Waikato thoroughbred nursery Kaha Nui Farm were the leading buyers at Friday’s New Zealand Bloodstock National Weanling and Broodmare Sale with four purchases, headed by Lot 67, a filly by leading sire Proisir.

Hong Kong buyer Nancy Wong made her presence felt at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling & Broodmare Sale on Friday with seven purchases.

Group One performer Benaud will look to build on his stakes-level performances in Saturday’s Listed W J Mckell Cup (2000m) at Rosehill on Saturday.

A strong Kiwi connection will be at play this Saturday at Flemington when New Zealand-bred three-year-old Artzino pairs with star apprentice Wiremu Pinn in the Sir Henry Bolte Handicap (2000m).

A $625,000 Newgate Bloodstock purchase at the 2022 National Broodmare Sale, Tilianam returned to training and rewarded her new connections with an immediate dividend when winning at Eagle Farm. Back in the same sales ring twelve months later, Tilianam drew a final bid of $900,000 from Yu Long Investments, who will be hoping to claw some of that back in Saturday's Listed Gai Waterhouse Classic

In 2018, Australian hopes for victory at Royal Ascot were carried by outstanding colt Merchant Navy and the son of Fastnet Rock delivered the goods with a tough and tenacious effort to win the Group I Diamond Jubilee Stakes (6f) and five years on he holds a spot in the Top Five second crop sires by earnings and winners.

Magic Millions are now taking entries for the Gold Coast 2YO’s in Training Sale on October 24.

Written Tycoon is set to play a role at Royal Ascot next week with his glamour daughter Coolangatta running in the Group I King’s Stand Stakes along with his grand-son Cannonball, so where is he at as a sire of sires?

Fresh from siring his first Australian G1 winner last weekend when King Colorado won the Group I BRC JJ Atkins Stakes, Juddmonte Farms Kingman posted another new stakes-winner overnight with lightly raced three year-old filly Crack of Light taking out the Listed Prix de Thiberville (2400m) at Longchamp.

Trained by Bjorn Baker, talented Zoustar colt Ozzmosis has carried the Darby Racing colours to victory in each of his two starts to date for impressive wins that have attracted the interest of the Newgate and China Horse Club partners.

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

Currently in the news for siring this year’s Epsom Derby winner Auguste Rodin, the late champion Japanese sire Deep Impact had seven foals born in Australia in 2019 that are now three year-olds and six of them have raced and all have won with one of them our One to Watch on Thursday.

With six stakes-winners from his current crop of three year-olds, Pierro added two new three year-old winners to his tally at Wyong on Thursday with promising maiden wins for Lysander and Jamrock.

New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) has announced a $20.3 million stakes increase for the 2023-24 racing season.

Ilovethiscity winner of the Group I Randwick Guineas, and producer of Group I two-year-old El Dorado Dreaming will stand the 2023 breeding season at Noor Elaine Farm.

With Royal Ascot set to unfold next week it’s worth taking a look at the sire legacy left by Australia’s original trail blazing history making champion sprinter Choisir.

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

Trainer Tony Gollan has made little secret of the high-regard in which he holds progressive galloper Antino.

Brooklyn Hustle's half-sister, Born Hustler, is hard to catch, but the three-year-old daughter of Tarzino was at the top of her game in Wednesday's Tobin Brothers Celebrating (Bm70) (1600m) at Sandown-Hillside.

With the welcome return of New Zealand Bloodstock’s popular winter mixed sale format, along with the prospect of a rejuvenated New Zealand racing industry on the back of the TAB’s deal with global wagering giant Entain, weanling vendors are in a positive frame of mind leading into Friday’s National Weanling & Broodmare Sale at Karaka.

Local filly Orgullo continued her strong polytrack form at Cambridge on Wednesday when taking out the NZB Insurance Pearl Series Maiden 2YO (1300m).

Woppitt Bloodstock’s filly Konasana continued the winning run of success for Dundeel’s two-year-olds when making an impressive debut in the Bowermans Maiden Hcp over 1150m at Randwick-Kensington.

On Wednesday, the three-year-old Capitalist gelding Kapunda gained a late split to deny the two-year-old I Am Invincible colt  Immortal Island a winning debut in the Bivouac @ Darley Maiden Hcp (1150) at Randwick-Kensington.

The two-year-old Proisir filly Coeur Volante looks to have an exciting future after she put a small but select field to the sword over 1300m at Sandown-Hillside on Wednesday.

A high-quality weanling catalogue for this week’s New Zealand Bloodstock National Weanling & Broodmare Sale at Karaka has been further elevated by the results of recent feature races across Australasia and further afield.

The two and three year-old colts and geldings maiden at the Kensington track this afternoon features three interesting two year-old debutants taking on some experienced three year-old rivals and one of them is the half-brother by Dundeel to dual Group I winner Home Affairs.

A multiple G1 Royal Ascot hero, Darley shuttler Blue Point (IRE) has made a fast start to his stud career in the Northern Hemisphere siring his 11th winner from 40 runners overnight in the UK, but interestingly for all that he’s not the current leading first season sire for the UK and Ireland.

This series of stories is proving very popular and one of the biggest emerging sirelines that is on the cusp of a new wave belongs to Snitzel.

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

Six heats for juveniles at Randwick on Tuesday morning with some interesting winners including a filly we haven’t seen since the Golden Slipper.

Some positive news emanating from Haras du Buff with Amelia’s Jewel’s dam Bumbasina (IRE) set to foal a full sibling to the Western Australian champ in August.

Domestic and international viewers of NZB's 2023 National Weanling and Broodmare Sale can look forward to a live sale broadcast, beamed to viewers this Friday 16 June at the Karaka Sales Centre.

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

Triple Group 1 winner Hitotsu (Maurice-Love is Fickle by Redoute’s Choice) will join the Arrowfield Stud roster this Spring, standing at a fee of $22,000 inc. GST.

With the recent announcement of gavelhouse.com Sales and Marketing assistant Patrick Cunningham’s progression into an agent role with parent company New Zealand Bloodstock, the world-record holding online auction site is recruiting.

The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained Griff became the seventh first-crop winner for Trapeze Artist when he led them a merry dance in the Precise Air Maiden Plate (1200m) at Warwick Farm.

Bred by the late Dr Tan Kai Chah, the American Pharoah (USA) filly Donegal carried the all-navy Coolmore silks to a hugely impressive last-to-first triumph when on debut over 1200m at Mornington on Monday.    

Cambridge Stud’s expensive Zoustar filly Joliestar climbed off the canvas to make a winning debut in the Schweppes Maiden Plate (1200m) at Warwick Farm.

I Am Invincible’s Super Salute stretched his unbeaten streak in Singapore to seven when winning the Silver Bowl G2 on Sunday.

Here is the full list of 84 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The 2022 JRHA Select Yearling Sale topper, Danon Ayers Rock (JPN), made a winning debut in an 1800m Newcomers Race at Tokyo on Sunday.

The Arrogate (USA) rig Arcangelo claimed the third leg of the Triple Crown, the Gr1 Belmont Stakes and honour trainer Jena Antonucci as the first female to saddle a classic winner in America.

A career milestone for the undefeated Triple Crown hero Justify (USA) as the Bob Baffert-trained Arabian Lion captured the Gr1 Woody Stephens Stakes on the Belmont Stakes undercard.

Inglis graduate Think About It confirmed his status as Australia’s newest sprinting superstar by sealing back-to-back Group 1s with another imperious victory in today’s $3m Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) at Eagle Farm.

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

Comrade Rosa showed her love for the Eagle Farm track when earning a second consecutive stakes win in the Group II Magic Millions Dane Ripper Stakes (1300m) and bringing up a stakes double for Capitalist.

They keep raising the bar for Think About It, and the son of So You Think never flinches.

Kingman (GB) might be shaded by his headline-hogging Juddmonte stablemate Frankel (GB), but he provided a timely reminder to Australian fans that he is a top-class stallion in his own right when the unexposed King Colorado struck in the $1,000,000 JJ Atkins Stakes (1600m) at Eagle Farm.

Without A Fight (IRE) has confirmed his status among the most promising stayers in the land when putting his opponents to the sword in the $1,200,000 Group II Sky Racing The Q22 (2200m) at Eagle Farm.

The Listed Makers Mark Hinkler Handicap (1200m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday was fought out by the stablemates, King Kapa and Ef Troop.

The Listed Wayne Wilson (1600m) may have been something of a consolation prize at Eagle Farm on Saturday, but a spectacular performance by New Zealand-bred Antino has eased any disappointment for his trainer Tony Gollan and got him thinking about spring carnivals in Sydney and Melbourne.

A rejuvenated Selino (GB) returned to the winner's circle for the first time in one hundred and twelve weeks when outgunning the 2019 Victoria Derby her Warning in Saturday's Group II Brisbane Cup (3200m) at Eagle Farm.

The tenacious Redoute’s Choice gelding Rediener defied the odds on favourite Yellow Brick in a thrilling Group III Ascot Green Gunsynd Classic (1600m) at Eagle Farm.

The honest two-year-old Maurice (JPN) colt Namesake opened his stakes account with a hard-fought victory in the Listed Oxlade Stakes (1300m) at Eagle Farm.

Bjorn Baker will map out a spring campaign for Ozzmosis after the son of Zoustar kept his record at a perfect two for two at Randwick on Saturday.

A quality line up of yearlings, weanlings and thoroughbreds will go under the hammer at the 2023 Magic Millions Perth Winter Sale later this month.

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

The Inglis Breeding Stock Sales Series today concluded in fine style as fillies again stole the show at the Great Southern Sale.

There has been criticism by Victorian racing industry participants unhappy with the recent announcement by Racing Victoria of cuts to Victorian prize money and the circumstances surrounding it.

Trial action in Sydney was at Warwick Farm on Friday with five heats for juveniles and winners included a homebred for Jonathan Munz by Pierro and an expensive filly by I Am Invincible.

Graeme Rogerson is confident of a bold showing from Solidify at Eagle Farm on Saturday and he’s also looking forward to the longer-term benefits from the Queensland venture.

Saturday's JJ Atkins Plate (1600m) at Eagle Farm is the final Group 1 for juveniles, and Dundeel has two solid chances to add to a career-best season with his two-year-olds.

Entries are now open for New Zealand Bloodstock’s Karaka 2024 National Yearling Sales Series, with the Sale to take place in its traditional timeslot at the Karaka Sales Centre from Sunday 28 January.

Last spring broodmare owners thought they might be on to something with promising young sire Supido, who covered his biggest ever book of 170 mares in his fifth season at Widden and as we head into another breeding season their faith looks to have been well justified.

The Epsom Derby was run last weekend and while many breeders may question how a mile and a half staying race for three year-olds in England has any possible relevance to us, it’s time to think again.

Living Legends announced sad news on Thursday with the passing of two time Cox Plate winner Fields of Omagh at the age of 25.

She was the centre of attention in the lead-up and Burnewang North’s Frankel x Vedema filly didn’t disappoint, setting multiple new benchmarks on a record-breaking Day 1 of the Great Southern Sale at Oaklands.

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

Three New Zealanders have become the latest to be approved as international owners in Hong Kong, as part of a unique opportunity from the Hong Kong Jockey Club.

Burnewang North had high expectations for their Frankel weanling filly from Vedema (Fr) offered at Inglis Great Southern on Thursday and were well rewarded when she sold for $825,000 and for once Yulong weren’t listed as the buyer.

Due to demand, breeders will again have the opportunity to offer quality broodmares in a stand-alone online breeding stock sale on Gavelhouse Plus in the lead up to the season.

The broodmare session at the upcoming New Zealand Bloodstock National Weanling & Broodmare Sale features a strong line up of stakes performers and broad stallion representation both within pedigrees and covering sires.

When the shuttle stallions arrive back in Australia this year there is one in particular that has certainly gained in appeal in the past 12 months thanks to the deeds of his sire Siyouni.

The progeny of Newgate Farm’s Capitalist are proving a good fit for Hong Kong with a winning double at Happy Valley on Wednesday courtesy of smart three year-olds Seasons Wit and Superb Capitalist highlighting his success.

Joseph O’Brien unleashed an impressive debut winner by Coolmore shuttler Wootton Bassett (GB) overnight at the Curragh and exciting two year-old colt Islandsinthestream is from an Australian bred mare that comes from a very well known Aussie Black Type family.

Audience response to the first two stories in the Breednet series grouping sires by bloodline would suggest we’re on to something of interest and if you are one of the breeders looking at value options from the great sirelines, then read on because I’m going to tell you a story that will inspire.

The Australian Bloodstock team have acquired a horse they hope will be a Cox Plate contender with New Bay four year-old New Energy (IRE) to join the Maher and Eustace stable.

Of Good Cheer – a young mare on her first cover to superstar sire Frankel – tonight topped a hugely successful Inglis Digital June (Early) Sale which saw seven horses realise $100,000 or more.

Three new first season stallions Daumier, Sejardan and Bruckner were paraded at Oaklands on Wednesday afternoon, catch up with how things went with Maree McEwan in attendance to chat to their studmasters.

Here is the full list of 49 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The fifth intake of Thoroughbred Breeders Australia’s (TBA) national traineeship program, Fast Track, has graduated with an award ceremony in Scone.

Foaled and raised and sold by Kitchwin Hills, stunning young stallion Dubious has settled in well on his return to Kitchwin Hills. 

New Plymouth trainer Allan Sharrock is looking forward to stepping out a trio of regally-bred debutants at his home meeting on Thursday.

Lyndhurst Stud stallion Better Than Ready remains on track to defend his leading sire of 2yo winners title. Epic Proportions took Better Than Ready’s tally to sixteen when making a winning debut in the Palace Pier @ Darley 2yo and 3yo Maiden Plate (1100m) at Canterbury on Wednesday.

Widden Stud’s champion sire Zoustar moved to 12 two year-old winners for the season with a juvenile double on Wednesday courtesy of dashing grey filly Right to Party and Royal Zeus, while at Canterbury his talented three year-old filly Nostalgia won in a breeze.

Trainer Shaune Ritchie will be on a fact-finding mission with The Racketeer this weekend.

Yarraman Park’s champion sire I Am Invincible produced a dazzling debut two year-old winner for Godolphin on Wednesday at Canterbury when Commemorative thrashed her rivals to win as she pleased.

The Oaks Stud in Cambridge have shown their faith in young stallion U S Navy Flag, purchasing him outright from Coolmore Stud.

Byerley Park founder Daniel Nakhle has made a black-type addition to his broodmare band, securing Rose ‘N’ Power (NZ) (Power) for $70,000 on Gavelhouse Plus.

New Zealand Bloodstock is pleased to announce the appointment of Patrick Cunningham as a Bloodstock Sales Representative, beginning early August.

The $3million Group I BRC Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) at Eagle Farm has drawn a full field plus emergencies with the favourite Think About It drawing midfield in gate 12, while his main opposition is expected to come from his three year-old rivals.

Darley have announced that Kingman’s champion miler Palace Pier(GB) will not shuttle to Australia this year.

Many broodmare owners have already planned and booked their matings for the season ahead, but there’s always room for change and once you decide on a sireline there can be a myriad of options to consider, so this series looks at stallions standing in Australia this spring grouped by sireline - who tickles your fancy?

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

Ollie Tait from Twin Hills Stud has given us a video preview of their new stallion Daumier ahead of tomorrow’s First Season Sire Parade at Oaklands Junction as part of the Inglis Great Southern Sale.

As one door closes, another opens – that is the case for New Zealand’s leading stable, Te Akau Racing, this week.

Racing in Singapore is set to be discontinued from October next year following a government decision to repurpose the 120 hectares of land in Kranji on which the Singapore Racecourse currently sits.

Six heats for juveniles at Rosehill on Tuesday morning produced some interesting winners including the three-quarter sister to $5.8million earning dual Group I winner Trekking and expensive unraced youngsters by I Am Invincible and Zoustar, both sold by Segenhoe Stud.

Wewillrock will be given an opportunity to add to his stakes record when the four-year-old steps out at Randwick on Saturday.

The last two year-old Group I race of the season will be run at Eagle Farm on Saturday and the $1million BRC JJ Atkins (1600m) will feature three runners from the stable of Chris Waller, who has won the race three times previously with The Autumn Sun, Press Statement and Pressday.