Grangewilliam Stud stallion Zed, the sire of 11-time Group One winner and Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) heroine Verry Elleegant, has passed away, aged 22.

New Zealand Cup week at Riccarton Park in November could prove to be an exciting one for The Oaks Stud.

Windsor Park Stud graduate Grinzinger Belle produced another quality first-up performance at Flemington to add to her stakes record.

Group I juvenile racing unfolded at the Curragh overnight and while the Group I National Stakes (7f) for colts and Moyglare Stud Stakes (7f) for fillies were both won by horses trained by members of the O’Brien family neither horse was the favourite.

Here is the full list of 74 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The Breednet Foal Gallery attracts foal images from all over the country as well as from New Zealand with a reader’s choice Favourite Foal voted for in December every year and our top pick in 2021 opened his account at Seymour on Sunday.

The debut winner of an 1100m maiden on the Pakenham Synthetic on August 30, Sugar Coat opposed three lightly raced winners over 1200m at Seymour on Sunday, and his win was even more emphatic.

With one Zoustar colt Growing Empire flying high this spring on the path to possible Group I glory, another has been ruled out with James Harron Bloodstock issuing a brief statement today on Espionage, who won last year’s Group III ATC Breeders Plate.

There was always going to be a big shake up in the three year-old colts division on Saturday and a quick history lesson has highlighted one colt that looks almost certain to finish this season a Group I winner.

Lux Libertas continued to make every post a winner at Te Rapa on Sunday, collecting a fourth-consecutive victory in the Waikato Construction 1400 with plenty left in store.

Colin Brown has been at the thoroughbred game quite a while now. He and wife, Fiona Lacey – an experienced stud vet and former President of Thoroughbred Breeders WA – run Mogumber Park at Bullsbrook, some 50kms north of Perth.

Allan Sharrock’s talented pair of Lazio and Islington Lass demonstrated their class in the open grade contests at Te Rapa on Sunday, with contrasting stakes assignments now on the horizon.

With placings in the Group III Irwin Stakes and Listed Redelva Stakes, the 5-year-old Press Statement gelding Press Down has his moment in the sun in Saturday’s Listed Sportsbet W H Wylie Hcp (1100m) at Morphettville.

Versatile shuttle sire Churchill (IRE) added a new stakes-winner to his tally in Ireland on Saturday where four year-old gelding Trustyourinstinct took out the Group III Kilternan Stakes (1m4f) continuing his successful transition from hurdling.

Three Group I races run overnight in Ireland and the UK including the time honoured St Leger, which delivered a 101st Group I winner for legendary sire Galileo in undefeated colt Jan Brueghel, while boom Night of Thunder colt Economics also claimed his first G1 win.

A $20m Everest, a $10m Golden Eagle, a G1 Coolmore Stud Stakes and a G1 Flight Stakes are among the spring targets of a quartet of Inglis graduates who all enjoyed Stakes success today.

Wootton Bassett’s exceptional year with his juveniles went into overdrive overnight at Leopardstown in Ireland where he sired Green Impact to win the Group II Champions Juvenile Stakes (1m) and Chantez to win the Listed Ingabelle Stakes (7f).

Here is the full list of 116 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Second in the Group I ATC Golden Rose last spring to Militarize, the Gary Portelli trained Capitalist gelding Encap soared to new heights at Rosehill on Saturday when he arrived on the line to win the Group II ATC Theo Marks Stakes (1300m).

With a full brother catalogued for the Ready To Run Sale at Karaka in November, Arkansaw Kid scored a timely win in Saturday’s Group II HKJC World Pool Bobbie Lewis Quality (1200m) while completing a memorable day at Flemington for Lindsay Park.

The Group II VRC Sires' Produce Stakes winner Traffic Warden lowered the colours of the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained pair, Anode and Storm Boy in Saturday's Group II James Squire Run To The Rose (1200m) at Rosehill.

 The Snitzel filly Lady Shenandoah continued the great run enjoyed by Hermitage Thoroughbreds when breaking her maiden in Saturday's Group III Precise Air Ming Dynasty Quality (1400m) at Rosehill.

New Zealand-bred mare Grinzinger Belle made a bold start to her spring campaign with a commanding front-running performance in Saturday’s A$300,000 Group II Furphy Let’s Elope Stakes (1400m) at Flemington.

Shortly after Melbourne unleased hail and blinding rain, the great foes Mr Brightside and Pride Of Jenni went toe to toe down the Flemington straight under brilliant sunshine in the $750,000 Group 1 Crown Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m).

A brilliant winner of the Group II ATC Sheraco Stakes (1200m) last year, talented Invader mare Sunshine in Paris was back at Rosehill again on Saturday and produced an explosive finish to take out the race for the second year in a row earning her slot for The Everest.

A shrewd bit of placing by Chris Waller saw the Star Thoroughbred colour-bearer Chrysaor make a winning debut in Melbourne in Saturday's Listed Vale Black Caviar Stakes (1400m) at Flemington.

A hard-fought victory by Raziah in Saturday’s Listed New Zealand Bloodstock Canterbury Belle Stakes (1200m) at Riccarton Park provided trainer Tony Pike and jockey Matt Cartwright with a second feature three-year-old success within the space of a week.

A golden ticket to the Melbourne Cup was up for grabs in Saturday's Group III Lexus Archer Stakes (2500m) at Flemington, and it will be the Williams family tracking a well-worn path to the first Tuesday in November with the import Point King (IRE).

Next month’s Gr.1 Metropolitan Handicap (2400m) is looming large on the horizon for Unusual Legacy, who enhanced his growing reputation with an outstanding last-to-first performance in Saturday’s A$160,000 Chandon Handicap (1800m) at Rosehill.

Exciting Zoustar colt Growing Empire ticked another box when stepping out on rain affected ground for the first time at Flemington on Saturday and showed a brilliant change of gear to lead home previously unbeaten colt First Settler to give Yulong a quinella in the Listed VRC Poseidon Stakes (1100m)

Speedy Star Witness filly Bellatrix Star won the first juvenile race of the season last year in New Zealand  for Te Akau Racing and she was back in winning form at Flemington on Saturday when surging home late to take out the Listed VRC Cap D’Antibes Stakes (1100m).

We saw a good test of the form of boom filly Autumn Glow at Flemington on Saturday when Dawn Service, the colt she beat to win on debut at Rosehill last month, came out and won the Listed VRC Exford Plate (1400m) at Flemington.

Set to have his first Australian runners this season, Wootton Bassett (GB) added a new juvenile stakes-winner to his tally overnight in the UK where progressive colt Benevento won the Listed Flying Scotsman Stakes (7f) at Doncaster.

A talented team of four runners at Flemington on Saturday will try to add to the momentum that Te Akau Racing has built up through the first 12 months of its Victorian base.

Here is the full list of 39 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The first foals of first season sires are always of particular interest so here’s a look at a few by stallions in that category which have come on to the Breednet Foal Gallery in recent days.

The Group 1 Crown Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington takes centre stage on Saturday, while five stakes races for the 3-year-olds at Flemington and Rosehill will hopefully make the pecking order for the Classic generation a little more transparent.

Fresh from celebrating Group One glory with Grail Seeker (NZ) (Iffraaj) in the Tarzino Trophy (1400m) at Hastings last weekend, emerging player Jamieson Park is set to have further industry impact with the sale of four well-credentialled mares in the latest fortnightly auction on gavelhouse.com.

A week after the NZB Filly of the Year Series kicked off in Hawke’s Bay, the South Island’s finest fillies get their first turn in the spotlight in Saturday’s $80,000 Listed NZB Canterbury Belle Stakes (1200m) at Riccarton Park.

CHC Inc., Maverick Racing and Siena Farm paid $1.3 million for a colt by Nyquist and John Stewart’s Resolute Bloodstock paid $1.2 million for a son of the same stallion to lead Thursday’s fourth session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale and increase the total number of horses to bring $1 million or more during the 2024 edition of the auction to 36. Meanwhile, the momentum of Wee

This Saturday is going to bring a much sharper picture to the three year-old colts division with key races at Rosehill and Flemington featuring a mix of established stars and up and comers, but the one thing we do know is that come Monday some bubbles will have burst.

Cambridge Stud shuttler Hello Youmzain (Fr) has broken the ice with his first stakes-winner and it’s a good one with quality colt Misunderstood scoring a commanding win in the Group III Prix des Chenes (1600m) at Longchamp overnight.

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

Darling View Thoroughbreds in Western Australia is home to the best stallion in the state and statistically one of the best in the country, while their two up and coming sires are poised to take WA racing into the future.

Odds on when breaking his maiden with a heart-stopping win at Goulburn on August 25, the progressive 3-year-old Exceedance colt Cristal Clear made it two on the bounce with a considerably more comfortable watch for connections in the Dentavision Hcp (1600m) at Hawkesbury on Thursday.

There was a hot favourite in the 1100m maiden at Hawkesbury on Thursday in the shape of $1.8million Exceed and Excel colt Chiba, who was making a highly anticipated debut, but he was made to look second class by another first starter by Yes Yes Yes.

Brilliantly talented sprinting mare Cinderella Days has become the new sale-topper for the Inglis Digital September (Early) Online Sale, selling today for $675,000.

The Victress has got the nod as Te Akau’s leading black-type chance at Riccarton on Saturday, but it might be an opposing stablemate who will lead the chase for higher honours later in the season.

Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale recorded across-the-board increases during Wednesday’s third session and posted the sale of three seven-figure horses – led by a Tapit colt and a Gun Runner filly each for $1.05 million – to increase the total number of yearlings who have brought $1 million or more during the first three days of this year’s September Sale to 34 &nda

Dual Stakes winner Williamsburg (Snitzel) has topped today’s Inglis Digital September (Early) Online Sale, selling for $455,000.

Here is the full list of 54 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Matt Hoysted admitted to some extra pressure in training Rich Minx for his wife Caitlin and the in-laws. Still, the daughter of Rich Enuff looks capable of winning a good race on the strength of a dominant performance over 1110m at Doomben on Wednesday.

Midweek stakes-racing at Balaklava on Wednesday with the running of the Listed BTR Excavations Balaklava Cup (1600m), where the Justify gelding Air Assault demonstrated his courage to land a fifth stakes victory.

Winx's half-sister Wings Of Desire lost her unbeaten record at start three when playing second fiddle to the 4-year-old Zoustar mare Makena in Wednesday's Hyland Race Colours (Bm72) (1400m) for fillies and mares at Randwick-Kensington.

After placing in three of his first five starts, the 3-year-old Trapeze Artist colt Johnny The Kid rang up number one with a dominant win in the Marcellin College Randwick Maiden Hcp (1500m) at Randwick-Kensington on Wednesday.

The 3-year-old mid-week maidens in Sydney invariably feature fields of spectacularly bred youngsters, as exemplified by the seven-horse- field in Wednesday’s Anamoe @ Darley Maiden Hcp (1300m) at Randwick-Kensington.

A quality packed catalogue for the NZB Ready to Run Sale was released earlier this week 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.

Kiwi-bred dual Group One winner Belclare is set to get her first taste of Australian racing when she heads to Rosehill on Saturday to tackle the Gr.2 Sheraco Stakes (1200m) for new trainer Bjorn Baker.

A colt by Curlin who is a full brother to multiple Grade 1 winner Clairiere sold for $5 million to Mandy Pope’s Whisper Hill Farm to headline Tuesday’s powerhouse day of trade at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. The price is the highest paid for a colt at the September Sale since Meydan City sold for $11.7 million in 2006. Sixteen yearlings brought seven figure prices today, the

Entries were announced for the Group I ATC Flight Stakes(1600m) on Tuesday and among the 43 nominations is unbeaten filly Wings of Desire and the three-quarter sister to Winx is an acceptor for Randwick this afternoon as she works her way towards stakes class.

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

There were a couple of trials for juveniles on the all weather track at the Gold Coast on Tuesday with winners for Kobayashi and Gold Standard.

Champion trainer David Hayes hailed KA YING RISING, the brilliant son of ShamExpress as “a bit special”, after the exciting sprinter lit up the Sha Tin turf with a historic victory in Sunday’s Class One HKSAR Chief Executive’s Cup (1,200m).

Little Avondale Stud’s Per Incanto has reached another memorable milestone in his decorated stallion career.

The 2024 catalogue for Australia's top winner producing breeze-up style auction, the Magic Millions Horses in Training Sale, is now online

The official Sydney two year-old trials are just two weeks away and will be followed not long after by the return of juvenile racing in Australia and for the farms standing fourth season sires this is when a little bit of good news can translate very quickly into mare bookings, so let’s take a look at the stats for these sires.

Opening day of Keeneland’s 2024 September Yearling Sale featured vibrant trade among the world’s major buyers, resulting in double-digit gains in average and median prices and the sale of 14 horses for $1 million or more, highlighted by a colt by Gun Runner sold for $2.2 million to Mandy Pope’s Whisper Hill Farm.

The biggest yearling sale in the world is underway in Kentucky with the Keeneland September Yearling Sale currently working through their first session with a filly by Gun Runner setting the early pace when selling for $US1.5million.

In a new Breednet innovation we’ve decided to enter the podcast world so if you’re interested in racing and how it relates to breeding listen in to Craig “Clocker’ Tompson and Tara Madgwick each week during spring.

The 2024 edition of the world’s best sale of two-year-olds is now only 71 days away, and NZB is excited to unveil another stellar catalogue for the Ready to Run Sale at Karaka.

Here is the full list of 18 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

There was a busy set of 16 trials at Randwick on Monday morning with some serious spring horses on show in the first heat won by Mazu, while later in the morning we spotted a couple of promising three year-old heat winners with very famous siblings.

Karaka graduates claimed five trophies during Sunday night’s New Zealand Thoroughbred Horse of the Year Awards in Hamilton, with a pair of age-group standouts leading the way.

Sunday’s RM200,000 Selangor Gold Cup (1600m) was taken out in never-say-die style by an emerging superstar of Malaysian racing.

As Singaporean racing moves into its final few weeks, local champion Lim’s Kosciuszko (Kermadec) continued his Kranji farewell tour with another crowd-pleasing performance in Saturday’s S$300,000 Queen Elizabeth II Cup (1800m).

Te Akau Racing collected top honours at the 2024 New Zealand Thoroughbred Horse of the Year Awards on Sunday evening, which was headlined by Imperatriz, who was named Horse of the Year, while the Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson partnership were Trainer of the Year.

The OTI Racing colours were in winning form at Longchamp on Sunday where progressive stayer Sevenna’s Knight ran out an impressive winner of the Group III Prix Gladiateur (3100m) opening the door to a possible tilt at the Group I Arc de Triomphe on October 5.

The Davison family and the team at Mapperley Stud are in mourning after the shock loss of their good friend and group one sire Contributer.

The 2024/25 Queensland Summer Racing Carnival will reach a thrilling crescendo with a new-look schedule poised to anchor its biggest days.

It was a big weekend for Wootton Bassett (GB) on two fronts with his exciting Australian Group II winner Royal Patronage (Fr) successful at Randwick, while in France he had a new two year-old stakes-winner overnight and another unbeaten juvenile that promises stakes success.

The first meeting of the new Hong Kong racing season was run at Sha tin on Sunday and Widden Stud’s champion sire Zoustar was quick to make an impression with a winning treble led by his former Aussie stakes-winner Twin Stars, who now does his racing under the name of Chiu Chow Spirit.

Here is the full list of 60 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Little Avondale Stud’s Per Incanto (USA) has a great record in Australia thanks to the likes of Group I winners Little Brose and Roch n Horse, plus former star sprinter Lost and Running with smart three year-old Evaporate, who won at Moonee Valley on Saturday, a star on the rise and another good winner on Sunday has spring aspirations.

Spring stakes racing produced plenty of noteworthy horses on Saturday with two brand new Group I winners in Australia and New Zealand from iconic female families, plus a couple of progressive new three year-old stakes-winners that are both out of mares we would term blue hens.

With three generations of Stokes Racing in attendance today, SA thoroughbred Neodium took out a second consecutive 1,600m TAB Birdsville Cup win - storming across the finish line on the second and final day of racing for the 142nd Birdsville Races.

Progressive sprinter Navigator produced one of the standout performances of the meeting at Hastings on Saturday, continuing his formidable fresh-up record in the Vet Services Equine Hawke’s Bay Premier (1200m).

While top honours did not go the way of Savaglee in Saturday’s Listed El Roca – Sir Colin Meads Trophy (1200m), Pam Gerard took plenty of positives from the performance of her colt as he heads towards loftier targets.

A big field of 16 went to the post for the Group I Haydock Sprint Cup (6f) overnight and with race favourite Inisherin failing to fire it was left to outsiders to fill the placings with Exceed and Excel gelding Montassib claiming a narrow victory.

Here is the full list of 112 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Australian racegoers are about to see a lot more of the progeny of exciting Coolmore shuttler Wootton Bassett (GB), whose first Aussie bred offspring will race this season and today we saw a taste of what’s to come when his talented imported son Royal Patronage (Fr) scored an impressive first up win in the Group II ATC Tramway Stakes (1400m) at Randwick.

A stakes-winner in Ireland when trained by Joseph O’Brien, Fastnet Rock import Buckaroo (GB) came to Australia last year to run in the Group I ATC King Charles Stakes and Group I VRC Champions Stakes and while he didn’t win either of those, he showed his true colours at Randwick on Saturday for his new trainer Chris Waller.

The richest race in Australia on Saturday was the $1million Group III ATC Concorde Stakes (1000m) at Randwick, which is seen as a starting point for Everest contenders and victory this year went to brilliant I Am Invincible mare I Am Me, who held off a determined charge from the mighty Bella Nipotina.

On a day that had been playing to the swoopers, the race fit Mornington Glory made all the running in the $750,000 Group 1 Charter Keck Cramer Moir Stakes (1000m) at Moonee Valley to credit Woodside Park Stud's Shalaa IRE) with his second Group 1 winner and first in Australia.

Following an impressive winning debut at Cranborne in April, Angel Capital was not a factor in two stakes races, the Spirit Of Boom Classic and Group II Sires' Produce Stakes, when taken to Brisbane for the winter.

Tassort fillies ran the quinella in the Group II ATC Darley Furious Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday after both placing two weeks ago in the Group II ATC Silver Shadow Stakes, but this time the placings were reversed with Manaal a head in front of Ameena.

Matt Cartwright announced his arrival among the top echelon of New Zealand’s jockeys with a stunning treble on the opening day of the Hawke’s Bay Spring Carnival at Hastings on Saturday, culminating in a giant-killing Group One win with Grail Seeker in the Tarzino Trophy (1400m).

The rapid rise of Alabama Lass continued on the opening day of the Hawke’s Bay Spring Carnival on Saturday, the filly putting on a stellar display to win the Gr.3 HBPB Thoroughbred Breeders’ Gold Trail Stakes (1200m).

The monkey is finally off the back of Silmarillion, who broke her maiden at start six with a commanding win in Saturday’s Listed Musk Creek Farm Atlantic Jewel Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley.

Ciaron Maher has been patient with five year-old Deep Field mare A Little Deep, who launched herself into stakes class on Saturday when powering home to win the Listed MVRC Chautauqua Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley.

Runner-up in the Listed Canberra Cup in March, Redstone Well (IRL) went to a new high in his Australian career with an all-the-way romp in Saturday's Listed Sydney City Lexus CTC Cup (2400m) at Randwick.