Tuesday June 11
Two smart Russian Revolution debutants fought out the finish of the Fantasy Cocktails Maiden Plate (1112m) on a bleak day at Sale on Tuesday, but unfortunately for punters, it was the $71 chance Don’t Russia, turning over the favourite Supervise.
Tuesday June 11
Take two for the long-awaited debut of the royally-bred Clear Thinking (GB), which proved worth the wait when she slammed the field by upwards of eight lengths in the Vinery's Hawaii Five Oh Maiden Plate (1000m) at Scone on Tuesday.
Tuesday June 11
Telemon Thoroughbreds have announced a new addition to their roster for 2024 with brilliant juvenile Red Resistance to stand alongside Sun City, Sidestep, Jungle Cat (IRE) and The Odyssey.
Monday June 10
Here is the full list of 35 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Monday June 10
The Go Bloodstock gold and white colours were in the winner’s list on Monday at Canterbury with the two year-old full brother to dual Group I winner September Run opening his account for the Waterhouse Bott stable.
Monday June 10
Breaking her maiden with a speedy front running performance at Canterbury on the holiday Monday in Sydney was the Brad Widdup trained Yes Yes Yes filly Maili.
Monday June 10
Hamilton trainers Graeme and Debbie Rogerson have enjoyed welcoming back a number of their stable stars this week ahead of their spring preparations.
Monday June 10
Westbury Stud’s classy sire Reliable Man (Fr) featured on Sunday in Germany when blueblood staying filly Erle took out the Group III Diana Trial (2000m) at Hoppegarten in a thrilling finish.
Monday June 10
Hot on the hoof of a six winner Saturday for Better Than Ready, Queensland’s Lyndhurst Stud has announced fees for its two stallions this spring.
Monday June 10
Darley shuttler Too Darn Hot (GB) goes from strength to strength with new stakes-winner Lava Stream in the UK overnight bringing his global tally of stakes-winners to nine with nearly 7% SW to runner.
Sunday June 9
After five seconds, a third and a fourth at his first seven starts, Bear Go Go shed his maiden tag with a two and half-length romp over 1200m at Hakodate on Sunday and credited the classy Fastnet Rock mare Lumosty with her first winner.
Sunday June 9
Here is the full list of 70 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Sunday June 9
The Brisbane Winter Carnival sees the last of the three year old classics for the season and the winners this year would have been hard to predict, but that’s what makes racing interesting so let’s take a look at the pedigrees and consider that if you want to breed a classic three year-old there is only one stallion standing in Australia this spring that has sired a Classic winner this
Sunday June 9
A fascinating result in an 1800m maiden at Kyoto on Sunday with Lys Gracieux’s brother Evolving nosing out Schwertlilie, the first foal of the WS Cox Plate heroine.
Sunday June 9
Leading Victorian nursery Blue Gum Farm have over 30 weanlings to offer at the Inglis Great Southern Sale next week and buyers will be making a swift path to their draft which includes three strapping colts by outstanding young sire Too Darn Hot (GB), who is poised to be crowned Australia’s Champion First Season Sire.
Sunday June 9
Twin Hills Stud is based at Cootamundra, so it’s an easy transit down the Hume Highway for the Inglis Great Southern Sale and Olly and Amber Tait are prepared to be busy with over 30 weanlings and several broodmares to present.
Sunday June 9
Suman Hedge and Sheriff Iskander celebrated their first G1 success in their own right today when tenacious filly Socks Nation outstayed Our Gold Hope in an Inglis graduates quinella in the G1 Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm.
Sunday June 9
Pierro enjoyed a winning double at Randwick on Saturday with victory for progressive filly Bright Red and stakes performer War Eternal, who clocked up over $500,000 in prizemoney with his latest success.
Sunday June 9
Four-year-old gelding Virtuous Circle registered his first win in more than 650 days when taking out the RDA Daylesford Lesley Hewitt Trophy (2000m) at Flemington on Saturday for trainer Liam Howley.
Saturday June 8
Japanese bred Brave Smash (Jpn) has made a fine start to his stud career and with his first Yarraman Park bred foals set to arrive this spring the Group I winning sprinter added a new stakes-winner to his tally at Belmont in Perth on Saturday when progressive gelding Brave Spirit captured the Listed WATC Raconteur Stakes (1400m).
Saturday June 8
Here is the full list of 108 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday June 8
The win of Vilana in Saturday’s $300,000 Group II The Star Moreton Cup (1200m) at Eagle Farm made it five winners on the day for James McDonald, who added the son Hallowed Crown to a list of Stradbroke hopefuls.
Saturday June 8
The master trainer of stayers, Ciaron Maher, dealt a body blow to punters when $101 chance Socks Nation scored a fighting win in Saturday’s $700,000 Group 1 Seven Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Eagle Farm.
Saturday June 8
With two of his three stakes-winners, Annabel Neasham has a good handle on the stock of Oakland Stud’s recruit Pariah, the latest coming with Ostraka, who put a competitive field of three-year-olds to the sword in Saturday’s Listed Ascot Green Queensland Day Stakes (1200m) at Eagle Farm.
Saturday June 8
Aga Khan Studs have had a hot winning run in Europe this year with two Classic winners carrying their colours in Epsom Oaks winner Ezeliya and French 1000 Guineas winner Rouhiya, not to mention a string of other stakes-winners and a tried horse they sold last year for €330,000 made a winning Australian debut in the Listed ATC Lord Mayor’s Cup (2000m) at Randwick.
Saturday June 8
A race-to-race double for Tony and Maddysen Sears as the stable star Yellow Brick staked a claim for the $3,000,000 Stradbroke Handicap on June 15, following his win in Saturday’s Listed Nuturf Spear Chief Hcp (1500m) at Eagle Farm.
Saturday June 8
Champion trainer Chris Waller and astute bloodstock agent Guy Mulcaster have a happy knack for finding value at Karaka and a Churchill (IRE) colt they purchased from Book 1 last year for $170,000 opened his account at Eagle Farm on Saturday winning the Listed BRC Phoenix Stakes (1500m) at just his third start.
Saturday June 8
The betting suggested Steady Ready was ready for a peak performance in Saturday’s Listed Ladbrokes Lightning Hcp (1000m) at Eagle Farm, and it proved spot on.
Saturday June 8
A trip to Queensland for a black-type assignment is on the agenda for South Australian galloper Fancify after her win at Flemington.
Saturday June 8
Well-related mare Princess Rhaenys has overcome a wide run to score the fifth victory of her career when landing the Mittys Benchmark 90 Handicap (1800m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
Saturday June 8
A thrilling start to the day at Flemington with the emergence of a smart performer in the Cosmic Force debutant Wonder Boy in the RDA Peninsula Jenny Stidston Sprint (1200m)
Saturday June 8
Letting a Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained 2-year-old loose on an uncontested lead over 1100m, there will always be one result.
Saturday June 8
The VRC have added an intriguing piece to the Melbourne Cup puzzle this year in making the Group II Belmont Gold Cup (2m) on turf at Saratoga a win and you’re in race towards the Melbourne Cup and the winner earlier this week was a horse called The Grey Wizard.
Friday June 7
A catalogue of 443 lots has been finalised for the Inglis Digital June (Early) Sale, one of the strongest in the history of the platform.
Friday June 7
Here is the full list of 28 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Friday June 7
Moonlight Magic beat all but one of the boys in the Gr.1 Queensland Derby (2400m) at Eagle Farm last weekend, and trainer Andrew Forsman is hoping she can go one better against her own sex when she returns to the Brisbane venue on Saturday.
Friday June 7
Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott believe their Group One-winning filly Molly Bloom is in peak condition for one final flourish for their Matamata stable in Saturday’s Gr.1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Eagle Farm.
Friday June 7
With less than two months of the racing season to run our intriguing cohort of second season sires is a competitive one with four of them siring the winners of over $4million this season and five of them have sired Australian Group I winners, but will they be here for the long haul? We take a look at what we know so far as fact.
Friday June 7
Entries are now open for NZB’s Karaka 2025 National Yearling Sales Series, with the action-packed week of selling set to take place at the Karaka Sales Centre from Sunday 26 January.
Friday June 7
Aga Khan Studs have been having a very good year with two Classic winners carrying their colours in Epsom Oaks winner Ezeliya and French 1000 Guineas winner Rouhiya and they produced another blue-blood stakes-winner overnight with quality Shamardal mare Tarawa breaking through for her first Black Type win in the Listed Glencairn Stakes (1m1f) at Leopardstown.
Friday June 7
Here is the full list of 36 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Thursday June 6
Weanlings by sires such as Snitzel, Written Tycoon, The Autumn Sun and Home Affairs – as well as a G1 broodmare - headline a strong group of supplementary entries for the Great Southern Sale.
Thursday June 6
There are some tax related court decisions that have significantly more widespread implications to the horse industry than others, one such decision, relating to land tax exemption, was handed down in the High Court yesterday.
Thursday June 6
It’s been a long road to get to Queensland with dual Group One winner La Crique, but trainers Simon and Katrina Alexander are relieved they are finally there.
Thursday June 6
A son of the hottest first-season sire from an unstoppable stable, the 2-year-old colt Oodnadatta made a winning debut in the Bet365 Maiden Plate (1200m) at Geelong on Thursday.
Thursday June 6
Of all the various incarnations of The Oaks run around Australia, the Queensland Oaks stands tall as the race for future stars, think Winx, and the Classic that has spawned some outstanding broodmares, think Denise’s Joy and her daughter Joie Denise.
Thursday June 6
Chris Waller’s Tutta La Vita has been scratched from Saturday’s Queensland Oaks and will be shipped to the US with Breeders Cup ambitions for new owner John Stewart.
Wednesday June 5
Here is the full list of 40 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Wednesday June 5
A share in Champion stallion Zoustar (Northern Meteor) will be offered in the Inglis Digital June (Early) Online Sale.
Wednesday June 5
A lovely filly from the Melbourne stakes winner Hell or Highwater continued the red hot run of youngsters by Zoustar at the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale when she sold for $260,000 on the Gold Coast this afternoon.
Wednesday June 5
The most expensive yearling by champion sire I Am Invincible sold in 2022, stylish grey filly I Am Famous made $2million at Inglis Easter for Tyreel Stud and opened her account at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
Wednesday June 5
The sixth intake of Thoroughbred Breeders Australia’s (TBA) national traineeship program, Fast Track, has graduated with a gala ceremony in Scone.
Wednesday June 5
The impressive recent strike-rate of Opie Bosson continued at Matamata on Wednesday, with the top hoop steering home three winners for Te Akau trainers Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson.
Wednesday June 5
On Wednesday, the $900,000 Blue Point (IRE) colt Bosustow scored an overdue win in the Cascade Maiden Plate (1350m) at Doomben.
Wednesday June 5
The winners continue to flow for Champion First-Season Sire elect Too Darn Hot (GB) as Tartaglia broke through at start four in the $100,000 Drinkwise 2-3yo Maiden Plate (1100m) at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
Wednesday June 5
The 58 Lot catalogue for the latest fortnightly auction on gavelhouse.com features an outstanding selection of 22 horses from the globally renowned Cambridge Stud.
Wednesday June 5
Group One winner Belclare’s retirement from racing has been short-lived, with the daughter of Per Incanto set to join expat Kiwi trainer Bjorn Baker’s Sydney barn.
Wednesday June 5
Andy Win completed a memorable Prima Park graduate double this week in the Matamata Glass & Joinery 2000 on Wednesday, and farm principal Kelly Van Dyk couldn’t be any happier with the result.
Wednesday June 5
This time last week the bloodstock world was full of news headlines highlighting expensive racemares selling as broodmare prospects at the Magic Millions and one of those sale ring stars back in 2019 at this sale was $2.3million Fastnet Rock mare Missrock.
Wednesday June 5
Race experience proved invaluable for the rangy Snitzel filly Declichy Boulevard, who opened her winning account in the Kia Ora Prague Maiden Hcp (1100m) on a heavy track at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
Wednesday June 5
With less than two months of the racing season to play out the list of sires to make the century club for posting 100 winners in a season has stretched out to 17 sires, with 16 of them active this season and the two newest additions to the list highlight proven value in Victoria and NSW.
Wednesday June 5
Windsor Park sire SHAMEXPRESS (O’Reilly) has enjoyed a brilliant run of success this season, and with back-to-back Group winners the past fortnight among a raft of up-and-coming young gallopers, this Autumn has proven to be one of the best for the Gr.1 winning sprinter.
Tuesday June 4
The G2-winning 2YO Lazzago (Capitalist) headlines a host of appealing race fillies and mares already confirmed for next week’s Inglis Digital June (Early) Online Sale.
Tuesday June 4
Here is the full list of 28 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Tuesday June 4
A dashing bay with a sparkling silver tail, Dundeel colt Henlein was an eye-catcher in the mounting yard and showed ability to match when the half-brother to dual Group I winner Magic Time made a winning debut at Bendigo on Tuesday.
Tuesday June 4
Te Akau Racing's ground breaking Magic Millions Gold Coast National Sale continued today when the tangerine team purchased the half brother to one of their stars for $400,000 to top Day One of the National Yearling Sale.
Tuesday June 4
This Capitalist colt made a procession out of the 1100m maiden at Bendigo on Tuesday winning by five and a half lengths on debut.
Tuesday June 4
Distinguished New Zealand thoroughbred industry leader Joe Walls (MNZM) has retired from his role as Chairman of the NZB Board of Directors, bringing to a close his illustrious tenure with the auction house that spanned more than five decades.
Tuesday June 4
Standout three-year-old Crocetti has returned to work ahead of what trainers Danny Walker and Arron Tata are hoping will be a lucrative spring preparation.
Tuesday June 4
Aga Khan Studs had cause to celebrate last weekend when their lightly raced Dubawi filly Ezeliya won the Group I Epsom Oaks at just her fourth start, but there would also have been excitement on the other side of the world as her grand-dam Eytarna is now in Australia.
Tuesday June 4
Cambridge Stud shuttler Hello Youmzain (Fr) sired an impressive debut winner overnight with Electrolyte continuing a hot run for Wathnan Racing when scoring easily at Ayr.
Monday June 3
Here is the full list of 42 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Monday June 3
Breednet always run popular One to Watch stories for promising young racehorses when they start showing potential, so we’ve had a look through some of the younger thoroughbreds that were competing at the TSHA National Titles last week to highlight some of the up and coming jumpers to follow.
Monday June 3
A 6-year-old son of Oaklands Stud stallion Power(IRE), the reigning Horse of the Year in Czech Republic, Ponntos, made his 2024 bow with a Listed win in Dubai and reeled off three consecutive stakes victory in Europe, culminating with a dominant performance in the Group II Prix du Gros-Chene (5f) on the Prix du Jockey Club undercard at Chantilly.
Monday June 3
Making her fifth start, the 2-year-old filly Sweet Treats took on her elders when successful in the Semco Maiden Plate (1500m) at Goulburn to have the honour of crediting Castelvecchio with his first winner.
Monday June 3
There were 11 heats won by juveniles at Hawkesbury on Monday morning with a big wave of youngsters looking to get racing before the end of the season and there were some interesting winners by Trapeze Artist and All Too Hard, plus an intriguing one for Godolphin.
Monday June 3
Former quality three-year-old Pier made a welcome return to racing at Te Aroha on Monday when he strode to an impressive first-up victory in an open 1300m contest.
Monday June 3
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Monday June 3
The Group I Prix du Jockey Club (2100m) was run at Longchamp overnight with a dominant win for unbeaten Lope de Vega colt Look de Vega, who was having his first start in a stakes race.
Monday June 3
Progressive Aussie bred gelding Galaxy Patch scored his first stakes win at Sha Tin on Sunday when the four year-old son of Wandjina scored a narrow victory in a thrilling finishing to the Group III Lion Rock Trophy(1600m)
Monday June 3
Here is the full list of 66 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Sunday June 2
A lather of sweat before the start, Hong Kong’s favourite son, Romantic Warrior (IRE), added another chapter to his illustrious story with victory in the $3,264,000 Group 1 Yasuda Kinen (1600m) at Tokyo on Sunday.
Sunday June 2
The familiar colours of Ron and Judy Wanless were in the winner’s circle at Woodbine on the weekend when talented Aussie bred American Pharoah (USA) gelding Flag of Honour captured the Group III Jacques Cartier Stakes (6f).
Sunday June 2
Amade (IRE) gave the field a minimum 5kgs and a four-length start and still emerged victorious in Sunday’s Listed Sportsbet Sandown Cup (3200m) at Sandown-Lakeside, completing a fantastic weekend for OTI Racing after Warmonger’s romp in the Group 1 Queensland Derby and Hezashocka claiming the Group III Premier’s Cup at Eagle Farm.
Sunday June 2
It’s been a busy year for the Alma Vale Thoroughbreds and the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale (June 4,5) marks the end of the yearling sale season with their draft of five youngsters featuring some well bred prospects including a Street Boss (USA) colt from a Group I winner.
Sunday June 2
Victorian based Crossley Thoroughbreds is a relatively new name in the vendor index at major sales and is the first bloodstock enterprise for Mitch Pearce, who is proud to offer a quality draft of eight at the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale next week.
Sunday June 2
The Epsom Derby card featured a number of stakes races including the Group III Princess Elizabeth Stakes (1m ½ f) won by talented four year-old Starspangledbanner mare Breege.
Sunday June 2
Due back in Australia this spring for Coolmore, Churchill added a new stakes-winner to his tally in North America on Friday when Frankie Dettori partnered Poolside with Slim (3f Churchill x Kissepal, by Epaulette) to victory in the Listed $150,000 Penn Oaks (1m) on the grass at Penn National.
Sunday June 2
Hailed as possibly the greatest colt of all time to emerge from Ballydoyle under the care of Aidan O’Brien following his undefeated juvenile season, City of Troy had his reputation tarnished with an unplaced return in the Group I Newmarket 2000 Guineas, but the Justify colt was back in business at Epsom.
Saturday June 1
Here is the full list of 101 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday June 1
The locals went home happy when Chinny Boom led home a Spirit Of Boom quinella in the Magic Millions Listed Helen Coughlan Stakes at Eagle Farm.
Saturday June 1
With a win in the Listed VRC TAB Trophy last spring and last start runner-up in the Group 1 South Australian Derby, Warmonger presented as a promising young stayer, but nothing could prepare for his virtuoso performance in Saturday’s $1,000,000 Ladbrokes Queensland Derby (2400m) at Eagle Farm.
Saturday June 1
After placing in all of his first four starts of the season, Waikato Stud’s sensational sprinter I Wish I Win returned to the top of the podium in Saturday’s Group I EVA Air Kingsford-Smith Cup (1300m) at Eagle Farm.
Saturday June 1
Back to the form that saw her defeat Joliestar and Kimochi in the Listed Desirable Stakes at Flemington last spring, Roll On High earned a golden ticket to the Stradbroke Hcp when she powered to the line to capture Saturday’s Group III Mullins Lawyers Fred Best Classic (1400m) at Eagle Farm.
Saturday June 1
Proven miler and winter track specialist Belardo Boy bounced back to winning form when he produced a powerful home straight surge to capture the feature event at Wanganui on Saturday, the Listed AGC Training Stakes (1600m).
Saturday June 1
Three and a half hours before Moonlight Magic took her place in Saturday’s Gr.1 Queensland Derby (2400m) at Eagle Farm, her half-brother Belardi kicked off a huge day for the family with victory in the Listed John Turkington Forestry Castletown Stakes (1200m) at Wanganui.
Saturday June 1
Godolphin's 2-year-old Too Darn Hot (GB) colt Broadsiding showed why he is rated among the most exciting young horses in the nation with a spectacular win in the Aquis Stallions Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m) at Eagle Farm.
Saturday June 1
Hezashocka has proven himself in far stronger company than Saturday’s Grou[ III Living Turf Premier’s Cup (2400m), and that big-race quality shone through with a comfortable victory at Eagle Farm.
Saturday June 1
It’s been a while between drinks for talented Churchill (IRE) filly Cigar Flick, who overcame treacherous conditions at Rosehill on Saturday to return to winning form.
Saturday June 1
He might be rising eight with 29 stakes races on his resume, but the Magnus gelding Just Folk has never been in better form.