The $500,000 ATC Inglis Nursery RL (1000m) at Randwick on Saturday nearly produced a first stakes-winner for Cosmic Force with the Neil Osborne trained colt Beer Baron running a sensational race on debut to finish a close second to the Maher Eustace entry Odinson and collect the lucrative Pink Bonus.

The final sale of the year at Deauville, the ARQANA Vente d’Élevage began this morning with the first part of the catalogue, offering an exceptional selection of mares, fillies and foals. Of the 224 lots that went under the hammer, 71% changed hands for an average of €227,248, down seven points from the excellent 2022 renewal.

Cambridge Stud’s imported mare Terra Mitica recorded her first New Zealand win with a powerful staying performance in Saturday’s $65,000 Dunstan Horsefeeds Stayers’ Championship Qualifier (2100m) at Pukekohe.

Here is the full list of 108 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

In a titanic struggle, the local hope Dom To Shoot edged Zaaki (GB) and Zipaway in a thrilling $1,500,000 Group 1 Drummond Golf - Northerly Stakes (1800m) at Ascot on Saturday.

New Zealand-bred juvenile Beau Dazzler was thrown in at the deep end for Saturday’s A$200,000 Listed Eureka Stud Phelan Ready Stakes (1000m) at Eagle Farm, and he rose to the occasion with a bold black-type win.

 It was a red-letter day at Eagle Farm for Spirit Of Boom as Chatty Lady made it three stakes-winners for Eureka Stud’s flagship stallion when she sailed down the middle of the track to claim the Listed Ladbrokes Just Now Stakes (1300m).

The likeable Shalaa (IRE) gelding Recommendation was rewarded for his consistency with a fighting win in Saturday’s Listed Racing And Sports Razor Sharp Hcp (1200m) at Randwick.

Quality Pride of Dubai four-year-old Desert Lightning stood tall and claimed his first Group I victory in Saturday’s TAB Classic (1600m) at Trentham writing another chapter of success for Australia’s revered female family of legendary sire Redoute’s Choice.

Emerging stayer Captain Envious took his career to a new level with a runaway victory in the Listed Ballarat Cup (2000m), leading home a Kiwi-bred quinella in Saturday’s A$500,000 feature.

What do you call the full sister to $1.5million earner Outback Barbie? Barbie’s Sister of course and she’s now a stakes-winner too after taking out the $200,000 Listed BRC Calaway Gal Stakes (1000m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

The third emergency, Loch Eagle showed he was worthy of his place with a barnstorming win in the $2,000,000 Group II The Ingham (1600m), which seems fitting as a son of the Ingham family’s beloved Lonhro.

A desperate finish to the Gr.3 Bonecrusher Stakes (1400m) saw exciting three-year-old Lupo Solitario extend his career record to three wins from just four starts as he defeated talented filly Orchestral by the barest of margins in a thrilling conclusion to the age-group feature.

A fast-finishing third when on debut in the Group III Maribyrnong Plate at Flemington, the Night Of Thunder (IRE) colt Odinson overcame a wide barrier to capture Saturday’s $500,000 Listed Inglis Nursery at Randwick.

Te Akau Racing was on top of the two-year-old podium at Trentham on Saturday, with their untapped filly Captured By Love running out a dominant victor in the Gr.2 Mode Technology Wakefield Challenge Stakes (1100m).

Promising mare Give Giggles extended her perfect record at Ballarat to four-from-four with an emphatic win in Saturday’s A$80,000 A Grade Sheds Handicap (1100m).

Following placings in the Group III Ottawa Stakes and Listed Debutant Stakes, the Too Darn Hot (GB) filly Arabian Summer put the field to the sword in Saturday’s $250,000 Magic Millions Ballarat 2yo Classic (1000m).

Racing at Ballarat on Saturday kicked off with the $175,000 VOBIS Gold Eureka Stockade (1400m) with victory going to progressive filly Sunset Dreaming, whose half-brother by King’s Legacy will be headed to Magic Millions in January for Mill Park Stud.

Here is the full list of 71 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The build up to next year’s Inglis Yearling Sales Series continues with today’s release of the Inglis 2024 Preview Magazine.

It's back to Ascot for Group 1 action on Saturday with the Northerly Stakes. There is plenty of two-year-old action with the Aquis Stallions Calaway Gal Stakes and Eureka Stud Phelan Ready Stakes at Doomben, Inglis Nursery at Randwick, Magic Millions Ballarat 2YO Classic, the Magic Millions 2yo at Ascot, and the Thomas Farms Plate at Morphettville.

Inglis sold juveniles get a chance to run for some serious Christmas cash in the $500,000 Inglis Nursery (1000m) at Randwick on Saturday and there is good representation for first season sires with the following all having runners – Blue Point (IRE), Cosmic Force, Exceedance, Tassort and Yes Yes Yes.

With the $3million Magic Millions 2YO Classic on January 13 just a month away, juveniles looking at securing a start need prizemoney on the board and in Victoria the $250,000 MM 2YO Classic at Ballarat on Saturday offers a pathway to the Gold Coast.

New Zealand is renowned as a nursery of world-beating thoroughbred talent, and the catalogues for Karaka 2024 are filled to the brim with those outstanding Kiwi bloodlines.

Peter and Dawn Williams have fond memories in past editions of the Gr.1 Captain Cook Stakes (1600m), and the Byerley Park trainers are hoping another crown lies ahead with Desert Lightning on Saturday.

Lance Noble is sending just one horse down to Wellington this weekend, hoping his rising star Habana can deal to some unfinished business in the race now known as the Gr. 1 TAB Classic (1600m) at Trentham.

Central Coast showjumper Matt Irvine took out the hotly contested Sydney qualifier for the $50,000 Magic Millions Off the Track Cup on January 7 with a fast double clear at the Sydney International Equestrian Centre on Thursday on a dashing grey mare bred by Emirates Park.

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

With his exciting daughter, Jupiter Hills, set to debut in Saturday’s $500,000 Inglis Nursery at Randwick, Vinery Stud’s Exceedance went two for two in Australia when Simply Tina made a winning debut at Cairns.

Last weekend’s impressive black-type winners Just As Sharp (NZ) (Swiss Ace) and Glamour Tycoon (Written Tycoon) have moved up the order of entry and likely secured spots in the starting gates for the $1.5m TAB Karaka Millions 3YO (1600m) at Ellerslie next month.

Shadai Stallion Station has announced the fee for Equinox in 2024.

The 4-year-old Extreme Choice mare, Lady Extreme, recently sold as a breeding proposition for little more than a tenth of her yearling price before making an impressive debut over 1000m at Gosford on Thursday.

Darley Stud's exciting young stallion Too Darn Hot (GB) is off the mark in Australia, with the Shane Nichols-trained filly Climate Change dominating on debut in Wednesday's Wilsons Real Estate Maiden Plate at Geelong.

Trade at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale continued in robust fashion on the third day with 14 lots selling for 50,000 guineas or more headed by a top lot of 160,000 guineas, taking turnover for the Tattersalls December Sale past the 100,000,000 guineas mark.

In an email to members, big on buzzwords and friendly phrases, and light on detail, the Australian Turf Club has announced plans to commence negotiations with the state government on a proposal to develop Rosehill Gardens racecourse, creating 25,000 new homes around a new Sydney Metro West station. 

The Magic Millions 2YO Classic is just over a month away and the $500,000 Inglis Nursery is on this Saturday at Randwick, so interest in what is happening at the trials is on high alert and for the first season sires you need ammo in the locker if you’re going to be able to fire a shot.

Here is the full list of 35 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A fast pre-Christmas stakes-winning juvenile, Kingstar Farm’s promising young sire Unite and Conquer was always a popular contender to strike with a winner of his own before Christmas and has done so at Ipswich on Wednesday with a fast finishing debut win for What a Doozy.

After being active on the opening day of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale, Kia Ora Stud, Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock, and Australian Bloodstock were back in action while Yulong, Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, Mick Price, First Light Racing, Ontrack Thoroughbreds, and China Horse Club entered the fray.

Bloodstockauction.com is proudly hosting its Pre-Christmas Online Signature Yearling Sale, which will go live on the 14th of December 2023.

The Group 1 winner TEONA, offered in foal to FRANKEL, became the third highest priced mare ever to be sold at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale when realising 4,500,000 guineas, while Group I winning mares by champion Australian sires Fastnet Rock and Zoustar sold for 2million guineas plus.

Here is the full list of 20 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Zarastro is a 5YO gelding by I Am Invincible. He was purchased for $32,500 by Tony Gollan Racing as a tried racehorse in the 2022 October (Late) Online Sale.

While Kia Ora Stud hit the leaderboard, Ridgmont Farm / Clarke Bloodstock, Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock, and Australian Bloodstock played supporting roles on the opening day of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale.

An excellent start to the day at Bendigo for Swettenham Stud's Rubick, with Ruada opening his winning account at start two and Ezeiza making the perfect start to her career over 1100m.

High-priced Karaka purchase Mad Max is set to make his much-anticipated debut this week, but where is yet to be decided.

It’s been more than a year since New Zealand punters have seen Aegon step out on raceday in his homeland, but they will get their fix of the gelding when he lines-up in the Gr.1 TAB Classic (1600m) on Saturday.

Steven Cole is hoping to kill two birds with one stone when he heads to Trentham on Saturday with Hard Attack.

There were four heats for juveniles run at Rosehill on Tuesday morning featuring two winners by I Am Invincible, one by Zoustar and a flying machine by Capitalist, all of them offered at Magic Millions.

Kia Ora Stud had a big day at the track on Saturday, their colours carried at Caulfield by stakes-winning fillies Serasana and Eneeza and they were active  during the first session of the Tattersalls Broodmare Sale on Monday.

It’s been a busy year for three year-old Galileo filly Warm Heart and it’s not over yet with the daughter of Australian triple Group I winner Sea Siren looking sharp and ready to fire at  trackwork in Hong Kong this week in preparation for her bid to win the Group I Hong Kong International Vase (2400m).

An “extraordinary’’ Easter Yearling Sale catalogue is close to being finalised as breeders flock to the sale widely regarded as the ‘Best of the Best’.

There are four juvenile spring stakes-winners on the first order of entry list for this year’s $3million Magic Millions 2YO Classic (1200m) to be run at the Gold Coast on January 13.

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

Racing last weekend produced a new Australian stakes-winner from an iconic Kiwi female family that is never without representation at Karaka and a rising star two year-old highlighted a nick that has everyone’s ears pricked.

A return to compete in front of Warrnambool’s boisterous crowd could be on the cards for Nassak Diamond following her dominant win in Sunday’s Jericho Cup (4600m).

Malt Time has gone close this preparation to major success and she will head south later this week in a bid to tick that box.

Graham Richardson is hoping a successful week for his female contingent can continue after Snazzytavi was a stand-out victor at Te Rapa on Saturday.

Talented middle-distance specialist and million-dollar earner Defibrillate has been retired.

The $3million Magic Millions 3YO Guineas over 1400m at the Gold Coast on January 13 will be targeted by the biggest stables in the country with Racing Queensland and Magic Millions releasing an order of entry for the Top 30 contenders as of Sunday.

It’s been a good weekend for Woodside Park sires with Vancouver getting his first Group I winner in Overpass, while Shalaa (IRE) delivered a French stakes-winner overnight when Siam Paragon won the Listed Prix Luthier (1500m) at Deauville on the all weather track.

Widden Stud are always on the lookout for new stallion prospects that fit their established profile for success and are thrilled to announce the acquisition of high class I Am Invincible colt I AM UNSTOPPABLE, who was an unbeaten stakes-winning 2yo and closed out his spring campaign with a brave second in the $2million Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) at Flemington.

The focus is fast switching from the breeding season to the yearling sales season and with a record number of yearlings sold in Australia in 2023 for $1million or more we’ve already seen three of them come out and win stakes races this spring.

Here is the full list of 55 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

With those dastardly Europeans cooling their heels,  the $304,000 Haymes Paint Jericho Cup over an energy-sapping 4600m at Warrnambool on Sunday was won by our friends across the Tasman with the mare Nassak Diamond.

The $1,400,000 Snitzel colt Head Of The Herd has double the number of barrier trials as he has race starts, but he is beginning to pay his way with a second win at start four at Hawkesbury on Sunday.

With two stakes-winners among his three winners at Ascot on Saturday, Playing God is in rare air this season with his five individual stakes-winners of seven stakes races putting him in exulted company.

Sensational sprinter Overpass (Vancouver) scored a deserved first G1 win in emphatic fashion in the Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot this evening, capping off a red-letter day for Inglis graduates who won seven Stakes races in four States across two countries.

Sydney Showjumping Club had their annual championships event on Saturday and Sunday at Richmond just west of Sydney and with his new owner Kathy O’Hara still on the sidelines with a broken foot, champion showjumper Tom McDermott took the reins on champion sprinter Nature Strip in his first official competition.

Champion sire I Am Invincible has a growing number of sons at stud and one of them is Santos, who was relocated from Aquis to Highview Stud in New Zealand earlier this year and sired his first Australian stakes-winner on Saturday at Doomben when West of Dalby won the $160,000 Listed BRC Mode Stakes (1200m).

While it might not match the adulation for his close relative Northerly, the Vancouver speedball Overpass is building a huge fan club in the west after adding Saturday’s $1,500,000 Group 1 Crown Perth - Winterbottom Stakes (1200m) at Ascot to his success in the $4,000,000 The Quokka.

Here is the full list of 123 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

"The guys that own him were really disappointed when he drew wide but I said to them when he came over here and worked on Tuesday, 'this is really his favourite track’, he gets himself into such a good rhythm here and it's the only race all Summer that I had an opportunity to bring him back here to Doomben," Gollan said.

A multiple Group II winner with a couple of G1 placings to her name, Russian Revolution mare Revolutionary Miss had a class edge over her rivals in the $200,000 Group III MRC Summoned Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday and held off a wall of challengers to take the win.

Veteran stayer Stockman produced a remarkable come-from-behind performance to land his fourth black-type win in Saturday’s A$200,000 Listed Christmas Cup (2400m) at Rosehill.

Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum’s homebred mare Ghaanati added to her already considerable value when opening her stakes account in Saturday’s Listed Premier Signs Doveton Stakes at Caulfield.

The loss of much missed Victorian favourite sire Magnus was highlighted on Saturday when he had a race to race Group double at Caulfield with Just Folk landing the Group III MRC Eclipse Stakes (1800m) followed by King Magnus in the Group III MRC Kevin Heffernan Stakes (1400m).

The winner of the Hobart Cup in February, Military Mission (IRE) has given connections thrills this spring in the Group III Newcastle Cup and Group III Herbert Power Stakes before closing out a successful campaign in Saturday’s $750,000 Group II Whispering Angel Zipping Classic (2400m) at Caulfield.

As Williamsburg and Rustic Steel were involved in their personal duel down the straight, it was plain sailing for the Exosphere gelding Phearson to make a winning stakes debut in Saturday’s Group III James Squire Festival Stakes at Rosehill.

The Snitzel filly Serasana completed a red-letter day for Kia Ora Stud at Caulfield when she made a one-act affair of the $300,000 Group II  Neds Sandown Guineas (1600m).

New Zealand’s oldest racing club celebrated its 175th anniversary with the running of Saturday’s Steelform Roofing Group Wanganui Cup (2040m), and the Listed feature could have had no more fitting and popular winner than Kelly Coe.

A patient ride by Bailey Rogerson paid off in spades as she guided Just As Sharp to a convincing victory in the Listed Trevor & Corallie Eagle Memorial 3YO (1500m) at Te Rapa.

A reputation for being a perennial placegetter is now a distant memory for Glamour Tycoon, who scored her second win in a row with a dominant performance in Saturday’s Listed O’Learys Fillies’ Stakes (1340m) at Wanganui.

Enigmatic galloper El Vencedor capped off some consistent form and provided trainer Stephen Marsh with a winning black-type double when he bolted clear to win the Gr.3 Eagle Technology Stakes (1600m) at Te Rapa.

Leading Sydney jockey Nash Rawiller is forming a potent partnership with New Zealand-bred gelding Toesonthenose, who scored a comfortable win in Saturday’s A$160,000 Vale Ray Markey Handicap (1800m) at Rosehill.

After giving yeoman service to Josh Julius, Just Folk is now a stakes-winner for Gavin Bedggood after toughing it out in the Group III Lamaro's Hotel Eclipse Stakes at Caulfield to break a winning drought that extends back to the Group II Ajax Stakes at Rosehill in March 2022.

A heartbreaking second when nosed out in the Group III Thoroughbred Club Stakes, the Grunt filly Miraval Rose took luck out of the equation when going coast to coast in Saturday’s Listed Mercedes-Benz Berwick Twilight Glow Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.

The much anticipated debut of talented Justify (USA) colt Storm Boy at Rosehill on Saturday produced the desired result when the powerhouse bay jumped straight to the front and kept going.

Kia Ora Stud took a fancy to a couple of yearlings by Exceed and Excel at the Magic Millions, splashing out $1,400,000 for an Ichihara colt and $1,100,000 for a filly out of the Group II winner Sweet Sherry.

Three Coolmore sires all in the Hunter Valley this spring - St Mark's Basilica (Fr), Starspangledbanner and Wootton Bassett (GB) - produced the top three lots in the Tattersalls December Foal Sale on Friday at Newmarket. 

A homebred for Rob Love and his family’s Love Racing, Capitalist filly Milliondollarmumma made light work of her first metropolitan victory scoring easily at Moonee Valley on Friday night to bring a nice pedigree update for her Magic Millions bound half-sister.

Here is the full list of 63 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Friday with winners and result details.

The Laurel Oak Bloodstock colours were in the winner’s circle at Randwick on Friday afternoon when expensive Zoustar filly Zouphoria broke the ice with a resounding win and she has a half-sister headed to Magic Millions 2024.

The lure of the $50,000 Super Maiden (1500m) at Mudgee on Friday did not go unnoticed by the Annabel Neasham stable with victory going to their lightly raced Brave Smash (Jpn) gelding Rush Attack.

Champion Victorian jockey Blake Shinn will be in action in New Zealand on Boxing Day at Pukekohe Park as well as at the lucrative Karaka Millions meeting at Ellerslie on January 27.

A Group I win on the resume for a well bred colt does not guarantee a career at stud and the vast prizemoney on offer has encouraged connections of two Group I winning colts last season to continue their careers next year as geldings.

There is a big card of stakes racing at Caulfield on Saturday with eight Black Type races to be decided including the Listed MRC Merson Cooper Stakes (1000m) for juveniles featuring the progeny of four of our first season sires.

The world's best racehorse Equinox has danced his last dance and been retired to stud after his resouncing victory in the Japan Cup (2400m) last Sunday.

Here is the full list of 38 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

There were originally going to be some super interesting juvenile trials at Canterbury on Thursday morning, but Sydney’s wild weather forced them to move to the polytrack at Warwick Farm and as a result there were many scratchings with only a couple of trials that actually took place, but that was enough for us to get a look at a couple of youngsters likely to give Tassort his next winner.