If you think there are a lot of first season sires in Australasia you're right! With 40 plus new boys retiring this year there are double the number of freshman stallions in 2017 compared to last season.
A frosty morning at Flemington but livened up by some solid gallops from horses engaged at the weekend.
Kevin Hickman’s breeding operation has welcomed another highly valuable addition while his prospects for the new racing season also look particularly bright.
Group I placegetter Jungle Edge is among the new nominations for Sunday’s rescheduled Bletchingly Stakes (1200m) at Sandown.
The plight of two-year-old Group I winners returning as spring three-year-olds against their own age could see Invader take an unorthodox path towards this year’s Group I Golden Rose (1400m).
Reward For Effort has capped off a huge season by setting the all time Victorian record for 3rd Season Sire Earnings.
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Moorookyle Park's Nioka Wozny is looking forward to a big spring with the season's first foals just around the corner!.
Our video analysts have supplied you with their number one run from the weekend’s metropolitan meetings.
Queenslander Savanna Amour was well backed before the postponed Bletchingly Stakes but trainer John Meagher will be delighted if his mare can simply run into the placings in the Group III race on Sunday.
The Charlie Appleby-trained Qewy has conditions in his favour to upset Big Orange in his bid for a third successive Goodwood Cup (2m) on Tuesday.
A Melbourne Cup-winning jockey has retired from the saddle after a terrific career that yielded 54 Group I wins.
Gai Waterhouse believes everyone will benefit if Canterbury racecourse is opened for morning track work on a weekly basis.
Punters will need to tread wary on the heavy (10) surface at Wagga on Tuesday but if we are prepared to show some patience there is a standout bet in the last.
Racenet readers cleaned up at the last Cessnock meeting when we highlighted the importance of inside barriers at the 1350m start and the 1570m at the track presents similar opportunities on Tuesday.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Tuesday’s meeting at Wagga Wagga.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Tuesday’s meeting at Cessnock.
Snitzel has taken all the accolades for the 2016/2017 racing season as our new Champion Australian Sire, but history would suggest it will be hard for him to keep up the current pace.
Darley’s young Group I winning sire Epaulette was sent to stud first in the Northern Hemisphere and while his first two year-olds will be up and running here this spring, his European counterparts are already doing the job with a new winner saluting at Windsor in the UK overnight.
Widden Stud’s Your Song has capped a remarkably successful 12 months to finish as the leading Australian First Season Sire by winners, wins, metropolitan winners and stakes horses.
Yarraman Park will welcome visitors on the afternoon of Friday August 25 for the annual stallion parade featuring star stallions I Am Invincible and Hinchinbrook.
As highlighted by the Breednet article ‘King of the Kids – The Hottest Sire Line in the World’ last week, Invincible Spirit has taken the world by storm as a sire, and now as a sire of sires with Cornerstone Stud delighted to be standing his stunning grey son Zebedee (GB).
REDZEL’S sensational season has earned him the accolade of top earner for record-breaking Champion Sire Snitzel.
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One of the leading fancies for last year’s Melbourne Cup has been nominated for races at Flemington on Saturday with a significant gear change.
Karaka graduate Waldorf has shown his class at both ends of the New Zealand two-year-old season, capped by a determined win in Monday’s $50,000 Listed Courtesy Ford Ryder Stakes (1200m) at Awapuni.
A start at Flemington on Saturday is but one option trainer Robbie Griffiths enjoys with talented filly Chateau Griffo.
Chris Waller edged out interstate rival Darren Weir with the most Group I wins this season but where do the leading trainers rank in terms of strike rate?
The first signs of spring will be on display at Randwick this Saturday with the running of the Group II Missile Stakes (1200m).
A highly talented mare trained by Peter and Paul Snowden has run her last race and will be heading off to the breeding barn while two of the stables’ stars will return to the track next week.
Saturday’s Flemington meeting heralds the start of a metropolitan double header and the nominations are now available online.
Savabeel has done it again - only this time with even more dominance.
You are warmly invited to join us at Cornerstone Stud for our annual open day and stallion parade.
Festival Sale graduate(NZ) (Showcasing) completed a juvenile feature double for both his sire and the Karaka Sales Centre when he scored a narrow but authoritative win in the S$200,000 Juvenile Championship (1400m) at Kranji on Sunday.
Savabeel gelding Bobo So Cute (NZ), who went through the Karaka sale ring three times, picked up the most significant win of his career in Sunday’s M$800,000 Listed Macau Gold Cup (1800m).
Caulfield trainer Mick Price will gallop Lankan Rupee at Sandown on Wednesday to give the star sprinter a look at the track before Sunday’s rescheduled Bletchingly Stakes.
The Racenet team picked up four winners despite gale force winds at Caulfield limiting selections on the final day of the metropolitan season.
A heavy track tested horses and punters alike in Perth on Saturday but as always it wasn’t hard to identify some promising runners for the future.
Trainer Wesley Ward has confirmed the next races for Lady Aurelia and Bound For Nowhere, his two possible runners in The Everest later this year.
Harness racing legend Courage Under Fire has died at the age of 21 at Yirribee Stud in NSW.
The world’s highest rated galloper Arrogate is set for a rematch with the horse that brought about his shock defeat in the Grade II San Diego Handicap (1-1/16m).
The wind put paid to the majority of Saturday’s Caulfield meeting but there was a strong performance worth following in the next few weeks.
A country stable has a former Sydneysider high-flying whilst two other eye-catching performances have earned their way straight into my blackbook.
The Neil Dyer-trained Royal Request is facing a Darwin Cup weight penalty as he aims to become the fifth horse to complete the Metric Mile-Darwin Cup double since 2005.
There are no certainties in racing from the time the barriers open until the Steward's declare correct weight but there are a few certainties from a punting perspective and one of those is that if punters continue to take under the odds about a horse's chance they will finish broke and surely a Greg Ryan ride at Dubbo on Monday is way under the odds.
There are two $3 favourites in early betting at Port Macquarie on Monday and sometimes as punters we need to remind ourselves what the $3 price says about the chances of the horse we are about to invest on.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Monday’s meeting at Dubbo.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Monday’s meeting at Port Macquarie.
It's the last day of the Australian racing season and if we've learned one thing in the past 12 months it's that Snitzel has well and truly stepped out of the shadow of his champion sire Redoute's Choice.
There were two new Australian bred Inglis Easter sold two year-old winners at Turffontein in South Africa on Sunday while Pierro colt Roy Had Enough scored his second win when saluting at Greyville.
Making her career debut in a Two-Year-Old Maiden Plate over 1219 metres at Gawler on Sunday, the 2yo filly Atlantica swept down the outside to credit the royally bred stallion Barbados with his first winner.
While most of the attention was on the proven performers at Friday’s Flemington jumpouts there were several yet to race that could prove profitable for punters to follow.
Jockey Francesco Ladu will remember his ride aboard Gamgoom at Hoppegarten in Germany earlier this week for all the wrong reasons.
Nine of Friday’s jumpouts at Flemington were down the straight and Racenet was on hand to watch several spring contenders step out.
The Aquis Farm stallion roster features a stunning array of up and coming sires, but also some proven favourites with Husson, (Arg), Domesday and Al Maher all posting metropolitan winners on Saturday.
Enable rewarded a brutal diet regime for Frankie Dettori when beating the older horses in Saturday’s Group I King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes (1m4f) at Ascot.
Queensland trainers have been warned to be vigilant regarding the withholding period of a sedative used on horses during surgery after a spate of positive swabs.
This Armchair Punter has woken up on the wrong side of the bed and Mr Grumpybum is handing out a few whacks in his first-up run at this column.
Noel Callow had a disappointing day at Morphettville on Saturday without a winner and leaving with a suspension.
Hveger’s sons Idaho and Highland Reel could do no better than third and fourth in Saturday’s G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot as Khalid Abdullah’s Epsom Oaks and Irish Oaks heroine Enable emerged from the gloom under Frankie Dettori to dominate over the final two furlongs.
Profit Street came from last to first to win Saturday’s Listed HG Bolton Sprint (1200m) on a heavy track at Belmont.
The statistics for the 1200m at Tamworth over the last four racings seasons on soft tracks suggest horses on the speed have a significant advantage and a horse fits the bill perfectly in the benchmark 55 over the journey on Sunday.
The final stakes race of the 2016-17 season in Australia was a first for the term for a stallion who was fresh off celebrating his role as the broodmare sire of the winner of the second last stakes race of the season.
Bandipur gave James Cummings his first stakes winner for Godolphin as Australian head trainer when running away with Saturday’s Listed Lightning Stakes (1050m) at Morphettville.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Sunday’s meeting at Gawler.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Sunday’s meeting at Devonport Synthetic.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Sunday’s meeting at Tamworth.
Three Bridges Thoroughbreds graduate Every Faith is headed to stud this spring, but will go out in top form after saluting at Caulfield on Saturday.
One of two two-year-olds to take on 11 three-year-old in Saturday’s $100,000 Listed Lightning Stakes (1050m) at Morphettville on Saturday, the Commands colt Bandipur provided Godolphin with some much-needed good news.
Hugh Bowman closed out the Sydney Jockeys Premiership in style with two winners at Rosehill on Saturday.
Premierships were decided, a protest was upheld and favourite punters were cringing in the early stages of the second race at Rosehill - but that's the way it goes in a day at the races.
Once the pride of Dubbo, Shiraz had been out of the winner’s circle for nearly two years before taking his stakes tally to three with a fighting win in Saturday’s $150,000 Listed Winter Challenge at Rosehill Gardens.
Sometimes the only motivation a sportsperson needs is to prove someone wrong.
The winds brought an early end to Saturday's Caulfield meeting but there was still enough time for controversy to reign in the second race of the day.
Veteran galloper Shiraz put a bizarre biting incident behind him to win Saturday’s Listed Winter Challenge (1500m) at Rosehill.
Three-year-old filly Suspenders provided Brad Widdup with his first city winner as an independent trainer at Rosehill on Saturday.
Promising Pierro gelding Poseidon’s Pool made it two wins in as many starts when saluting at Morphettville on Saturday for champion trainer Darren Weir.
Shifting barriers were the tipping point to the postponement of the majority of Saturday’s Caulfield meeting.
Dashing grey So You Think colt D’Argento kept his unbeaten record intact and stamped himself as a spring stakes prospect with a stylish victory at Rosehill on Saturday for the powerful Chris Waller stable.
Shamport hinted at better things to come next preparation with a dominant win in Saturday’s VOBIS Gold Ingot (1400m) for juveniles at Caulfield.
A valuable prize here in the final metropolitan 2yo race of the season in Melbourne for the lightly raced Shamport who looks to have an exciting future judging on his two and a quarter length win in Saturday’s $150,000 Join Victorian Breeders VOBIS Gold Ingot (1400m) at Caulfield.
Gale force winds have forced the Caulfield meeting on Saturday to be postponed after four races.
A heady ride by apprentice Matt McGillivray has helped Mr Epic win at Doomben and earn a crack at the northern rivers Cups circuit.
A long range plan came to fruition when Kiwia landed Saturday’s VOBIS Gold Stayers (2400m) at Caulfield.
Chris Waller’s promising colt D’argento has backed up his impressive debut performance with a comfortable win in the Welcome Rydalmere CBC 2YO Handicap (1500m) at Rosehill.
Racenet has analysed where the early money has gone for Saturday’s meetings at Rosehill, Caulfield, Doomben and Morphettville.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Saturday’s meeting at Morphettville.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Saturday’s meeting at Coonabarabran.
One of our favourites trainers playing on her home turf and Team Hawkes taking on a Chris Waller first starter provide the best investment opportunities at Gosford on Saturday.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Saturday’s meeting at Gosford.
Champion Australian sire Fastnet Rock has more than made his mark in the Northern Hemisphere and added a 120th stakes-winner to his tally overnight with a York stakes success for three year-old filly Entsar.
The Daily Debutants list for Saturday features a Vinery Stud blueblood filly by More Than Ready (USA) from a Group I Coolmore Classic winner.
Toby Edmonds is a genius with an I Am Invincible as he should be given he trained him and he unleashed another sizzling debut winner by the leading Yarraman Park sire at Ballina on Friday.
The big punters have fired up in early pre-post betting with some big bets being written by Australia’s largest bookies on this weekend’s meetings.
Racenet's stable of bookies have come to the fore with their selections for a big weekend of racing.
Welcome to Weekend Winners, your one-stop tipping sheet for Saturday's big meetings.
Plenty of attractively priced favourites on Saturday and the Racenet analysts have put their heads together to give punters another tool to help them turn a profit with the Racenet lays of the day.
Our story published on Thursday detailing the rise of super sire Invincible Spirit and the quest for a world record number of two year-old winners by his three-quarter brother Kodiac generated massive interest from our audience, so warrants a follow up story on a sire who promises to write the next chapter of success for this influential family.
The Racenet Speedmaps and form analysts have combined to give punters a leg-up in the $150,000 Listed Winter Challenge (1500m) at Rosehill on Saturday.
Racing Queensland hopes to begin implementing action recommended in a report into the closure of Eagle Farm racecourse as early as next week.
Laurie Sainsbury holds the title of "Racenet's most popular ever tipster" and this week he’s looking for the Waller stable to have some luck at Rosehill and Caulfield and advises those who backed Sheer Madness and O’Rachael last start to stick.