Sunday January 23
Here is the full list of 58 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Sunday January 23
Former champion jockey Douglas Whyte earned his first win at the highest level as a trainer when The Not a Single Doubt entire Stronger edged out the Deep Field gelding Sky Field in a thrilling finish to the Group 1 The Centenary Sprint Cup (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday.
Sunday January 23
The Adam Trinder-trained gelding Bello Beau took his record to two from two when outclassing his rivals in the $100,000 Mills New Norfolk Elwick Stakes at Hobart on Sunday.
Sunday January 23
A purchase made while on a stint working overseas over twenty-five years ago paid off in spades for Windsor Park Stud’s Rodney Schick, when stylish colt Dynastic took out the $1 million Doubletree by Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie on Saturday night.
Sunday January 23
First time racegoers to Ellerslie on Saturday evening could have been forgiven if they thought they had mistakenly turned up to a football match, such was the noise and atmosphere generated by a large group of racing enthusiasts in attendance under the unique moniker of Boys Get Paid.
Sunday January 23
After a luckless run for second in the Dunstan Feeds Stayers Championship Final (2400m) at Ellerslie on New Year’s day, promising mare Rapid Falls returned to the scene of the crime on Saturday to exact a measure of revenge in the Collinson Forex Karaka Cup (2200m).
Sunday January 23
Vinery Stud’s Star Turn has been on a winning run of late.
Saturday January 22
On a night he has made somewhat his own in recent years, trainer Jamie Richards scooped a second $1million prize at Ellerslie on Saturday when Pin Me Up scored an upset victory in the Karaka Million 3YO (1600m).
Saturday January 22
Here is the full list of 92 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday January 22
Speedy mare Babylon Berlin was at her brilliant front-running best when she led all the way to take out the Gr.3 Brighthill Farm Eminent First Yearlings Concorde Handicap (1200m) at Ellerslie.
Saturday January 22
The more things change, the more they stay the same was the feeling after the running of the Doubletree By Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie on Saturday.
Saturday January 22
Talented three-year-old colt Sword Of State shrugged off an indifferent Australian spring campaign to display his true class when he dominated his rivals in the Gr.3 Cambridge Stud Almanzor Trophy (1200m) at Ellerslie.
Saturday January 22
The $150,000 Listed Carrington Stakes (1400m) at Randwick was lone stakes race in Australia on Saturday, which fell to a proven stakes performer.
Saturday January 22
The third time was the charm for Dragon Queen (NZ) (Sweynesse) at Ellerslie’s Karaka Million twilight meeting on Saturday, landing a career-best victory in the Gr.2 Westbury Classic (1400m).
Saturday January 22
The seemingly endless production line of two-year-olds from the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace stable added another potential topliner at Moonee Valley on Saturday with the I Am Invincible debutant Counttheheadlights.
Saturday January 22
Godolphin’s 4-time Group 1 winner Ribchester (IRE) is off the mark in the southern hemisphere with a filly that could play a major part over the Golden Slipper carnival.
Saturday January 22
Royal Ascot hero Merchant Navy posted his second winner with an impressive debut victory for the Phillip Stokes trained filly In the Navy.
Saturday January 22
The Group 1 ATC Australian Derby has been earmarked for the highly promising three-year-old gelding Silent Impact who gave his supporters a scare before kick-starting his campaign with a hard-fought win over 1100m at Randwick on Saturday.
Friday January 21
Gelding might be the making of I Am Invincible three year-old Treporti, who scored a powerful win at Flemington on Friday bringing a timely pedigree update for his three-quarter sister to be offered at Inglis Classic next month.
Friday January 21
Here is the full list of 49 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Friday January 21
Being born into a racing family and a childhood spent on show ponies ultimately led this young woman to the Godolphin Flying Start program and from there to a great job as sales and marketing manager with a leading thoroughbred stud.
Friday January 21
A host of young, well-credentialled racing or breeding prospects headline another appealing catalogue for the Inglis Digital January (Late) Online Auction, which is now open for bidding.
Friday January 21
The Trevor Rogers-trained filly Madame Du Gast made a winning debut at Flemington on Friday to credit her sire De Gaulle with his first winner and provide a timely update for a full-sister heading to the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale.
Friday January 21
Darling View Thoroughbreds has announced the death of Champion WA sire I’m All The Talk.
Friday January 21
Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week with autumn contenders out and about and another strong trial from a million dollar Written Tycoon colt, so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.
Friday January 21
With the Blue Diamond and Golden Slipper fast approaching there are some exciting two-year-olds beginning their campaigns on Saturday.
Friday January 21
The decision by Premier Mark McGowan to keep WA’s hard-border closed indefinitely has major implications for the Perth Magic Millions Yearling Sale.
Friday January 21
From more than 2800 foals born in the spring of 2019, just 14 two-year-olds will enter the Ellerslie starting gates on Saturday to take their shot at one of the most lucrative prizes in New Zealand racing.
Friday January 21
A capacity field at Ellerslie on Saturday stands between On The Bubbles (Brazen Beau) and a slice of Karaka Million history.
Friday January 21
For the second year in a row, the $110,000 Collinson Forex Karaka Cup (2200m) at Ellerslie on Saturday features the Group One star quality of Tiptronic (NZ) (O’Reilly).
Friday January 21
If David Ellis needed any vindication for the quality of yearlings he has bought at Karaka over the past decade, he only needs to look through the past winners' list of the Karaka Million (1200m) and Karaka Million 3YO Classic (1600m).
Friday January 21
A past visit to the Karaka Million evening at Ellerslie won Henry Dwyer over and convinced the Victorian trainer he had to become more involved in the $1 million two-year-old feature.
Thursday January 20
The record breaking Magic Millions Book 1 Yearling Sale proved the perfect showcase for first season sires and so many achieved great results from the bargain priced sires right up to the elite.
Thursday January 20
Here is the full list of 46 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Thursday January 20
Westbury Stud’s Reliable Man (GB) has had some very good staying fillies including Oaks winners Miami Bound and Miss Sentimental, so when one of his three year-old fillies wins in this manner at her second start we investigate further.
Thursday January 20
New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale in March is set to go ahead, even if the country enters the red alert level of the COVID-19 traffic light system.
Thursday January 20
Trainers Trent Bussutin and Natalie Young will keep New Zealand-bred mare Sierra Sue to her favoured 1400m distance this preparation.
Thursday January 20
This time last year an unraced I Am Invincible colt won his first barrier trial earning a highlight slot in the ‘Juvenile Trial Watch’ story of the day and 12 months on that colt is Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes winner Home Affairs and he had a good pipe opener at Warwick Farm this morning.
Thursday January 20
Racing NSW today announced that the Provincial Championships will be expanded to the Provincial-Midway Championships, with prizemoney totaling $1.55 million.
Thursday January 20
Stephen Autridge has twice celebrated victories in New Zealand’s richest juvenile event and will on Saturday be bidding to halt the run of his former employer in the Ellerslie feature.
Wednesday January 19
At this time of year there is great interest in the progeny of first season sires stepping out at the trials so Breednet are tracking them and producing a weekly report which features eight first season sires with trial winners in the pipeline including Galileo’s champion son Highland Reel (IRE), while Merchant Navy is showing signs of activity.
Wednesday January 19
The powerful Chris Waller stable had an impressive first starter by Savabeel at Newcastle on Wednesday bred on the magic cross!
Wednesday January 19
Here is the full list of 47 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Wednesday with winners and result details.
Wednesday January 19
Wolverine NZ) (Tivaci) will have to overcome a wide draw to keep her unbeaten record intact in Saturday’s $1m DoubleTree by Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie.
Wednesday January 19
Improving two-year-old Russian Warrior put upwards of eight lengths over four overmatched opponents over 1200m at Ipswich on Wednesday.
Wednesday January 19
Despite making his fourth start, the Chris Waller-trained Forged still has a bit to learn about racing.
Tuesday January 18
Here is the full list of 20 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Tuesday with winners and result details.
Tuesday January 18
A record breaking sale and high clearance made for some very happy vendors at the 2022 Magic Millions Yearling Sale and while many stallions recorded best ever stats thank to the buoyant trade, some offered better returns than others.
Tuesday January 18
The catalogue for the 2022 Premier Yearling Sale – the auction that has recently produced the World’s Best Sprinter in Nature Strip and his heir apparent Masked Crusader, young stallions in Ole Kirk and Written By, ageless warriors like Santa Ana Lane, Beat The Clock, Gytrash and Hey Doc and fabulous fillies such as September Run, Kenedna and Youngstar – is NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE.
Tuesday January 18
A couple of well related homebred three year-olds for Kia Ora Stud and Newhaven Park were winners at Wyong on Tuesday and both have the promise of more wins to come.
Tuesday January 18
With all lead-up races run and won, and with the finishing touches being applied to preparations, the order of entry for the $1m DoubleTree by Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) and $1m Karaka Million 3YO Classic (1600m) now provides a clear idea of which horses will enter the Ellerslie starting gates this Saturday for New Zealand’s richest sporting event.
Tuesday January 18
The recent Inglis Digital January (early) online sale featured a significant clean out of geldings from the Chris Waller stable presenting a golden opportunity for other trainers to buy fully educated blue--bloods with plenty of racing still in them albeit not at a stakes level.
Tuesday January 18
Three Western Australian studs received winning updates for the Perth Magic Millions Yearling Sale when Apache Pass opened his Hong Kong account at Sha Tin on Sunday.
Monday January 17
A record breaking Magic Millions Book 1 made for some spectacular pinhook success stories so let’s take a look at some of the best.
Monday January 17
The curtain came down on a record breaking 2022 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale today with another successful day's selling at Australia's holiday playground.
Monday January 17
It’s a bittersweet week for trainer Jamie Richards as he gets ready for his final tilt at the Karaka Million at the helm of Te Akau Racing’s Matamata stable.
Monday January 17
Four heats for juveniles at the Rosehill trials on Monday morning and two of those were won by the progeny of Written Tycoon, the sire of unbeaten Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Coolangatta.
Monday January 17
Before the two year-olds had their turn at the Rosehill trials on Monday morning there were a couple of action packed earlier trials featuring Nature Strip, who won as you would expect and then a raft of star three year-olds including Anamoe, Espiona and Mallory, who actually won the heat.
Sunday January 16
$575,000 Spirit of Boom colt Spiritualised was expected to make a winning debut at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday, but he came up short behind another first starter by Winning Rupert, whose colt from Songbird (Arg) was the equal session-topper at Magic Millions Book 2 on Sunday selling for $180,000.
Sunday January 16
The momentum of a record breaking Book One catalogue continued at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale as Book Two selling commenced this afternoon.
Sunday January 16
Here is the full list of 56 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Sunday January 16
Promising filly Hanalei provided co-owner and breeder Paul Richards with one of the biggest thrills of a more than forty-year career in the thoroughbred racing game when she took out the Listed IRT Wellesley Stakes (1100m) at Trentham on Saturday under the training of son Jamie.
Sunday January 16
A double on Magic Millions Day at the Gold Coast has moved I Am Invincible to within $1,300,000 of Nicconi in the race for champion sire.
Saturday January 15
Saturday’s night session brought the curtain down on Book One of Magic Millions Gold Coast and Maree McEwan was talking to some of the major players.
Saturday January 15
The Breednet Sales Centre offers best stats for analysis – leading sires, buyers and vendors – fully interactive with all you need to know about this record breaking Book 1 sale.
Saturday January 15
A colt by Exceed and Excel sold for $1.2 million and was the top seller of the night at the Gold Coast Yearling Sale as records were smashed across the board.
Saturday January 15
Here is the full list of 113 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday January 15
Yarraman Park's champion sire I Am Invincible has dominated the sale ring at this week’s Gold Coast Yearling Sale and today at the Gold Coast was the only stallion to post two winners on Magic Millions Day with success for Navy Cross and then King of Sparta.
Saturday January 15
Girl power was to the fore at the close of Saturday’s Magic Millions card at the Gold Coast as star trainer Annabel Neasham and Group 1 jockey Rachel King combined to win the $1 million Racing Queensland Magic Millions QTIS (1300m) with Headwater entire Wisdom of Water.
Saturday January 15
Written Tycoon filly Coolangatta kept up the great strike rate for favourites in the $2,000,000 Magic Millions 2yo Classic (1200m) at the Gold Coast when she held the challenge of the game Russian Conquest.
Saturday January 15
Dual Group I winning sprinter and Royal Ascot hero Merchant Navy is on the board with his first winner after Galaxy Affair saluted at Ascot on Saturday.
Saturday January 15
A winner of the race two years ago Halvorsen turned back the clock in Saturday’s $250,000 Group III Standish Hcp (1200m) at Flemington.
Saturday January 15
Popular Fastnet Rock gelding Eleven Eleven continued his love affair with the Gold Coast on Saturday, prevailing in one of the closest finishes in Magic Millions history to land the $1 million Magic Millions Cup (1400m).
Saturday January 15
High-class mare Levante broke through for a deserved Group One victory in a heart-stopping finish to Saturday’s JR & N Berkett Telegraph (1200m) at Trentham.
Saturday January 15
Saturday’s Gr.2 Life Direct Wellington Guineas (1400m) at Trentham was a sink-or-swim moment for unbeaten three-year-old Shamus, and he rose to the challenge in superb style.
Saturday January 15
Isotope’s fairytale return from a near-death bout of colic was completed at the Gold Coast on Saturday when the mare destroyed her rivals in the $1 million It’s Live! In Queensland Magic Millions Snippets (1200m).
Saturday January 15
Classy mare Snapdancer atoned for an unlucky placing in last year’s TAB Magic Millions Fillies and Mares (1300m) with a dominant victory in Saturday’s edition of the $1 million feature race at the Gold Coast.
Saturday January 15
Champion trainer Chris Waller might be at the Gold Coast with a big team of horses but he still had plenty of interesting runners at Rosehill including American Pharoah (USA) three year-old Sword Point, who won with a leg in the air.
Saturday January 15
Yarraman Park’s champion sire I Am Invincible has had over 660 winners in his stud career to date and just two of them have been able to win at 2400m or further and one of those is blue-blood gelding Navy Cross.
Saturday January 15
Promising filly Hanalei showed she had taken plenty from her runner-up performance on debut at Te Aroha at the start of the month, when she dominated her two-year-old rivals in the Listed IRT Wellesley Stakes (1100m) at Trentham.
Saturday January 15
Exciting galloper Bankers Choice showed he is well on his way to becoming a star of New Zealand racing with a last to first performance to take out the Gr.3 Dixon & Dunlop Anniversary Handicap (1600m) at Trentham on Saturday.
Saturday January 15
A long-range plan to get Bigboyroy to the Gold Coast for a tilt at the Magic Millions Raceday paid dividends on Saturday when Chris Waller’s gelding monstered his rivals in the $250,000 Magic Millions Open (1800m).
Saturday January 15
Fresh from siring his first $1million yearling at Magic Millions on Friday, Deep Field was in the frame at Rosehill on Saturday siring impressive two year-old debut winner Sweet Ride, who was too strong for a pair of $1million colts by Not a Single Doubt.
Saturday January 15
Peter and Paul Snowden won their third Magic Millions Maiden Plate (1200m) in seven years when the aptly-named Hinchinbrook mare Warmth scored in the $250,000 feature at a sun-bathed Gold Coast on Saturday.
Saturday January 15
The impeccably bred Snitzel colt Lofty Strike stamped his Blue Diamond ticket with a stunning debut over 1100m at Flemington on Saturday.
Friday January 14
The Breednet Sales Centre offers best stats for analysis – leading sires, buyers and vendors – fully interactive and with one short night session of Book 1 to go we check in on our our first season sires are performing.
Friday January 14
Here is the full list of 62 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Friday January 14
A filly by I Am Invincible topped Day Four of the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale today when selling for $1.1 million.
Friday January 14
“The world over we haven’t seen a sale like this in a long time” – Maree McEwan speaks to those involved on Day 4 at Magic Millions Gold Coast.
Friday January 14
Book 1 of a record-breaking sale comes to a conclusion with the Saturday night session of the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
Friday January 14
Following a year in which his service fee was raised to $88,000 it was good to see Newgate Farm’s Deep Field get his first million dollar yearling with a colt from Capital Commander cracking the milestone sum at Magic Millions on Friday.
Friday January 14
Late in the day on Friday, Pierro posted his second seven figure yearling at Magic Millions when Tom Magnier bid $1million to secure a strapping bay colt from Ben’s Duchess (USA).
Friday January 14
Artie Schiller (USA) has ridden the wave of fashion since he first shuttled to Australia in 2007.
Friday January 14
Charismatic Lonhro gelding Kementari will be in action at the Gold Coast on Saturday having gained a wild card entry for Godolphin to start in the $1million Magic Millions Cup (1400m) and over the road in the sale ring his only two foals, who are now yearlings have both been sold this week and will join major Sydney racing stables.
Friday January 14
Trainers Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott have timed their run to the DoubleTree By Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie next week to perfection with promising juvenile Time Ruler.
Friday January 14
The first million dollar sale at Magic Millions on Friday came with James Harron Bloodstock paying $1.1million for Segenhoe Stud’s I Am Invincible filly from blue-blood mare Villa Carlotta.
Friday January 14
It’s a long way from the Scottish borders to the Gold Coast, but this talented horseman with a passion for sales and bloodstock has found himself right at home.
Friday January 14
Raheen Stud’s exciting young sire Heroic Valour has two runners from his first crop of two year-olds in the $2million Magic Millions 2YO Classic on Saturday in Heroic Son and Mishani Persuasion, the Group I winning son of Fastnet Rock already making his mark at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale this week.
Friday January 14
John North and his team at Bowness Stud have achieved an enviable record for producing Group I performers from their family run thoroughbred nursery at Young on the South West Slopes of NSW and a talented Zoustar three year-old they bred and sold at Magic Millions in 2020 will run for the powerful Chris Waller stable in the $2million Magic Millions 3YO Guineas on Saturday.
Thursday January 13
The Breednet Sales Centre offers best stats for analysis – leading sires, buyers and vendors – fully interactive see what people are buying and selling during a vintage sale where the 94% clearance was maintained through Thursday and the average soared!