Widden Stud have announced an increase in service fee for their new addition Gold Standard in the wake of his 2YO filly Sheeza Belter winning the Group I BRC JJ Atkins Stakes (1600m) on the weekend.

Swettenham Stud shuttler Toronado (IRE) has a very good horse in North America with six year-old gelding Tribhuvan landing his second Group I victory  over the weekend taking out the Group I Manhattan Stakes (1 ¼ m) on turf at Belmont.

There have been a lot of very good 2YO’s race in Australian this year and we saw a number of them contest the Group I BRC JJ Atkins Stakes at Eagle Farm on Saturday won by Sheeza Belter, but further north in Queensland at Townsville there was another 2YO in action that notched his sixth win from six starts to be the most winning juvenile so far this season.

From the proven superstars to the exciting up-and-comers, a full spectrum of outstanding stallion talent is represented in the catalogue for New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2022 National Weanling Sale at Karaka – giving buyers an ideal opportunity to get their hands on these star sires’ progeny.

Here is the full list of 79 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

They don't come much more consistent than the Mark Newnham-trained Dragonstone, who credited the former Arrowfield shuttler Mikki Isle (JPN) with his first Australian stakes-winner in Saturday's Listed Bob Charley AO Stakes (100m) at Randwick.

Newgate Farm’s Russian Revolution is setting the pace on the Australian First Season Sires List by earnings and winners and added a 12th winner to his tally on Sunday when Communist saluted at Hawkesbury.

The Todd Pletcher-trained Mo Donegal kick-started what may be a memorable week for Coolmore Stud's Uncle Mo (USA) with a dominant performance in the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes.

In the same week Zoustar posted his first Northern Hemisphere winner, he also got his second with promising filly Lezoo scoring on debut at Bath on Saturday.

Here is the full list of 116 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Saturday with winners and result details.

A homebred for Shadwell, four year-old Deep Field gelding Al Muthana has been a multiple stakes-winner in the past and posted his first Group I victory when taking out the Hollywoodbets Gold Challenge (1600m) at Greyville in South Africa on Saturday.

So You Think fans were hoping his exciting 2YO colt Political Debate would win the Group I BRC JJ Atkins Stakes at Eagle Farm on Saturday, but when he came up half a length short there was consolation when his progressive mare Palaisipan captured the Group II BRC Dane Ripper Stakes (1300m).

Exciting young sire Gold Standard has joined the Widden Victoria roster this spring, the former Spendthrift stallion now a Group I producing sire with his oldest progeny just 2YO’s after his star daughter Sheeza Belter beat an outstanding field of colts to win the $1million Group I BRC JJ Atkins at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

A Royal Ascot hero in 2018 winning the Group I Diamond Jublilee Stakes, promising young sire Merchant Navy featured on Saturday with a new winner with the Annabel Neasham trained colt Dirty Merchant opening his account at Newcastle.

Alligator Blood's rehabilitation is complete after All Too Hard's top-class son powered his way to victory in Saturday's $1,500,000 Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) at Eagle Farm.

When the Holy Roman Emperor gelding Numerinan (IRE) defeated the previous year's Derby favourite Sir Dragonet in the Listed Devoy Stakes at Naas in 2020, not even the most optimistic Irishman could foresee the riches that awaited the pair in Australia.   

The Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Ranges left it until late in life for his first stakes win, which came in Saturday's Listed Maker's Mark Hinkler Hcp at Eagle Farm.

Shamus Award is having a career best season with Rosemont Stud increasing his service fee to $88,000 for this spring and the Cox Plate winner delivered another new stakes-winner on Saturday when Kiss Sum took out the Group III BRC Gunsynd Classic (1600m) at Eagle Farm.

It was the battle of the Irish in Saturday’s $400,000 Group II Brisbane Cup (3200m), with Irish Sequel (IRE) edging out the rallying Through Irish Eyes.

The Laurie Mayfield-Smith-trained Charmmebaby continues to make a mockery of her $14,000 purchase from the Inglis 2020 May Online Sale with a second stakes success in Saturday’s Listed Wayne Wilson Plate at Eagle Farm.

Darby Racing and Bjorn Baker have already enjoyed success with Vancouver, who is the sire of their Golden Eagle contender Overpass and the Woodside Park based Golden Slipper winner is also the sire of their latest 2YO winner Wingardium.

Young Aquis Farm stallion Jukebox received a huge boost when the Barry Lockwood-trained Johnny Rocker went coast to coast in Saturday’s Listed Oxlade Stakes (1300m) at Eagle Farm.

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

The Great Southern Sale today concluded with fireworks in the ring, bringing an end to the Inglis Breeding Stock Sales Series which has been crowned “the best ever’’.

Arrowfield Stud shuttler Shalaa (IRE) has had a busy season with his juveniles and racked up his 13th 2YO winner of the season on Friday when the Prime Thoroughbreds colour bearer Quang Tri scored a tenacious win in the $125,000 Vobis Gold Elvstroem Classic (1300m) at Swan Hill.

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.

The $40,000 Silver Goblet (1110m) at Dubbo on Friday was won in dazzling style by a two year-old Zoustar gelding that looms as a pinup success story for Inglis Digital.

Renowned Australian Veterinarian Dr Chris Lawler admits to initially being reluctant to venture into the breeding game though after breeding Group One-winning filly Gypsy Goddess, he is enjoying the ride.

The magic Fastnet Rock x Galileo cross struck again overnight in the UK when lightly raced three year-old filly Stay Alert landed her first Black Type success in the Listed Greatwood Stakes (1m2f)  at Newbury.

Saturday’s Group I JJ Atkins Plate (1600m) at Eagle Farm is the final Group 1 race for two-year-olds and is chockful of contenders that will play a role in the three-year-old riches in the spring.

Rushton Park’s David Johnson his literally never seen it busier.

Shalaa (IRE) has had a very productive season with his 2YO’s and posted a 12th juvenile winner at Gosford on Thursday with an eye-catching  debut winner from the powerful Maher and Eustace stable.

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

A Breednet ‘One to Watch’ when making an impressive winning debut last month, Silent Surrente confirmed that potential with a facile four length win at Ballarat on Thursday.

Former Hawera trainer Don Couchman is being remembered fondly by many in the racing community after he passed away late last month in Mt Maunganui aged 86.

Our next chapter in the Price Point series of stories looks at a group of just six sires that features two proven horses and four other Group I winning prospects that are yet to have a runner.

The Matamata Racing Club (MRC) has made a significant addition to its racing and training facility with the purchase of one of the region’s most successful training establishments.

A hot bloodstock market in Australia has left many pinhookers empty handed with the NZB National Weanling Sale on Friday June 17 offering a final opportunity to secure a quality weanling by a selection of exciting first season sires.

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

Guy Mulcaster hopes Ranch Hand – who he bought for $600,000 in today’s Inglis Digital June (Early) Online Sale – can develop into a stallion prospect, potentially as early as this weekend.

Australia’s most expensive sire Extreme Choice added a new 2YO winner to his tally at Sale on Wednesday giving champion jockey Jamie Kah a winner on her only ride of the day.

As part of Pencarrow Stud’s annual stock reduction another seven quality broodmares are currently entered in gavelhouse.com’s most recent fortnightly auction.

South Island Filly Of The Year Reputabelle will join the Flemington stable of Mike Moroney later this month.

The three-year-old Sidestep filly Flying Step broke her maiden at Canterbury on Wednesday to become the latest winner from a family that has served her trainer, owner, and breeder Bruce Cross well over several decades.

Newgate Farm’s leading first season sire Russian Revolution produced his 11th winner at Canterbury on Wednesday with promising filly Spicy Hotpot exploding from back in the pack to zoom home and win.

The most expensive yearling by Golden Slipper winning sire Pierro sold in 2021, blue-blood colt Pogacar made an eye-catching winning debut at Doomben on Wednesday.

Trainers Ken and Bev Kelso could have another star daughter of Proisir on their hands.

Dual Group Three winner Ayrton will be looking to bounce back to form when he lines-up in the Gr.1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

Whether you are looking for a pinhook with quick upside or a longer-term purchase with potential to develop, the catalogue for New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2022 National Weanling Sale is stacked with terrific types and quality pedigree credentials.

Widden Stud’s Zoustar has been shuttling to the Tweenhills Stud in the UK for the past few years and sired his first Northern Hemisphere bred winner overnight at Wetherby when Just Janet saluted.

This week’s announcement of increased prizemoney for the ATC Golden Eagle (1500m) for four year-olds at Rosehill in October has got us thinking about what horses may be in the running for a race that will change the thinking and programming for a lot of horses this spring.

Following the announcement of the sale of Kevin and Joanna Hickman’s Valachi Downs last week, the bulk of the farm’s stock will be offered unreserved in two Gavelhouse Plus sales towards the end of this month.

A busy set of trials on the grass at Rosehill on Tuesday morning featured seven heats won by 2YO’s with an army of juveniles stepping out from the Chris Waller stable including several that caught our attention by snitzel, I Am Invincible and Churchill (IRE).

The NZTR (New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing) Board has committed to an exciting and innovative growth plan.

The ability to sire fast maturing early 2YO’s is a quality not all stallions possess, so the ones that can do it on a regular basis hold a unique place in the market and not all of them are super expensive.

Avesta Bloodstock and Rathmore Bloodstock have announced the winner of their $20,000 to spend at the Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale this week.

It is with great sorrow that Newhaven Park announce the passing of our champion race mare Burst (Marauding x Sudden). 

Racing NSW today announced that the prizemoney for the Golden Eagle will be increased to $10 million.

Ribchester’s three-year-old daughter, Snooze n You Lose made all to land the Listed Queen of Scots Stakes (1400m) at Musselburgh on Sunday.

With his first Australian foals to be born here this spring Wootton Bassett (GB) was in the winning groove overnight with a new 2YO stakes-winner in Wootton City, who captured the Listed Prix la Fleche (1000m) at Chantilly.

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

Entries for the Inglis Ready2Race Sale – which last year resulted in a record gross, average and median – are now open.

Progressive Victorian enterprise Two Bays Farm have rapidly made a name for themselves as a source of quality racetrack performers and Rob Carlisle and his team are proud to present a top class draft of 13 for the Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale starting this Thursday.

Emotions will be running high at Hastings racecourse on Monday when Tommyra lines up in the K S Browne Hurdle (3100m) just a day after the death of his trainer and part-owner Toby Autridge.

A margin thinner than a pencil line separated the Graeme and Debbie Rogerson-trained two-year-old Sharp ‘N’ Smart from victory in Saturday’s Listed The Phoenix (1500m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday, however co-trainer Graeme Rogerson believes his charge can go one better in this weekend’s Gr.1 JJ Atkins (1600m) at the same venue.

Avesta Bloodstock’s Jimmy Unwala and Rathmore Bloodstock’s Ross Hatton are offering one lucky person the chance to spend up to $20,000 on a weanling at the Inglis Great Southern Sale this week.

Daniel Brash and his team at Collingrove Stud are presenting a big draft of 20 plus weanlings for the Inglis Great Southern Sale starting on Thursday including colts by Russian Revolution and Toronado (IRE), plus a colt by Hellbent that had an exciting pedigree update last week.

A $500,000 Inglis Easter investment on a blue-blood Fastnet Rock filly for Jonathan Munz’s Pinecliff Racing looks like paying dividends with Passive Aggressive making it three wins in as many starts when saluting at Flemington on Saturday .

The three-year-old Xtravagant gelding Devoted kept his record at a perfect two for two for his new trainer Michael Grantham with a dominant performance in Saturday's Listed Raconteur Stakes (1400m) at Belmont Park.

Here is the full list of 103 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Saturday June 4 with winners and result details.

The Group I Cazoo Epsom Derby (1m4f) was the highlight of UK racing overnight and it went the way of undefeated colt Desert Crown, who won the Blue Riband eased down beating a 150-1 shot.

A three-quarter brother-in-blood to dual Group I winning filly Imperatriz, 5YO I Am Invincible gelding Vinco posted his first Black Type success when taking out the Listed BRC Spear Chief Quality (1500m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

It was a 1-3 for Godolphin in Saturday’s Listed Queensland Day Stakes (1200m) for three-year-olds at Eagle Farm.

Talented juvenile filly Sophmaze showed a touch of class when she out-finished her rivals with a determined late run to take out the Listed John Turkington Forestry Ltd Castletown Stakes (1200m) at Waverley.

Talented winter galloper Amusez Moi capped off some fine recent form with victory in the Listed AGC Training Stakes (1650m) at Waverley.

Outstanding three-year-old filly Gypsy Goddess left her opponents without an excuse when overcoming the widest barrier to claim Saturday’s $700,000 Group 1 Channel 7 Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Eagle Farm.

Winless for twelve months, the Tony Gollan-trained Baller made back-to-back wins in the Group II Ascot Green Moreton Cup at Eagle Farm.

The $500,000 BRC Magic Millions National Classic (1600m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday carried plenty of prizemoney although no Black Type, but still attracted a quality field of mares with victory going to 4YO Zoustar mare Kiku, a full sister to Group I VRC Newmarket Handicap winner Zoutori.

The 4yo Spirit Of Boom mare Boomnova had banked nearly half a million dollars without making a start in a stakes race. The Chris Munce-trained grey made her stakes debut count in Saturday's Madame Sass Lightning Handicap (1000m) at Eagle Farm.

Boom So You Think 2YO Political Debate is one of the best looking colts you would ever see and he has the talent to match, posting his first stakes victory at Eagle Farm on Saturday when casting off maiden status with a narrow win in the Listed BRC the Phoenix (1500m).

A $450,000 daughter of Snitzell, Stroll is, by some way, the most significant investment made by Jamie Walter's Proven Thoroughbreds.

Australian billionaire Terry Snow has built an impressive equestrian empire at his Willinga Park property at Bawley Point on the South Coast of NSW and has invested in all sorts of horses ranging from stock horses, to elite dressage and eventing horses as well as thoroughbreds with his exciting 3YO Willinga Rufio stamping himself as a bright prospect when bolting in at Rosehill on Saturday.

A half-sister to Pride Of Dubai and Al Aneed by breed-shaper Deep Impact (JPN), Ghaanati looks to have the world at her feet after putting a smart field to the sword at her career debut in the Next Generation Sprinters Hcp (1100m) for 2yo fillies at Flemington.

The Chris Waller stable has a knack for producing nice late season juveniles and we can add Pierro colt Osipenko to that list of up and comers after he powered clear for a debut win at Rosehill on Saturday.

Two Group I races decided overnight at Epsom with the Epsom Oaks once again won by a daughter of Galileo, whose half-brother Sea the Stars sired the winner of the Group I Coronation Cup.

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

For the best part of a decade, Aidan O'Brien and John Gosden have carved up the Epsom Oaks, and it's likely to be a similar story when the classic takes place in the early hours of Saturday morning (eastern Australian time).

Dual Stakes-winning mare All Banter has continued the strength of entries for the Inglis Digital June (Early) Online Sale, which is now open for bidding.

The Randwick trials were on the grass this morning and featured five 2YO heat winners highlighted by an eye-catching unraced colt by champion sire Snitzel with a stallion’s pedigree.

Last start Group III  Easter Handicap (1600m) winner Carolina Reaper will do her future racing in the Middle East.

Our next chapter in the Price Point series of stories looks at an interesting group that features the four most expensive third season sires in the country and these guys just had their first weanlings sell so there is a point for comparison in that area.

Epsom Derby winner Camelot is one of the most popular European sires with Australians and he has an Irish Oaks contender with Cairde Go Deo strengthening her claim overnight with a second stakes success.

So You Think is enjoying a benchmark season and this promising 3YO filly that broke her maiden at Wyong on Thursday may be one of his stock to follow next season as she matures and gets up in distance.

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

A strong supplementary catalogue of 29 entries – including weanlings by leading sires and black type-performed broodmares carrying desirable pregnancies – has been finalised for next week’s Great Southern Sale.

Expat New Zealand trainer Paul O’Sullivan has signalled to the Hong Kong Jockey Club that season 2021/22 will be his last.

Sadly, Mokulua, the Best On Breeding, will not take her place in Saturday’s Queensland Oaks when she was lame in the left fore on Thursday morning. Radiographs diagnosed a thin slab fracture to 3rd carpal bone.       

Little Avondale Stud’s Group One-winning sire Nadeem has passed away.

Hawkesbury Valley-based boutique operation Tyreel Stud bid to $330,000 in the recent fortnightly gavelhouse.com mixed bloodstock auction for Gr.1 NZ 1,000 Guineas runner-up Miss Tycoon Rose.

There were two juvenile events at the Curragh overnight that produced impressive winners that are well worth following with Royal Ascot on the horizon.