Thursday April 14
Newhaven Park is already home to one Savabeel stallion in Cool Aza Beel and will soon make room for another with the Kelly family announcing their acquisition of dual Group I winner Mo’Unga.
Thursday April 14
After finishing 1-2-3 leading first-season sires last season with Extreme Choice, Capitalist, and Flying Artie, Newgate Farm is well on the way to adding another title this season with Russian Revolution.
Thursday April 14
Annabel Neasham has churned out 2YO winners this season and added another talented juvenile to the tally at Wyong on Thursday by under-rated sire Ilovethiscity.
Thursday April 14
The aptly named Hokkaido credited Satono Aladdin with his second Southern Hemisphere winner from limited representatives when he made an impressive debut at Otaki on Thursday.
Thursday April 14
The combination of a warm personality and a wide reach across thoroughbred racing made Stewart McGrail one of the best-known and well-liked members of the lower North Island racing fraternity.
Thursday April 14
In Australia, we know just how good the progeny of Zoustar can be, but for the European market he’s an unknown with his first crop of NH bred two year-olds to race this year and some high profile results at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale this week have given cause for optimism.
Thursday April 14
A share in the world’s hottest young stallion Extreme Choice and mares in foal on highly desirable pregnancies head the early supplementary entries for next month’s Chairman’s Sale.
Thursday April 14
Medaglia D’Oro’s multiple Group I winning son Bolt D’Oro (USA) shuttled to Spendthrift Australia in Victoria for just one season with that crop of foals selling at the yearling sales this year so news that his first runner in the US is a winner will be of interest to anyone that has bought one here this year.
Thursday April 14
Outstanding racemare Lighthouse is the latest star confirmed for May's Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast.
Thursday April 14
New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2022 National Online Yearling Sale on Gavelhouse Plus serves as a digital postscript to its National Yearling Sales Series.
Wednesday April 13
Stakes racing continued at Newmarket overnight with the triumphant return of last year’s Champion 2YO Colt Native Trail and a Group III winning sprinter for Exceed and Excel, who also sired a promising 3YO filly with stakes potential and pedigree connections to Australia.
Wednesday April 13
Now operating in both NSW and Victoria, Widden Stud is home to a large and diverse stallion roster for 2022, catering to a broad spectrum of breeders with quality stallions priced to suit all budgets.
Wednesday April 13
Sale-topper Sixgun (Snitzel) will do the rest of his racing in Hong Kong after being purchased by Dr Alan Lee’s A Value Consulting Limited for $145,000 in the Inglis Digital April (Early) Online Sale.
Wednesday April 13
Here is the full list of 43 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Wednesday April 13
The full brother to Champion 3YO and promising young sire Trapeze Artist broke the ice for his first win at Hawkesbury on Wednesday.
Wednesday April 13
Shuttle stallion U S Navy Flag has registered his first winner in the northern hemisphere when Ocean Vision won the Irish EBF median sires series maiden (1000m) at Dundalk on debut yesterday.
Wednesday April 13
Godolphin don’t have many horses by champion sire I Am Invincible in their powerful stable, but a filly they bought for $900,000 from Magic Millions last year made a winning debut at Hawkesbury on Wednesday.
Wednesday April 13
New Zealand’s leading nursery, Waikato Stud is pleased to announce their stallion roster for the 2022 breeding season.
Wednesday April 13
The Shalaa (IRE) filly Queen Of Nations hit the ground running, defying an alarming betting drift when making a winning debut in the Bet365 Odds Protector Maiden (1200m) at Geelong.
Wednesday April 13
Robbie Patterson has sounded an ominous warning to rival connections ahead of Saturday’s Gr.1 Fiber Fresh New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m).
Tuesday April 12
There was stakes racing at Newmarket in the UK overnight with three interesting races for 3YO colts, 3YO fillies, the Group III Earl of Sefton Stakes (1m1f) won by Godolphin’s Master of the Seas, who has been gelded, plus a Derby possible for The Queen.
Tuesday April 12
Here is the full list of 22 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Tuesday April 12
Trainers Ben and JD Hayes are hoping to be up in Hong Kong alongside their father David racing at Sha Tin in December.
Tuesday April 12
There have been exciting changes made to the NZB Insurance Pearl Series for the 2022/23 season.
Tuesday April 12
The most expensive filly by Spirit of Boom stepped out for the first time in public at the Doomben trials on Tuesday morning and duly produced a stylish win.
Tuesday April 12
Don't miss the opportunity to enter your yearlings into Bloodstockauction.com’s second Signature Online Yearling Sale for 2022.
Tuesday April 12
Yes, Team Arrowfield is smiling after a history-making result for the Stud’s own Inglis Easter draft last week at Riverside Stables.
Monday April 11
With only two Group I races in Sydney to come this season on Saturday, the Australian General Sires List has become a fascinating affair with three sires all tied on $15million and change, so a look at the distance sire tables sheds light on the strengths of each sire.
Monday April 11
As we move into the back end of the season, interest remains in the progeny of first season sires stepping out at the trials so Breednet are tracking them and our report for this week features 12 sires with unbraced trial winners in the pipeline.
Monday April 11
High-quality galloper Entriviere and up and coming middle distance performer Soprano Supreme have been locked in by Te Akau for the Queensland winter carnival.
Monday April 11
Group Two performer Familia has been retired.
Monday April 11
Group Two winner Letzbeglam will likely make her raceday return later this month following an 18-month hiatus.
Monday April 11
Here is the full list of 31 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Monday with winners and result details.
Monday April 11
An exciting new crop of first-season sires turned heads at Karaka 2022 last month, and now New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2022 National Online Yearling Sale on Gavelhouse Plus is giving buyers another chance to get their hands on the first progeny of these promising up-and-comers.
Monday April 11
Amidst all the stakes action around Australia on Saturday, the 2yo filly Sammiballerina earned a valuable prize for Glenthorne Park's first season, sire Sebring Sun when leading home a field of 16 fillies in the $125,000 DLV Finance Capricornia Plate (1200m) at Rockhampton.
Monday April 11
Star Witness’s Nervous Witness is well and truly back in business with the flying sprinter’s fourth win of the season in Hong Kong on Sunday.
Sunday April 10
Woodside Park Stud’s Rich Enuff had a promising debut winner at Sha Tin on Sunday down the straight 1000m.
Sunday April 10
An outstanding group of broodmares - a majority offered in foal to some of the most exciting stallions in the country – will be offered in one of Australia’s most highly anticipated online reductions.
Sunday April 10
Yulong Stud is pleased to announce the 2022 service fees for its five stallions, headlined by the current reigning Australian Champion Sire, Written Tycoon.
Sunday April 10
There were four Group 1 races contested in Australia on Saturday at The Championships and it proved to be a showcase for the talents of the mighty So You Think, who delivered three of the four elite winners.
Sunday April 10
After finishing a troubled seventh on debut at Geelong last September, Yulong Stud’s 3yo Frankel Filly My Whisper has reeled off four wins, culminating in a first stakes success in Saturday’s Group III Auraria Stakes (1800m) at Morphettville.
Sunday April 10
The Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained filly No Lockdowns made a statement on debut over 1100m at Echuca on Sunday.
Sunday April 10
A pool of prominent Kiwi owners have enjoyed a good payday when the Kris Lees-trained Kinloch took out the lucrative A$500,0000 Polytrack Provincial-Midway Championships Final (1400m) at Randwick on Saturday.
Sunday April 10
Courageous mare Nimalee scored a deserving first G1 win in today’s Queen Of The Turf Stakes at Randwick as Inglis graduates dominated Day 2 of The Championships.
Sunday April 10
Not many people know more about the elite thoroughbreds at Emirates Park than this woman, whose passion for horses has led to a lifelong career with them.
Saturday April 9
Alaskan God left connections dreaming of a Melbourne Cup following his commanding victory in Saturday’s Schweppes-W.A.T.C. Derby (2400m) at Ascot.
Saturday April 9
Following his remarkable three Group 1 winners at Rabdwick, So You Think has moved to the top of the leaderboard.
Saturday April 9
Coolmore sires dominated the final day of The Championships at Randwick and Pride of Dubai made his presence felt when Bella Nipotina (4m Pride of Dubai x Bella Orfana , by Star Witness) landed the $300,000 Group II ATC Sapphire Stakes (1200m).
Saturday April 9
Feisty five-year-old Irish Girl showed all her fighting qualities as she bravely held out the challenges of Beneficial and Seriously to win the Listed Avon City Ford Easter Cup (1600m) at Riccarton.
Saturday April 9
It may not have been the five-length romp of her last start success but leading South Island three-year-old filly Reputabelle was even more impressive as she took out the Listed NZB Insurance Stakes (1600m) at Riccarton on Saturday.
Saturday April 9
Here is the full list of 113 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday April 9
Now, this is what you call a red-letter day.
Saturday April 9
A winner of the Group III Ottawa Stakes (1000m) on Oaks Day at Flemington last November, the Richard and Chantelle Jolly-trained See You in Heaven was third on resumption in the Listed Cinderella Stakes at Morphettville on March 4.
Saturday April 9
Stealing all the glory on Day 2 of The Championships at Randwick was Coolomore Stud’s champion So You Think, who will rocket to the head of the stallion's table, earmning a third consecutive Group 1 winner when Damien Oliver coaxed the 5yo mare Nimalee to an easy victory in the Queen Of The Turf Stakes.
Saturday April 9
While it was a shame to see some outstanding performers struggling in the conditions, the $4,000,000 Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) at Randwick proved an epic duel between Think It Over and Zaaki (GB).
Saturday April 9
An imported son of the great So You Think, Knights Order (IRL) went straight to the front under Rachel King and proceeded to grind her opponents into the ground in Saturday’s $2,000,000 Group 1 Schweppes Sydney Cup (3200m) at Randwick.
Saturday April 9
Danny O'Brien said he had not ruled out the Queensland oaks for El Patroness, a daughter of O'Brien's Cox Plate hero Shamus Award,who kept up a relentless gallop to land Saturday's $1,000,000 Group 1 ATC The Star Australian Oaks (2400m).
Saturday April 9
Due to Sydney’s big wet, just four of the ten acceptors went to the post for Saturday’s $1,000,000 Group II Arrowfield 3yo Sprint (1200m) at Randwick, but there is no denying they were a high-class lot.
Saturday April 9
Fourth in the $1million ATC Golden Gift behind Sejardan, lightly raced Capitalist colt Cannonball has always shown plenty of ability and turned that into Black Type reality on Saturday at Caulfield when winning the Listed MRC Redoute’s Choice Stakes ( 1100m).
Saturday April 9
Peter and Paul Snowden hatched a long term plan to win the $1million Group II ATC Percy Sykes Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday with talented Pierro filly Paris Dior and it came to fruition under a well-timed ride from James McDonald.
Saturday April 9
Like most of the breed, the 3yo Hallowed Crown colt Vilana loves a rain affected track and he found conditions to suit in Saturday’s Listed Bisley Workwear South Pacific Stakes (1400m) at Randwick.
Saturday April 9
After battling out the finish in the Group III ATC The Schweppervescence (T L Baillieu Hcp) a fortnight back Williamsburg and Moko duked it out again in Saturday’s Listed Grainshaker Vodka Fernhill Hcp (1600m) at Randwick.
Saturday April 9
Opportunities to invest in some of the world’s leading bloodlines will be presented to buyers over the coming weeks with the staging of a two-part Spendthrift Australia Unreserved Dispersal.
Friday April 8
Feedback from phase one participants showed an improved retention of staff in the industry and also launched a career pathway for traineeship graduates.
Friday April 8
A bevy of outstanding racing and breeding prospects have been catalogued for the Inglis Digital April (Early) Online Sale, which is now open for bidding.
Friday April 8
Trainer Lisa Latta was confident of a good showing from Group One performer Charms Star in Friday’s Gr.3 JAPAC Homes Manawatu Breeders’ Stakes (2000m) at Awapuni and under a positive Wiremu Pinn ride the four-year-old mare narrowly saluted from the fast-finishing favourite Sinarahma, with Samiam Seussie back in third.
Friday April 8
Here is the full list of 44 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Friday with winners and result details.
Friday April 8
It is often said that you don’t need to be stayer to win an ATC Australian Oaks (2400m), however Saturday’s classic over 2400m at Randwick threatens to be survival of the fittest on a bottomless track.
Friday April 8
The Torryburn Stud brand has been carried to victory by some star three year-olds this season in Home Affairs, Espiona and exciting up and comer Straight Arron, their achievements reflected in the sale ring with the Cornish family owned farm finishing Inglis Easter as leading vendor by average.
Friday April 8
The historic Widden Stud is home to some of Australia’s most sought-after stallions and following last year’s announcement that Gr.1-winning sprinter Portland Sky (2017 Deep Field x Sky Rumba) would be joining that list of luminaries, Widden are pleased to report that he will be fulfilling stud duties from the farm’s Hunter Valley home this season.
Friday April 8
There was a notable family double in Victoria on Thursday with Quraysha earning a Breednet One To Watch rating at Kilmore before her imported ‘auntie’ Love Takes Time (IRE) impressed at Pakenham.
Thursday April 7
The big wet continues in NSW but they still managed to get some major trial sessions completed which included two runners having their final hit outs prior to the Percy Sykes Stakes at Randwick tomorrow, so here are all the results with breeding and sale data.
Thursday April 7
Here is the full list of 54 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Thursday with winners and result details.
Thursday April 7
Trainer David Vandyke can’t wait to see Gypsy Goddess over more ground at Randwick on Saturday.
Thursday April 7
The regally-bred I Am Invincible filly Quraysha showed enough in Thursday’s win in a fillies and mares maiden plate over 1100m at Kilmore to indicate she has better races in her sights.
Thursday April 7
Another Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale is done and dusted, and I've seen this one compared to the surreal sale in 2008.
Wednesday April 6
The most extraordinary Inglis Easter in history concluded at Riverside today on what was officially the most spectacular individual day of selling on record at a Southern Hemisphere yearling sale.
Wednesday April 6
More happy people from Inglis Easter speaking to Maree McEwan after a massive final day of selling.
Wednesday April 6
Here is the full list of 43 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Wednesday April 6
An amazing day at Riverside on the final day of Inglis Easter and happy people weren’t hard to find so Maree McEwan got talking.
Wednesday April 6
The current crop of stellar yearlings by Zoustar are those conceived at a fee of $154,000 following the emergence of his champion filly Sunlight, so it only seems fitting that he would smash it right out of the park at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale on Wednesday when the full brother to Sunlight sold for $3million.
Wednesday April 6
A filly out of the Group 1 MRC Thousand Guineas winner Stay With Me set a new benchmark for Dundeel when selling to Hawkes Racing for $1,700,000.
Wednesday April 6
Snitzel hit another home run when Arrowfield Stud’s filly from the Group 1 Willian Reid Stakes winner Silent Sedition set a new benchmark for a filly when knocked down to Hawkes Racing for $2,200,000.
Wednesday April 6
Newgate Farm have enjoyed strong results at Inglis Easter and produced their jewel in the crown on Wednesday afternoon with the I Am Invincible filly from Group I winner Ruud Awakening selling for $1.7 million.
Wednesday April 6
Champion stallion Snitzel is rocking the Inglis sales ring.
Wednesday April 6
There is a new sale-topper at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale, with Coolmore’s Tom Magnier shelling out $2,250,000 for Arrowfield Stud’s brother to Golden Slipper winner Estijaab.
Wednesday April 6
Trainer John O’Shea, bidding on behalf of Ron Finemore and Neil Werrett, went to $1,250,000 for Arrowfield Stud’s Not A Single Doubt filly from the royally-related Japanese mare Presque Isle (JPN) as bidding hots up on day two of the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale .
Wednesday April 6
It was today announced that Racing NSW will be launching an equestrian event with a minimum of $1 million in prizemoney exclusively for retired Thoroughbred racehorses called Equimillion.
Wednesday April 6
Tyreel Stud have achieved sale ring and racetrack success in recent years under the ownership of Linda and Laurence Monds, but soared to a new level at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale on Wednesday when selling the half-sister by I Am Invincible to Everest hero Classique Legend for $2million.
Wednesday April 6
Widden Stud’s champion sire Zoustar has been super popular at the top end of the market at Inglis Easter with numerous youngsters selling for upwards of $900,000 including the most expensive filly sold on Monday and he cracked it for a seven figure sale with the colt from One More Honey.
Wednesday April 6
Narrowly beaten by Zamborghini when on debut at Moonee Valley, the two-year-old Maurice (JPN) colt Foujita San made no mistake at his second start over 1400m at Sandown-Lakeside on Wednesday.
Wednesday April 6
Pouring rain and a heavy 10 track proved no hurdle for talented Zoustar filly Zougotcha at Canterbury on Wednesday when she made a winning debut for the Chris Waller stable.
Wednesday April 6
Cambridge horseman Ross McCarroll has resisted the urge to head to Sydney this weekend to watch his mare Yonce line-up in the Gr.1 Queen of the Turf Stakes (1600m).
Wednesday April 6
Justify (USA) was the first sire to post a $1million yearling at Inglis Easter on Wednesday with the half-brother to Champion 3YO Filly and dual Group I winner Loving Gaby lighting up the sale ring and the Triple Crown winner then went on to be the leading first season sire by average for 2022.
Tuesday April 5
It was Inglis Easter Day One, “exceptional”, “incredible”, record setting, everybody was smiling, even “Bulldog” Price the battling underbidder.
Tuesday April 5
Here is the full list of 21 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Tuesday April 5
An exceptional opening day of the Easter Yearling Sale has seen a new Southern Hemisphere record set for an individual day’s aggregate as the surge for top quality bloodstock continued at Riverside.
Tuesday April 5
Kylie Bax is going down a familiar path with her latest Group One performer Aspen Colorado with the lightly raced filly joining Chris Waller’s Sydney stable.
Tuesday April 5
On a day when Russian Revolution sired his highest priced ever yearling at Inglis Easter, he also gave us an impressive debut winner at Hawkesbury.
Tuesday April 5
While nothing threatened the $2,500,000 paid for the 2021 sale topper Magic (Snitzel), solid trade throughout the day saw an increase in average and median on the opening day of the Inglis Australian Yearling Sale.