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.

The progeny of Justify (USA) have shone this week in the tangerine silks of Te Akau Racing, and the good form continued with three-year-old Rule of Law producing his maiden victory at Tauranga on Wednesday.

Promising colt Monday Melody has pleased trainers Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott in his build-up to the stiffest challenge of his brief career at Te Rapa on Saturday.

Patience is paying off for Bryce Heys with talented I Am Invincible mare Dancing Alone, who made it six wins from seven starts when scoring arguably her best win to date at Caulfield on Wednesday.

Here is the full list of 47 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The Gary Portelli-trained Trapeze Artist colt Flying Trapeze kept the winning run going for his sire when scoring a stylish win at Randwick on Wednesday breaking the course record for 1400m on the Kensington track.

The Listed MRC Debutant Stakes (1000m) at Caulfield on Wednesday produced a quinella for first season sires with Pierata colt Coleman saluting as favourite over Too Darn Hot (GB) filly Arabian Summer with Capitalist colt Aardvark a distant third some four lengths back.

Shortly after Winx's Deep Impact (JPN) half-sister City Of Lights triumphed at Randwick, Deep Impact (JPN) made it a double when Muramasa became the 199th black-type winner for the Japanese legend when capturing Wednesday's Group III Neds Coongy Cup (2000m) at Caulfield.

There was a little bit of joy in what has been a sad few days for John Camilleri's Fairway Thoroughbreds when the Deep Impact (JPN) mare City Of Lights made it two wins from three starts with a hard-fought success in the Star Turn @ Vinery Stud Hcp (1550m) at Randwick Kensington on Wednesday.

I Am Invincible colt Mojave Desert topped the 2022 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale for Widden Stud when purchased by Tom Magnier for $950,000 and he cast off maiden status with a well-deserved win at Caulfield on Wednesday.

Emerging filly Star Of Justice provided Pencarrow Stud with a timely result when she bridged the gap to black type company with aplomb at Ashburton.

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The Listed MRC Debutant Stakes at Caulfield on Wednesday for two year-olds has a field of 10 with three first season sires represented and there is plenty of interest in a colt that was sold and scratched from the Magic Millions 2YO’s in Training Sale next week so the pressure will be on him to perform.

You would have to be living under a stone not to have noticed the torrent of high class Group winners for exciting young sire Justify (USA) right around the world in recent months and the show rolled into New Zealand this week in the shape of progressive filly Star of Justice and the NZB Ready to Run Sale features a filly bred on the same cross.

Coolmore have announced fees on their US roster and given top billing for 2024 is Justify, who is currently serving a stellar book of mares in Australia.

Opening his account with a debut victory at Newcastle on Tuesday was the full brother to Rosemont stud’s young I Am Invincible sire Strasbourg.

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

Day Two of New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2023 Ready to Run Sale Breeze Ups saw the final 169 two-year-olds complete their gallop down the home straight of Te Rapa Racecourse.

On The Bubbles claimed his $1M Karaka Million 2YO purse over 1200m, and the now five-year-old may have found his sweet spot back at the sprinting trip when making a winning southern debut at Ashburton.

La Crique’s spring preparation is over.

Outstanding sprinting mare Seradess will go under the hammer next week at a stand-alone Magic Millions Virtual Sale as an elite breeding prospect.

Federal politicians have pledged bipartisan support for the thoroughbred industry, emphasising its importance to the economy and the integral part it plays in the social fabric of rural, regional and metropolitan Australia. 

With the inaugural Equimillion done and dusted, owners of off the track thoroughbred performance horses will now be looking towards the TSHA National Titles at Stonewall next month (November 16 – 19) and for sponsors looking to become involved in this outstanding event there are still opportunities available.

Following a ‘super Saturday’ for the Sebring sireline there has never been a better time to get on board and Blue Gum Farm are thrilled to be standing his fastest and most precocious son in Sejardan, who is working through his first book of mares this spring.

First run in 2017, the $20million The Everest has evolved into the race most trainers and owners want to win and as a result the quality and profile of the horses now aimed at this race is entirely different to how it started as pedigree shows the first three home this year are in fact milers, so where does that leave the one dimensional sprinters?

Here is the full list of 21 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Day One of NZB’s 2023 Ready to Run Sale Breeze Ups kicked off today at Te Rapa Racecourse with perfect weather and track conditions for the two-year-olds. 

Viva Vienna might have been the hot favourite in Monday’s transferred Group III Barneswood Farm Stakes (1400m) at Ashburton in New Zealand, but it was her stablemate Star Of Justice who took centre stage when winning the three-year-old feature.

There was just one heat for juveniles at Hawkesbury, but it featured the full sister to champion three year-old colt Trapeze Artist, who is basking in the glory of siring Griff to win the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas on Saturday.

The influence of Widden Stud’s much missed Golden Slipper winning sire Sebring was demonstrated on Saturday when his outstanding daughter Fangirl thrashed the best milers in the country to win the $5million Group I ATC King Charles Stakes (1600m), while at Caulfield Sebring featured as a broodmare sire with his daughter Chateau Griffo producing up and coming colt Griff to win the $3million G

Mark Corcoran savoured a top-flight victory on the racetrack at Hastings and a few hours later the Grangewilliam Stud co-principal had further cause to celebrate.

Grey gelding Chattahoochee has been a stable favourite for trainer Debbie Sweeney for some time and he is quickly taking the mantle as the stable star as well.

The Group II Sha Tin Trophy (1600m) on Sunday produced a trifecta for the Coolmore sires with California Spangle (IRE) and Beauty Eternal finishing first and third for Starspangledbanner and Churchill gelding Encountered (IRE) split the pair in second place.

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

After a two-year absence due to track renovations, the Group 1 Shuka Sho returned to Kyoto Racecourse on Sunday, in time to celebrate Liberty Island becoming the seventh filly in history to capture the fillies Triple Crown, the Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas), the Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) and the Shuka Sho.

It was a series of ‘firsts’ when exciting colt Griff (Trapeze Artist) led his rivals a merry dance to score an all-the-way win in today’s stallion-making G1 Caulfield Guineas.

Talented entire Attrition (Churchill) ensured his breeder Harry Perks enjoyed “the day of a lifetime’’ when his G1 Toorak Handicap victory gave Perks a third Stakes winner for the day.

Gavelhouse Plus is offering buyers a special opportunity to enhance their broodmare bands with a speedy and well-bred daughter of super-sire Savabeel.

Breeze Ups for the world’s best sale of two-year-olds are set to take place next week on Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 October at Te Rapa Racecourse.

Segenhoe Stud's Peter O'Brien reported that the 21-year-old mare Vegas Showgirl, the dam of Winx, died on Sunday morning.

So You Think's Think About It claims $20,000,000 TAB Everest (1200m), and I Am Invincible counters with the quinella in the $2,000,000 Group III Feel New Sydney Stakes (1200m), as last season's top two Australian sires single out again with barely three months of the season gone. 

The timing may have been problematic with signature race days at Caulfield and Randwick. Still, the results were no less noteworthy for Telemon Thoroughbreds, with a milestone first winner for Sun City and a brilliant return to the winner's circle for a daughter of Sidestep at Eagle Farm.

Triple Crown hero Justify (USA) had an international stakes double on Saturday with Air Assault staking a claim for the Victoria Derby when winning the Listed SAJC Hill Smith Stakes in Adelaide while in the UK  overnight his superstar colt City of Troy earned comparisons with the mighty Frankel for his utterly dominant victory in the Group I Dewhurst Stakes (7f) at Newmarket.

Here is the full list of 127 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Winner of the Group III SAJC Sires Produce Stakes (1400m) last season at two, Air Assault burst back to top form at Morphettville on Saturday with a resounding win in the Listed SAJC Hill Smith Stakes (1800m).

Galileo’s champion son Churchill (IRE) has sired a couple of outstanding Northern Hemisphere multiple Group I winners in Vadeni and Blue Rose Cen and now he has one in Australia with talented four year-old stallion Attrition arriving in the last stride to win the $1million Group I MRC Toorak Handicap (1600m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

Widden Stud’s Trapeze Artist has his first Group I winner and it only seems fitting that the Widden Stud bred and sold colt Griff would achieve the feat scoring an exciting win in the $3million Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas (1600m) on Saturday.

As the breeder of Alligator Blood and Vienna Princess, Gerry Havey had a day out on Saturday, so it was fitting he would end Everest Day at Randwick with his Westbury Stud bred, Reliable Man mare, Renaissance Woman in the Group III James Squire Angst Stakes (1600m).

Sam Clipperton and Think About It are a formidable partnership and they kept their nine strong winning streak going in the $20million Everest at Randwick on Saturday when holding off I Wish I Win to score an outstanding victory in a blistering 1:07.64 seconds, just a tick outside the race and course record held by Yes Yes Yes.

Fangirl left Mr Brightside without an excuse when she earned a third win at the highest level when much the best in the inaugural running of the $5,000,000 Group 1 King Charles III Stakes (1600m) at Randwick.

The 4-year-old Snitzel mare Vienna Princess scaled new heights when she came with a barnstorming finish to capture Saturday’s $1,000,000 Silver Eagle (1300m) at Randwick.

He is a freak, returning from what appeared to be a career-ending injury in 2020; Alligator Blood struck for the seventh time at the highest level in Saturday's $1,000,000 Neds Might And Power Stakes (2000m) at Caulfield.

The roller-coaster career of highly talented galloper Ayrton got back on the right track with a tenacious performance to win Saturday’s Listed The Big Screen Company Weekend Hussler (1400m) at Caulfield.

Satono Aladdin colt Raf Attack burst into contention for staying three-year-old features with a determined front-running performance in Saturday’s A$500,000 Gr.3 Toyota Forklifts Gloaming Stakes (1800m) at Randwick.

The $2million Group III ATC Sydney Stakes (1200m) is seen as a consolation for the sprinters not quite up to The Everest and it produced a thrilling finish with quality mare I Am Me scoring her second Group win this spring after holding off progressive gelding Airman to give champion sire I Am Invincible the quinella.

The 5-year-old Flying Artie mare Asfoora continues on her march to the ranks of top sprinters in Australia following a blistering performance of sustained speed in Saturday’s Group II Metcap Finance Schillaci Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield.

Respected New Plymouth trainer Allan Sharrock has always seen Ladies Man as a superstar in waiting, and Saturday’s Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2040m) marked the big gelding’s arrival on the major stage.

Previously a five-time placegetter at Group level, classy mare Our Alley Cat broke through and secured her first stakes win in style in Saturday’s Gr.3 Valley D’Vine Restaurant Spring Sprint (1400m) at Hastings.

Widden Stud Victoria’s much missed Magnus has left some terrific sprinters over the years, but the highest stakes earner among them is talented country galloper Front Page, who enjoyed the biggest of pay day of his career last year when taking out the $2million ATC The Kosciuszko (1200m) at Randwick and he went back to back on Saturday.

A big start to Caulfield Guineas Day for Limerick Lane’s Gerry Ryan after his Written Tycoon filly Sheva scored in the Thoroughbred Club Plate before She Dances carried the royal blue and white checks, green sleeves to victory in the SENET Northwood Plume Stakes (1200m).

A patient approach is paying dividends for Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou with talented filly Arctic Glamour staking her claim for the Group I MRC Thousand Guineas next month with a stylish victory in the Listed ATC Reginald Allen Stakes (1400m) at Randwick on Saturday.

The Newcastle Cup and Hobart Cup winner Military Mission (IRE) took a further step towards the Melbourne Cup with a dominant performance in  Saturday’s Group II Neds Herbert Power Stakes (2400m) at Caulfield.

Some of the all-time greats have their name on the ATC St Leger (2600m) trophy, and while it now fails to rate as a black-type race, this year’s edition boasts a $500,000 prize and a very likeable winner.

The Group I Bet 365 Fillies Mile (1m) at Newmarket overnight for the two year-old fillies was taken out by Ylang Ylang, an expensive Frankel filly that was bought for 1.5million guineas at Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 last year.

There are no juvenile stakes race in Australia on Saturday, but there have been plenty of trials around Australia this week so lets take a look at our weekly report for unraced trailers by first season sires with a couple of heat winners by Bellevue Hill and Sun City set to race on Saturday in Perth and Brisbane.

Million-dollar earner Riodini will make his first New Zealand appearance in almost four years when he lines up in the Gr.3 Sweynesse Stakes (1215m) at Rotorua on Sunday.

The heavy ground that has carried Mustang Valley to two spectacular Group One victories will be nowhere to be seen at Hastings on Saturday, but trainer Andrew Forsman is confident that drier conditions will pose no problems for his stable star’s defence of her Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2040m) crown.

Only one heat for juveniles at Rosehill this morning, but it was interesting with the winner being the most expensive yearling by Deep Field sold in 2023.

The first grand-son of Frankel to go to stud, undefeated Cracksman colt Ace Impact has been retired to Haras de Beaumont Stud in Normandy, bowing out of a flawless racing career following his dominant win in the Group I Longchamp Arc de Triomphe.

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

Trapeze Artist will have a Group I runner this weekend when Griff contests the MRC Caulfield Guineas and he also had a most promising debut winner at Kyneton on Thursday.

A passion for horses and racing has led Phillip Pollicina into the world of breeding thoroughbreds and his decision to stand a stallion at stud is beginning to get exciting as the first progeny of Fastnet Express head into training and have been showing considerable promise.

From the only Australian crop of Deep Impact’s royally related son Real Steel (JPN), Scheelite has solid claims in Saturday’s Group 1 Caulfield Guineas and write another chapter in the success of descendants of Denise’s Joy. Still, we will travel north to Randwick, where another member of the clan is making his stakes debut.

Promising three-year-old gelding Dulcet took an important step towards the Gr.1 VRC Derby (2500m) when running out a ready winner at Sale on Wednesday for trainer Chris Waller.

Pearl Of Alsace has enjoyed a faultless preparation and will strip at the top of her game for Saturday’s Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2040m) at Hastings.

Glenn Old’s phone has been ringing red hot over the last couple of weeks after Adam I Am’s impressive maiden victory at Matamata last month, but the talented four-year-old will remain in New Zealand.

It could be a monumental day on Saturday for champion racehorse and leading sire So You Think.

Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale came to a close on the third and final day with a further seven lots selling for 300,000 guineas or more, taking the sale total to seventeen. 

Former popular Sydney trainer Mark Newnham has had plenty of success with the stock of Pierro highlighted by his dual Group I winner Shadow Hero and the Golden Slipper winning sire also gave him his first Hong Kong winner when Happy Hero saluted at Happy Valley on Wednesday evening.

Here is the full list of 50 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Wednesday with winners and result details.

Hellbent filly Fire Lane made a winning debut at Newcastle in November last year beating a colt called Cylinder, who will line up in $20million The Everest at Randwick on Saturday.

They missed out on the second-top lot at yesterday’s Ready2Race Sale but leading syndicator Darby Racing weren’t going to be outbid on talented 3YO Caballus (I Am Invincible) today, who topped the Inglis Digital October (Early) Sale at $315,000.

After a stellar career on the track, winning the Group 1 ATC TJ Smith Stakes, Group 1 QTC Sires' Produce Stakes and Magic Millions 2yo Classic, Lovely Jubly is still making news with her twelfth and final foal, Need So Luck opening his account in the $100,000 3yo Super Maiden Plate (1200m) at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

With form around quality fillies Zardozi and Makarena it was no surprise the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained three year-old Kaizad was favourite for the 1400m maiden at Warwick Farm on Wednesday and he gave his supporters no cause for concern.

Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott aren’t short of talented three-year-olds in their stable this season, and Geriatrix looks to be another promising type after breaking his maiden impressively at Taupo on Wednesday.  

Pride will be an over-riding emotion for Mark Chittick when I Wish I Win goes to the post for Saturday’s A$20 million The TAB Everest (1200m) at Randwick.

The big-spending Yulong is reaping rewards on the racetrack with the bottle green, white checked sleeves carried to success by Montefilia in last Saturday’s $2million ATC Hill Stakes and the 2-year-old Written Tycoon colt Sovereign Hill making a statement at his career debut over 1000m at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

The Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas is a race associated with truly great colts that become great stallions and a vintage renewal of the race in 2021 was fought out by three outstanding colts and one of them has some stunning first foals on the ground this spring.

We expect New Zealand’s champion sire Savabeel to play a major role in the Australian spring carnivals, but probably less expected is to see this Cox Plate winning super sire with one of the favourites in the $20million The Everest over the sprinting trip of 1200m and there is a colt to be offered at the NZB Ready to Run Sale bred exactly the same way as I Wish I Win.

A juvenile event at Warwick Farm on Wednesday features seven runners including two by first season sires Microphone and Yes Yes Yes, whose first runner Yes Yes Tess was a close second on debut at Murray Bridge on Saturday.

Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale continued in robust fashion on the second day with five lots selling for 300,000 guineas or more and a HAVANA GREY colt topping proceedings at 425,000 guineas. 

A Capitalist colt of Blake Ryan Racing topped today’s Inglis Ready2Race Sale that saw some “mind blowing’’ pinhook results at Riverside.

The field and barrier draw is out for the $20million the Everest this Saturday at Randwick with 12 horses to do battle for the richest prize in Australian racing.

Here is the full list of 27 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Widden Stud’s champion sire Zoustar is setting the pace this season for Australian winners and racked up his 50th and 51st of the season on Tuesday when a pair of blue blood three year-olds saluted at Mornington and Newcastle.

Stallion rosters on both sides of the Tasman have had an injection of exciting young talent in recent seasons, and the 2023 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale at Karaka this November is a great opportunity for buyers to get their hands on the progeny of these talented up-and-comers while their stocks are on the rise.

Exciting three-year-old Lupo Solitario is exciting trainer Danica Guy ahead of his first tilt at stakes level next weekend.

Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale got off to a strong start with a DUBAWI filly topping proceedings at 725,000 guineas and 19 lots selling for 200,000 guineas or more including several high profile sales for first season sire Pinatubo (IRE), currently in Australia for Darley. 

The Inglis Ready 2 Race Sale is on today and if you need a quick reference as to where these horses sold previously and for how much read on.