The Australian Turf Club has advised the latest order of entry for the $5m, Group I TAB Golden Slipper (1200m) at Rosehill on March 23rd, as at Monday, March 11th  following two more key Slipper lead up races last Saturday, while Lady of Camelot was in cruise control at the Hawkesbury barrier trials.

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

A colt by Better Than Ready topped Day One of the 2024 Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale with a phone bid from Los Angeles Airport coming up trumps.

Jamie Kah and Godolphin topped off a memorable long weekend when the 3-year-old Exosphere filly Austmarr spaced the opposition in the Listed Thomas Farms Manihi Classic (1100m) at Morphettville.

The Launceston Cup is shaping as an important lead-up to the Adelaide Cup. Last year Aurora's Symphony won the Tasmanian feature before being edged out by Rebel Racer in the Cup. This year's Launceston Cup hero Excelleration went one better in Monday's $350,000 Tab Adelaide Cup (3200m) at Morphettville.

A happy homecoming for Lloyd Kennewell and Jamie Kah as the Extreme Choice gelding Meridius broke a year-long drought in the Listed Quayclean C S Hayes Memorial Cup (1600m) at Morphettville.

A Group winner at two and a stakes-winner last spring, Air Assault had a class edge over his rivals in the Listed SAJC Morphettville Guineas (1600m) on Monday and led all the way for a determined victory.

Chalk up a fifth Australian winner and sixth overall for Alabama Express as the cleverly named Harpalee broke her maiden at start two in the Porter Plant Maiden Plate (1000m) at Ballarat on Monday.

When Luke Fernie learned Winning Rupert was on the market he seized the moment and bought the son of Champion Australian sire Written Tycoon to stand in Western Australia.

Wexford Stables will break new ground next month with their Group One-winning sprinter Waitak heading to Western Australia.

Quality Karaka graduate Lekvarte (NZ) (Reliable Man) produced an extraordinary finish to add a second stakes win to her CV in Saturday’s A$250,000 Group Three Mostyncopper Aspiration Quality (1600m) at Randwick.

The Group I Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup (1400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday drew a quality field with Irish bred Starspangledbanner gelding California Spangle (IRE) claiming the prize under a clever front running ride by Aussie jockey Brenton Avdulla.

Here is the full list of 64 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Placed behind stablemate’s Bodyguard in the Group III Blue Diamond Prelude and High Octane in the Listed Blue Diamond Preview, Holmes A Court found his time to shine in Sunday’s $250,000 Group III John Mcgrath Auto Group Black Opal Stakes (1200m) at Canberra.

Kris Lees and Australian Bloodstock are a formidable team and won the Listed Canberra Cup in 2020 with the import Mugatoo (IRE), who went on to win the All Star Mile and they were back in the winner’s circle on Sunday winning the same race with Almania (IRE).

The $165,000 Listed Canberra Guineas (1400m) produced a thrilling finish with the favourite Port Lockroy edged out by up and coming Zoustar gelding Xidaki.

A top class stakes-winner in Singapore last season, Flying Artie gelding Coin Toss brought his A game to Canberra on Sunday scoring a bold front running win in the$165,000  Listed National Sprint (1400m) bringing a timely pedigree update for his yearling half-sister to be offered at the Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale on Tuesday.

There were five Group I races run in Australasia on Saturday that produced five brand new G1 winners, but only one of them started favourite so let’s take a look at her first as she highlights an emerging nick between two champion Australian sires, is it a good one? And also we look at the fact rather than perception of sex bias in this G1 sire.

No stallion has a better strike rate with his 2-year-olds this season than Kobayashi, whose third crop of 32 live foals is doing him proud.

Outstanding 3YO Celestial Legend gave owner Bon Ho another G1 win and exciting 2YO Switzerland kept his unbeaten record intact and confirmed himself a serious Golden Slipper contender as Inglis graduates flexed their muscle on a big day of autumn racing.

Danica Guy’s talented three-year-old Lupo Solitario has been sold to Hong Kong.

Last season, Nikita Beriman guided Party For Two to consecutive wins at the Sunshine Coast and Doomben before finishing a courageous second to Exploring in the Group II Blue Diamond Prelude at Sandown Hillside.  

Four months after his triumph in the Gr.3 New Zealand Cup (3200m) at Riccarton, Mahrajaan earned himself a special place in New Zealand racing history by adding Saturday’s Gr.2 Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup (3200m) at Ellerslie.

Promising New Zealand-bred Von Hauke took his career to new heights with his first black-type victory in Saturday’s A$200,000 Gr.3 Furphy Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap (1400m) at Flemington.

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

It was a blowout for punters when the 3-year-old Wandjina filly Infancy came with a well-timed run to capture Saturday’s Listed Tokyo City Keiba Fireball Stakes (1100m) at Randwick.

Luckless in feature races in her two previous starts, Eternal Flame turned things around and collected a deserved first black-type victory in Saturday’s A$200,000 Gr.3 Matron Stakes (1600m) at Flemington.

Two gifted 3-year-old sons of Dundeel fought out the finish of Saturday’s Group 1 The Agency Randwick Guineas (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday, with the honours going to  Celestial Legend.

The remarkable Overshare mare Lady Laguna turned giant killer at Randwick on Saturday, when leaving the Everest hero Think About It and Coolmore Classic heroine Espiona without an excuse in the $750,000 Group 1 James Squire Canterbury Stakes (1300m).

An inch-perfect front running ride by Irishman Joe Doyle paved the way for outsider El Vencedor to upset the applecart in the Group1 Bonecrusher New Zealand Stakes (2000m) at Ellerslie. 

Not ready to become a mum after missing to I Am Invincible last spring, the Fastnet Rock mare Passive Aggressive returned to the track to defend her title in Saturday’s Group II Hyland Race Colours Challenge Stakes (1000m) at Randwick.

Coolmore looks to have a stranglehold on the Golden Slipper after Switzerland announced himself a genuine threat to the favourite Storm Boy when downing a top-class field in Saturday’s Group II UNSW Todman Stakes (1200m) at Randwick.

Superstar filly Velocious cemented herself atop the country’s two-year-old ranks with a tenacious victory in Saturday’s Group 1 Sistema Stakes (1200m) at Ellerslie.

Autumn Angel found plenty under pressure to add Saturday’s Group II TAB Kewney Stakes (1600m) at Flemington to her resume.

Making her sixth start, the honest Rubick filly Erno's Cube came out on top in a three-horse war in Saturday's Group II Yarraman Park Reisling Stakes (1200m) at Randwick.

Twenty years after his sire claimed the Group 1 feature, Cylinder gave Exceed And Excel a fitting farewell in Saturday’s $1,500,000 Group 1 Yulong Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington.

Jamie Kah's positive ride from an outside barrier resulted in the striking Street Boss (USA) colt Traffic Warden leading at every call in Saturday’s Group II MSS Security Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m) at Flemington.

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

It was a race for the long shots, but a blueblood six year-old gelding was the winner with Rustic Steel producing a career best performance to trounce 200-1 shot Sharp Shock and 100-1 shot Imatruestar in the $250,000 Group III Newcastle Stakes (1400m) on Friday.

An undefeated Hong Kong prospect, multiple desirable three-in-one packages and a yearling reduction draft from Kooringal Stud headline another intriguing catalogue for the Inglis Digital March (Early) Online Sale.

This weekend is set to be one of the biggest in Chad Ormsby’s career, and the Cambridge trainer kicked it off in style with Pulchritudinous winning Friday’s Gr.2 Little Avondale Lowland Stakes (2000m) at Taupo.

There’s a lot to like about the first three across the line in the Paul Perry Hcp (1300m) for 2-year-olds at Newcastle on Wednesday, won by the talented Tassort colt Last Command.

The New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) Members’ Council has appointed Rodney Schick as a Director of NZTR’s Board, effective immediately.

A gallant fourth as favourite in last year’s Gr.2 Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup (3200m), quality mare Aquacade is returning to the same meeting 12 months later but setting her sights on a different race.

Taranaki trainer Robbie Patterson was getting ready to head to Ellerslie with two contenders for the Gr.1 Bonecrusher New Zealand Stakes (2000m) on Saturday until he got a shock when going through his emails on Thursday.

Seventeen stakes’ races on Saturday, four in the nation’s capital on Sunday, four in Adelaide on Monday, and not forgetting the Group III Newcastle Stakes on Friday, should test the stamina of the most ardent fan.

Our analysis of Australian Studbook covering statistics for 2023 continues with a look at the second and third crop sires last year and these are the guys whose first foals were being born last spring and whose first yearlings are selling right now.

Raheen Stud will be kept busy at the Gold Coast next week presenting 25 QTIS eligible youngsters at the Magic Millions March Yearling Sale (March 11 and 12) with the majority of the draft by the farm’s prolific sire of winners Heroic Valour, who has a couple of nice horses running for him in Hong Kong.

Edward Cummings released a statement on Thursday announcing the unfortunate news that his stable star Duais had suffered an injury and will be retired to stud joining the extensive broodmare band at Yulong.

Here is the full list of 34 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

There were four heats for juveniles run at the Randwick trials on Thursday morning and two of them were won by unraced fillies by champion sire Zoustar.

The purchase of two-time stakes winner Live Drama (NZ) (Ghibellines) for $75,000 on gavelhouse.com this week means that breeder Warwick Jeffries is about to enhance his broodmare band with two of the South Island’s best-performed racemares from recent seasons.

Zoustar colt Ozzmosis won the Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes last spring, while highly rated I Am Invincible colt King’s Gambit is looking for his first G1 and both were in action at the Randwick trials this morning.

One of the interesting sales on the final day of the recent Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale was lot 720 - an imposing chestnut claimed for $50,000 by Gai Waterhouse, Adrian Bott and Kestrel Thoroughbreds.

The connections of short-priced favourite Legarto are in for a massive payday following Saturday’s $450,000 Gr.1 Bonecrusher New Zealand Stakes (2000m) at Ellerslie, irrespective of the result.

The New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) Board has today regrettably announced the resignation of its chairman, Cameron George, effective 31 July 2024.

Te Akau Racing’s unbeaten filly Captured By Love is set to face her sternest test to date when she heads to Ellerslie on Saturday to contest the Gr.1 Sistema Stakes (1200m).

Anamoe might have retired to stud as Australian Horse of the Year with nine Group I wins on his glittering CV, but in the breeding barn in terms of popularity in numbers he has not finished first.

All roads lead to the Gold Coast next week for the Magic Millions March Yearling Sale (March 11 and 12) and Telemon Thoroughbreds will present a draft of six including three by the farm’s proven and promising sires Sidestep and Sun City.

Off the back of a successful Premier Yearling Sale in Melbourne, the Victoria Racing Club (VRC) and Inglis are proud to announce a four-year partnership extension which will see the $500,000 Inglis Banner (1000m) run at Flemington during the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

Here is the full list of 51 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Expensive $1.5million Pierro colt Pasima has been working towards a win in recent weeks and got the job done with a powerful late surge to claim victory at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

Outstanding G1 mares Hope In Your Heart, C’est Magique and Pennyweka are the latest trio of star entries confirmed for this year’s Inglis Chairman’s Sale.

Zoustar’s good looking son Zousain has found a winning vein in recent weeks and posted his fifth winner at Doomben on Wednesday with an impressive first starter that has aspirations for the Queensland Winter Carnival.

The Waterhouse/Bott 2-year-old production line struck once again at Warwick Farm on Wednesday with a quinella in the TAB Handicap (1100m).

Aegon will join Desert Lightning in the Kiwi-trained raid on next week’s A$4 million All-Star Mile (1600m) after receiving a wildcard for the race on Tuesday alongside fellow New Zealand-bred Ayrton.

Stephen Marsh’s immediate focus is on Ellerslie this Saturday with stable star Velocious, but he’s also got an eye on a following juvenile prize.

Darley have today announced the retirement of their champion sire Exceed and Excel, who covered his final book of 56 mares last spring.

Sales action returns to the Gold Coast next week for the Magic Millions March Yearling Sale (March 11 and 12) and Lyndhurst Stud Farm will present a big draft of 34 featuring 19 youngsters by the farm’s flagship sire Better Than Ready.

A Hanseatic colt of Rosemont topped the final day of action at Oaklands as the 2024 Premier Yearling Sale concluded.

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

The Australian Studbook have today released the official covering statistics for the 2023 breeding season with 22 sires covering books of 150 or more mares which was significantly down on last year when 31 stallions were in the 150 plus club.

Sad news out of Victoria this week with the death of Bob Norris following a long illness.

The Inglis Premier Book 1 Yearling Sale this week produced some good pinhook winners with 17 yearlings selling for more than $50,000 up on their weanling purchase price, so who were the best of them?

Champion mare Seachange was a flagship performer for The Oaks Stud and her legacy continues to be felt on both sides of the Tasman.

The Inglis Premier Yearling Sale Book 1 featured strong representation by a wide range (21 in total) of first season sires and once again Coolmore shuttler Wootton Bassett (GB) made his presence felt.

The Golden Slipper picture is becoming more clear with the $5million event at Rosehill on March 23 set to feature a battalion of runners trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott.

A sister to G1 Coolmore Stud Stakes placegetter and former sale-topping Inglis Premier graduate Bruckner today realised a sale-high $925,000 at Oaklands.

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

There were only two yearlings offered at Inglis Premier by the world’s best sire Frankel and both will join the stable of Griffiths De Kock Racing.

Waikato Stud celebrated trans-Tasman success at the weekend with female representatives of two of their leading families and the nursery is well-placed to continue reaping future rewards.

Last week Mike and Debbie O’Donnell of Fairhill Farm were celebrating G1 success having produced Group I MRC Blue Diamond winner Hayasugi and this week their Fairhill Farm brand has been front and centre at Inglis Premier featuring on some notable pinhook winners.

Exciting young sire Alabama Express might be flavour of the month after siring five quick winners including Golden Slipper contender Shangri La Express, but back in May 2022 he certainly was not.

Leading Victorian nursery Blue Gum Farm had a big result earlier this year when selling a colt by Snitzel at Magic Millions for $1.3million, but they elected to keep two lovely fillies by Arrowfield Stud’s champion sire back for Inglis Premier and the first of them from Charleston Dancer topped the Sunday session selling for $650,000 and the second sold this morning for $925,000.

With her short-time licence in Japan coming to a close, Rachel King rode three winners at Nakayama on Sunday but missed out on the big one on Mosheen’s son Danon Ayres Rock in the Group II Hochi Hai Yayoi Sho Deep Impact Kinen (2000m), which fell to a son of another star Australian mare.

Hong Kong star on the rise Helios Express is just one win away from a remarkable clean sweep of the prestigious HK 4YO Classic Series following a heart-stopping victory in the second leg, the Hong Kong Classic Cup (1800m)  at Sha Tin on Sunday.

A Snitzel filly from a family synonymous with the Premier Yearling Sale and race day success topped today’s opening day action of the 2024 sale at Oaklands.

Here is the full list of 46 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

It may not quite have risen to the excitement of watching the Prized Icon filly Tropical Squall win the Group 1 Surround Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. Still, Kooringal Stud had plenty to cheer about when Bandi's Boy, a son of The Brothers War (USA), booked his ticket to the $1,000,000 Newhaven Park Country Championships final at Randwick on April 6 when winning the $150,000 qualifier at Moru

It’s been an exciting week for first time Inglis Premier vendor Mitch Pearce with Crossley Thoroughbreds presenting a lovely draft of yearlings, but the real proof of the pudding comes in the sale ring and day one was a ripper.

Few debutants make a stronger statement than the Toronado (IRE) gelding Moby Dick, who put a field of thirteen maidens to the sword over 1200m at Pakenham on Sunday.

Peter Moody is feeling happy to get to the end of the first session of the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale having already secured what he thought were the colt and filly of the sale.

Twin Hills Stud consigned the only yearling to be offered at Inglis Premier bred on the same cross as Golden Slipper favourite Storm Boy being by Justify (USA) from a daughter of Fastnet Rock and they were well rewarded when she sold for $460,000 on Sunday to Clinton McDonald Racing / Shane McGrath.

There were four Group I races run in Australasia on Saturday and two of those winners are new G1 winners and both have added further gloss to a couple of exceptional nicks that run at 10.7% SW to runner and 14% SW to runner.

An extraordinary spectacle unfolded overnight at Meydan during the Listed UAE One Thousand Guineas, revealing not only the exceptional talent of the winning horse but also showcasing the remarkable horsemanship of William Buick.

Rider Masa Hashizume enjoyed one of his best days in the saddle when he claimed a winning treble at Ellerslie, including an impressive victory aboard Jaarffi in the newly minted $350,000 Rangitoto Classic (1500m).

A half-brother to $1.7million earning Group II winner Kissonallforcheeks, three year-old Russian Revolution gelding Russian to the Bar made it back to back stakes wins when taking out the Listed WATC Lex Piper Stakes (1600m) at Ascot on Saturday.

Here is the full list of 119 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Quality mare Hinged won the Group I ATC Surround Stakes in 2022 and was well fancied to win the Group II ATC Guy Walter (1400m) on the same program two years later at Randwick today, but she was nosed out in a thriller by progressive Hellbent mare Hell Hath No Fury with both mares running in the colours of Brae Sokolski’s Yes Bloodstock.

Exciting I Am Invincible  filly Estriella secured a huge pay day for her owners when winning today’s $1m Inglis Sprint at Flemington as well as the $200,000 Inglis Pink Bonus.