The finalists for the NZTR Horse of the Year Awards have been announced.

New Zealand Bloodstock has confirmed its continued support of fillies racing in New Zealand, agreeing to enhance the NZB Insurance Pearl Series bonus structure, which it has sponsored for 10 consecutive years.

The Group I Sussex Stakes (1m) was the overnight highlight at Goodwood and produced the ninth straight win for Baaeed, the highest rated racehorse in the world.

Stakes-winning mare Flirtini tonight topped a spectacular Inglis Digital July (Late) Sale which grossed $4,379,450 and saw six horses realise $200,000 or more.

A trio of well bred, well performed Australian Bloodstock mares will be offered in a bespoke Inglis Digital Online Auction next month.

With four more days of the Australian racing season to run, Chatswood Stud’s much missed stalwart sire Reward for Effort has joined the century club posting his 100th winner on Wednesday.

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

A Tweet from elite Hunter Valley nursery Cressfield on Wednesday heralding the arrival of their first foal of the season got us thinking about the stellar crop of foals that breeders around Australia will be seeing this spring by Coolmore’s exciting shuttle sire Wootton Bassett (GB).

Young Warwick Farm trainer Robert Quinn led in his first winner at his home track when promising Denman 2YO filly Miyoshi opened her account on Wednesday at her second start.

Mother Nature works to its own timeframe and Haunui Farm was swiftly in sync to welcome an unexpected arrival this week and lavish the early comer with special treatment.

The inaugural VOBIS Sires Boost vouchers will be up for grabs on August 2, with a total of $60,000 in vouchers available to be won across the two VOBIS Gold races at the Warrnambool meeting.

The opening meeting of Glorious Goodwood overnight was highlighted by the Group I Goodwood Gold Cup (2m) for the stayers and it produced the much hoped for epic battle between champion stayer Stradivarius and the up and coming staying star Kyprios.

Getting mares to a young stallion in their first and second season is relatively easy, but through season three and four the task gets a lot trickier and Widden Stud’s announcement earlier this week of a $2million bonus that spreads across the first four foal crops of Trapeze Artist is one geared to keep him front and centre with broodmare owners this spring.

Mental health has become a growing concern in New Zealand and the New Zealand breeding industry is doing their bit to try and address the issue.

The 2021-22 racing season provided Trelawney Stud with some standout performances.

The new owners of Pensardo will recoup their purchase price in double quick time if the filly can continue her winning form on the synthetic course at Cambridge on Wednesday.

The trials for Tuesday at Randwick were switched from the grass to the polytrack resulting in plenty of scratchings but the Group and Listed heat still featured some potential spring stars and we got a look at star colt Best of Bordeaux, while a couple of Russian Revolution 2YO’s impressed and a problem child by Deep Field caught the eye.

The Acclamation sireline tasted Group I success over the weekend with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth stakes winner Pyledriver and Australian breeders have access to it this spring via Harry Angel (IRE), who posted a four length winner overnight.

Retiring talented colts to stud early at the end of their 3YO season is common practice for high profile candidates given the finances at stake, but for colts that race on and test their mettle further on the battleground of the track a successful stud career can still unfold with 10 of the Top 20 sires in Australia this season racing as older horses.

Widden Stud are thrilled to announce an exciting $2million bonus for the progeny of our superbly credentialed young sire Trapeze Artist, who has more entries for the 2023 Golden Slipper than any other first season sire.

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

Bred in Ireland, progressive mare Wakanaka was a Group III winner in Italy before heading to North America to be trained by Bill Mott and she scored her first major win there when taking out the Group II Dance Smartly Stakes at Woodbine on Sunday.

Thoroughbred breeders from around the country will gather at the Sir Don Rowlands Event Centre at Karapiro on Saturday for the much-anticipated National Breeding Awards.

South Island breeders will welcome the addition of Echoes Of Heaven to their stallion ranks this coming breeding season.

Our next chapter in the Price Point series of stories looks at a massive group of well credentialled sires that stand at $16,500 and range from proven G1 sires to first year at stud new boys, so trying to make sense of this group is certainly a task, but if this is what you have to spend then you better read on.

The first Australian crop of rising two year-olds by Triple Crown hero Justify (USA) are popping up in all our leading stables as they progress from being broken in and move towards racing with his early results from the Northern Hemisphere offering cause for optimism.

The Danny Williams stable is about more than just Shelby Sixtysix and one of his up and comers scored a good win when returning at the Sapphire Coast on Sunday offering the potential of a swift return to Highway class Saturday racing.

Here is the full list of 74 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Merchant Navy brought up winner number seven with a tough debut winner at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday.

Speedy Zoustar filly Lezoo was back in the winner’s circle overnight at Ascot capturing the Group III Princess Margaret Stakes (6f) as favourite.

The Group I King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (1m 4f)  at Ascot overnight was supposed to be a showcase for two outstanding 3YO’s in Westover and Emily Upjohn, but neither could land a punch against the big boys.

Imposing grey galloper Helena Baby returned to his best form when he produced a gritty front-running effort to take out the Listed Powerworx Opunake Cup (1400m) at New Plymouth.

Here is the full list of 99 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

I Am Invincible three-year-old King Of Sparta was too strong for the older horses with a determined win in the Bletchingly Stakes (Gr.3) at Caulfield on Saturday.

Kiwi mare Passione recorded an impressive victory over 1400m at Caulfield on Saturday for new trainer Nigel Blackiston.

Sooboog has a spring contender after promising filly Boogie Dancer brought up a Saturday double for her sire.

Exciting Thronum youngster Thron Bone is heading for stakes grade after his third successive win in the MRC Membership Hcp (1200m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

You won’t find conditions any more testing than what confronted the youngsters in the opener at Randwick with Sooboog youngster True Crime equal to it.

The Listed Her Majesty’s Plate (1m6f) at Down Royal in Ireland was won by exciting young stayer Perotan, who scored a dominant win over older rivals as favourite.

Exceptional sire I Am Invincible has had another year of phenomenal success and for the first time will be crowned Australia’s Champion Sire by earnings for 2021/2022 and while he is beyond the reach of many broodmare owners, Lincoln Farm are proud to offer a more affordably priced option in his proven sire son Super One.

TBNSW have put together a user friendly guide to the Hunter Valley Stallion parades at the end of August, a must read for those planning their trip this year.

Multiple Group-winning speedster Flirtini (Artie Schiller) and Stakes placed race mares including Zing (Zoustar), Anagain (Hinchinbrook) and Miss Albania (Magnus) are among the headline acts of the Inglis Digital July (Late) Online Sale.

The big winter wet, particularly in NSW, has barely made a dent on the trial numbers with plenty of 2YO’s seen out, so here are all the results with breeding and sale data.

Our next chapter in the Price Point series of stories looks at a massive group of well credentialled sires that stand at $16,500 and range from proven G1 sires to first year at stud new boys, so trying to make sense of this group is certainly a task, but if this is what you have to spend then you better read on.

Swettenham Stud’s super popular shuttler Toronado (IRE) added a new stakes-winner to his tally in France on Thursday when promising filly Jouza won the Listed Prix Madame Jean Couturie (2000m) at Vichy.

Magic Millions is excited to announce that entries for the much anticipated 2023 Yearling Sale Series are now open.

Trainer Michael Moroney is getting very excited about the prospects of Tofane in the Gr.1 Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield next month.

Well bred juveniles were front and centre overnight in the UK and Ireland with some blue-bloods claiming their first Black Type wins and Frankel making as a mark as a sire of sires with a first stakes-winner for his Group I winning son Cracksman.

Explosive sprinter Home Affairs has arrived safely at Coolmore Australia ready to take up stud duties this spring.

Yarraman Park’s Hellbent extended his hot winning streak into New Zealand on Thursday with a debut victory at Hastings for promising filly Tantrums.

Purchased for $700,000 from the 2021 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, this expensive son of Shalaa (IRE) broke the ice at Cranbourne on Thursday.

Here is the full list of 39 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Blue-blood Exceed and Excel stallion De Gaulle posted a debut winner at Moe on Saturday in Rosa’s Revenge and he followed up with another at Cranbourne on Thursday when Bonjour de Gaulle saluted in style.

High profile Sydney breeder-owner John Cordina has successfully delved into the New Zealand broodmare market in his continued support of young Rich Hill Stud stallion Ace High.

At the end of July, Haunui Farm will farewell long time Sales & Marketing Manager, Shannon Taylor, as she embarks on a new chapter in her career.

New Zealand-bred gelding Waihaha Falls will be vying for his third win on-end when he lines up over 1300m at Randwick on Saturday.

Dragon Leap is on target to resume at Ruakaka next month before he chases further black-type titles.

The battle to be leading sire by two year-old winners looks like it will be going to the wire with Queensland’s dynamic duo Better Than Ready and Spirit of Boom locked in a titanic struggle.

Darley’s champion sire Exceed and Excel is on the cusp of a big milestone racking up his 199th stakes-winner overnight in Ireland when Pirate Jenny won the Listed Yeomanstown Stud Stakes (6f) at Naas.

Peter Corbett has come to the end of a special journey with his multiple stakes-winning stayer Dee And Gee (NZ) (Darci Brahma), who played a starring role with a sale-topping price of $105,000 in the 2022 National Broodmare and Stallion Share Sale on Gavelhouse Plus on Wednesday night.

Here is the full list of 37 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Sierra Sue has today become the most expensive horse sold online in Australia this year, realising $1.55m to the bid of Bill Pearce’s Bromfield Park.

The Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young stable were expected to win the opening juvenile race at Sandown on Wednesday, but they did it with the stable’s second string pick,  a super impressive daughter of So You Think.

Zoukerino left little doubt that he will be a player in the early three-year-old stakes races after a hugely impressive career debut over 1100m at Randwick-Kensington on Wednesday.

Newgate Farm’s Deep Field has had a benchmark year in Hong Kong finishing as the Champion Sire by earnings and he is also having a good year here in Australia with his juveniles posting his 17th two-year-old winner this season at Randwick on Wednesday.

Imperatriz provided the star turn at Tuesday's Cambridge trials, getting the nod of approval from both Matamata trainer Mark Walker and jockey Opie Bosson.

The catalogue for the 2022 National Broodmare and Stallion Share Sale on Gavelhouse Plus is stacked with stallions held in high regard throughout Australasia, both for their own progeny and for their ever-growing reputations as broodmare sires.

As the season draws to an end a look at the Breednet report for unraced triallers by first season sires holds plenty of interest in shedding light on which sires still have plenty of horses that are in the pipeline, but have yet to show their hand on race day.

The Inglis Digital bespoke sale of high class dual Group I winning mare Sierra Sue finishes later today and bidding has hit the million dollar mark overnight.

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

Just a day after posting his tenth winner, Yarraman Park’s Hellbent has delivered an 11th and this one bolted in by four and a half lengths at Wyong on Tuesday.

Stephen Autridge looks to be in for an exciting season with rising three-year-old Alabama Gold after his win over 800m at the Cambridge trials on Tuesday.

You’ve got to be in it to win it and Widden Stud’s young gun sires Trapeze Artist and Written By both feature prominently in the list of nominations for the 2023 Golden Slipper Stakes to be run at Rosehill next March.

A busy set of trials on the grass at Hawkesbury on Monday morning produced 10 juvenile heat winners with one heat in particular holding the promise of some possible spring contenders.

Trainer Richard Collett’s move to Sydney is well under way, with his Pukekohe stables on the market and a number of horses booked to fly out at the end of the month.

Prominent racehorse owner Mrs Beryl White has passed away aged 88.

A trip south to Riccarton next month could be on the cards for Verry Flash after his victory in the Whyte Handicap (1600m) at Trentham on Saturday.

Yarraman Park’s Hellbent has been hitting top gear in the back end of the season with a slew of winners including the Kurt Goldman trained filly Negation, who became his tenth winner when scoring at Goulburn on Monday.

Here is the full list of 27 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Little Avondale Stud’s Per Incanto has again staved off global competition to end another Hong Kong racing season as the most prolific source of individual winners and delivering the highest tally of wins.

From a handful of runners, the young Bombora Downs stallion De Gaulle notched his third winner at Moe on Saturday, with the debutant Rosa’s Revenge proving a class above in the 1114m maiden for three-year-old fillies.

After heading through the Karaka sale ring twice, Lim’s Kosciuszko (Kermadec) climbed one of Singapore racing’s highest summits on Sunday with his triumph in the S$400,000 Singapore Derby (1800m) at Kranji.

Frankel is not the only European sire working towards 100 stakes-winners at present and the magic Galileo x Fastnet Rock nick strikes again with a new Group winner that also has a double cross of Urban Sea.

The release of nominations for the 2023 Golden Slipper marks the beginning of a long road that will end at Rosehill next year on March 18, so let’s take a closer look at those 2000 plus  babies in the hunt for the world’s richest for 2YO’s.

Here is the full list of 68 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Astute trainer Mark Newnham has had some good success with gorgeous grey fillies, think Greysful Glamour and Harmony Rose, and we suspect he may have another that made a winning debut at Hawkesbury on Sunday.

Exciting young sire Maurice (Jpn) has had plenty of stakes placed horses this season outside of his Group I superstars Hitotsu and Mazu and one of them is a maiden no more.

Aquis Farm have announced via Twitter that their promising young sire Spieth has died suddenly.

Promising four-year-old Bold Mac made an auspicious debut from his new Sydney quarters when he struck first up for the Chris Waller stable at Rosehill on Saturday.

Australia’s revered royal family centred around blue hen Dancing Show (USA) has produced a course record breaking Group I winner in North America.

The Yulong colours were in the winner’s circle in Ireland overnight at the Curragh where quality Galileo filly Magical Lagoon claimed her first Group I win in the Irish Oaks (1m4f).

Legendary sire Galileo posted his 96th Group I winner overnight when Magical Lagoon won the Irish Oaks and two of his sire sons in Frankel and Churchill also posted interesting stakes-winners.

Here is the full list of 119 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Yarraman Park’s Hellbent is enjoying a surge of winners as we come to the end of the season with the half-sister to Group I winner Heaven’s Above opening her account at Kembla on Saturday to become his ninth first crop winner.

Widden Stud’s flagship sire Zoustar posted his 30th lifetime stakes-winner on Saturday when the Peter Moody trained blue-blood colt He’s Heaven cast off maiden status with a Black Type win at just his second start.

Following the news of the death of Ramsay Farm's outstanding stallion Kitten’s Joy, his daughter Frumos (USA)  provided a fitting eulogy at Rosehill on Saturday.

Champion expat New Zealand trainer Chris Waller enjoyed a highly successful afternoon at Rosehill on Saturday, saddling four winners and reaching 150 city wins for the season, and two of his victories came with impressive performances from New Zealand-breds Lord Ardmore and Bold Mac.

At the famous Melbourne racecourse where his sire made his name, talented New Zealand-bred gelding Horrifying produced a dominant front-running performance to claim the biggest win of his career to date in Saturday’s A$175,000 Flemington Cup 1849 (2800m).

Promising three-year-old Turn the Ace showed he won’t be fazed by the longer distances as he matures into his imposing frame after winning nicely over 1600m at Ruakaka on Saturday.

Cambridge trainer Tony Pike picked up a winning double at Te Rapa last Saturday and he was at it again at Ruakaka just seven days later where he produced tough two-year-old filly Pacific Dragon and veteran River Run for a similar result.