The 2024 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale is set to be dominated by Arrowfield Stud with their draft of 61 yearlings by far the largest of any vendor in the sale.

A catalogue of 500 yearlings has been finalised for the 2024 edition of the sale renowned as ‘the best of the best’, the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale.

The locals rallied around the unbeaten Wordsmith filly Geegees Mistruth in Sunday's Listed Kevin Sharkie Elwick Stakes at Hobart, and there was not a moment of worry.

Curraghmore principal Gordon Cunningham is quick to share what drives him as he prepares to present another quality draft at the New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale when it kicks off at Karaka at 10am this coming Sunday.

A third 2-year-old winner for the season for Spirit Of Boom when the Kris Lees-trained debutant Thundering Soul triumphed in a dramatic finish to the Yarraman Park Hcp (900m) at Scone on Sunday.

Ben Foote never doubted the ability of The Odyssey, and his faith in the gelding was rewarded when he claimed the inaugural running of the $350,000 The Oaks Stud Remutaka Classic (2100m).

Local star Humbucker provided a poignant result on Saturday with a successful defence of his title in the $50,000 MLT Gore Cup (2000m).

For a smaller stallion farm, Yarraman Park does pack a punch with two of their three sires – I Am Invincible and Hellbent – both siring six winners on Saturday!

Here is the full list of 96 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Swettenham Stud's Toronado (IRE) enjoyed a red-letter day at Flemington with three winners and a second on the ten-race card.

Talented apprentice jockey Celine Gaudrey picked up a winning double at Flemington on Saturday that featured plenty of connections with the New Zealand racing and breeding industry.

He might not be the best current horse to carry the Ingham cerise with that honour held by his stablemate Fangirl, but four year-old Churchill (IRE) gelding Robusto has developed into a more than useful racehorse and landed his fifth metropolitan success when saluting at Rosehill on Saturday.

Out of the place in just one of five starts in Sydney, the 3-year-old Exceed And Excel filly Power Ballard took an instant liking to the Flemington straight when leading from barrier to post in the Be A Mate, Nominate Trophy (1100m).

Talented I Am Invincible colt Caballus was a million dollar purchase as a yearling and did look the goods when winning a hot juvenile race in winter last year beating quality fillies Estriella and Shaken, but when tried in stakes company last spring he came up short and ended up on Inglis Digital where he was bought by Darby Bloodstock for $315,000.

Trainer Robbie Patterson has had his New Plymouth stable firing on all cylinders of late but even he couldn’t believe he would pick up the two feature events at Trentham on Saturday.

Promising filly Aberlour added plenty of value to a future breeding career when she won a tooth and nail battle against the heavily supported Hakadecree to capture the Listed Liquorland Gore Guineas (1335m).

Te Akau Racing continue to make their presence felt in Australia since opening a Cranbourne stable in the spring and four-year-old mare Sans Doute made it back-to-back wins at Flemington when a game winner of the Black Caviar Lightning Race Day, 17 February (1100m).

The 5-year-old Shamus Award gelding Willaidow has returned from a career-threatening injury to extend his winning run to four with a dominant performance in the Midway (1200m) at Rosehill on Saturday.

A first-time winner at Group Three and Group Two level in his previous two starts, Puntura took his career-best campaign to even greater heights in Saturday’s Gr.1 Harcourts Thorndon Mile (1600m) at Trentham.

The decision to head north with the 2-year-old colt Commanding Artist paid off when the son of Trapeze Artist opened his winning account in the Racecourse Village Hcp (1200m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

Roger James and Robert Wellwood turned their Wellington Cup Carnival fortunes around with an impressive victory by Sudbina in the Gr.3 New Zealand Bloodstock Desert Gold Stakes (1600m) at Trentham on Saturday.

The Mike Moroney-trained Bermadez was back in the winner’s circle for the first time since May 2022 with a hard-fought victory in the Howden Australian Guineas Day, 2 March (1600m) at Flemington on Saturday.

The open juvenile event at Rosehill on Saturday featured a big competitive field with the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable producing yet another talented two year-old with Hellbent colt Fully Lit leading all the way for a dominant debut victory to the great delight of his huge team of Red Fox Racing owners.

A $1.2million Inglis Easter purchase, Dakota Vroom is the first foal of Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes winner Catchy and this talented daughter of I Am Invincible is starting to realise her potential. powering to a dominant win at Canterbury on Friday night.

The Inglis Classic Yearling Sale is fast approaching on February 11, 12 and 13 with two winners on the Canterbury card last night bringing pedigree updates for their sales bound siblings.

Here is the full list of 42 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Recent Perth Cup winner Casino Seventeen, a Group placed Snitzel mare in foal to global sire sensation Justify and a G1 placed son of Redoute’s Choice are just some of the highlights in a spectacular first Inglis Digital online sale for 2024.

Despite being easy in betting, the Grunt filly Dancer For Money made short work of a field of six debutants in the Geelong Homes Maiden Plate (1130m) for two-year-olds at Geelong on Friday.

NZB’s 98th National Yearling Sale Series is just days away, set to take place on 28 January to 2 February at the iconic Karaka Sales Centre.

A field stacked with emerging talent will clash in Saturday’s $120,000 Group Three New Zealand Bloodstock Desert Gold Stakes (1600m) at Trentham, which is the seventh leg of the prestigious New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series.

The Federation of Bloodstock Agents Australia (FBAA) has commenced the year on a high note, with member’s marking a significant impact at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale, contributing to 20% of the gross in Book 1.

The strapping Fastnet Rock 3-year-old Subsix returned from a 15-week break as a gelding to open his winning account in the $75,000 Sportsbet Future Stars Series Heat 4 Maiden at Pakenham on Thursday night and book a place in the $300,000 Sportsbet Future Stars Series Final on February 29.

Buoyed by a satisfying midweek success, Stephen Marsh will be hoping to add to his tally on Saturday with a four-strong team engaged at Trentham, including a pair of strong Group One chances.

After a week of watching the big bangers at the commercial top end on the Gold Coast, a winner at Wyong on Thursday shone a light on a stallion as a great option for those breeding to race.

Well-performed four-year-old Holymanz has arrived at part-owner Cambridge Stud’s training facility at Karaka to continue his build-up toward a potentially lucrative hit-and-run mission.

Former Darley stallion Epaulette may have left our shores for Turkey a couple of years ago but his highest priced yearling won her maiden impressively at Wyong on Thursday giving an update to her half-sister at Inglis Classic next month.

In a field of bluebloods for Saturday's Neds Australian Whisky Hcp at Rosehill Gardens, it would be a dereliction to ignore a first starter from one of the outstanding broodmares of modern times.

With autumn in the sights, the biggest two-year-old field in Sydney this season, and second biggest nationally, has accepted at Rosehill on Saturday with some very interesting runners obviously with high hopes.

The current crop of three-year olds purchased from Rich Hill Stud’s class of 2022 at Karaka are shaping up to be another group of supremely talented racehorses.

Well related Not a Single Doubt filly Don’tdoubtlayla unleashed a brilliant finish to charge home from last to win at Randwick on Wednesday bringing a timely update for her Karaka bound three-quarter sister by Anders.

The $125,000 Listed Miss Andretti Stakes (1200m) at Pinjarra on Wednesday produced a new stakes-winner for Pride of Dubai with victory going to progressive mare Wild Belle.

Here is the full list of 52 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

After noting The Black Cloud was a filly with a future when tagged a ‘One To Watch’ following her win in a competitive maiden at Gosford at her career debut, the daughter of Shamus Award kept her record at a perfect two for two at Randwick-Kensington on Wednesday.

Becoming a trainer was never in the plan for Kelly Van Dyk, but on Wednesday she found herself welcoming back her first winner at Te Rapa.

This blueblood three year-old filly by champion sire I am Invincible cast off maiden status with a commanding win at Randwick on Wednesday at just her second start.

Group Three winner Burn To Shine made a pleasing return to the trials at Tauranga on Tuesday when taking out his 950m heat under a hold, beating Group Two performer Wessex by a nose.

No Compromise was a two-time winner from a handful of starts for Bill Thurlow before successfully continuing his career in Australia and now looks primed to star in his second stint for the Waverley trainer.

The 2024 Magic Millions Yearling Sale was a busy one for Widden Stud selling 65 yearlings across Books 1 and 2 for $14.6million and particularly pleasing was the warm reception afforded their first season sires Anders, Russian Camelot (IRE), Dirty Work and Doubtland.

Throughout the more than three decades since Sir Peter Vela founded Pencarrow Stud in partnership with his late brother Philip, the stud’s name and its recognisable ‘V in a box’ brand have become renowned as an outstanding nursery of thoroughbred talent.

With the Magic Millions sales extravaganza taking everyone’s attention over the past two weeks it’s easy to miss things, so if you want to catch up on all the trial activity for unraced progeny of first season sires check out the latest report.

A three quarter sister to former star Queensland galloper Apache Chase has topped the final day of the hugely successful 2024 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.

Here is the full list of 28 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Some interesting winners over the past week with Karaka connections include two of the most exciting juveniles in Australia and the latest Group I winner for a serious Group I sire.

Trelawney Stud again celebrated outstanding results on the track last year, highlighted by a pair of heavy hitting graduates of Brent and Cherry Taylor’s operation.

Five heats for two year-old this morning with spring stakes-winner and Inglis Millennium contender Odinson stretching his legs to win a heat, while other winners included youngsters by first season sires Zousain and Microphone, plus a couple of colts for the Newgate and China Horse Club partners.

Pencarrow Stud is internationally renowned for its countless stakes-performed homebred fillies and mares, most famously the mighty Melbourne Cup (3200m) and Caulfield Cup (3200m) heroine Ethereal (NZ) (Rhythm), but the respected nursery is also an outstanding source of talented colts, and buyers will have access to 19 of them among Pencarrow’s draft for Book 1 of Karaka 2024.

Throughout the 12 months between Karaka 2023 and this month’s Karaka 2024 yearling sales, there has been a long line of graduate Group One success across major carnivals in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne, and New Zealand.

The first two trials at Warwick Farm on Tuesday morning featured a galaxy of stars with seven Group I winners engaged, but the two heats were won by three year-old fillies that have yet to win a G1, but promise to do so in the autumn.

Siring an impressive debut two year-old winner at a Sydney metro meeting is always going to put you front and centre and that happened for So You Think’s charismatic grey son D’Argento when Rag Queen saluted at Canterbury with his progeny finding favour at Magic Millions in a big way selling for up to $300,000.

Here is the full list of 23 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Leading Victorian trainer Danny O'Brien has turned back the clock to secure the top seller on Day Six of the 2024 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale today

The unofficial order of entry for the $2million Inglis Millennium over 1100m for 2YOs be run at Randwick on Saturday February 10 has been released with a final field of 16 runners and 4 emergencies.

The emergence of Mary Shan this season has been welcomed by Prima Park who will offer her sister as Lot 393 at the upcoming New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale.

An exclusive film on Kirsten Rausing’s story, ‘An International Bloodstock Journey’, offers a wonderful insight for Thoroughbred breeding and racing enthusiasts in ITBF’s annual Global Webinar next week.

Trainers Bruce Wallace and Grant Cooksley will head to the TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie in a fortnight with a bit more confidence with their juvenile So Naive following his win in the Stella Artois 1200 at the Auckland track on Sunday.

The graduates of Book 2 of the Magic Millions Yearling Sale continue to perform year after year and has another pinup in Abounding, who won the feature $3,000,000 Magic Millions 3yo Guineas. The daughter of Rich Enuff was a $75,000 buy for First Light Racing/Robert Heathcote Racing from the Telemon Thoroughbreds draft in 2022 and has banked over $2,000,000.

A hot market at the weanling sales last year meant quality youngsters were expensive, so heading into the Magic Millions Yearling Sale there would have been more than a few anxious pinhook investors, however with buoyant trade keeping yearling prices pretty much on a par with last year there were some great results.

We know which sires averaged well and those that produced the million dollar horses and now we’re going to take a look at the sires that were the most profitable for their supporters and we look at them two ways, by multiple of service fee and straight profit.

Here is the full list of 67 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The 2024 Magic Millions Yearling Sale was highlighted by 23 yearlings that sold for $1million or more which was up by three on last year when 20 were in the millionaires club.

Emerging three-year-old Renegade Rebel stepped up from a last-start maiden win and scored a determined front-running victory in Sunday’s Listed Gingernuts Salver (2100m) at Ellerslie.

Two Group Ones at Trentham and the eagerly anticipated reopening of Ellerslie provided plenty of potential highlights across a blockbuster weekend of racing, but top-class mare Legarto towered above all other talking points with a commanding performance in Sunday’s Elsdon Park Aotearoa Classic Preview (1400m).

The highly-anticipated reopening of Ellerslie was celebrated in style on Sunday, with Merchant Queen writing her name into the history books as the first to salute in a new era for the iconic venue.

The Magic Millions race day at the Gold Coast is awash in prizemoney offering an unparallelled opportunity for owners to collect serious prizemoney in an environment geared for serious fun, so what effect has it had on our sire tables and we look at how fickle the bloodstock world can be.

With Book 1 of the Magic Millions Yearling Sale completed, attention now turns to the second major Australasian yearling sale of 2024, the NZB Karaka Sale from January 28 in New Zealand.

Proven sires did dominate at the 2024 Magic Millions Yearling Sale, but there was also a spectacular response to Coolmore shuttler Wootton Bassett (GB), who was a runaway leader in the first season sire division and produced the sale-topping filly from Avantage that sold for $2.1million, but it wasn’t all about him, so let’s look a little closer at this cohort of young guns.

Lady Laguna raced her way into the $1 million TAB Magic Millions Fillies and Mares (1300m) with a wildcard and raced away with the bounty at the Gold Coast on Saturday when easily accounting for her rivals in the final race on Magic Millions Raceday.

Ciaron Maher and David Eustace put a frustrating run of Magic Millions Raceday near-misses behind them to win Saturday’s Restricted Listed $1 million Jewel Magic Millions Cup (1400m) at the Gold Coast with improving mare Semana, who becomes the third stakes-winner for her sire Winning Rupert.

A colt by outstanding Newgate Farm based sire Extreme Choice topped the traditional Saturday night session of the 2024 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale tonight.

Here is the full list of 97 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Matthew Dunn nailed his three-month plan to win the $1 million TAB Magic Millions The Syndicate (1100m) with emerging gelding Derry Grove, who scored a thrilling last-stride win in the unique feature at the Gold Coast on Saturday.

Boom Torque’s meteoric rise through the ranks under trainer Matt Dunn continued at the Gold Coast on Saturday with a thrilling win in the $1 million Racing Queensland Magic Millions QTIS Open (1300m).

After a lengthy delay caused by the scratching of nominal favourite Sydney Bowler at the barriers, the big baldy face of the admirably consistent Rich Enuff filly Abounding emerged from the pack to capture the $3,000,000 Gold Coast Magic Millions 3yo Guineas (RL).

Super talented Justify (USA) colt Storm Boy was sent out favourite for the $3million Magic Millions 2YO Classic (1200m) at the Gold Coast on Saturday and proved a class above his rivals when powering to a dominant two and a half length win over quality colts Highness (Snitzel) and Spywire (Trapeze Artist).

A milestone for Jett Stanley as Naval College (GB) provided the apprentice with a first stakes success with a minimum of fuss in the $200,000 James Squire January Cup (2000m) at Rosehill.

Bred and sold by Grenville Stud, who have been making headlines at Magic Millions this week, South Australian flyer Sghirripa is in the form of his life, adding Saturday’s Group III Standish Hcp (1200m) at Flemington to his triumph in the Listed Christmas Stakes at Caulfield on Boxing Day and gaining an automatic start in the Newmarket Handicap on at Flemington on March 9.

Yarraman Park bred, sold and co-owned I Am Invincible gelding King of Sparta captured the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas in 2022, the Magic Millions Sprint in 2023 and returned to the Gold Coast on Saturday to do it all again scoring a commanding win in the $1million Magic Millions Snippets (!200m).

A thrilling finish to the $1million Magic Millions Subzero (2200m) at the Gold Coast on Saturday delivered another victory for Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott with six year-old So You Think gelding So United, a $190,000 Magic Millions purchase from Valiant Stud, who will offer eight yearlings in Book 2 starting on Monday.

Te Akau Racing’s dominance of the Gr.1 Cambridge Stud Levin Classic (1600m) continued at Trentham on Saturday with Quintessa clinging on in an unforgettable finish to become the sixth Group I winner for Rosemont Stud's Shamus Award..

Sam Spratt teamed up with arguably New Zealand’s most improved racehorse to land a boilover victory in Saturday’s Gr.1 JR & N Berkett Telegraph (1200m) at Trentham – her third time triumphing in a meeting that once came close to claiming her life.

Cambridge trainer Tony Pike made a flying start to racing at Trentham on Saturday when he produced the winners of the first two stakes races on a day featuring five black type events.

Popular Opaki trainer Alby MacGregor was full of emotion as he welcomed his stable favourite Times Ticking back to the winners’ enclosure after a thrilling victory in the Gr.3 Mode Technology Trentham Stakes (2100m).

Talented three-year-old gelding Otago remains undefeated after a narrow victory at Flemington on Saturday in the Victorian Jockeys Association Trophy (1400m).

Victory in the Listed IRT Wellesley Stakes (1100m) is becoming a force of habit for Michael McNab as the northern hoop claimed a third-straight win in the two-year-old feature at Trentham with impressive filly Archaic Smile.

A Group I winning miler by champion New Zealand sire O’Reilly, Newgate Farm’s Brutal is on the board with his second winner after talented gelding Lead Me On was too strong in the $500,000 Magic Millions Debut (1000m) for unraced colts and geldings.

Carrying the silks of her triple Group 1 winning sire Too Darn Hot (GB), Too Darn Lizzie made all the running in the $500,000 Magic Millions The Debut 2yo Fillies at the Gold Coast on Saturday.

Widden Stud's champion sire Zoustar started Saturday with winners in Melbourne and at the Gold Coast for Magic Millions Day with Lindsay Park unleashing two year-old colt Zestiman for a debut win at Flemington, while Zoumeteor won the $500,000 Magic Millions Country Cup (1200m).

Kingstar Farm had a great result on Friday at Magic Millions when the only three yearlings in Book 1 by their promising young sire Time to Reign all sold at an average $160,000, that’s good going for a stallion that stands at a fee of $9,900!

Here is the full list of 42 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The first foal of former outstanding racemare Madam Rouge topped Day Four of the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale today and after four days of selling the sale gross has surpassed $205 million for 727 lots selling at an average price of $282,298 with the impressive clearance rate of 86 per cent.