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).

With some of his first Australian bred weanlings set to go under the hammer at the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale this week, Coolmore shuttler Wootton Bassett (GB) posted a new juvenile stakes-winner overnight in France.

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

The race for leading 2yo sire for individual winners looks like going down to the wire after Spirit Of Boom joined Better Than Ready when Boomster opened his account over 1200m at Ipswich on Wednesday.

Eureka Stud’s first-season stallion Encryption celebrated his first stakes winner with Cifrado in the Group II Spirit Of Boom Stakes at Doomben on Saturday, and Fleetwood kept the ball rolling in the Proven Thoroughbreds Maiden Hcp (1100m) at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

Connections of stakes winning two-year-old Codigo are considering a trip to Australia next month for their unbeaten youngster.

It was something of a given that Extreme Warrior would be well supported by broodmare owners when he retired to Rosemont Stud last spring.

The Vancouver two-year-old Capper Thirtynine achieved the notable feat of running down a Waterhouse-Bott front-runner when opening his winning account in the Bendigo Mazda Maiden Plate (1100m) at Bendigo on Wednesday.

The Magic Millions Weanling Sale is packed with opportunity and given the sale produced a filly by The Autumn Sun from Via Africa (SAfr) that sold for $600,000 and then went on to top the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale this year at $1.8million, we’ve decided to take a look at some of the pedigree highlights.

Pignan (NZ) (Staphanos), Callsign Mav (NZ) (Atlante) and Jennifer Eccles (NZ) (Rip Van Winkles) are just three recent Group One-winning examples of the calibre of weanlings that can be purchased through New Zealand Bloodstock, and the catalogue for the 2023 National Weanling & Broodmare Sale contains plenty of well-credentialled candidates to deliver further success.&n

Back at the 2013 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale the top priced offering was Group I winning Fastnet Rock mare Nechita, who was bought by Tom Magnier for $1.55million, and she gave us a One to Watch overnight in the UK at Sandown.

Fastnet Rock’s super talented daughter Passive Aggressive has been retired to stud following a below par run in the Group I SAJC Robert Sangster Stakes.

A quick ready reckoner comparing type for type for first season sires with progeny on offer at the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale is always a popular feature of the site.

Here is the full list of 16 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Thoroughbred Racehorse Owners Association(TROA) chairman, Jonathan Munz, has urged Racing Victoria (RV) to use common sense and reduce its own overheads and inefficiencies and rein in “pet projects” before pursuing any proposed prizemoney cuts.

Blue Gum Farm have welcomed the arrival of Sejardan to the farm where he will stand alongside proven Group I sire Flying Artie.

Cambridge trainer Ben Foote is pleased with his Group Three winning three-year-old filly Sakura Girl, who will have her first start in Brisbane on Saturday when she contests the Gr.2 The Roses (2000m) at Doomben.

Dean Harvey is presenting a lovely selection of young mares under his Baystone Farm banner at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale starting on Tuesday May 23.

Leading filly Ulanova has temporarily relocated to Australia to prepare for the early part of her upcoming three-year-old season.

Haunui Farm will once again welcome four-time Group One winner and two-time Champion Miler RIBCHESTER (IRE) back in 2023 for his fourth season at stud in New Zealand.

Justify (USA) has emerged a clear leader on the first season sire table with five winners from 10 runners including three stakes-winners, so with only 56 foals in his third crop the small number of weanlings by the Triple Crown winner offered at the Gold Coast this week will generate plenty of interest.

Here is the full list of 20 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

There were plenty of stakes horses in action at the Randwick trials on Monday including grand sprinter Eduardo and quality filly Revolutionary Miss, who both saluted and there were also eight heats for juveniles.

A Frankel filly deemed “arguably the best weanling filly to be offered anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere this year’’ headlines a strong catalogue for the Great Southern Sale, which is now available online.

Wessex, the brilliant second-crop daughter of Turn Me Loose who won the Gr.3 Rotorua Stakes last Saturday, further enhanced her own value as well as her young sire’s growing tally of stakes winners to become Turn Me Loose’s third three-year-old Group winner this season and seventh individual stakes winner to date.

The star studded supplementary catalogues for the Magic Millions National Weanling and Broodmare Sales have been finalised with more highlight lots set for the Gold Coast auction.

The two-year-old Lean Mean Machine debutant Material Dreams created a considerable impression when a fast-finishing winner of the Robin Hood Inn Maiden (1100m) at Moe on Monday.

The MM National Broodmare Sale starts next Tuesday (May 23 – 25) and with a bumper catalogue filled with premium breeding prospects the task of identifying star producers of the future can be daunting which is why the advice of an expert with a tried and proven database can be a game changer.

Three Group I winning three year-olds in France overnight at Longchamp and two sired by sons of Galileo with the third from a daughter of the legendary Coolmore stallion.

Telemon Stud have announced their 2023 service fees headlined by a resurgent Golden Slipper Sire in SIDESTEP at $8,800.

Here is the full list of 72 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The two year-old action is hotting up in Queensland with the carnival in full swing and two impressive maiden winners at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday might have more to offer and are by gun Queensland sires Spirit of Boom and Better Than Ready.

A Blue Point colt from Supreme Thoroughbreds became the equal second-highest priced horse ever sold at an Inglis Gold Sale, topping today’s action at Oaklands.

When my bloodstock agent friend Satomi Oka asked if I would come with her on a Snowy Mountains riding and camping trek for her birthday this year it gave me an opportunity to do something I had always wanted to do and with my trusty Cousin Jane on board for the adventure three city girls set out last week for a taste of Snowy Wilderness.

For successful breeding outcomes, timing is everything. The horse’s natural reproductive period coincides with the light-filled days of summer. As seasonal breeders, the naturally lengthening days of spring suppress melatonin and in turn stimulate reproductive hormones that maximise fertility for both mares and stallions.

At just 21 years of age, Kurtis Pertab is surrounded by many far more qualified and experienced racing industry people.

An unmissable event in the sales calendar, the ARQANA Breeze Up was organised over three days this year and produced rercord results. Following the canters on the grass at Deauville-La Touques Racecourse on Thursday and a day of inspections on Friday, the sale began on Saturday morning at 11am.

The Listed Lingfield Derby and Oaks Trials were run and won overnight in the UK with Godolphin homebreds that are both by sons of Galileo, one of them highlighting an explosive nick.

Scone-based trainer Luke Pepper has set lofty goals for his Rubick filly Opal Ridge after she slammed her elders in the Listed Luskin Star Stakes (1300m) at Scone on Saturday.

Here is the full list of 114 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The Smart Missile mare More Prophets did not fancy becoming a mum and returned to training after missing to Pierro last spring. She celebrated with a dominant win in the Group III Emirates Park Dark Jewel Classic (1400m) at Scone on Saturday.

The Shooting To Win mare Majestic Shot gave trainer Grant Allard a welcome change of luck when she claimed a maiden stakes success in Saturday’s Listed Magic Millions Bright Shadow Stakes at Doomben.

A half-sister to $3.5million earner Dalasan, progressive So You Think filly Party Princess has been promising to win a stakes race for a while now and got the job done in style when scoring a commanding victory in the Listed SAJC Adelaide Guineas (1600m) at Morphettville on Saturday.

The Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale perennially attracts a galaxy of glamours and one star lot guaranteed to shine at next week’s 3-dayer is the stakes winning mare, East Asia.

Fiorente (IRE) mare Lunar Flare is at her best at a long distance staying trip and she showed her class when thrashing hot favourite White Marlin (IRE) to win the $500,000 Listed VRC Andrew Ramsden Stakes (2800m) at Flemington on Saturday.

A champion's qualities were on show at Doomben on Saturday when Giga Kick claimed his second Group 1 in the $1,500,000 Ladbrokes Doomben 10,000 (1200m).

Kiwi three-year-old Special Swey has bolstered Chris Waller’s Queensland arsenal, making an instant impact for the Champion trainer when scoring a game victory in Saturday’s Gr.3 Rough Habit Plate (2000m).

After conquering Tasmania, the three-year-old Dundeel gelding Dunkel returned to the mainland for a career highlight in Saturday’s Group 1 Thomas Farms South Australian Derby (2500m) at Morphettville.

After Commando Hunt claimed the Listed Scone Cup on Friday, Kitchwin Hills’ ill-fated stallion Time For War struck again when It'sourtime broke a twelve months drought in the Listed Hilton Nicholas Straight Six at Flemington on Saturday.

Free-going three-year-old filly Wessex proved too swift for her older rivals in Saturday’s Gr.3 Rotorua ITM Stakes (1400m) as she secured a dominant front-running victory.

Godolphin gang tackled Saturday's Listed Coolmore Denise's Joy Stakes (1100m) with four runners, and fittingly it was a descendant of Denise's Joy that saluted in track record time.

Stakes-placed in his first preparation over the summer, talented Encryption colt Cifrado became the first stakes-winner for Eureka Stud’s young gun sire when scoring a thrilling last stride win in the $300,000 Group II BRC Spirit of Boom Classic (1200m) at Doomben in Saturday.

Up and coming stayer Poser showed just how tough she is when producing a determined finish to claim victory in the Listed Campbell Infrastructure Rotorua Cup (2200m).

Godolphin’s four-year-old Exceed And Excel gelding Athelric earned a second stakes win when defeating the luckless Quantico in Saturday’s Listed Arrowfield Ortensia Stakes (1100m) at Scone.

Returning to Coolmore this spring, Triple Crown hero Justify (USA) posted a third Australian stakes-winner when blue-blood colt Air Assault delivered on potential to win the Group III SAJC Sires Produce Stakes (1400m) at Morphettville on Saturday.

An Arrowfield stud bred two year-old was expected to win the juvenile event at Flemington on Saturday, but the one that saluted was not the one punters were thinking.

The two-year-old Snitzel filly Hip Hip Hurrah kept her record at a perfect two for two with a fighting win in a thrilling Listed Kia Ora Woodlands Stakes (1100m) at Scone on Saturday.

OTI Racing colours were carried to victory overnight in the UK by a couple of lightly raced impressive three year-old winners and given the likelihood so many of their horses ultimately come and race in Australia we decided to take a closer look.

Here is the full list of 46 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Friday with winners and result details.