Triple Crown hero Justify (USA) added a sixth Australian winner to his tally at Cranbourne on Friday night when promising filly Clavadatsch made a procession out of the 1300m juvenile maiden.

In the past seven years, winners of the Fred Best Classic have gone on to win multiple stakes races with earnings averaging out too well over $1,000,000, so the capacity field for Saturday's Group III feature at Eagle Farm has a bit of living up to.

Progressive So You Think sprinter Think About It will take a picket fence of five straight wins into the $1million Group I BRC Kingsford Smith Cup (1300m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday, while at Goulburn on Friday his half-sister by Pierro broke the ice to win her first race.

Trials were at Warwick Farm on Friday morning and there were seven heats for juveniles with the fastest winner a $1.1million filly by champion sire I Am Invincible, while the three-quarter brother to Chautauqua continues to impress.

As they enjoy getting to know one of the new boys on their already strong roster - Riverbank Farm's Russell Osborne and Dr Caroline Duddy have been cheering on a couple of that exciting young horse's promising relations.

The Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale this week highlighted the extraordinary appeal of mares in foal to Yarraman Park’s champion sire I Am Invincible with five of them offered and all were sold at an average $1,330,000.

The Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale this week produced strong results for mares in foal to I Am Invincible’s dual Group I winning son Home Affairs with smart stakes-winner Broadwayandfourth the top seller fetching $550,000.

The second last crop of foals by Galileo are 3YO’s and they are making their presence felt with blue-blood colt First Minister opening his stakes account to win the Group III Prix Hocquart (2200m), while the Bob Scarborough bred stayer Roberto Escobarr took the Group III Henry II Stakes (2m) at Sandown to give the legendary sire a Group double.

Here is the full list of 41 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Macroura capped a massive few days for her family when she topped the third and final day of the 2023 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast today.

Bjorn Baker saddled two interesting debut juvenile winners on Thursday, one is an eye-catching Zoustar colt that has been impressing at the trials and the other is a Vancouver gelding with Overpass vibes and both carry the colours of Darby Racing.

Newgate Farm’s Golden Slipper winning sire Stay Inside covered 189 mares last spring and one of them was beautiful More Than Ready (USA) mare Murchison, who was bought at the Gold Coast on Thursday by Sheamus Mills Bloodstock for $800,000.

Trainer Chris Waller has a stranglehold on Saturday’s Gr.1 Queensland Derby (2400m) with a two-pronged attack, headed by $1.70 favourite Kovalica and impressive last-start winner Special Swey ($9.50).

Sledmere Stud consigned stakes-winning Not a Single Doubt mare Nomothaj is one of only five mares to be offered at the Gold Coast in foal to champion sire I Am Invincible and she was sold today for $1.2million to Widden Stud/ David Redvers Bloodstock.

A savvy $60,000 investment on a mare at the 2020 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale by Twin Hills Stud/ G1 Goldmine produced big dividends ats the same sale on Thursday when Magical Mist (NZ) sold for $775,000 to Yulong.

The third chapter in the Sunshine in Paris story unfolded at the Gold Coast on Thursday morning when Macroura sold for $1.5 million to Yulong and the story is not quite done yet as there is a yearling from Zenaida to be offered next week.

James Bester Bloodstock secured the first mare offered in foal to Frankel on Thursday at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale when paying $1million for the Blue Sky Premium consigned mare Kapralova (USA).

A consortium of the industry’s most passionate and dedicated individuals from all levels of the Australian thoroughbred breeding and racing communities assembled on the Gold Coast Turf Club – 2023’s host for the Awards’ ceremony – on Wednesday, to celebrate the Awards’ ninth cohort of finalists.

When three year old Invader filly Sunshine in Paris edged out Group I winners Ruthless Dame, In Secret and Zougotcha to win the Group I ATC Surround Stakes, she thrust her family into the commercial spotlight and the third chapter in this remarkable story will play out at the Gold Coast today.

A regular on the Coolmore shuttle to Australia for seven years from 2001 to 2007, Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus has been euthanised at Coolmore’s US headquarters Ashford Stud due to old age.

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

Leading Victorian based thoroughbred nursery Three Bridges Thoroughbreds celebrated their first seven figure seller when the star producer Zenaida topped Day Two of the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale today.

Subtitle – purchased by one of Jacquinot’s part-owners to send to the new Widden-based stallion this coming breeding season – has topped today’s Inglis Digital May (Late) Sale, realising $225,000.

The third million dollar mare on Wednesday at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale was offered  in the Newgate Consignment and gorgeous grey mare Giza Goddess (USA) had the added appeal of a positive test to I Am Invincible.

There were two mares sold in foal to champion sire Frankel at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on Wednesday and both were bought by Yulong with six more to be offered on Thursday.

Following the win of the $3,000,000 Inglis Easter Yearling sale-topper Kandinsky Abstract on May 3, it was the turn of the second most expensive lot of the sale to make a winning debut at Canterbury on Wednesday.

A half-sister to stakes-winner Zoukerino and Group III placed Spend, well related I Am Invincible filly Zoukerette had a valuable race experience and fitness edge over her rivals in the 1100m fillies maiden at Canterbury on Wednesday.

There was not a lot of love in the betting ring for the Alpine Eagle debutant Spring Eagle, but he looked like a horse with a future after a barnstorming victory in a 2yo maiden plate over 1000m at Sale on Wednesday.

The Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale produced an early highlight on Wednesday when Zenaida, the dam of yesterday’s $3.9million filly Sunshine in Paris, was offered by Three Bridges Thoroughbreds and purchased by Yulong for $1.4million.

The first two juvenile maidens at Canterbury today for colts and fillies feature plenty of well bred interesting runners, but none more so than $2.25million Snitzel colt Congregation.

Outstanding racemare Forbidden Love sold for $4.1 million and was the star act across an incredible opening day of the 2023 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale at the Gold Coast today.

Standing at a fee of just $11,000 at Aquis in Queensland this spring, Snitzel’s Group I winning son Invader is the sire of one stakes-winner so far with his oldest progeny just three year-olds, but Sunshine in Paris is something very special selling for $3.9million!

Offered by Yarraman Park as a breeding proposition only, quality Group II winning Pierro filly Paris Dior will now call Colmore Australia home after being secured by Tom Magnier for $1.6million.

Tom Magnier is obviously a fan of I Am Invincible thanks to the mighty Home Affairs and he could not resist the dam of dual Group I winner Coolangatta offered in foal to Yarraman Park’s champion sire.

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

The Yulong buying spree continued at the Magic Millions Broodmare Sale on Tuesday when Yulong secured dual Group I winning Choisir mare Snapdancer for $3.2million from the draft of Sullivan Bloodstock.

A brilliant Group II winning sprinter that contested The Everest last year, Shades of Rose was one top mare that is not going to Yulong with Arrowfield Stud paying $1.6million at Magic Millions on Tuesday to secure her from the Yarraman Park draft.

On Tuesday, the Gary Portelli-trained Flying Trapeze climbed off the canvas to open his winning account over 1400m at Kembla Grange and credit Trapeze Artist with his sixth winner.

An acceptor for the $1million Group I BRC Kingsford Smith Cup (1300m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday, quality import Promise of Success (GB) will run in new colours after being purchased by Yulong at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on Tuesday.

Triple Group I winning mare Forbidden Love set the Gold Coast sale ring alight on Tuesday when selling for $4.1million to Yulong, going within a whisker of the Magic Millions record price for a mare set by Sunlight in 2020 when she sold for $4.2million.

A Group placed stakes-winner by Deep Field, Isotope was always tipped as a headline horse for the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale and with her close relation Liberty Island winning the Group I Japanese Oaks on Sunday by six lengths she sold accordingly today for $2.3million.

Australian Bloodstock colour bearer Wolverine (NZ) will head back to her homeland of New Zealand after fetching $850,000 at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale when snapped up by David Ellis of Te Akau Racing.

Minister for Racing Kieran McAnulty has announced the approval of a 25-year partnership between TAB NZ and UK betting company Entain that delivers at least $900 million in guaranteed funding for the racing industry over the next five years.

The Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale got off to a flying start when the first mare into the ring sold for $1.5million on Tuesday morning.

The Chosen One will join the rejuvenated stallion roster at The Oaks Stud this breeding season.

There is no better investment than purchasing a mare in foal to Australia’s champion sire I Am Invincible and there are five to be  offered at the Gold Coast this week.

Securing a top quality racehorse to stand at stud is just the first of many hurdles stallion masters have to navigate.

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

The Rich Enuff debutant Wiggum made the trip from Morphettville to Ballarat on Monday worthwhile when he made easy work of an 11000m maiden.

Cambridge trained filly Cheval D’Or tuned up for a tilt at the Gr.1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Eagle Farm with an exhibition gallop between races at Te Rapa on Saturday on a heavy track.

An impressive race record and pedigree can take you so far, but the ability to produce a type is what most commercial breeders are looking for in a broodmare at this sale, so we’ve put together lists of the mares that have had yearlings or weanlings sell particularly well this year.

Group I racing is now complete for the season in South Australia with four G1 races over distances ranging from 1200m to 2500m contested in Adelaide over the past month and all of them were first time G1 winners, three of them Kiwi breds, so let’s take a look at the pedigrees.

A Group II winning sprinter last year, Churchill (IRE) mare Ladies Church may have bigger fish to fry this year after a brilliant return to win the Listed Sole Power Sprint Stakes (5f) overnight at Naas.

Here is the full list of 60 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Sunday with winners and result details.

If investors need a timely reminder as to why Edinburgh Park has been so successful they got it on Saturday when the Ian Smith bred and sold filly Royal Merchant won the Group I SAJC Goodwood Handicap, so let’s take a look at some of their star mares to be offered in foal at Magic Millions this week.

The Group 1 Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) at Tokyo boasts a stellar roll call of champion fillies, but it is doubtful if Yankee Rose’s exceptional daughter Liberty Island (JPN) would bow to any of them.

Australia’s only thoroughbred re-homing television program Thoroughbreds Are Go returns to Sky Thoroughbred Central this Monday night May 22.

Singapore’s reigning Horse of the Year Lim’s Kosciuszko put his rivals to the sword when winning Saturday’s S$1 million Kranji Mile (1600m), setting a new track record in the process.

The two-year-old Pariah filly Lady In Pink broke her maiden with authority in Sunday’s Ladbrokes Odds Surge Hcp (1200m) at Sandown-Lakeside providing a timely update for her half-sister catalogued for the National Broodmare Sale.

They say all good things come to an end and for Senga Bissett and Ivan Woodford-Smith that end is coming with the sale of their final eight Ashleigh Thoroughbreds mares to be offered on Inglis Digital May (late) with the final countdown on May 24.

Heading back to Coolmore Australia this spring, Churchill (IRE) has had a big week in Europe siring three Group winners – Blue Rose Cen, The Foxes and Yashin - and in Australia had a metropolitan double on Saturday at Flemington.

Coolmore have sent a number of high profile Australian mares to Ireland over the years to be covered by Galileo and one of them was triple Group I winning Fastnet Rock sprinter Sea Siren, who is now back in Australia and was covered last spring by Home Affairs.

Here is the full list of 111 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The Gary Portelli-trained Fireburn found the perfect spot in the Group II The Roses (2000m) at Doomben on Saturday to break back in the winner’s list for the first time since her heroic Golden Slipper/ATC Sires Produce Stakes double.

The Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale next week will feature a major dispersal of stock from Ian Smith’s Edinburgh Park and their success was highlighted on Saturday when quality three year--old filly Royal Merchant became the first Group I winner for her sire Merchant Navy when taking out the $500,000 Group I SAJC Goodwood Handicap (1200m) at Morphettville.

After finishing last in the $775,000 The Archer at Rockhampton on April 30, Surf Dancer (IRE) gave lie to that effort when scything between runners to claim the Group III Ladbrokes BRC Sprint (1350m) at Doomben on Saturday.

The Listed SAJC Centaurea Stakes (2028m) delivered a new stakes-winner for So You Think with progressive Kiwi bred staying mare Thought Provoking holding off all challengers to score a determined victory.

Without a win since the Group 1 Doomben Cup at Eagle Farm twelve months ago, Huetor (FR) went back-to-back in the $1,000,000 feature, which returned to its traditional home at Doomben on Saturday.

Racing in career-best form, the five-year-old Foxwedge mare Foxy Frida was in a class of her own in the Group III R A Lee Stakes at Morphettville on Saturday.

The $160,000 Listed BRC Chief de Beers Stakes (1110m) fell to the Mishani team with Les Ross coaxing a first stakes win from talented Your Song gelding Mishani Sniper, a homebred for prolific Queensland owner breeder Mike Crooks.

Leading Central Districts rider Johnathan Parkes capped a magnificent day at the office when he rode four winners at Awapuni, including the main event on the card, the Listed Happy 90th Birthday Edith Bull Rangitikei Cup (1550m) aboard Justaskme.

Smart two-year-old Le Zebra will be considered for a tilt at the Gr.1 JJ Atkins (1600m) at Eagle Farm on June 10 after another strong on-speed metropolitan victory when scoring over 1400m at Flemington on Saturday.

Orbis Bloodstock’s American-bred mare Frumos (USA) looked a stakes-winner in waiting when reeling off wins at her first three starts in June last year, and she finally achieved the milestone in Saturday’s Magic Millions Pam O’Neill Stakes (1600m) at Doomben.

Juddmonte's champion Frankel (GB) has likely been the subject of more column inches in Australia in recent times than he has in Europe, and his three-year-old daughter  Let'sbefrankbaby kept his name up in lights with a fighting win in Saturday's Group III Ken And Helen Smith SA Classic at Morphettville.

A ground-saving ride by Ben Melham earned Godolphin’s honest Street Boss (USA) Heuristic a maiden stakes success in Saturday’s Group III David Coles Am Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville.

The $160,000 Listed BRC Bill Carter Stakes (1200m) at Doomben on Saturday produced a great result for Trilogy Racing with their exciting Zoustar filly Zia taking the prize over Abounding with third placed Certainlycan to be offered for sale at MM next week.

Lightly raced galloper Martell lived up to his trainer’s expectations when he downed a handy field of three-year-olds over 1100m at Te Rapa.

The Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale kicks off on Tuesday and the Blue Sky Premium Consignment features a dazzling array of 50 mares including top class race fillies straight off the track and two broodmares in foal to champion sire Frankel.

It was looking dicey for the heavily backed Celestial Legend when bottled up with nowhere to go at the 300m in Saturday’s Schweppes Hcp (1200m) at Rosehill before Dylan Gibbons made a sharp left-hand turn to find clear air, and then it was a matter of how far.

The Group racing continued at York and Leopardstown overnight with Australian breeder John Camilleri of Fairway Thoroughbreds tasting stakes success, Coolmore shuttler Churchill (IRE) posting a new Group winner and the Group II Yorkshire Cup Stakes won by a stayer with Melbourne Cup aspirations.

The Magic Millions Weanling Sale this week produced interesting results for our first season sires with eight siring weanlings that sold for $100,000 or more and Bivouac leading the way.

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

The equal highest priced filly on the second day of the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale was a stunning youngster by So You Think from Marquise da Rossa that made $400,000 to the bid of Suman Hedge Bloodstock.

It was a frenetic finale to the 2023 Magic Millions National Weanling Sale this afternoon when a pair of Frankel colts were sold for $925,000 and $725,000 respectively.

Mares carrying coveted pregnancies, talented, lightly raced gallopers with significant upside and several contenders for the $3m The Big Dance headline an Inglis Digital May (Late) Sale that is rich in depth.

Shortly after celebrating the win of the Frankel filly Frankly Elegant, the Price/Kent Jnr team were toasting the hugely impressive victory of the I Am Invincible gelding Immortality in the McCartney Real Estate Maiden (1200m) at Geelong.

There are nine mares covered by Frankel to be offered at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale next week and Juddmonte Farm’s champion sire had a promising maiden winner at Geelong on Friday.

The Mark Walker-trained Tokyo Tycoon has been officially disqualified from his first placing in the Gr.1 Sistema Stakes (1200m) at Pukekohe on March 11.

Outstanding three-year-old Sharp ‘N’ Smart returned to the Tuhikaramea stables of Graeme and Debbie Rogerson on Friday as he prepares for a lucrative four-year-old season.

There were trials at Rosehill on Friday morning with five heats for juveniles won by some interesting youngsters and a filly by Justify (USA) caught our eye with a second at her first trial, while two heat winners have siblings in the MM National Yearling Sale.

Classic three year-olds stepped out again at York overnight with the Group II Dante Stakes (1m2 ½f) going to a son of Churchill (IRE), who shuttles back to Australia this spring.

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

A son of former sale graduate and leading Widden Stud sire Zoustar topped Day One of the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale on the Gold Coast today.

Thoroughbred Breeders Australia (TBA) is excited to launch a new program that provides a pathway into the breeding industry for people changing career.

What a difference a year makes! In 2015 Wexford Farm sold the Xaar (GB) mare Condesaar to JD Thoroughbreds for $6,000 shortly after accepting a $10,000 bid from Darby Thoroughbreds for Condesaar’s All American filly consigned by Widden Stud to the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale.

Demand for the progeny of Widden Stud’s champion sire Zoustar was highlighted at the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale on Thursday when Milburn Creek’s colt from Group III winner Embrace Me(NZ) was knocked down for $550,000 to astute purchaser Jim Carey.

One of the early highlights on Thursday at the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale was a Zoustar colt from Delectation Girl (GB) that sold for $310,000 to Suman Hedge Bloodstock (FBAA)/Redwall Bloodstock/James Harron Bloodstock.

Racing at York in the UK this week is putting the spotlight on classic three year-olds and the Group III Musidora Stakes for the fillies was run overnight and produced a potentially outstanding filly by champion sire Frankel.

Leading Queensland nursery Eureka Stud will present a draft of 10 for the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale starting next Tuesday with brilliant racemare Isotope poised to generate international interest.

The 148th running of the Preakness Stud will be held at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland this Saturday (Sunday morning our time).