The Tattersalls July Sale starts this week featuring a smorgasbord of tried racehorses, race fillies and broodmare prospects guaranteed to tempt what is anticipated to be a large Australian buying bench and with many of the leading European sires being offered for Southern Hemisphere time covers we can expect the seeds of future racetrack success in Australia to be sewn this week.

Here is the full list of 20 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details and importantly Better Than Ready posting the one winner he needed to crack a century of winners for the season!

The Ballarat meeting on the synthetic track on Tuesday produced a promising debut winner for Merchant Navy when Navy Black saluted as a hot favourite.

Mapperley Stud will welcome the addition of three new stallions to their roster this upcoming breeding season, with former Valachi Downs residents Vespa and Savile Row joining the Matamata farm’s earlier acquisition of Armory.

Our next chapter in the Price Point series of stories looks at a small group of well credentialled sires that sit just below $22,000, but above the massive group priced at $16,500, and they include some young sires attracting plenty of support.

Quality New Zealand jumper Chief Sequoyah has arrived across the Tasman in preparation for a three-race campaign.

After seven seasons at Darley in the Hunter Valley, Group I Caulfield Guineas winner Shooting to Win has been relocated to Western Australia and will stand at Oakland Park Stud.

They only ran three races at Wagga on Monday due to the appalling weather and heavy track, but that was enough for astute trainer Kurt Goldman to unleash a very promising juvenile filly by Pierro.

Due to popularity and limited places for the accredited training open to NSW Supervisors and Managers of the Breeding and Racing industry, we encourage those yet to register to do as soon as possible.

Arrowfield Stud’s Snitzel has had his usual good season with his 2YO’s, but his 3YO’s have been a powerhouse of success making him the leading sire in the country by 3YO winners and 3YO stakes-winners.

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

The race to be the most successful sire of Australian 2YO winners this season is being fought in Queensland with Spirit of Boom (Eureka Stud)  and Better Than Ready (Lyndhurst Stud) going head to head with only weeks of this season to run.

Group I racing in Europe overnight produced a Frankel quinella in the Group I Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, but the winner was not the Frankel that ran as favourite , while the German Derby delivered a new Group I winner for Camelot.

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

The sad passing of retired champion sire Not a Single Doubt last week got us thinking about his close relation King’s Legacy, who was the busiest first season sire in Australia last spring, so let’s take a look at the mares he covered.

Although leading New Zealand racehorse syndicator David Ellis has plenty to celebrate through the success of his Te Akau Racing operation during the 2021/2022 season, one of the lesser known strings to his bow are the numerous achievements he and wife Karyn have secured on the thoroughbred breeding front over the past twelve months.

Three-year-old gelding Facteur Cheval, a son of Haunui Farm shuttle stallion Ribchester, oozed class when defeating a quality field to land Saturday’s Listed Tattersalls Prix de Saint-Patrick (1600m) at Chantilly.

With a Blue Diamond in the trophy cabinet courtesy of Tagaloa, Trent Bussutin and Natalie Young have every right to love the progeny of Lord Kanaloa (JPN), and they have another promising type by the champion Japanese sprinter in Kween Kanali.

A half-sister to dual Group I winning sprinter September Run by American Pharoah (USA), My Yankee Girl is a filly on the up winning the $150,000 VRC Rivette Final (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday.

A homebred for the Aga Khan, talented three year-old colt Vadeni announced himself on the big stage with a five length last start win in the Group I Prix du Jockey Club (2100m) and confirmed that potential when travelling to the UK to win the Group I Sandown Coral Eclipse Stakes (1m2f).

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

Le Don De Vie (GB) had some useful form in Britain for Andrew Balding and Hughie Morrison, hence his hefty €460,000 purchase price at the 2019 Goff London Sale.

So You Think’s bumper season continued at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday when his promising three year-old Majestic Colour extended his winning run to four on the trot with a commanding victory in the $200,000 Group III Winx Stakes (1600m).

A Group I winning son of champion sire Fastnet Rock, Awesome Rock has been quietly putting  together some nice results with his oldest progeny just three year-olds and went very close to posting a stakes double at Belmont on Saturday.

A $200,000 Inglis Premier purchase for Boomer Bloodstock/ Lindsey Smith, four year-old gelding Tuvalu became a new stakes-winner for his sire Kermadec when taking out the Listed VRC Winter Championship Final (1600m) at Flemington on Saturday.

Spritely seven year-old gelding Sirius Suspect claimed his second Black Type win at Flemington on Saturday taking out the Listed VRC Santa Ana Lane Final (1200m).

New Plymouth trainer Allan Sharrock made the most of a five-and-a-half-hour road trip to Hastings on Saturday when he secured a one hundred percent winning strike rate with his three runners on the day.

The local training partnership of Paul Nelson and Corrina McDougal dominated proceedings at Hastings on Saturday, winning all four jumping races on the card including the two feature events.

Arrowfield Stud shuttler Shalaa (IRE) has had a busy season with his juveniles and Prime Thoroughbreds colour bearer Quang Tri added to that success when scoring a stylish victory in the $160,000 Listed VRC Taj Ross Final (1600m) at Flemington on Saturday.

Widden Stud’s promising young Snitzel stallion Thronum has a very smart 2YO in the shape of Thron Bone, who scored a brave victory in the$150,000 VRC Yulong Next Gen Sprinters Final (1200m) for juveniles at Flemington on Saturday.

Entries are now open for the 2022 National Online Broodmare Sale, set to be held on Gavelhouse Plus for the second year.

Yulong have been very active in the bloodstock market this week purchasing blue hen Baggy Green and her yearling daughter (full sister to Tofane) for a combined $NZ 2.21 million from the Valachi Downs Dispersal and they were not to be beaten at the Arqana Summer Sale overnight purchasing German 1000 Guineas winner Txope.

As the Valachi Downs dispersal process drew to a close with turnover nudging $10 million, Friday night’s Unreserved Young and Racing Stock Dispersal on Gavelhouse Plus shone a spotlight on exceptional broodmare Baggy Green for the second week in succession – and once again it was Yulong’s Written Tycoon Syndicate who provided the sale-topping bid.

Here is the full list of 53 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Showing the experience earned from three previous starts, the Justin Bowen-trained Play My Song overpowered the favourite Secret Revolution in a hotly contested 1000m 2yo handicap at Muswellbrook on Friday to credit Jukebox with his fifth winner and fourth in Australia.

The Group III Winx Guineas (1600m) at the Sunshine Coast takes centre stage on Saturday, and as usual, connections will be casting their gaze skywards with rain predicted for the next few days.

Sent off as favourite for the juvenile maiden at Geelong on Friday, promising Churchill (IRE) filly Thesecondatportsea overcame a tardy beginning to open her account.

Southland trainers Kelvin and Aimee Tyler will have five runners at Wingatui on Sunday but the more pressing focus is on two feature races on the Sunshine Coast on Saturday.

Entries for New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2022 Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds are now open, with the Sale set to be held physically at the Karaka Sales Centre on 16 and 17 November. This year’s Breeze Ups will take place on Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 October at Te Rapa. 

Trained by A & G Botti, Amilcar was having his third run this year and powered to a  three-quarter length win taking his overall record to six wins and four placings from 13 starts.

After a two year COVID-19 enforced hiatus, the New Zealand National Breeding Awards are back on the calendar.

Here is the full list of 41 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Sierra Sue – one of the best performed Australian-trained race mares of recent years - will be offered in a bespoke Inglis Digital online auction later this month.

Yesterday we looked at the mares covered last spring by Arrowfield Stud’s champion sire Snitzel, who is increasingly making his presence felt as a broodmare sire producing the dams of 10 stakes-winners this season.

Three decades have passed since Anton Koolman resided in New Zealand, however, the highly respected horseman’s death at age 82 in Sydney last weekend still resonated with many on the other side of the Tasman.

Our next chapter in the Price Point series of stories looks at a big group of 16 stallions that includes the sire of the world’s best sprinter.

An eye-catching debut two year-old winner for champion sire Lonhro on Thursday at Bendigo was an easy choice as our ‘One to Watch’.

The second-highest grossing Inglis Digital auction ever conducted has tonight brought an end to an “astonishing’’ financial year for the platform.

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

Triple Crown winner American Pharoah (USA) will not be returning to Coolmore Australia this spring, but he featured on Wednesday with a debut 2YO winner trained by Chris Waller.

Two-time New Zealand premiership-winning trainer Keith Hawtin bowed out a winner at Cambridge on Wednesday.

Sizzling might not be the height of fashion as a sire these days, but he figured at Randwick on Wednesday when his well bred 2YO filly What’s Going On opened her account for the Annabel Neasham stable.

It has taken some time for the penny to drop for Contemporary, but the son of Exceed And Excel put it all together for an impressive win in the TAB Maiden (1150m) at Randwick-Kensington.

A promising field went around in the first two year-old maiden at Randwick on Wednesday and I am Invincible gelding Airman produced an eye-catching performance to win on debut.

One of our smaller breeders in NSW has written in to offer her thoughts on Racing Australia and their rules regarding transfer of ownership of broodmares.  

The Valachi Downs dispersal continues this week with a quality offering of racing and young stock on plus.gavelhouse.com.

The x-rays and video scopes for all yearlings and select other horses in the Valachi Downs Unreserved Young and Racing Stock Dispersal are now available in the New Zealand Bloodstock Online Repository.

Arrowfield Stud’s multiple champion sire Snitzel is turning 20 this year and is still at the very top of his game having sired more Australian stakes-winners this season than any other sire, so let’s take a look at the mares he covered last spring.

Arrowfield Stud shuttler Shalaa (IRE) has had a great season with his Austalian 2YO’s and added a new French stakes-winner to his tally overnight with Night Endeavor taking out the Listed Derby du Languedoc (1m4f) at Toulouse.

Triple Crown winners Justify (USA) and American Pharoah (USA) will not be shuttling to Australia this spring for Coolmore with the decision taken to rest both stallions with a view to their return in 2023.

TBNSW are pleased to be offering FEE FREE training to all NSW breeding and racing industry participants as part of the NSW Thoroughbred Workforce Development Project, funded largely by Training Services NSW Government.

Newgate Farm’s Deep Field has made history setting a new record for HK seasonal earnings and is poised to be Champion Hong Kong Sire for 2021/2022.

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

One of Australia’s most respected and passionate horse owner-breeders and philanthropists, Mr Nick Moraitis, has passed away aged 87 following a battle with cancer.

Nick Moraitis, who owned one of Australia's greatest-ever horses, New Zealand-bred star Might And Power, has died overnight at the age of 87.

A busy set of trials at Randwick on Tuesday morning on the turf produced seven two year-old heat winners and two of them are unraced youngsters that run for super successful Hong Kong owner Bon Ho, so who are these ‘little Legends’.

The Labour Government’s support of the racing industry in New Zealand was firmly signalled after its landslide election victory in 2020 and its commitment is ongoing, new Minister for Racing Kieran McAnulty has emphasised.

The sad passing of Arrowfield Stud’s champion sire Not a Single Doubt has given us the opportunity to revisit a popular story we did on the much loved son of Redoute’s Choice in 2020 showing his rise to success book by book.

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

The stocks of ShamExpress continue to rise and hardly a week passes without the progeny of Windsor Park’s successful son of O’Reilly featuring on the racetracks of Australasia.

Australasia’s darling of the turf Verry Elleegant is edging closer to making her European debut.

Group I racing has concluded for this season in Australia and New Zealand so we are taking a look at the most successful Group I sires of the season and there is a clear leader on that count and he doesn’t stand in Australia.

The extraordinary life of one of Australia’s most successful and best-loved stallions has ended with the death of Not A Single Doubt at Arrowfield Stud.

Twin Hills Stud based Hallowed Crown added a new stakes-winner to his tally on Sunday when the Singapore Stewards Cup Sg G2 was won by four year-old gelding Relentless, who was a savvy purchase from the Blake Ryan Racing draft at the 2019 Inglis Ready 2 Race Sale.

Coolmore's undefeated Triple Crown hero Justify (USA) posted his first stakes-winner overnight when exciting filly Statuette made it two wins in as many starts when taking out the Group II Airlie Stud Stakes (6f) at The Curragh.

The racing and bloodstock world is saddened by the passing of renowned bloodstock agent Anton Koolman at age 82.

The Group I Tatts Tiara at Eagle Farm last Saturday was the final Group I event of the Australian racing season so we’ll wrap up those last Group I races with three of the four winners tasting success at the top level for the first time.

Group winning racemare Watch Me Dance is heading to Victoria after smashing the all time Western Australian auction record price when selling at the Perth Winter Sale today.

A stirring victory by Juan Diva in the Gr.3 WJ Healy Stakes (1200m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday provided Trelawney Stud’s Taylor family with a remarkable tenth stakes win as owners for the season.

A Group 1 for All Too Hard with Alligator Blood in the Stradbroke followed by a Group 1 for Star Turn with Startantes in the Tatt’s Tiara, Headwater may have felt like the odd man out on the Vinery roster before chipping in with two exciting winners on Saturday.

Widden Stud’s champion sire Zoustar has his first Northern Hemisphere bred stakes-winner with speedy filly Lezoo making it two wins in as many starts when taking out the Listed Newmarket Empress Stakes (6f).

Super sire Frankel added a 23rd Group I winner to his tally overnight and he did it with Juddmonte Farms homebred colt Westover, who turned the Group I Irish Derby(1m4f) at the Curragh into a procession.

Here is the full list of 121 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Superbly bred Juan Diva left it late in life to break through at stakes level, which she achieved with a fighting win in the Group III Eureka Stud WJ Healy Stakes (1200m) at Eagle Farm.

 A masterclass by Jason Collett was rewarded with a Group 1 win for the high-class Star Turn filly Startantes in the Sky Racing Tattersall's Tiara (1400m) at Eagle Farm.

The two-year-old Written Tycoon filly Tyresa completed a great day for trainer Kelly Schweida with a hugely impressive performance in the Listed Tattersall's Life Members Stakes (1400m) at Eagle Farm.

Confidently backed Taksu returned from his trip to Queensland to lead every step of the way in Saturday’s Listed Civic Stakes (1400m) at Randwick.

A $625,000 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale purchase for Newgate Bloodstock, talented Savabeel filly Tilianam produced an immediate result for her new ownership group when winning the $150,000 3YO Fillies Plate (1200m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

Underrated mare Sanibel upset the applecart when she took out the Listed Team Wealleans Tauranga Classic (1400m) at Tauranga on Saturday.

Local hope London Banker turned back a strong interstate challenge to open his stakes account in Saturday’s Group III Tattersall's Cup (2400m) at Eagle Farm.

Out of the winner’s circle since last October, the Mark Conners-trained Rebel Rama dealt punters a blow when downing the odd-on favourite Our Intrigue in Saturday’s Listed Tatt's Gold Crown (2150m) at Eagle Farm.

Widden Stud’s Snitzel stallion Thronum is off the mark with Throm Bone running down the highly regarded Deep Impact (JPN) filly Ghaanati in Saturday’s Neds Punters Toolbox Hcp (1100m) at Caulfield.

Off the back of staggering breeding stock dispersal results for Kevin Hickman’s Valachi Downs, their 52 Lot Unreserved Young and Racing Stock Dispersal will be live from midday on Gavelhouse Plus.

Racing at the Curragh overnight highlighted the international success of Australian breeder Bob Scarborough and gave us a 2YO filly ‘one to watch’ with a big pedigree.

Here is the full list of 35 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The biggest Inglis Digital catalogue ever collated is now open for bidding, with the June (Late) Sale receiving a record 615 entries.

A strong international and domestic buying bench will converge on the Gold Coast in late October for the 2022 Magic Millions 2YOs in Training Sale

Bloodstockauction.com proudly offer for sale the complete dispersal of the bloodstock interests of the late Frederick Borg.

Trainer Allan Sharrock looks to have another smart juvenile filly on his hands after he produced impressive debutant Librarsi for a maiden victory over 1100m at Otaki on Friday.

The later season 2YO trials are always interesting and there’s been a big turnout in the past week, so here are all the results with breeding and sale data.