The Group III Bahrain Trophy Stakes (1m5f) at Newmarket overnight had a hot favourite in Galileo colt Tower of London, but he was edged out at the finish by Almanzor colt Castle Way, an expensive yearling purchase for Godolphin.

Strong trade at the Tattersalls July Sale continued apace on the third day with Royal Ascot placed filly BALALAIKA heading proceedings at 330,000 guineas and six lots selling for 100,000 guineas or more. The sale turnover is already the second highest on record at over 15,000,000 guineas with the fourth and final day still to come, and a clearance rate of 94% underlined the depth of trade.

Jamaea - a star race filly in Sydney over the last number of seasons - is the latest high profile lot earmarked for sale with Inglis Digital, having been confirmed for the July (Late) auction.

Here is the full list of 43 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Not to be outdone by his Yarraman Park barn mate Brave Smash (Jpn), Hellbent posted his 11th Australian two year-old winner of the season at Gosford on Thursday when Boston Rocks blitzed older rivals to win as he pleased.

Fresh from winning the Listed ATC McKell Cup (2000m) and Listed Caloundra Cup (2400m) at his part two starts, progressive Zoustar stayer had no worries adding the $200,000 Listed Grafton Cup (2350m) to his tally on Thursday.

He’s a very good trainer and also a pretty good breeder and Anthony Cummings gave us a One to Watch on Thursday when his homebred filly combining the blood of two Twin Hills Stud sires saluted at Gosford.

New Zealand-bred filly Dolphin Skin will be vying to seal a spot in the Gr.1 Victoria Oaks (2500m) at Flemington in November when she heads to the Melbourne track on Saturday.

Brave Smash (Jpn) gelding Mansiere was first past the post at Werribee last month before losing the race on protest, but he made no mistakes at Bendigo on Thursday to salute as a well backed favourite.

Rosemont Stud is delighted to announce our annual Stallion Parade & Open Day will be held on Friday, August 11th (11am-2pm).

Entries are now open for the sales series that delivers more buzz, more buyers, more champions and more magic!

If we learned one thing from the record breaking JRHA Sale earlier this week it’s that Contrail is seen as the next big thing in Japan, so we thought we better take a closer look at why this stunning black stallion is seen as something special.

Ethical Diamond was the star turn on the second day of the Tattersalls July Sale, selling to Harold Kirk on behalf of Willie Mullins for 320,000 guineas and is destined for a dual-purpose career from now on. Trade at Park Paddocks continued in robust fashion with the clearance rate just below 90% and nine lots realising 100,000 guineas or more. 

Another Award (Shamus Award) has become the most expensive horse to be sold on Inglis Digital so far this year – and the fourth highest in history – in topping the Inglis Digital July (Early) catalogue at $1.2 million.

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

The remarkable legacy of the late Peter Setchell had a fitting final flourish on Wednesday night, producing the sale-topping lot in the 2023 National Online Breeding Stock Sale on Gavelhouse Plus.

Rising 6yo gelding The Big Goodbye staved off the fast-finishing topweight Far Too Easy and defending champion Ranges in Wednesday’s $200,000 Listed Ramornie Hcp (1200m) at Grafton.

Progressive Capitalist gelding Epicus was a $40,000 Inglis Digital purchase for Calibre Racing from the April (late) sale this year and has proven an outstanding investment racking up his third win for his new owners at Canterbury on Wednesday.

There was just three-quarters of a length separating seven two-year-olds in a dramatic finish to the Robrick Lodge Hcp (1250m) at Canterbury, but there was a lot to like about the winner.

Anybody that was at Rosehill on Silver Slipper day in 2008 is unlikely to ever forget the winner Amelia’s Dream and she featured on Wednesday as the dam of a new two year-old winner at Doomben by Rubick.

Leading stallion Per Incanto will serve a limited book of mares at best in the 2023 breeding season after suffering a leg injury in a paddock accident.

Every time Spirit Of Boom has faced a challenge for his lead for the number of two-year-old winners, he has answered the call, his latest coming with the promising Spirit Of Nurai in the Become An MRC Member Hcp (1350m) at Sandown-Lakeside.

Trying to work out what particular attributes in horses’ pedigrees make some horses fast and others slow has been a challenge for breeders, owners and trainers for countless years.

The Tattersalls July Sale got off to a strong start on the opening day with eight lots realising 200,000 guineas or more and a top price of 350,000 guineas for the well-bred mare SWEET AND LOVELY. The turnover for the day topped seven million guineas whilst the clearance rate was 87%.

A colt from the first crop of Triple Crown hero Contrail (JPN) highlighted a record-breaking foal session of the JRHA Select Sale, which set a cracking pace from go to whoa.

Here is the full list of 22 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Little Avondale Stud have announced the farm’s Group I producing sire Per Incanto (USA) has suffered a paddock accident putting his breeding season on hold.

Every year at the end of August Vinery opens the gates and invites you to get up close and inspect our elite stallions.

The equal highest priced yearling by Spirit of Boom sold in 2022 made a winning debut at Ballarat on Tuesday.

The search for outcross sires to help Australian breeders move away from the saturation of Danehill speed lines to ultimately produce some more versatile thoroughbreds has been given a big boost by two young stallions that have really earned their stripes with their first Australian runners this season and both are Premium stallions on Breednet so are available for Hypothetical matings.

While not quite matching the ¥210 million for the yearling Kizuna (JPN) colt from her half-sister Youngstar, the first foal of the Group I ATC Flight Stakes winner Funstar, also by Kizuna (JPN), proved highly sought after, with Danox Co.Ltd. having the final say at ¥160million (A$1,682,000).

New Zealand’s leading stable, Te Akau Racing, begun their march towards spring racing with the return of several of their big hitters at the trials on Cambridge’s synthetic surface on Tuesday morning.

Lessons learned from La Crique’s last spring campaign will be strictly adhered to this time around with the Group One-winning mare.

The Contrail (JPN) babies are proving hugely popular at the JRHA Select Foal Sale, and a colt out of the City Banker mare Conviction, a Group 1 winner in Argentina, proved irresistible for Koji Maeda’s North Hills Co. Ltd, who forked out ¥520m (A$5,468,000) for the Northern Park consigned colt.

A filly from the first crop of the Japanese 2000 Guineas winner Saturnalia (Lord Kanaloa) out the Golden Slipper winner She Will Reign (Manhattan Rain) sold for ¥200 million at the JRHA Select Foals Sale.

The first crop of the champion Contrail (JPN) has created enormous interest at the JRHA Select Foal Sale, and the Triple Crown-winning son of Deep Impact is living up to the hype.

 The foal session of the JRHA Select Sale was off to an explosive start when the opening lot blew past the top-priced yearlings of the previous day.

The 2023 National Online Breeding Stock Sale, which is currently in progress on Gavelhouse Plus, gives buyers rare access to a number of young mares who have just reached the end of their quality racing careers.

Despite nothing coming close to matching last year’s ¥450 million Maurice x Mosheen sale topper, the yearling session of the JRHA Select Sale closed with increases across the board to set new marks for gross, average and median.  

The response to our ‘red flags’ stories regarding factual data from the Australian Studbook has led to another story, this time highlighting a young stallion with an outstanding winner to runner strike rate.

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

A brother to Wootton Bassett’s Gr 1 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf heroine Audarya proved popular at the JRHA Select Yearling Sale.

Windsor Park Stud has continued an enviable trend with its most recent stallion acquisition.

The half-brother to champion mare Melody Belle, former New Zealand-trained galloper Cavalry got his Singapore career off to a winning start when he kicked clear to score comfortably in a Class 3 1400m race at Kranji on Saturday for new trainer Michael Clements.  

A lot of Australian interest in Lot 58 at the JRHA Select Yearling Sale, a Duramente half-brother to Japanese Horse of the Year and 2019 Cox Plate winner Lys Gracieux.

The first foal of Group I ATC Champagne Stakes winner Seabrook, a colt by former Arrowfield Stud shuttler Real Steel (JPN), was purchased by Kazutaka Hosaka for 40,000,000 yen (A420,000) at Monday’s yearling session of the JHRA Select Sale.

The Japan Horse Racing Association Select Sale is off and running at Northern Horse Park in Tomakomai City, with 240 yearlings catalogued for Monday and 200 foals on Tuesday.

"Bylong Park" is an exceptional opportunity for an equine professional to re-establish a commercial breeding operation or bloodstock pre-training and spelling facility in the Hunter Valley on a substantial land holding with the Wollemi National Park providing a majestic backdrop.

The Group I Prix Jean Prat (1400m) at Deauville overnight produced an upset with a disappointing performance from race favourite Chaldean, who was a gallant second to boom colt Paddington in the Group I St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot at his previous start.

Here is the full list of 67 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott saddled a short priced favourite at Hawkesbury on Sunday and the three year-old filly by So You Think duly returned an impressive winner.

It’s been a productive week for Yarraman Park’s Hellbent with four winners including a new two year-old winner at Hawkesbury on Sunday.

Inglis is once again making available the opportunity to work with one of Australia’s most respected companies - and one of the most prestigious names in the world of bloodstock - through its renowned Inglis Internship program.

Twin Hills Stud have a great mix of proven and promising sires on their five strong roster for this spring - priced from $8,800 to $16,500 - and all stallions are now Premium stallions on Breednet so are available for our super popular Hypothetical Mating innovation.

With the prestigious JRHA Sale to be conducted on Monday and Tuesday putting Japanese thoroughbreds front and centre on the world stage we thought it might be interesting to take a look at the Japanese bred stallion options for this spring in Australasia.

Set to be crowned Champion Australian First Season Sire, Triple Crown hero Justify (USA) posted his second Group I winner when Irish bred filly Aspen Grove surged to a resounding win in the $500,000 Group I Belmont Oaks Invitational (1 ¼ m) on turf in New York on Saturday.

Two Group I races in Europe run overnight with Coolmore’s rising star Siyouni colt Paddington winning the Coral Eclipse (1m2f) at Sandown, while in France last year’s Irish Derby winner Westover took the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud (2400m).

Here is the full list of 110 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Track and distance specialist Ghost Who Walks found the perfect spot to open his stakes account in Saturday’s Listed Beaufine Stakes at Belmont Park.

Talented Kiwi four-year-old Wewillrock collected his first Australian win with a smart performance in the A$150,000 Bowermans Handicap (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday.

The winner of five of her previous eight starts, the No Nay Never (USA) mare Sigh made her stakes debut count when defeating the defending champion Mileva in Saturday’s Group III Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield.

Former New Zealand galloper Ucalledit has completed a feature winter double in Sydney, adding Saturday’s Listed Robrick Lodge Winter Stakes (1400m) at Randwick to his win in the Listed Civic Stakes over the same course and distance two weeks ago.

Newgate Farm’s Russian Revolution has an amazing season and is the leading Australian second crop sire by winners, earnings and stakes-winners with the Benchmark 78 event over 1100m at Randwick on Saturday producing a rare trifecta for this most exciting of young sires.

New Zealand-bred filly Our Red Morning staked her claim for potential black-type assignments in the spring with an effortless victory in Saturday’s A$150,000 Neds Bet Back Handicap (1400m) at Caulfield.

Given a spell after disappointing in the Group III Ottawa Stakes at Flemington last November, the Deep Field filly Spicy Margs had her 70 ladies ownership group on their feet cheering with an all-the-way triumph in the Take It To The Neds Level Hcp (1100m) at Caulfield.

Eight days after scoring a maiden victory at Warracknabeal, talented Tarzino three-year-old Torranzino graduated to city company and delivered the same result in Saturday’s A$150,000 Neds Punters Toolbox Handicap (2000m) at Caulfield.

Stylish trial winning two-year-old Ardee Boy lived up to his private reputation with an eye-catching debut victory at Awapuni.

The Kris Lees stable representative Mel Eggleston was effusive in his praise for Yarraman Park Stud’s recruit Brave Smash (JPN) after Power Of The Brave kept his record at a perfect two for two with a fighting win in the BRC Membership On Sale Now Hcp (1350m) at Doomben.

Carrying the famed Ingham cerise as does her close relation Fangirl, exciting Churchill (IRE) filly Cigar Flick made a winning return from a spell when beating the colts to win at Randwick on Saturday over 1100m.

Our new feature on Premium stallion pages allowing users to search for their mare and create an instant hypothetical five generation tabulated pedigree with the stallion of their choice has proven super popular and with a cold and windy weekend predicted if you’re not in Europe it’s a good time to experiment with pedigree!

Here is the full list of 44 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Another exceptionally strong and diverse catalogue of 433 lots has been finalised for the Inglis Digital July (Early) Sale, which is now open for bidding.

It’s common to see a race quinella with two horses by the same sire, but a lot less so for two horses from the same mare and particularly a Group I winning mare!

Trans-Tasman Group One-winning filly Prowess has returned to fast work at the Cambridge stable of Roger James and Robert Wellwood, in preparation for potential Melbourne spring targets.

A couple of promising debutants fought out the finish of Friday’s Victory Treadmills Maiden Plate (1100m) at Sale, with the expensive Snitzel colt Snippety Legend duking it out with the solidly supported Maurice (JPN) filly Mauricio.

After campaigning exclusively in stakes grade in three starts in early autumn, the Peter Moody-trained Sensical reappears after nineteen weeks in Saturday's Take It To The Neds Level Hcp (1100) for two-year-old fillies at Caulfield.

There were six heats for juveniles at the Warwick Farm trials on Friday morning and we got a look at a Russian Revolution colt that has not been sighted since the Group I MRC Blue Diamond.

With the 2023 breeding season just around the corner, the National Online Breeding Stock Sale on Gavelhouse Plus gives buyers a prized opportunity to add Group One bloodlines to their broodmare band.

Star New Zealand-bred and owned four-year-old I Wish I Win will target the A$20 million Everest (1200m) after securing a slot in the race.

Three Chimneys Farm have announced champion sire Gun Runner will again be made available for Southern Hemisphere time covers as he was last year, but with the added incentive of a A$500,000 bonus paid to the breeder of any resulting offspring that can win the Golden Slipper.

With many Australian breeders and agents currently in Europe, Darley has announced fees for seven of its stallions who will not shuttle to Australia, but will be available to cover to southern hemisphere time headed by Night of Thunder.

2015 Australian Horse of the Year Dissident might not be flavour of the month in the Hunter Valley anymore, but he’s more than welcome at Riverdene Farm having sired 87 Australian winners to sit just outside the Top 20 sires by winners for this season and one of those winners is another success story for Inglis Digital.

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

Miss Roseiano – only the second ever Group-winning 2YO filly by Exceed And Excel to be offered for public auction off the track in Australia – will feature in an Inglis Digital standalone sale later this month.

A close second on debut at Ballarat back in February, this Peter Moody trained two year-old daughter of Pierro was a short priced favourite when returning at Moe on Thursday.

Bred and retained to race by Cressfield, talented two year-old Zoustar filly Spring Lee improved sharply at her second start to score a fast finishing win at Gosford on Thursday.

Test your mare with any of the Premium stallions on Breednet to produce a five generation tabulated pedigree with highlighted duplications – it’s addictive and fun, you might not be able to afford to send a mare to I Am Invincible, but there’s no harm in seeing what the mating looks like and how about one of his more affordable sons!

We’re into the last few weeks of the Australian racing season and the first season sires by winners list features four stallions that are all quite close together in terms of individual winners so we thought a look at the unraced triallers report might offer some insight as to which of them might have a few more winners in the pipeline.

Here is the full list of 44 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

There are few more honest 3yo fillies than Movader who broke through for a richly deserved success in Wednesday’s Ladbrokes Racing Club (Bm64) over 1400m at Sandown-Lakeside.

Promising Kiwi filly Elsie May broke through for her first victory for trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace in the Tobin Brothers Celebrating Lives Handicap (1600m) at Sandown on Wednesday under a determined Luke Campbell ride.

Widden Stud’s young gun Written By posted an impressive debut winner in Perth on Wednesday with the Grant and Alana Williams trained filly Written Melody scoring an easy victory.

Natalie McCall looks to have secured a rare bargain in the long-striding Better Than Ready gelding Already A Star, who impressed on debut in the XXXX Dry Maiden Plate (1200m) at Eagle Farm.

The Dundeel debutant Fukubana was backed if unbeatable in Wednesday’s  Mekkafest 19 August Maiden Plate (1000m) at Eagle Farm and duly got the job done and credit his highflying sire with his sixteenth 2yo winner of the season.

Cox Plate winning sire Adelaide (IRE) is the bargain priced option on the Coolmore roster this spring and he gave us a 'One to Watch' on Wednesday with an ultra impressive winner at Eagle Farm.

Champion sire I Am Invincible continued his late season surge of juvenile winners when stakes-placed filly Sicilian saluted for her first win at Randwick on Wednesday.

The response to our ‘red flags’ story regarding factual data from the Australian Studbook has led to a follow up story about a quality stallion that is perceived to have gone quiet, but as we mentioned in the previous story it’s tough to fight a battle when you have very few bullets.

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

There was no more impressive winner anywhere in Australia today than Benaud, as he should be as a G1 placed earner of over $580,000, who had frustratingly forgotten how to win!

After placing in four of his previous six starts, The Wallet broke through over 1200m at Townsville on Tuesday to become the 19th 2yo winner of the season for Spirit Of Boom.