A set of trials at Warwick Farm on Friday featured some well-established spring contenders stepping out as well as a good selection of juvenile heat winners that included Zousain filly Drifting, who won the Group III ATC Magic Night Stakes in the autumn.

Six year-old Pride of Dubai mares Pride of Jenni and Bella Nipotina have been racing up a storm this season, but for Splendiferous, another Group III winning Pride of Dubai mare from the same foal crop, motherhood has come calling with James Bester tweeting a picture of her first born foal earlier today.

With six last-start winners, Saturday’s Ranvet Hcp at Randwick has, remarkably for a mid-winter event, brought together an exciting field of 2-year-olds and a stiff initiation for the lone unraced horse in the race,  Qatars Choice.

Here is the full list of 62 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Kana did her bit for raising money for Cure Kids at the second annual Red Nose Raceday at Riccarton Synthetic on Friday.

Two Group III contests for juveniles over 7f were run at Leopardstown overnight and the winners of both will be headed for Group I goals and while we’ve seen exciting Frankel filly Bedtime Story at Royal Ascot, Too Darn Hot colt Hotazhell is a new stakes-winner for his young sire, who will finish the season in Australia as our Champion First Crop Sire.

Godolphin made sales headlines earlier this year when paying €2.3million for a colt by Justify at the Arqana May Breeze Up Sale and he scored a commanding debut victory overnight at Sandown.

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

An enthusiastic owner breeder that has raced horses for 40 years and managed to keep his passion for thoroughbreds on the right side of the financial ledger has taken the plunge on a stallion prospect.

Promising four-year-old Martell handled the step up to open grade with aplomb at Arawa Park on Thursday when beating home a handy field in the Arawa Park Hotel Rotorua 1230.

Graham Richardson and Rogan Norvall have plenty to look forward to with Social Climber after the promising filly debuted in winning fashion at Arawa Park on Wednesday. 

With the breeding season fast approaching studs love it when a young sire gets a roll along as we head into spring and Widden Stud’s Zousain is doing just that posting his third winner in the last three days when Zousain Bolt scored at Hawkesbury on Thursday.

This flashy two year-old colt by Trapeze Artist has been turning heads since the day he was born and he did it again at Wyong on Thursday when making a winning debut.

The prestigious 2023/2024 Australian Racehorse of the Year awards will now be celebrated on Tuesday, 8 October two days earlier than originally planned.

Following the overwhelming success of our first Stallion Cover Charity Auction, we are thrilled to announce a second auction to be held from Friday 26th July 2024 to Tuesday 30th July 2024.

Here is the full list of 45 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Tahnee Tiara – the dam of recent G1 Queensland Oaks winner Socks Nations – topped today’s Inglis Digital July (Late) Online Sale, selling for $545,000.

A metropolitan treble on Wednesday for Widden Stud’s Zoustar that included two new winners for the season has boosted his tally to 206 Australian winners and that is within reach of I Am Invincible’s record breaking tally of 208 set in the 2020/2021 season.

Arrowfield Stud's leading young sire The Autumn Sun will miss the 2024 breeding season after sustaining a pelvic injury in his paddock in late March.

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

This season’s standout three-year-old Crocetti made a pleasing start to his spring preparation on Tuesday at the Cambridge Synthetic trials, closing late to finish second in his 800m heat, and he could be in for a lucrative spring preparation.

A pair of exciting young prospects from Andrew Forsman’s stable are in the running to strut their stuff in Melbourne this spring.

Godolphin's 2-year-old filly Photograph continued the late-season blitz for Blue Point (IRE) with a dominant win in the Sportsbet Fast Form Hcp (1300m) at Sandown-Hillside on Wednesday.

The two and three year-old fillies maiden at Canterbury on Wednesday delivered a quinella for Hellbent with three year-old filly Red Hot Lizzie leading all the way to win, while two year-old Bauhinia was an eye catcher with a storming run from last into second placing.

Zousain made it two new winners in two days when the hot favourite Mister Bianco saluted in the first race at Ipswich on Wednesday.

Bloodstockauction.com are proudly hosting the final yearling sale of the season from this Friday 26th July 2024 to Tuesday 30th July 2024.

Maluka Thoroughbreds are delighted to welcome visitors to the farm on Friday August 16th for two parades featuring our exciting new stallion General Beau.

Widden Stud’s Zousain had a super impressive debut winner on Tuesday with Laizabout opening up to win by six and a half lengths as favourite.

Belardo Boy is on target to defend his crown in next month’s Gr.3 Winning Edge Presentations 127th Winter Cup (1600m) at Riccarton following his victory in Tuesday’s rescheduled Listed Sinclair Electrical & Refrigeration Opunake Cup (1400m) at Hawera.

There were ten juvenile barrier trials at Rosehill on Tuesday morning and, while a number of established superstar older horses were in action earlier in the morning, the youngsters featured a number with the potential for spring prizes.

The Rosehill trials on Tuesday morning saw the first real look at some of the spring big guns with the first three heats seeing eight Group One winners go around.

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Respected Hunter Valley nursery Middlebrook Valley Lodge has been expanded to include Wakefield Stud with a busy breeding season expected and both farms now being utilized to accommodate a growing number of mares.

Here is the full list of 32 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

I Am Invincible’s brilliant dual Group I winning daughter In Secret has been retired to stud with Godolphin announcing the news today via Twitter.

The creation of future stallions is big business and for the powerful colt syndicates now is an important time as they assess what they have and work out whether promise shown this season can be converted to further Black Type and a path to riches in the season ahead.

Stratford trainer Gavin Sharrock will line-up a promising pair of two-year-olds at Hawera on Tuesday where he is keen to see if they can back up some impressive trial and jump out performances of late. 

A seasoned version of talented galloper Bradman has shown up to the races this term and he will be out to continue a top-tier campaign in Tuesday’s rescheduled Listed Sinclair & Electrical Opunake Cup (1400m).

The Jones family’s boutique breeding operation are proud owners of a slice of international racing history.

Cambridge trainer Tracy Lomas took a chance when sending her mare Luckygirl to Stephen Ralph’s resident stallion Thunder Down Under a few years ago, and her gamble paid off at Pukekohe on Sunday.

Yarraman Park’s Hellbent has had an outstanding season and it’s not done yet with his two year-old colt Warparty thrashing the opposition to win by five and a half lengths at Seymour on Monday.

The all powerful Juddmonte Farms breeding operation produced a pair of homebred two year-olds fillies to win at the Curragh overnight that look to be Group I performers of the future.

Entries for the 2025 Inglis Yearling Sales Series are now open.

Here is the full list of 69 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Exciting filly Diablo Blanco made the perfect start to her new campaign with a comfortable victory in the Bevan Crombie Memorial (1200m) at Oamaru on Sunday.

Trial watchers have been waiting with quite a bit of anticipation for the debut of two year-old Pride of Dubai filly Wings of Desire and the three-quarter sister to world champion Winx stepped out in a maiden at Hawkesbury on Sunday and duly returned a winner.

A half-brother to dual Group I winner King’s Legacy, this two year-old Zoustar colt was the easiest of winners at Hawkesbury on Sunday sporting the colours of Yulong.

The most expensive yearling by Darley Stud’s Group 1 ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes winner, Microphone, Coast Guard, was off the mark at start three in a 1500m maiden at Hawkesbury on Sunday.

What does the Irish Oaks winner have in common with one of the great Australian sprinters this century that won 20 races , seven of them Group I.

The Group II Comer Group International Curragh Cup (1m6f) was run overnight in Ireland with a Galileo quinella for Aidan O’Brien and both Tower of London and Grosvenor Square are somewhere in the mix for the Melbourne Cup having soundly beaten Vauban, who was favourite at Flemington last year.

Here is the full list of 98 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

He might not be the best horse to carry the Ingham cerise colours this season with that honour held by his stablemate Fangirl, but four year-old Churchill (IRE) gelding Robusto has had a fruitful 12 months and capped it with another Saturday win at Rosehill taking out the $160,000 Benchmark 88 event over 1300m.

With three second placings in a row for Brave Smash (Jpn) three year-old Mickey’s Medal the tide turned at last for the Annabel Neasham trained gelding at Rosehill on Saturday when he dug deep to post a tenacious and well deserved victory.

Making his 32nd start a few weeks short of turning seven and sporting one of the most recognizable set of colours in racing, Jojo Was A Man broke an 81-week drought with a maiden stakes success in Saturday’s Listed Toyota Forklifts Winter Challenge (1500m) at Rosehill.

Emerging sprinter Jedibeel is taking his career to new heights this autumn and winter, adding a third win to his five-start campaign with a dominant performance in Saturday’s A$160,000 Schweppes Handicap (1100m) at Rosehill.

Making his ninth start of the season, the tough-as-teak Colmar dominated from start to finish in Saturday's Group III Sportsbet South Australian Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m) at Morphettville and honour Rosemont Stud's Strasbourg with his first stakes-winner.

Lightly raced three-year-old Liberami lived up to his high rating with trainers Robbie Griffiths and Mathew de Kock when he produced an impressive come-from-behind performance in Saturday’s A$150,000 VRC Member Leigh Hughes Trophy (1400m) at Flemington.

Newgate Farm’s young sun sire Tassort went close to a metro double on Saturday with Mawjood going down narrowly at Rosehill behind quality colt Mayfair and then Astapor scored a deserved win at Eagle Farm as favourite.

Yulong’s striking Written Tycoon colt First Settler kept his record at a perfect two-for-two with a hard-fought win in the VRC Member Russell Dawson Plate (1000m) down the Flemington straight.

Talented New Zealand-bred gelding Le Zebra turned his form around in style at Flemington on Saturday with a runaway victory in the A$150,000 VRC Member Michael Murphy Trophy (1700m).

A field of maiden 2-year-olds stretching out to 1800m for the first time in the Byerley Hcp at Flemington, which carried the carrot of a golden ticket to the Victoria Derby in November.

The juvenile event at Rosehill on Saturday featured some promising winners and well bred first starters with Fastnet Rock colt Mayfair proving too fast and too tough for his rivals.

Here is the full list of 29 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A share in six-time G1 winner and cult hero Mr Brightside is the star attraction of the Inglis Digital July (Late) Online Sale, which is now open for bidding.

Down to the business end of the season, and Saturday's Group III Sportsbet South Australian Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m) at Morphettville provides Brutal with three chances of ending a successful first season and joining Pierata and Exceedance with two stakes-winners.

A small set of trials at Randwick on Friday produced four heats won by juveniles that included an Alabama Express colt colt we have not seen since the Golden Slipper.

Freshly retired from the racetrack, Te Akau Racing’s black-type winners Fashion Shoot (NZ) (Savabeel) and Viva Vienna (NZ) (All Too Hard) are available for purchase on gavelhouse.com and have the credentials to be quality young additions to any breeder’s broodmare band.

A lightning fast son of champion North American sire Tapit, few could have predicted Westbury Park Stud based import A Lot (USA) would hit the ground running in the way that he has.

A special standalone sale on Gavelhouse Plus will give breeders a rare opportunity to secure a trans-Tasman Group One winner.

Aidan O’Brien and Ryan Moore combined to win the Group III Meld Stakes (1m1f) at Leopardstown overnight with expensive Frankel colt Diego Velazquez and the Cox Plate was mentioned as a possible target race for the flashy bay three year-old colt.

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

Pride of Dubai mares have been on fire in Australia this season and while Deny Knowledge (IRE) might be a rung below Pride of Jenni and Bella Nipotina, she has still been a force to be reckoned with taking the Group II VRC Matriarch Stakes last spring and now the $200,000 Listed Grafton Cup (2350m) , albeit this win was for new connections.

The $45,000 Springboard To Fame Plate (1175m) is the highlight event for juveniles at the popular Grafton Cup carnival and was won in resounding fashion by Cosmic Force gelding Ferinzo.

It was a successful day for Yulong's exciting first-season stallions Alabama Express and Pierata, with Waiting For Time putting a space on his rivals in the Sportsbet Jockey Watch Maiden Plate at Pakenham, while Scoundrel relied on the stewards to break his maiden at Kembla Grange.

Scratched from a hot juvenile maiden at Randwick yesterday for a softer alternative at Kembla on Thursday this well bred I Am Invincible colt needed courage as well talent to get past the Godolphin entry and post a tenacious debut win.

Star performer Orchestral won’t be over-taxed during her spring preparation, with trainers Roger James and Robert Wellwood more focussed on longer-term targets with their stable star.

Aylesbury trainer Richard Didham has is eyes on a Group One prize with his promising filly Diablo Blanco this spring.

Savile Row was a special horse in Pam Gerard’s training career and she is looking forward to debuting one of the young sire’s progeny in Suit Yourself at Arawa Park on Saturday.

Group One sire Vadamos (Fr) will not shuttle to Rich Hill Stud for the upcoming 2024 Southern Hemisphere season.

The prestigious S$400,000 Singapore Derby (1800m) is set to be run for the final time this Sunday, bringing the curtain down on a race whose proud history is littered with New Zealand-bred and Karaka-sourced success stories.

Fresh from siring the trifecta in a quality juvenile colts maiden at Randwick on Wednesday, Coolmore shuttler Justify (USA) featured overnight with an eye-catching new stakes-winner when flashy filly Greenfinch scored a cavalier win in the Listed Cairn Rouge Stakes (1m) at Killarney.

Here is the full list of 51 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The Bloodstockauction.com Stallion Cover Charity Auction will commence tomorrow, offering a unique opportunity for those in the thoroughbred industry to contribute to a noble cause.

The Peter and Paul Snowden stable has a great record in the $200,000 Listed Ramornie Handicap (1200m) at Grafton  and they won it for a sixth time on Wednesday when consistent five year-old Capitalist gelding Ka Bling dived through late to snatch victory.

On Wednesday, expensive Snitzel filly Sakima showed she learnt from her debut fifth at Canterbury in March when opening her winning account in the Drinkwise Maiden Plate (1100) for 2-year-old fillies at Randwick-Kensington.  

Triple Crown hero Justify (USA) is not coming back to Coolmore Australia this spring, but if we needed a reminder as to what we are missing we got it at Randwick on Wednesday when three of his unraced two year-old colts came out and ran the trifecta in the juvenile maiden over 1100m with the winner Clear Proof carrying the famed colours of Think Big Stud.

Promising 2-year-old Ilovethiscity filly Lovelycut kept her record at a perfect two for two this preparation in the Sportsbet Photo Finish Refund Handicap at Sandown-Lakeside (1200m) on Wednesday.

A lifetime spent around horses has finally led passionate young equestrian Victoria Farr back to Scone where she and her partner Bayley Fellowes have established Hillview Equine, a purpose developed farm geared towards the care of thoroughbreds and performance horses with a full range of services including spelling, complete broodmare/foal care and rehabilitation.

As stallions progress through their stud careers we learn more and more about them and a close look at the third season sires table is well worth consideration given the top 10 sires are all standing in either Australia or New Zealand this spring, albeit some not at the farms where they started.

Breednet’s list of daily debutants offers a smorgasbord of interest on Wednesday with two year-old first starters from Group I winners Sunlight and Invincibella, plus a host of other interesting youngsters.

Here is the full list of 15 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

It’s hard to believe this So You Think filly has taken so long to break her maiden, but the well-bred three year-old will end the season a winner after romping in at her first run back from a spell at Newcastle on Tuesday.

Nominations for the Property Brokers National Breeding Awards, to be held at the Don Rowlands Event Centre in Cambridge on July 27, have been announced.

Wexford Stables’ well-performed pair of Waitak and Dragon Leap are progressing well toward new season targets.

With 168 wins to their name this season, Te Akau Racing’s Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson have already sealed the trainers’ premiership, and they already have their eye on continuing their dominance into next term.

Earlier this year last season’s Group I winning three year-old colts Manzoice and Lindermann were both gelded and have been racing consistently since and Godolphin have taken that path with Group I ATC Spring Champion Stakes winner Tom Kitten, who was seen out at the trials at Warwick Farm on Monday morning as a gelding.

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

There is no denying Darley shuttler Blue Point (IRE) has made a slower start than expected with his first Australian runners but with three new winners in the past three days the tide appears to be turning.

The new season is nearly upon us and that means all over the country a new crop of rising two year-olds are taking baby steps in the best stables in the land with the Australian Turf Club announcing last week they had received 2094 entries for the 2025 Golden Slipper, so who is in the race?

Trial action was at Warwick Farm on Monday morning with nine heats won by juveniles that included the first foal of triple Group I winning $3million earner Alizee.