One of just twenty-two live foals from the lone season of the Medaglia d'Oro stallion Mshawish (USA), the 5-year-old mare Wishlor Lass continues to build on a fantastic strike rate, going coast to coast in the Group III Powerflo Solutions Tesio Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

A $600,000 Inglis Easter purchase for Sheamus Mills Bloodstock from the Lime Country Thoroughbreds draft, lightly raced Written Tycoon filly Gumdrops took the quantum leap from maiden winner to stakes-winner scoring a narrow victory in the Listed MVRC William Crockett Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

A three-quarter sister to the 2019 Inglis Banner (RL) winner Ideas Man, Bold Bastille was in a race of her own in the $500,000 1000m scamper at Moonee Valley on Cox Plate Day.

Ballydoyle superstar Paddington will not travel to Santa Anita on Saturday for next week’s Breeders’ Cup as planned owing to an elevated temperature and a respiratory infection.

Starspangledbanner is back in Australia this spring for Coolmore and the powerhouse son of Choisir had a Group race double in Europe over night with Dun Na Sead winning the Group III Mercury Stakes (5f) at Dundalk, while Exxtra and American Kestrel filled the quinella in the Group III Prix de Seine-et-Oise (1200m) at Chantilly.

Making his first start on the Moonee Valley track proved no problem for the Kris Less-trained Cleveland, who came with a barnstorming finish to open his Australian account in Friday night’s $750,000 Group II Ladbrokes Moonee Valley Gold Cup (2500m)

A two time stakes-winner as a three year-old, Dundeel gelding Aintnodeeldun has hit a purple patch at age six and reeled off his third successive win when taking out the Group III MVRC JRA Cup (2040m) at Moonee Valley on Friday night.

A last-start winner of the Group III Northwood Plume Stakes at Caulfield, She Dances kept the roll going with a dominant performance in the Listed Seppelt Wines Chautauqua Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley on Friday night.

Matthew Smith has done a great job placing talented Star Witness mare Frilled and after notching four successive wins at Nowra, Kembla and Moonee Valley she was sent out a hot favourite for the Benchmark 78 event over 955m at Moonee Valley on Friday night and duly sizzled around the course with Damien Oliver on board.

Toronado (IRE) has put his stamp on Celui, who punched his ticket for next week's Group 1 Coomore Stud Stakes with a pipe-opener in Friday night's Chef's Hat Handicap (1000m) at Moonee Valley.

After missing the top two for just the second time in his illustrious career when fourth in the Turnbull Stakes, the Hong Kong champ Romantic Warrior will be looking to bounce back in Saturday's $5,000,000 Group 1 Ladbrokes Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

A couple of juvenile heats at Rosehill on Friday morning produced winners for Justify (USA) and Churchill (IRE), while we also had another look at much maligned Scampi, who started a hot favourite in the Breeders Plate only to disappoint and finish unplaced.

The fourth day of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale saw strong international demand continue and the Group 3 winner AEMILIANUS top proceedings at 250,000 guineas.

The $500,000 Inglis Banner (1000m)  on Cox Plate day at Moonee Valley on Saturday has attracted a full field of Inglis sold youngsters with 13 unraced runners, plus emergencies so let’s take a look at them.

Here is the full list of 40 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Triple Crown hero Justify (USA) has had a pivotal year posting five Group I winners worldwide and the winners keep coming in Australia with a double on Thursday courtesy or promising three year-olds Jurisprudence and Batrana, who bolted in by four lengths at Ballarat.

Star sprinting mare Seradess has sold for $700,000 at a special stand-alone Magic Millions Virtual Sale at the Gold Coast today.

Australian Bloodstock signed for eight lots and made all the early running at the third session of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale while Domeland’s trainer Sara Ryan snared a couple of choice lots, and some new players entered the fray.

The Group I MVRC Manikato Stakes (1200m) might play second fiddle to the Cox Plate on Saturday, but this elite sprint has been won by some outstanding horses including Rebel Dane, whose first big commercial crop of foals are being born this spring holding the promise of exciting times to come.

New Zealand Bloodstock representative and legendary Group One-winning jockey Brent Thomson received recognition for his services to racing this week when receiving the Victorian Club Service to Racing Award.

Pre-race indicators all point to another high-class performance from Prowess in her delayed introduction to the Melbourne spring carnival.

The $175,000 Group Two Jamieson Park Soliloquy Stakes (1400m) was added to the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series only three years ago, but the second leg is quickly establishing itself as one of the highest-quality events in the prestigious series.

International buyers continued to dominate proceedings on the third day of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale with the leadings lots bound for Australia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United States. 

With the Sydney and Melbourne Spring Racing Carnivals in full swing the mainstream media focus is very much on thoroughbreds and how we treat them both during and after their racing lives which is why the tale of a remarkable thoroughbred and his role in the upcoming premiere screening of outstanding documentary The Healing is a must read story.

Undefeated Arc winner Ace Impact is the first grand-son of Frankel to go to stud and his fee has been set at €40,000 by Haras de Beaumont for 2024.

Here is the full list of 43 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Wednesday with winners and result details.

he opportunity to “tick an item off the bucket list’’ saw Sydneysider Adam Carney bid to a sale-topping $205,000 to secure a 10% share in Melbourne Cup-bound Future History in today’s Inglis Digital October (Late) Online sale.

Age has not slowed OTI Racing's Amade, which emerged from the pack to capture Wednesday's $500,000 Group III bet365 Geelong Cup (2400m).

A Breednet ‘One To Watch' when breaking her maiden over 1700m at Geelong on September 3, Served Cold was a fighting front running fifth in the Oaks Trial at Flemington (1800) before a stakes breakthrough in Wednesday's Listed Roderick Insurance Brokers 3YO Geelong Classic (2200m) at Geelong.

The $100,000 Super Maiden for three year-olds at Randwick over 1300m on Wednesday produced an eye-catching last to first winner for leading Victorian sire Toronado (IRE) with Sly Boots arriving on the line for a valuable victory.

Six two-year-old fillies made their first outing in Wednesday’s DrinkWise Maiden Plate (1000m) at Randwick-Kensington, but from the time the gates opened to the winning post, this was a battle royale between two fillies.

Luberon will bid to complete a hat-trick of wins on Saturday and remain undefeated this preparation ahead of her spring grand final at Riccarton next month.

The press release said, 'Australian Buyers Dominate Second Day of Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale', and you better believe it. There will be a few plane loads crossing the equator shortly. 

The reputation of renowned South Australian breeder Harry Perks has been in the spotlight this spring with a new flurry of stakes performers headed by Group I MRC Toorak Handicap winner Attrition and stakes-winning three year-olds Air Assault and Arctic Glamour, who both hold Group I aspirations.

Australian buyers were to the fore on the second day of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale, buying six of the top eight lots including the session topping BALANCE PLAY at 575,000 guineas that will head to Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott. 

A juvenile fillies maiden at Randwick on Wednesday will see the powerful Waterhouse Bott stable look to continue their winning run with the babies while we also get a first look at the full sister to Champion 3YO Colt and now leading second crop sire Trapeze Artist.

An exciting colt by American Triple Crown winner American Pharoah topped today’s Magic Millions Gold Coast 2YOs in Training Sale when selling for $400,000.

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

Couple of heats for juveniles Eagle Farm on Tuesday held some interest with a super impressive winner for first season sire Zousain, who beat a blueblood Lonhro filly with a story.

A beaten favourite at Pakenham when second at her only start at two, the Graeme Begg-trained Grunt filly Miraval Rose made no mistake at her 3-year-old bow over 1115m at Kyneton on Tuesday.

Stakes targets are looming for Imwonderfultonight following her win in the Karl Davis Team Bayleys – A Sure Bet 1100 at Te Rapa on Saturday.

With the foaling season nearer the back end than the front end we thought it’d be timely to have a look at some more of the foals of this season’s first crop sires.

The field and barrier draw is out for Saturday’s $5 Million Group One W.S Cox Plate in a race which sees Gold Trip backing up from his Caulfield Cup placings and three-year-old Militarize attempting to emulate So You Think.

Annabel Neasham, Darby Racing, Ciaron Maher, Dom Sutton, Domeland, Bennett Racing, and Australian Bloodstock were active on the opening day of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale.

The Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale got off to a solid start on the opening day with eleven lots selling for 100,000 guineas or more and a wide cross section of buyers active. Topping proceedings during the opening session was the Coolmore consigned CARRACCI at 320,000 guineas. 

The Magic Millions 2YO’s in Training Sale is on today with a catalogue of 151 to be offered at the Gold Coast and if you’re interested in the pinhook information read on.

Here is the full list of 25 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A $500,000 Inglis Easter purchase for De Burgh Equine / William Johnson Bloodstock (FBAA) / Glen Hill Farm from the Lime Country Thoroughbreds draft, Worth Avenue became the 11th winner this season for Trapeze Artist when saluting at Muswellbrook on Monday in the colours of US bloodstock investor Craig Bernick.

Caulfield Cup Day last Saturday delivered a new Group I winner and a Group I quinella for Galileo son Teofilo, who shuttled to Australia for six seasons, while the support program produced some progressive three year-olds with serious Group I aspirations.

The Thoroughbred Racing Industry is today mourning the loss of pioneering former trainer Mrs Betty Lane OAM.

Brilliant Group winning sprinter Thronum transferred from Victoria to Maiton Ag in Mangoplah in NSW earlier this year and the young Snitzel stallion featured on Sunday with an impressive winner at Sha Tin in Hong Kong.

Smart three-year-old filly Coeur Volante made it back-to-back stakes victories when running out a resounding winner of the Gr.2 Thousand Guineas Prelude (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

The second leg of the National Pony Racing Series is set down for this Friday night, October 27, at The Valley, where some of Victoria's best junior riders will showcase their horse skills while being mentored by two legends of Australian racing.

Busy set of trials at Warwick Farm this morning featured outstanding three year-old Brave Smash (Jpn) filly Kimochi, who was given a taste of that winning feeling, while two heats for juveniles were taken out by the progeny of Written Tycoon and Russian Revolution.

With the 2023 edition of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale now only a month away, racetrack success is coming thick and fast for previous graduates of the world’s leading sale of two-year-olds.

Australian investors have well and truly awoken to the merits of Rich Hill Stud’s reigning champion New Zealand sire Proisir and they got a timely reminder ahead of the NZB Ready to Run Sale next month when his high class three year-old filly Coeur Volante (NZ) won the Group II MRC Thousand Guineas Prelude at Caulfield on Saturday.

The Group II Premier Bowl (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday was expected to see champion Kiwi bred sprinter Lucky Sweynesse return to the winner’s circle after his first up defeat last month, but he came up short again when seven year-old Magnus gelding Sight Success overpowered him on the line.

Here is the full list of 70 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Sunday with winners and result details.

We know how many of our high class mares find their way to Japan and several had a big impact at the weekend with three Oaks winners – More Than Sacred, Mosheen and Kirramosa(NZ)  - all producing interesting Japanese bred winners – G1 Japanese St Leger winner Durezza, Danon Ayers Rock and Tropical Tea.

Antipodean mares are enjoying a jolly old time of it of late in Japan, and the latest high-level success came at Kyoto on Sunday when Durezza, a son of More Than Ready’s Group 1 NZ Oaks heroine More Than Sacred, powered to a three and a half-length triumph in Sunday’s Group 1 Kikuka Sho (Japanese St. Leger).

The 2013 Group 1 VRC Oaks and Group II Wakeful Stakes heroine Kirramosa has a promising two-year-old in Japan.

Palentino’s half-brother Junipal won his first race in 153 weeks when leading home a 1-3-4 for Ciaron Maher and David Eustace in Sunday’s Listed Bet365 Seymour Cup (1600m).

Four-time Group 1 winner Mosheen (Fastnet Rock) was represented by her second stakes-winner when Danon Ayers Rock (JPN) kept his record at a perfect two for two in the Listed Ivy Stakes (1800m) at Tokyo on Saturday.

The Champion Australian 3YO Colt of 2018/2019 and now a promising young sire, The Autumn Sun was making news in Australia on Saturday with his daughter Autumn Angel winning the Group III MRC Ethereal Stakes, while later in the day his two year-old half-sister by Siyouni scored an auspicious debut win at Leopardstown in Ireland.

Royally bred colt Savaglee lived up to his impeccable breeding when he gave his rivals a galloping lesson at Trentham on Saturday.

Exciting sprinters Doull (Snitzel) and Arkansaw Kid (Harry Angel), as well as G1 VRC Derby prospect Sunsets (Dundeel) advanced their credential for future stud careers with stirring black type victories on a productive day for Inglis graduates at Caulfield.

King of Steel has been a top class three year-old colt in the UK this year finishing second in the Group I Epsom Derby and third in the Group I King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the son of Wootton Basset (GB) got his just rewards when capturing the Group I Qipco Champions Stakes (1m2f) at Ascot on Saturday for Frankie Dettori in his final UK ride.

Here is the full list of 140 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Saturday with winners and result details.

Some 119 weeks after his last win in the Group III Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield in July 2021, Red Can Man returned to the winner's circle in the Furphy RS Crawford Stakes (1000m) at Ascot.

With just one of the ten starters behind her at the 200m, the 5-year-old Rich Enuff mare Lempicka came with a barnstorming finish to claim her third consecutive win and a maiden stakes success in Saturday's Listed Carlton Draught Alinghi Stakes at Caulfield.

A Group 1 quinella for the former Darley shuttler Teofilo (IRE) in Saturday’s $5,000,000 Carlton Draught Caulfield Cup (2400m) with Without A Fight (IRE) overpowering a game West Wind Blows (IRE) in what proved another outstanding result for Yulong Stud.

The ageless Buffalo River (USA) turned back the clock to win a second Group III Moonga Stakes at Caulfield two years after his first.

Talented five-year-old mare Wrote To Arataki has added further black-type to her record when leading throughout to land the Gr.2 Tristarc Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

It all went pear-shaped for Arkansaw Kid after a career debut win in the $500,000 Inglis Banner (RL) last spring. Still, the son of Harry Angel (IRE) looked back to the form that saw him finish third in the Blue Diamond, with a fighting win in Saturday’s Listed Stow Storage Gothic Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.

The $300,000 Group II MRC Caulfield Sprint (1000m) produced a huge result for the Rosemont Stallion Alliance syndicate when their Snitzel stallion Doull scored a career best win to beat the favourite Spacewalk.

The highly regarded The Autumn Sun filly Autumn Angel launched late to claim Saturday’s Group III Schweppes Ethereal Stakes (2000m) at Caulfield and punch her ticket for the Victoria Oaks.

A supreme ride from jockey Blake Shinn aided smart three-year-old filly Coeur Volante to make it back-to-back stakes victories when running out a resounding winner of the Gr.2 Thousand Guineas Prelude (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

Awapuni trainer Lisa Latta celebrated her fifth win in the Gr.3 Gee & Hickton Funeral Directors Thompson Handicap (1600m) when Diss Is Dramatic scored an emphatic victory in Saturday’s $100,000 feature at Trentham.

Saturday’s Gr.2 James and Annie Sarten Memorial (1400m) at Te Rapa was an eagerly anticipated clash between a number of up-and-coming talents, but it turned into a tour de force by New Zealand’s most exciting three-year-old.

A wide draw and an energy-sapping fast pace were not enough to stop Johny Johny in Saturday’s Gr.3 Sweynesse Stakes (1200m) at Te Rapa.

Sunsets needed to make up over six lengths on Riff Rocket from their most recent meeting in the Listed Super Impose Stakes at Flemington and turn it around he did in Saturday’s Group III Neds Caulfield Classic (2000m).

Deep Field’s brilliant son Cosmic Force is on the board with his first winner after the Chris Munce trained filly Devine Force produced a scintillating finish to charge home and win on debut at Eagle Farm on Saturday over 1000m.

In what has been a memorable week for Yulong Stud, Shangri La Express became the second winner from as many runners for the first season stallion Alabama Express when leading at every call in the James Squire Kirkham Plate (1000m) at Randwick.

A stakes-winner last season at two, Brave Smash (Jpn) colt Brave Mead would have been a certainty beaten if he had gotten rolled at Caulfield on Saturday, but he managed to get clear running at just the right time and hit the line hard for Mark Zahra to snatch a well-deserved win.

Leading 3-year-old Arabian Lion, who became Justify’s first Grade 1 winner after capturing this year’s Woody Stephens S. (G1) at Belmont, has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Spendthrift Farm for the 2024 breeding season at an introductory fee will be US$30,000 S&N.

Here is the full list of 44 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The chance to buy into a runner in next month’s G1 Melbourne Cup or $3m The Big Dance presents in a unique set of offerings in the Inglis Digital October (Late) Online Sale.

Two weeks after a forgettable trip to Flemington, Group One-winning New Zealand mare Skew Wiff will have a second attempt at an Australian debut in Saturday’s Gr.2 Sharp EIT Tristarc Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.

On the anniversary of the biggest win of his career so far, classy New Zealand-bred gelding Mr Maestro will race in black-type company on Caulfield Cup Day again in 2023 – this time in his first run back from an injury lay-off.

There are no juvenile stakes races in Australia on Saturday, but there have been plenty of trials right around the country this week so a look at our weekly report for unraced triallers by first season sires features a couple of horses set to run in the $160,000 ATC Kirkham Plate at Rosehill.

There was only one heat for juveniles at Randwick on Friday morning and the powerful Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable produced the trifecta with Written Tycoon colt Catoggio taking the win in the Rosemont alliance colours.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2023 Ready to Run Sale Breeze Up clips and Mounting Yard parade videos are now available to view online at nzb.co.nz.

An outstanding collection of fillies and mares including five Group 1 winning race fillies - two of them by Fastnet Rock and Zoustar - have been catalogued for the forthcoming Tattersalls December Mares Sale, headlined by the Sceptre Sessions which received international acclaim in their inaugural year. The December Mares Sale will take place Monday 4th to Thursday 7th December with the Sceptre Se

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

Value Queensland sire Sidestep has a strong crop of three year-olds to run for him this season conceived in the year his daughter Kiamichi won the Golden Slipper and already they are making an impact putting him at the top of the Queensland based sires by three year-olds for winners and earnings.

Hampered by injury, illness, and not being the most fertile of stallions, Teofilo (IRE) left six Australian crops ranging from as low as forty-two to a high of sixty-nine.

There are just two horses in the Warrnambool stables of Mark O'Donnell and whilst one is ten and the other four, they have something in common - both are talented horses who have been given every chance to succeed due to the patience and horsemanship skills of their trainer.

New Zealand Bloodstock has announced the sponsorship of two large prizemoney races in Malaysia with graduates of NZB’s sales set to be able to compete for stakes of RM100,000.

Moorookyle Park Thoroughbreds is delighted to announce the addition of the very handsome, very talented and very well bred Giant's Steps (Arg)  to the 2023 roster.

As we move towards November, getting your mare in foal promptly becomes a high priority for commercial breeders, so choosing a stallion with high fertility can be a big plus, particularly when you are rolling the dice on an up and coming third crop sire.