The Riccarton Park crowd is getting all too used to the masterful tactics of Warren Kennedy, and the premiership-leading hoop produced another black-type winning ride in guiding Fashion Shoot to victory in the Group 3 Windsor Park Stud Canterbury Breeders’ Stakes (1400m).

Seven 2-year-olds made their career debuts in the Toyota Forklifts Maiden Hcp (1100m) at Rosehill Gardens on Wednesday, and the Trapeze Artist colt Spywire put them to the sword.

There were a couple of two-year-old heats at the Wyong barrier trials on Wednesday with both heats won by first season sires.

Despite a catalogue of self-inflicted injuries, the All Too Hard gelding Nation State broke his maiden at start two in the Evergreen Turf Maiden Plate (1000m) at Ballarat on Wednesday.

When Arrowfield’s John Messara speaks, the racing industry listens and the former Chairman of Racing NSW and Racing Australia has certainly made people take notice with a front page article covering his comments on the governance and direction of racing in NSW in today’s Sydney Morning Herald.

Very interesting juvenile race at Rosehill on Wednesday with eight unraced youngsters stepping out over 1100m and several have trialled in encouraging fashion.

It’s been a spring where mares have really stood up to be counted with all three of the open $3million Group I races on Champion’s Day at Flemington won by mares.

Here is the full list of 24 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale has traditionally been dominated by colts and geldings, but a growing number of quality fillies are proving to be well sought-after at Karaka every November.

Mali Ston will have several factors in his favour when he chases a comeback victory at Riccarton in the feature event on Wednesday’s card.

Arguably the hottest sire at the Flemington Cup Carnival last week was Zoustar and the NZB Ready to Run Sale features two youngsters bred the same way as his three Flemington stakes-winners – Ozzmosis, Mumbai Muse and Schwarz.

Coolmore have had a memorable year with blue-blood Deep Impact colt Auguste Rodin, who is set to race in in 2024.

The past week has been a fascinating one for those interested in pedigree with the best stallions rising to the top at the best racing carnival in Australia and we saw a world first involving two champion sires, not to mention the emergence of a couple of colts destined for stud careers.

Here is the full list of 15 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Pride of Jenni did something last week that hasn’t been achieved in nearly a quarter of a century – record a Group One double during Melbourne Cup Week – and breeders Brent and Cherry Taylor of Trelawney Stud couldn’t be prouder.

The spelling paddock is beckoning New Zealand-bred mare Atishu following her sensational win in the Gr.1 Champions Stakes (2000m) at Flemington on Saturday.

Rex Cochrane will forever be remembered as an outstanding horseman and one of the racing industry’s true gentlemen.

Already a six-time stakes winner between 1200 and 1800 metres, Singapore superstar Lim’s Kosciuszko (Kermadec) extended his dominance into new territory on Saturday with victory in the S$1m Singapore Gold Cup (2000m) at Kranji.

Lord Kanaloa (JPN) remains on track to end the 11-year domination of Deep Impact (JPN) after sweeping all three stakes races in Japan on Sunday, highlighted by Brede Weg (JPN) in the Group 1 The Queen Elizabeth II Cup (2200m) at Kyoto.

There were two heats for juveniles at Hawkesbury on Monday morning and Everest hero Yes Yes Yes sired the winner of one heat and a close second in the other, plus a fascinating heat winner at Benalla.

Since April 2022 I have been constantly updating the industry on the status of Godolphin’s land tax exemption dispute with Revenue NSW.

The biggest ever Magic Millions Yearling Sale in January features a whopping 1468 entries and the break up of stallions is always interesting as it reflects the thinking of the sales company back at the start of spring when inspections were undertaken and entries being judged and finalized.

The 2024 Magic Millions Yearling Sale in set to make history as the biggest ever held, so who are the farms that are sending their best and brightest stars to the Gold Coast in January.

Here is the full list of 53 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The undisputed number one Group One producing thoroughbred auction in Australasia will soon present its next crop of future champions with today's release of the online catalogue for the 2024 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.

This stallion tends to fly under the radar, but with a stakes quinella on Saturday and a 9% stakes-winner to runner lifetime strike rate it’s going to be hard for West Australian breeders to keep this guy to themselves forever.

Debutant Velocious lived up to her name when she downed a handy field of juveniles in the first race at Te Rapa on Saturday.

The Les Ross-trained filly Mishani Aloha will be set for the $3,000,000 Magic Millions 2yo Classic at the Gold Coast on January 13 after doing the right thing by the sponsors when breaking her maiden in the Kobayashi At Aquis Hcp (1200m) at Doomben on Saturday.

It is horses like Unspoken (IRE) that see scores of Australians make the annual pilgrimage to the Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale.

Here is the full list of 128 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Here is the full list of relations to stakes winners to be offered at Magic Millions in 2024 which includes a half-brother to Imperatriz by Capitalist, a full-sister to In Secret and a half-brother by Wootton Bassett to Everest winner Think About it.

Here is the full list of the progeny of stakes winning mares to be offered at Magic Millions in 2024 including the first foals of Arcadia Queen and Avantage.

After winning the Listed Luckygray Stakes (1800m) on the Dan Morton-trained Another Chino (Maschino), Brad Parnham teamed up with his father Neville to capture the Listed Seacorp - Fairetha Stakes (1400m) with Investmentstrategy.

Twice stakes-placed, the 5-year-old Extreme Choice mare Extremist broke through for a valuable stakes success in Saturday’s Listed Channel 7 Keith Noud Quality t Doomben.

Newgate Farm’s Tassort sired his third winner from four runners when the favoured Onemoretwomany made a winning debut over 1100m at Ascot on Saturday.

After Pride Of Jenni led at every call in the Kennedy’s Champions Mile, the Savabeel mare Atishu stamped the Empire Rose Stakes form with a dominant win in the $3,000,000 Group 1 TAB Champions Stakes (1400m) at Flemington.

The fleet-footed Alabama Express colt Shangri La Express kept his record at a perfect two for two with a courageous performance in Saturday’s $1,000,000 Inglis Golden Gift (1100m) at Rosehill.

Pride of Dubai mare Pride of Jenni scaled the mountain at Flemington last Saturday when snaring her first Group I win in the $1million VRC Empire Rose Stakes and she wasted no time getting another when backing up to beat the best WFA milers to win the $3million VRC Champions Mile (1600m).

Champion sire I Am Invincible has produced his share of brilliant mares, but none can compare to the mighty Imperatriz, who has blazed through the Melbourne Spring Carnival undefeated claiming the $3million Group I VRC Champion’s Sprint (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday to put the jewel in her crown.

A patient ride by Tommy Berry bought out the best in the talented Press Statement mare Roots in Saturday’s $500,000 Group II James Squire Hot Danish Stakes at Rosehill.

Class sprinter Babylon Berlin showed she will be a force in all the major sprints over the summer months with a comfortable victory in the Listed Legacy Lodge Sprint (1200m) at Te Rapa.

Undefeated three-year-old Crocetti confirmed his superstar quality with another scintillating performance in Saturday’s Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai 51st New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton.

Emerging staying star Nest Egg tightened his hold on favouritism for next weekend’s Gr.3 New Zealand Cup (3200m) with a perfect dress rehearsal on the opening day of the carnival at Riccarton on Saturday.

Mares by Pride of Dubai have been on fire this spring and Deny Knowledge (IRE) joined the party with a brave front running victory in the $300,000 Group II VRC Matriarch Stakes (2000m) at Flemington on Saturday.

An aggressive Daniel Moor forced Muramasa through a narrow seam at the 250m and the son of Deep Impact (JPN) strode clear for a decisive win in the Group III Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2400m) at Flemington on Champions Day.

The colours of the Rosemont Stallion Alliance were carried to victory at Flemington on Saturday by expensive Zoustar colt Schwarz, who captured the $175,000 Listed VRC Amanda Elliott Stakes (1400m) at his third start.

The winner of three of his first four starts at two, culminating in the defeat of Anamoe, Jigsaw, Kallos, Extreme Warrior and Hitotsu in the 2021 Blue Diamond Prelude, the 5-year-old entire General Beau has gone 111 weeks without a win before Saturday’s Listed Resimax Group Always Welcome Stakes (1200m) at Flemington.

A three-time stakes placegetter over the last eight months, Not Guilty took the next step with a brilliant black-type breakthrough in Saturday’s Listed Donaldson Brown Pegasus Stakes (1000m) at Riccarton.

Three Witches, who six days ago finished third in the $1 million PNC Bank Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) at Santa Anita, sold today for $1.7 million to Rifa Mustang Europe to lead the third session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Here is the full list of 45 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Friday with winners and result details.

A fast precocious juvenile by Brazen Beau, Tassort always had the profile to get early two year-olds and produced his second winner from three starters when Astapor made a winning debut on Friday.

It doesn’t carry Black Type, but the $1million ATC Golden Gift (1100m) at Rosehill on Saturday has a big pot of prizemoney which is enough to assure the winner of a start in next year’s Golden Slipper and since it’s inception three of the past four winners have gone on to run in the world’s richest race for two year-olds.

Up-and-coming Cambridge trainer Sam Mynott will have her first taste of black-type racing when she saddles stable star Imwonderfultonight in Saturday’s Listed Donaldson Brown Pegasus Stakes (1000m) at Riccarton.

Cancel This, a 4-year-old winning daughter of Malibu Moon from the family of Grade 1 winner and sire Girvin and 2023 Grade 1 winner Brightwork, sold to Larkin Armstrong, agent for Helen Alexander, for $825,000 to highlight the second session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Peter Walsh is living the dream as the owner-breeder of Amelia's Jewel and, under different circumstances, could be campaigning a mare that will stake her claim for champion miler in Saturday's $3,000,000 Kennedy Champions Mile at Flemington.

Cambridge trainer Stephen Marsh is hoping to hit the ground running as New Zealand Cup Week kicks off in Christchurch this weekend.

Within the space of a few hours on Saturday afternoon, Andrew Forsman will be represented by well-credentialled runners at Flemington, Riccarton and Te Rapa.

This report has a big following as interested parties look to stay ahead of what might be in the pipeline for our first season sires, who are certainly making their presence felt with Alabama Express, Pierata, Exceedance and Tassort already posting stakes-winners this season.

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

Outstanding mare Foxy Frida (Foxwedge) made it two wins in the $350,000 Inglis Bracelet from the past three years with another tough victory at Flemington today.

Godolphin’s Kingman (GB) filly Zardozi unleashed a withering burst of acceleration to claim the 165th running of the $1,000,000 Group I Kennedy Victoria Oaks (2500m) at Flemington.

Widden Stud’s champion sire Zoustar got his second Group winner at Flemington in Cup Week when talented filly Mumbai Muse surged to the line out wide to win the $300,000 Group III VRC Red Roses Stakes (1200m) with her ears pricked.

Some of the industry’s biggest participants including Godolphin, Te Akau, Bob Peters and Australian Bloodstock featured heavily in the leading lots of today’s Inglis Digital November (Early) Sale, which was topped by Swettenham Stud-offered mare Rain Cloud.

Six year-old Starspangledbanner gelding Najem Suhail has had an interesting life, born and bred in Victoria before starting his racing life in South Africa where he won on debut as a juvenile in 2020 and then subsequently found his way back to Australia into the care of Robbie Griffiths and Matthew de Kock.

Roger James believes he has ticked all the boxes with his multiple Group One winner Prowess ahead of the Gr.1 Champions Stakes (2000m) at Flemington on Saturday.

Flemington has been a happy hunting ground for the Vela family and they are hoping that continues on Saturday when their Group One performer Pearl Of Alsace carries their famous silks in the Gr.2 Matriarch Stakes (2000m).

A narrow winner when making her debut in the Moorundi Classic at Murray Bridge on October 7, the Alabama Express filly Karavas kept her record at a perfect two for two with a fast-finishing win in the Group III Darley Ottawa Stakes (1000m) at Flemington on Oaks Day.

BBA Ireland paid $2.1 million for the 10-year-old Galileo (IRE) mare White Hot (IRE), the dam of 2021 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) winner Pizza Bianca who is in foal to leading sire Into Mischief, to record the highest price of today’s Book 1 opening session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Aga Khan Studs have released their fees for 2024 with their rosters topped by Siyouni and Sea the Stars, who have both been given increases.

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

Coolmore have announced their fees for 2024 in Ireland with the roster topped by Wootton Bassett, who is currently in Australia covering his third book of mares to Southern Hemisphere time.

Oaks Day at Flemington in Thursday features four stakes races starting with the Group III VRC Ottawa Stakes (1000m) for the two year-old fillies with a competitive field of nine featuring runners by first season sires – Royal Meeting (IRE), Too Darn Hot (GB), Alabama Express and Yes Yes Yes.

 A pair of Eclipse Champions sold for $6,000,000 each to share the top spot at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale, held Tuesday afternoon and evening at the Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Kentucky. Billed as the world's premier breeding stock event, the sale grossed in excess of $100,000,000 for the third consecutive year.

Three heats for juveniles at Warwick Farm on Wednesday morning produced a couple of dominant winners for the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable, plus a winner for Leneva Park’s first season sire Royal Meeting (IRE).

The Fasig-Tipton November Sale has been a happy hunting ground for Kia-Ora Stud, and the Hunter Valley showpiece struck three times at the Kentucky Sale..

Australian Bloodstock have been big investors at the tried  horses sales in Europe again this year and Spangler (IRE), a Starspangledbanner gelding they purchased at Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale in 2021 for 55,000 guineas got the cash at Randwick on Cup Day in the $750,000 ATC Little Dance (1600m).

The $1million Group I VRC Oaks (2500m) is the highlight at Flemington on Thursday and with all of the fillies on trial at the trip, pedigree can be a good indicator in a field of 14 that features five stakes-winners and a raft of up and comers.

Successful breeder and owner Daniel Nakhle has high hopes of a double celebration in the coming days.

Less than a year after going through the sale ring at the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale, lightly raced three year-old Warmonger stepped on to Australian racing’s biggest stage with a black-type victory on Melbourne Cup Day at Flemington and there are four more youngsters by his sire War Decree (USA) to be offered at this year’s sale.

Young horsewoman Sara Ryan has trained in her own name for less than 18 months, but this afternoon achieved the biggest win of her burgeoning career when 5YO Inglis Easter Yearling Sale graduate Attractable (I Am Invincible) took out the $3m The Big Dance over the famed mile at Royal Randwick.

A huge day of racing around Australia produced a new stakes-winner for Eureka Stud’s Spirit of Boom with unbeaten three year-old filly Keshi Boom toppling race favourite Super Smink to win the Listed WATC Burgess Queen Stakes (1400m) at Ascot.

Here is the full list of 135 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

On the day Frankel had his Northern Hemisphere fee at Juddmonte Farms raised to £350,000 (A$670,759) and almost sired a Melbourne Cup winner with Soulcombe (GB) a gallant second, he also gave us a One to Watch at Kembla with a debut win for a blue-blood filly from champion mare More Joyous.

Kiwi four-year-old Skew Wiff displayed her true quality when landing the Gr.3 Hong Kong Jockey Club Stakes (1400m) at Flemington on Tuesday under a tactically perfect Opie Bosson ride.

Cambridge Stud and their private trainer Lance Noble celebrated a memorable afternoon at Pukekohe on Tuesday winning four races including the Listed Fulton Family Stakes (1500m) won by five year-old Zoustar stallion Habana.

The lightly raced 3-year-old Shamus Award filly Roll On High had been building to a peak performance and she chose the right stage in the Listed Howden Desirable Stakes (1400m) at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day.

The Black Type might have been at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day, but there was big cash on offer at Randwick with I Am Invincible gelding Attractable upsetting the short priced favourite Cepheus (GB) to win the $3million ATC Big Dance (1600m).

Cambridge Stud and their private trainer Lance Noble celebrated a memorable afternoon at Pukekohe on Tuesday with a clean sweep of the feature events and a winning undercard double.

A second consecutive winner for Mark Zahra, a third for Darley Stud’s Teofilo (IRE), and a first for Anthony and Sam Freedman, as the Caulfield Cup hero Without A Fight (IRE) proved a dominant winner of the Lexus Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington.

No black-type but a Melbourne Cup Day reward for the ultra-consistent Rich Enuff 3-year-old Wiggum in The Schweppervescence Plate (1000m) down the straight at Flemington.

Talented three-year-old Warmonger scored a game victory in the Listed TAB Trophy (1800m) at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day for trainers Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr providing a great advertisement for the upcoming NZB Ready to Run Sale.

The 5-year-old Savabeel gelding Forgot You broke a two-year drought in the Listed Furphy Melbourne Cup Day Plate (1800m) at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day.

The Group III VRC Maribyrnong Plate (1000m) for two year-olds at Flemington on Tuesday got Cup Day off to a flying start with a quinella for first season sires with Exceedance colt Dublin Down too tough for his well fancied stablemate Blue Stratum, a son of much hyped Darley shuttler Blue Point (IRE).

Cup Day at Flemington starts with the Group III VRC Maribyrnong Plate for the two year-olds and first season Darley shuttler Blue Point (IRE) is represented by one of the favourites.

Juddmonte Farms have announced their fees for 2024 with Frankel given a raise to £350,000 to put him on a level pegging with Darley based Dubawi as the most expensive sire in the world.

Here is the full list of 14 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

I’m getting old and cynical and have been around this industry for what seems a long time, but somehow the magic of the Cup still gets to me and Cup Eve is something akin to Christmas eve for us adults that remember the racing world as it was last century.

Tuesday’s $8,410,000 Lexus Melbourne Cup at Flemington could put an exclamation point on an amazing season for Juddmonte Farm’s undefeated champion, Frankel.

Three heats for juveniles over 900m at Rosehill on Monday morning produced winners for Written Tycoon, Trapeze Artist and Churchill (IRE), while the place-getters included two colts sold for $1.4million apiece.

Melbournian’s are all too familiar with the unpredictability of mother nature which again has the potential to play a major role in the outcome of this years Melbourne Cup.