In a massive coup for New Zealand racing and breeding, Highview Stud has secured the services of exciting stallion Divine Prophet.

Champion sire Fastnet Rock has had success in both hemispheres and in Europe one of his leading lights has been Group I Epsom Oaks winner Qualify, whose three year-old colt by Shamardal made it two wins in as many starts at Chantilly overnight.

Here is the full list of 28 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

As we come to the end of the Sydney Autumn Carnival we thought it was worth taking a closer look at the leading sire tables and while last year’s overall winner I Am Invincible sets the pace by winners, earnings and stakes-winners, a look at the distance range tables does highlight the success of some of our other sires.

The Group III SAJC Fillies Classic (2500m) at Morphettville on May 20 has been pencilled in for Jenni Contessa after the daughter Maurice (JPN) showed that staying is her game when breaking her maiden over 2400m at Bendigo on Tuesday.

The 92 yearlings catalogued for New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2023 National Online Yearling Sale are the progeny of 41 different sires, representing a wide range of stallion talent – from proven stars to exciting newcomers and everything in between. 

There were only a couple of juvenile trials at Rosehill on Tuesday morning with wins for promising colts by Russian Revolution and Trapeze Artist, while at Doomben a $1million I Am Invincible colt did everything right.

Group I racing continues at Randwick this Saturday, but the richest race in Australia this weekend will be the inaugural $4million WATC The Quokka (1200m) at Ascot in Perth with local superstar filly Amelia’s Jewel up against half a dozen eastern states raiders.

Ready to Run Sale graduate January (NZ) (Swiss Ace) secured his first black-type success with a slick performance in Saturday’s S$110,000 Singapore 3YO Sprint (1200m). 

Darley shuttler Blue Point (IRE) has been one of the most popular first season sires at Australian yearling sales this year and the Royal Ascot hero is off the mark with his first winner in Europe.

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

Multiple Group I winner Artorius will have one final run in the Group I Platinum Jubilee at Royal Ascot on June 24th before retiring to stud.

In conjunction with their partners, Newhaven Park have decided that their hugely exciting stallion prospect Mo’unga (NZ) (Savabeel) will remain in training for another year.

It was third time lucky for the striking Lonhro filly Dipsy Doodle in the Tab Maiden Plate (1100m) for two-year-old fillies at Warwick Farm on Monday.

On a day when Maurice (Jpn) had four winners, the star was a two year-old that won on debut.

A step up to 1400-metres and a patient ride proved the winning formula for the two-year-old Shalaa (IRE) filly Chill The Krug to open her account at start four at Sandown-Lakeside on Easter Monday.

Exciting Group producing first season sire, Santos, will relocate to Highview Stud in New Zealand.

Kiwi bred Ready to Run Sale graduate Lucky Sweynesse continued his domination of the sprint races in Hong Kong defeating reigning champion sprinter Wellington to win the Group II Sprint Cup (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday and he comes from a renowned Aussie speed family.

Irish bred Starspangledbanner gelding California Spangle (IRE) added another feature win to his impressive resume when taking out the Group II The Chairman’s Tropy (1600m) at Sha Tin on Sunday.

Toronado (IRE) has a good record in Hong Kong and he had an eye-catching debut winner at Sha Tin  on Sunday that can further enhance his reputation.

Here is the full list of 65 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A unanimous choice as the Champion 2yo Filly in Japan, Yankee Rose’s daughter Liberty Island (JPN) made her three-year-old bow in Sunday’s Group 1 The Oka Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas) at Hanshin on Sunday, and it was worth waiting for.

The John O'Shea-trained Awesome John completed a hit-and-run mission in Saturday's $400,000 Group II Schweppes WATC Derby and gave Willie Pike his eleventh win in the classic in eighteen years.

After several months of yearling sale previews, Caroline Searcy’s informative and entertaining Bred To Win returns, Monday night at 7.30pm on Sky Thoroughbred Central.

Dual Oaks winner Pennyweka will return to New Zealand for a break following her resounding victory in the Gr.1 Australian Oaks (2400m) at Randwick on Saturday.

Trainer Ben Foote is determined to regroup from two successive Group One disappointments.

They still have not found the bottom to White Marlin (IRE), who replaced his stablemate Goldman (NZ) at the head of Melbourne Cup betting when keeping his record at a perfect six for six in Saturday’s Group III Easter Cup (2100m) at Sandown-Lakeside.

With his previous four wins coming on soft tracks or worse, a rapidly deteriorating Sandown-Lakeside track proved no disadvantage to the likeable Choisir gelding Cardinal Gem in Saturday's Group III Ladbrokes Victoria Handicap (1400m).

On another top class Saturday of Autumn Carnival racing featuring five Group I races in Australia and New Zealand, not one of those elite winners was foaled in Australia.

Here is the full list of 139 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

While their champion Anamoe had to settle for third in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Godolphin bookended day two of The Championships at Randwick when the Brazen Beau mare Zapateo captured the Group II Sapphire Stakes (1200m).

The $5million Group I ATC Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) is the jewel in the crown of The Championships at Randwick and produced a thrilling renewal with local hero Anamoe relegated to third in his final start in Australia with victory going to Dubai Honour (IRE).

The local side drew a blank as New Zealand-breds claimed six of the seven Group 1 races over the two days of The Championship following the barnstorming win of the Savabeel mare Atishu (NZ) in the $1,000,000 Sydney Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m).   

Wins dried up for Explosive Jack (NZ) after he was crowned the ‘King Of The Derbies’ at three, but the 5yo son of Jakkalberry (IRE) knows how to stay, which served him well for Saturday’s $2,000,000 Group 1 Sydney Cup (3200m) at Randwick.

Last year’s runner-up Asathought avenged her narrow defeat in the Listed Riverton Cup (2147m) when she produced a dogged finish to claim the 2023 version of the traditional Riverton Easter weekend feature to credit her sire So You Think with his 50th stakes-winner.

Any thoughts that the Kiwis were taking pity with the defection of Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes winner Prowess was dispelled when New Zealand Oaks heroine Pennyweka (NZ) was in a class of her own in the $1,000,000 Group 1 The Star Australian Oaks (2400m) at Randwick on Saturday.

I Am Invincible had 44 yearlings sell at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale last year at an average $541,591 and the cheapest of them was a colt that sold for just $65,000 and he won his first stakes race on Saturday.

Underrated mare Belclare will head to the paddock with the title of Group One winner now firmly attached to her career record after blitzing her rivals in the Gr.1 New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m) at Pukekohe.

Short-priced favourite Aft Cabin overcame a slow start and a chequered run to claim Saturday's $1,000,000 Group II Arrowfield Sprint at Randwick.

The $1million ATC Percy Sykes Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday attracted a very competitive field of promising stakes fillies, but it was the Annabel Neasham trained maiden by Hellbent that claimed victory at just her second start in the colours of Lizzie Jelfs.

A stakes-winner at Flemington last spring, talented Deep Field filly Razeta added a second Black type win to her resume when beating the colts to win the $160,000 Listed ATC South Pacific Classic (1400m) at Randwick on Saturday.

Godolphin’s Harry Angel (IRE) colt Tom Kitten staged a last-to-first performance in the Listed Grainshaker Vodka Fernhill Stakes (1600m) to kick-start day two of The Championships at Randwick.

The $1million Group I ATC Coolmore Legacy (1600m) at Randwick today has drawn a top class field of mares with superstar European import Alcohol Free (IRE) lining up against some of our very best, so this race is arguably the most interesting of the day.

Here is the full list of 33 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

An Irish bred daughter of Pride of Dubai, Deny Knowledge (Ire) showed some serious staying potential when stepping out in trip to score a commanding 10 length win in the $150,000 Geelong Country Oaks (2200m) on Good Friday.

The answer to that question is yes as both Bounding Away and Miss Finland were able to achieve the unlikely feat which faces Fireburn this Saturday in the $1million Group I ATC Australian Oaks and a look at pedigree reveals why Fireburn may well make it a hat-trick.

Swettenham Stud have announced their fees for the coming season with Toronado (IRE) remaining at $88,000 inc. GST.

Polygon has exceeded expectations this season and there is confidence in the camp that she can go to another level at Randwick on Saturday.

It is unlikely that there has ever been a major raceday dominated by horses bred outside Australia than day two of The Championships at Randwick on Saturday.

A brilliant Group II winning sprinter by Kingman, Calyx (GB) shuttled to Coolmore Australia for just two seasons and sired his first winner overnight in France.

Fastnet Rock four year-old Buckaroo showed serious promise in three runs in stakes races in Ireland last year and showed he was back better than ever with a first up win in the Listed Heritage Stakes (1m) at Leopardstown.

Exciting first-crop stallion Brave Smash (Jpn) will relocate to Yarraman Park Stud for the 2023 season.

Glenvallen Investments, an internationally owned racing entity, have engaged online dispersal sale specialists Bloodstockauction to put to market their elite Australian bloodstock portfolio.

The Federation of Bloodstock Agents Australia (FBAA) held its first continued professional development (CPD) day on Wednesday, bringing together a range of leading industry professionals from a variety of fields for a series of talks and discussions.

Proven broodmare Love Of Liberty – the dam of G1 Epsom Handicap winner Ellsberg – has topped the Inglis Digital April (Early) Online Sale tonight, selling to Yulong for $250,000.

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

There were some big performances at Ipswich on Wednesday, none more so than the three-year-old I Am Invincible colt Ring Of Steel.

The three-year-old Snitzel filly Beautiful Heart showed she is more at home on a heavy track than her Group 1 winning half-sister Hungry Heart when breaking her maiden over 1600m at Hawkesbury on Wednesday.

Fifth behind subsequent Listed Kindergarten Stakes winner Libertad when on debut at Randwick, the strapping Written Tycoon colt Critique made short work of some nicely pedigreed two-year-olds over 1100m at Ballarat on Wednesday.

Achieving 100% clearance is not always easy at the Inglis Australian Yearling Sale where there is often a selective market, however the Coolmore Australia team will not take a single horse back to Jerry’s Plains after selling all 30 yearlings offered for $11,910,000.

The 2023 Magic Millions Yearling Sale was highlighted by 20 yearlings that sold for $1million or more, but the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale has well and truly eclipsed that figure with 26 sailing into seven figures, so let’s take a look at the mares producing the stars at Riverside Stables this week.

A stakes race might be on the cards in the not-too-distant future for Godolphin's two-year-old Kingman (GB) filly Zardozi, who kept her record at a perfect two for two over 1300m at Hawkesbury on Wednesday.

Superstar sprinter and miler Levante will present buyers with an incredible opportunity when she goes under the hammer at May's Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale.

The Gr.3 Cuddle Stakes (1600m) was originally viewed as Pearl Of Alsace’s grand final, but the unbeaten mare has since convinced connections to raise the bar one more time.

Group One-winning stallion Press Statement will stand at Novara Park, near Cambridge, this coming breeding season.

Maree McEwan was out and about at the sales this week for Breednet with all the video links available for viewing in the one place, so check out what people were saying as this super successful sale unfolded.

An extraordinary two days of trade at Riverside has seen the Easter Yearling Sale rise against pre-sale trepidation and an industry-wide market correction to again assert itself as the ‘Best of the Best’ yearling sale in the Southern Hemisphere.

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

The top lot for the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale arrived late on Tuesday when Silverdale Farm’s stunning half-sister by The Autumn Sun to Group I ATC Golden Rose winner In The Congo sold for $1.8million.

Selling their first crop of yearlings foaled and raised from their new Hunter Valley farm, Jo and Greg Griffin of Lime Country Thoroughbreds were saving the best for last with a stunning Snitzel colt from Ultimate Fever selling late in the day for $1.6million to Coolmore Australia.

Southern Highlands based Milburn Creek got in the million dollar groove on Tuesday with a Zoustar filly from Sexy Eyes knocked down to Japanese buyer Katsumi Yoshida for $1million.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Online Yearling Sale is now live on Gavelhouse Plus, with the quality 92-lot catalogue available to view online

The Kia Ora / TFI partnership swooped on the $1.55 million I Am Invincible colt from English during Monday’s session of Inglis Easter and they struck again on Tuesday paying $1.4million for Arrowfield Stud’s Snitzel colt from Response.

Widden Stud sold two colts on Monday at Inglis Easter for $1.3million and got the same price for their stunning I Am Invincible filly from Prompt Response on Tuesday.

Newgate Farm’s Russian Revolution has had a great run on the track this year emerging as the leading Australian second season sire by winners, earnings and stakes-winners with his achievements reflected in the sale ring when he produced his first million-dollar yearling at Inglis Easter on Tuesday.

Yarraman Park are having their usual good sale at Inglis Easter and sold the first million dollar filly during the second session on Tuesday when the half-sister to Group I winner Booker sold for $1million.

Arrowfield Stud have enjoyed much success over the years investing in quality North American mares and Ms Bad Behavior (Can), purchased from the Fasig-Tipton Breeding Stock Sale in 2019 for $US600,000 delivered the goods with her first foal offered at Inglis Easter on Tuesday.

Plenty of New Zealand’s thoroughbred nurseries were celebrating the elite-level success of their graduates at Randwick on Saturday and Haunui Farm were firmly in the mix.

Group One performer Andalus may get another chance at Derby glory as he settles into his new home in Australia.

The autumn emergence of gifted staying filly Pennyweka has presented Jim Wallace with an opportunity to return to the main stage in Australia.

Have you had a chat to Maree McEwan at Inglis Easter? Check out the latest sale snippets following the first day of trade.

A fantastic opening day of the Easter Yearling Sale saw a remarkable 14 lots realise $1m or more as buyers stepped up to defy global economic trends and ensure Easter remains in a league of its own.

Frank and Christine Cook are some of the biggest owners in Sydney with their Mystery Downs colours carried by countless winners raced in partnership with many other owners from many different stables and one of those winners was Meryl, whose first foal hit the jackpot at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale on Monday.

It isn't easy to see the second and final day of the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale being anything other than an I Am Invincible, Snitzel love fest.

Arrowfield Stud young gun The Autumn Sun sired his first million dollar yearling at Inglis Easter on Monday when the full sister to Group III Canberra Black Opal Stakes winner Autumn Ballet sold for $1.2million.

Deep Field is the reigning champion sire in Hong Kong and with limited opportunities now to secure his stock, a colt from stakes-winner Granny Red Shoes proved a hot commodity at Inglis Easter on Monday.

It was a red-letter day for leading thoroughbred nursery Waikato Stud on Saturday following the elite-level success of two of their graduates at Randwick.

Coolmore’s Golden Slipper winning Group I sire Pierro set a new sale ring benchmark for himself when the half-sister to this year’s brilliant two year-old filly Learning to Fly sold for $1.75million at Inglis Easter on Monday.

Newhaven Park have been enjoying a great run on the track of late with Group I ATC The Galaxy winner Mariamia and Arts, who won the Group III ATC Adrian Knox Stakes, and their good fortune continued at Inglis Easter on Monday when the first foal from their superstar mare English sold for $1.55million.

Lime Country Thoroughbreds had the honour of selling the first million dollar filly at Inglis Easter when the half-sister by champion sire Fastnet Rock to Group I New Zealand Thousand Guineas winner Media Sensation sold for $1.1million.

The powerful China Horse Club / Newgate / Go Bloodstock / Trilogy stallion syndicate struck early at Inglis Easter on Monday securing a Snitzel colt from Arrowfield Stud for $1.1million.

Stakes-winning O’Reilly mare Bonny O’Reilly (NZ) delivered a Magic Millions sale-topper a few years ago for Widden Stud and she produced another million dollar yearling at Inglis Easter on Monday when her I Am Invincible colt sold for $1.3million to Yulong.

Champion sire Snitzel posted his second million colt of this year’s Inglis Easter when the Newgate Farm consigned full brother to their young champion sire Russian Revolution sold for $1.4million.

Richard Johnston of Bylong Park Thoroughbreds can produce a very good So You Think having bred and raced his $6million earning Group I winning son Think It Over and a colt he bred and offered at Inglis Easter with Davali Thoroughbreds sold for $900,000 this morning to the Hong Kong Jockey Club.

The first of many yearlings to be offered at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale by champion sires I Am Invincible and Snitzel were offered this morning selling for $825,000 and $1.3million.

Whether a horse activity is a ‘business or hobby’ for income tax purposes has long been a subjective and difficult dilemma for tax advisers.

Flat racing returned with a vengeance at Leopardstown overnight with three races for Classic aspiring three year-olds and two of them were won by Aidan O’Brien for the Coolmore partners.

Breednet produce a quick easy reference nicks page for Inglis Easter and we’ve had a scan through to look for some that catch our eye, so is your yearling bred on a nick that clicks?

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

She will be offered in the Holbrook Thoroughbreds draft on behalf of her owners Bob and Sandra Peters of Peters Investments, just like their other mares in the catalogue Graceful Girl, Celebrity Miss and Pure Devotion.