets underway at Sydney International Equestrian Centre today at Horsley Park and the first day of the event is all about dressage with many competitors using it as a second string warm up event for their eventing and or showjumping  classes which will unfold over the weekend, so let’s take a look at the draws and some of the familiar names.

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

On October 1 1986, the Luskin Star filly Mother Duck won the Group III Gimcrack Stakes at Randwick, defeating a future dual Group 1 winner, Judyann, and became an instant cult heroine.

Lindsay Park Racing produced an interesting debut winner for Castelvecchio at Ballarat on Thursday in Double Market, who has a full brother to be offered at the NZB Ready to Run Sale next month.

This expensive Extreme Choice filly was good enough to finish third on debut in the Group III VRC Ottawa Stakes last year and after spending the past 12 months sidelined with an unusual injury she made a winning return at Ballarat on Thursday.

Juvenile racing kicks off in earnest on Saturday with the Group III ATC Breeders’ Plate and Gimcrack Stakes at Randwick and the Listed VRC Maribyrnong Trial at Flemington, so let’s take a look at the Sale Mail.

2021 European Horse of the Year St Mark’s Basilica has had strong sale results this year in Europe and they continued at the Goffs Orby Yearling Sale where he had 15 yearlings sell for €1,698,000 with his top seller a regally bred filly that sold for €460,000 and is a half-sister to Melbourne Cup entry Jan Brueghel.

With his first Australian bred progeny to race here this season, Coolmore shuttler Wootton Bassett (GB) is riding high in the Northern Hemisphere having sired 30 individual two year-old winners – eight of them SW’s- this year and his popularity was reflected in the sale ring at the Goffs Orby Yearling Sale where he had 14 yearlings sell for €3,535,000.

How quickly fortunes can change in the bloodstock world have again been emphasised by the success of One Bold Cat in the relocated Gr.1 Arrowfield Stud Plate (1600m) at Matamata on Wednesday.

Blue Gum Farm’s Flying Artie posted his first stakes-winner of the new season on Wednesday when consistent five year-old gelding Vast Art won the Listed Hannans Handicap (1400m) at Kalgoorlie.

Godolphin swept into action during the second session of the Goffs Orby Yearling Sale purchasing the top three lots that included a €2million Frankel colt and a €1million Frankel filly, while Yulong also made their presence felt securing a Night of Thunder filly for €600,000.

Stakes racing for juveniles begins in Australia this Saturday so there have been trials all around the country in recent weeks and if you are interested to see which first season sires have babies up and running take a look through our trial report which features heat winners for six different first season sires.

Here is the full list of 40 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The progressive Sebring Sun gelding Acappella Nova led home a 1-2-3-4 finish for trainer Tony Gollan in the Eva Air Maiden Plate (1200m) at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.

Astute trainer Les Bridge knows how to get the best out of a talented horse and well related Merchant Navy filly Aye Aye Captain looks set for a good campaign after returning from a spell to score a stylish win at Rosehill on Wednesday.

David Vandyke has a long-range plan for the 3-year-old filly Misting after she became the third winner in two days for Cosmic Force with a last-to-first performance in the Spring Carnival Book Now Mdn Plate (1600m) at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.

The opening race at Rosehill on Wednesday provided the perfect opportunity for promising I Am Invincible gelding The Three Hundred to break the ice bringing a timely pedigree update for his two year-old full brother that will be offered at the NZB Ready to run Sale next month.

Robbie Patterson had his sights set on the Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2040m) for One Bold Cat, but the gelding showed he can be just as impressive at a mile with a powerful victory in Wednesday’s Gr.1 Arrowfield Stud Plate (1600m) at Matamata.

A well-beaten second as favourite on debut behind the promising Shamus Award filly Fluent on the Ballarat Synthetic, the Written Tycoon filly Daella showed an appreciation for the turf with a fast-finishing win in the Rosemont Stud Maiden Plate at Cranbourne on Wednesday.

There was plenty of drama with the abandonment of last Saturday’s feature meeting at Hawke’s Bay, and that drama continued at the transferred meeting at Matamata on Wednesday in the running of the Gr.2 AHD Animal Health Direct – Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m).

Group One performer To Catch A Thief is a maiden no longer after taking out the Betta Inspect It Premier (1300m) at Matamata on Wednesday.

Five years after being bought on gavelhouse.com for just $5,000, stakes-winning mare Casino Princess (NZ) (Casino Princess) is being re-offered as a valuable broodmare prospect on Gavelhouse Plus.

Everest news yesterday centred on the withdrawal of boom WA three year-old gelding Bustling following a below par run at his first Eastern States appearance last month and today comes the announcement James Harron Bloodstock have leased out their slot for this year to Go Bloodstock for their Golden Slipper winning filly Lady of Camelot.

Lively demand from a diverse international buying bench saw 80 yearlings command six-figure sums in the opening session of the Goffs Orby Sale Book 1 with Darley shuttler Blue Point (IRE) producing the top lot of the session.

The Group III National Day Cup (1000m) at Sha Tin on Tuesday delivered a new stakes-winner for Starspangledbanner when Irish bred gelding Beauty Waves charged to the line to win in a slick 55.72 seconds.

G1 Australian Oaks-winning filly Autumn Angel (The Autumn Sun) has sold for $1.225 million in a boutique Inglis Digital Online Sale.

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

Casting off maiden status with a fast finishing victory at Newcastle on Tuesday was a promising son of Yes Yes Yes that has designs on stakes races later this month following a path that will hopefully lead to the Group I ATC Spring Champion Stakes.

Newgate Farm’s young sire Cosmic Force posted a race to race double of new three year-old  winners at Newcastle on Tuesday that included the Ciaron Maher trained colt Force Red, who saluted as a short priced favourite.

With new season juveniles popping up in trials all over the country it’s well worth taking note of what is going on around us and at Murray Bridge on Tuesday morning King’s Legacy got into the action with a stylish heat winner.

Multiple Group One-winner Mustang Valley is not a certainty to defend her Gr.1 Arrowfield Stud Plate (1600m) crown on Wednesday at Matamata.

Brian Anderton, a doyen of South Island racing and breeding, has been recognised for his service to the thoroughbred industry when bestowed life membership to the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association at their AGM on Monday.

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.

Ultra-consistent mare Faraglioni is out to shed her bridesmaid’s tag in Wednesday’s Gr.1 Arrowfield Stud Plate (1600m) at Matamata.

Nelson Schick’s decades of contributions to the breeding and racing industries have been acknowledged with Life Membership of the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association.

Randwick this Saturday will feature a smorgasbord of racetrack stars with the Group I ATC Epsom, The Metropolitan and Flight Stakes to be decided, while across the city at Horsley Park the off the track thoroughbreds will be on show at Equimillion with Breednet proud to field a team of five sponsored competitors.

Here is the full list of 29 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

When Lindsay Park Racing/Lizzie Jelfs paid $160,000 for a Super Seth colt from Amerindia (GB) at the 2023 Magic Millions he looked very well bought when his three-quarter brother Militarize came out and won the Group I ATC Sires Produce Stakes, Champagne Stakes and then last year’s Golden Rose.

In the space of the last seven days Kingstar Farm’s promising young sire Time to Reign has put his name in the spotlight with two metro trial winners from four runners, plus another metro place-getter and two of these promising youngsters have been nominated for feature races at Randwick this Saturday.

After a successful change in tactics with Full Force at Hastings, Hollie Wynyard is hoping a step-up in distance will be a further aid to his chances Wednesday’s Gr.2 AHD - Animal Health Direct Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m) at Matamata.

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 the colts had centre stage.

There were two heats for new season juveniles at Warwick Farm on Monday morning over 821m and the winners held plenty of interesting with one by first season sire Time to Reign and the other from the family of the man of the moment Broadsiding.

Little Avondale Stud’s Sam Williams didn’t need to be asked twice to remain in the ownership group of rising three-year-old star Evaporate.

The Group III Weld Park Stakes (7f) at the Curragh overnight produced a new stakes-winner for Coolmore shuttler Churchill (IRE) with progressive two year old filly Heavens Gate rewarded for her consistency.

Here is the full list of 58 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Two Group I races won on Friday night and Saturday by a four year-old stallion and a three year-old colt are likely to have a big bearing on the breeding industry as we move forward and we’ll also take a look at a colt that only won a Listed race, but it’s a Listed race that in recent times has been won by colts with bigger fish to fry.

Herman Hesse (GB) rounded out a red-letter day for Ciaron Maher at Mornington on Sunday when winning the feature Listed RM Ansett Classic (2400m).

Late blooming War Chant (USA) gelding Mood Swings earned a second Listed stakes success with a determined win in Saturday’s Black Heart Bart Stakes (1200m) at Belmont.

Broadsiding put himself in elite company when winning the Group I ATC Golden Rose on Saturday as a multiple Group I winning juvenile to train on and win again at the elite level at three, so who are these history makers that he now stands beside?

Love Poem propelled herself up the fixed-odds market for the Gr.1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) with a dominant first-up performance at Te Rapa on Friday.

Fascinating juvenile racing overnight with the Group I Middle Park Stakes and Cheveley Park Stakes decided at Newmarket, while at the Curragh Darley shuttler Too Darn Hot (GB) made it a treble of stakes-winners for the day following on from his success at Rosehill with Broadsiding and Perspiration.

Here is the full list of 110 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A long-range plan came off when Hidden Wealth went coast to coast in Saturday’s Listed 1equine Toowoomba Weetwood (1200m) under the lights at Toowoomba.

After racing through his classes, life got a bit tougher for Amor Victorious when he stepped up to stakes class.

Fresh off his Championship 2-year-old campaign, Broadsiding chased down his stablemate Traffic Warden in an exciting renewal of the $1,000,000 Group 1 James Squire Golden Rose (1400m) at Rosehill on Saturday.

Pride of Dubai has had two Group winners in two days with Pride of Jenni taking out the Group II MVRC Feehan Stakes last night at Moonee Valley then on Saturday his Kiwi bred son Desert Lightning struck top form for his new trainers Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman to win the Group III MRC Sandown Stakes (1500m)

Despite banking over $525,000, Makarena had yet to win a stakes race, an anomaly rectified in Saturday's Group II Racing And Sports Golden Pendant (1400m) at Rosehill.

Talented New Zealand import Firestorm improved her perfect four-year-old record to two-from-two with another impressive win at Rosehill on Saturday, heading a Kiwi-bred trifecta in the A$160,000 EGroup Protective Services Handicap (1900m).

Put on the spot in a pre-race interview trainer Kenny Rae was asked which of his two runners was the best winning chance in the third race on the card at Riccarton, the Prides Easifeed – Nobby Bussell Memorial Two-Year-Old (800m).

Talented Too Darn Hot (GB) colt Perspiration came from last to defeat the short-priced favourite Gatsby's in Saturday’s Listed Petaluma Heritage Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill.

The 7-year-old gelding First Light (GB) scaled new heights in Saturday's Group III Toyota Forklifts Colin Stephen Quality (2400m) at Rosehill, earning a golden ticket to next week's Group 1 Metropolitan Hcp.

Trainer Mark Walker achieved another notable milestone when Age of Discovery bolted home in the Rangiora New World Guineas Trial (1400m) at Riccarton.

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

A top class mare in Western Australia that worked through her grades and was second in the Group I WATC Railway Stakes last November, Alsephina showed her class at Moonee Valley on Friday night to win the Group II MVRC Stocks Stakes (1600m).

Smart three-year-old Evaporate has maintained his rich-vein of form with a comfortable victory in the Gr.2 Stutt Stakes (1600m) at The Valley on Friday night.

A brilliant rails-hugging ride by Mark Zahra resulted in the 4-year-old Written Tycoon entire Southport Tycoon running down his 3-year-old stablemate Growing Empire in a thrilling $2,000,000 Group 1 Ladbrokes Manikato Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley.

Since winning the opening two-year-old race of the season in New Zealand a year ago, the Star Witness filly Bellatrix Star has been a model of consistency.

The $500,000 Group II MVRC Feehan Stakes (1600m)  looked a match race on paper between Pride of Jenni and her archrival Mr Brightside and so it came to pass with the daughter of Pride of Dubai producing her dazzling best to hold the Lindsay Park Racing pinup boy at bay.

A quality field of three-year-olds for the MSC Signs Hcp (1200) produced a decisive winner to open Manikato Stakes night at Moonee Valley.

Snazzytavi has booked her ticket south to Hastings next month to contest the Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2040m) following an eye-catching victory at Te Rapa on Friday.

Bloodstock agents are circling exciting three-year-old Suit Yourself following his win in the SJC Foundation 3YO (1200m) at Te Rapa on Friday.

When Mick Dittman won the 1979 AJC Apollo Stakes on Scomeld, the champion jockey declared the stunning chestnut filly better than Denise's Joy.

The Champion New Zealand 2YO of 2019/2020, exciting young sire Cool Aza Beel started his own career with a debut victory as a spring juvenile in September and there are early indications his first offspring are showing similar precocity.

Poetic Champion’s performance on Saturday will determine the future direction of his three-year-old season.

Have you sponsored a horse and rider for Equimillion? or are you planning on a visit to the Sydney International Equestrian Centre next week to support our off the track thoroughbreds in their showcase event? If so read on to see all the draws and timetables for this exciting event – Friday October 4 – 7.

A brilliant winner of two key lead up races for The Everest this spring in the $1million Group III ATC Concorde Stakes and $1million Group II ATC The Shorts, six year-old I Am Invincible mare I Am Me has been snapped up for The Everest by slot holder Arrowfield Stud and Star Entertainment Group.

Here is the full list of 29 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The lure of a $100,000 Inglis Xtra Maiden bonus saw this stakes class Dundeel colt head to Goulburn on Thursday and he duly strode home in a canter.

A Super Session of selling on Friday 10 January, the eve of The Star Gold Coast Magic Millions Raceday, will be a new feature of the 2025 Gold Coast Yearling Sale with a revised schedule of selling announced today.

Talented mare Casino Princess has been retired from racing.

Fourth on debut behind Dublin Down in the Group III Maribyrnong Plate at Flemington last November, Catoggio was far from disgraced in three winless starts in Sydney in the autumn before a return down south saw the 3-year-old Written Tycoon gelding open his winning account in the Viatek Fujifilm Maiden Plate (1147m) at Geelong.

Placed in two of four starts since making a winning debut at Seymour last November, the well-related Zoustar gelding De Bergerac returned to the winner's circle over 1247m at Geelong on Friday.

Well fancied when disappointing on debut at Cranbourne on September 5, the 3-year-old Justify (USA) filly Sweet Justice proved that form all wrong when breaking her maiden in style in the DMB Contracting Maiden Plate (1447m) at Geelong.

Some of this week’s additions to the foal gallery certainly have the Group One flavour – either out of a G1 winner or a sibling to a G1 winner so here’s a look at a few that will be potential sale ring stars in 2026.

The $2million Group I MVRC Manikato Stakes (1200m) has drawn an outstanding field of 13 with a mix of Sydney and Melbourne formlines coming together and gun three year-olds taking on the established sprinters with Yulong set to field three runners and they have a slot to fill for The Everest.

Melbourne Racing Club (MRC) committee member John Kanga and his fellow board members Alison Saville and Caitrin Kelly had a legal victory over the Melbourne Racing Club committee colleagues that Kanga claimed had been trying to use a disciplinary process based on alleged breaches of a “Code of Conduct “ to silence him and potentially prevent him and his colleagues voting for the new MR

Syndicator Scott Darby hopes he has found his next stable star after purchasing three of the top six lots in today’s Inglis Digital September (Late) Online Sale.

Brilliant G1-winning filly Autumn Angel (The Autumn Sun) will be offered for public auction in a boutique Inglis Digital Online Sale early next week.

Here is the full list of 43 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.