Tuesday January 4
Breednet have developed a new report to shed some light on those mystery unraced siblings to Magic Millions yearlings.
Tuesday January 4
Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott have been enjoying a lot of success at country meetings teaming up with in form jockey Winona Costin and they got the cash again at Muswellbrook on Tuesday with a first starter by Vancouver sent out at $31!
Tuesday January 4
Several key runners for the Magic Millions race day on Saturday week tuned up at Gold Coast trials this morning with heat wins for three year-old filly Lady of Honour and for two year-old colt Cusack, whose full sister will be offered at the sale next week.
Tuesday January 4
Four heats for juveniles at Rosehill on Tuesday morning produced some interesting winners including a $1.2million Written Tycoon colt carrying the colours of Spendthrift Australia, who announced last week their intention to discontinue their Australian breeding operation in Victoria.
Tuesday January 4
An ambitious plan hatched by trainer Stephen Marsh and Bloodstock agent Dylan Johnson kicked its first goal at Tauranga on Sunday when former Australian mare Iconic Star strode clear to win the New World Te Puke 1200.
Tuesday January 4
A year ago, Roger James identified a Tavistock juvenile in his barn as the horse that might give him a sixth New Zealand Derby success.
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Tuesday January 4
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 their 2022 Magic Millions draft is packed with the potential of more G1 stars to come.
Monday January 3
With less than two weeks until the big Magic Millions race day on January 15 the order of entry for the $2million Magic Millions 2YO Classic and 3YO Guineas looks like this.
Monday January 3
Arrowfield Stud’s champion sire Snitzel has had a flying start to the season with 10 stakes-winners on the board since August 1, so for those who need reminding what a good Snitzel really looks like ahead of the Magic Millions Yearling Sale next week we’ve gone back to check out yearling images of some of his best colts offered at auction.
Monday January 3
Here is the full list of 39 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Monday January 3
Pierro has been on a roll in recent weeks with Group I winner Regal Power and stakes-winners Parry Sound and Holbien, the Golden Slipper winning sire featuring at Sandown on Monday with an impressive debut winner trained by Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young.
Monday January 3
Jamie Richards dominated the two-year-old events at Te Aroha on Monday as Maven Belle joined stablemate Kabugee as an impressive juvenile winner on debut when she burst clear in the run home in a 1000m contest.
Monday January 3
Two-year-old gelding Kabugee showed a glimpse of his talent when winning on debut at Te Aroha on Monday over 1000m and in the process provided his Rich Hill Stud sire Satono Aladdin with his first New Zealand bred winner and brought a pedigree update for his half-brother to be offered at Karaka Book 1.
Monday January 3
Multiple Group One winning New Zealand-bred mare Tofane is likely to return to the track in the Gr.1 C.F. Orr Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield in February in what will be the beginning of the end of the six-year-old’s racing career.
Monday January 3
2022 yearling sale catalogues are a moving picture that evolves and changes with every race meeting up until sale day, so this weekly report seeks to bring you all the relevant updates in the one place and the Christmas - New Year racing delivered a Group I update!
Sunday January 2
Here is the full list of 72 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Sunday January 2
The full sister to Group I BRC Queensland Oaks winner Duais made a winning debut at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday giving the impression she may well be another star on the rise for her sire Shamus Award.
Sunday January 2
He’s the leading sire of two year-old winners in the country and posted a new stakes-winner at Doomben on Saturday when Tiger Heart took out the Group III BRC Vo Rogue Stakes, so for fans of Better Than Ready the 2022 Magic Millions Yearling Sale is a garden of opportunity with 40 of his yearlings catalogued.
Sunday January 2
I Am Invincible has another sire son with his first winner after Aquis Farm’s Kobayashi broke the ice at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday with a debut  victory for two year-old filly Midnight in Tokyo.
Sunday January 2
A decision to send maiden galloper Tigertiger to the Mornington stable of Robert Blacker is paying dividends for his Foxton-based owner and breeder Ian Shaw after the son of Zed picked up his fifth win from just 10 Australian starts in the Listed Bagot Handicap (2800m) at Flemington on Saturday.
Sunday January 2
A tilt at the Doubletree By Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie is now a distinct possibility for impressive debut winner Diss Is Dramatic, who cruised to victory at Tauherenikau on Sunday in the Valley Plumbing (1000m).
Sunday January 2
They got closer than in his first four starts, but not close enough as the Oamaru Force gelding Master Eight stretched his unbeaten sequence to five in the Group III Bauhinia Sprint Trophy Handicap (1000m) at Sha Tin on New Year’s Day.
Sunday January 2
It’s time to have a look at a selection of Group 1 winning mares and who they partnered with in 2021.
Sunday January 2
Leading Hunter Valley nursery Cressfield has produced many Group I performers over the years, but the current flagbearer for the farm is bonny three year-old filly Jamaea, who was plucked from their Magic Millions draft in 2020 by her co-trainer Rob Price for $130,000.
Sunday January 2
Widden Stud’s champion sire Zoustar has wasted no time putting runs on the board in 2022 posting a New Year’s Day stakes-winner in Hong Kong with Healthy Happy capturing the Group III Chinese Club Challenge Cup (1400m) at Sha Tin bringing a pedigree update for his half-brother to be offered at Magic Millions.
Saturday January 1
Here is the full list of 134 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday January 1
The Peters Investments and Grant and Alana Williams show rolled on without Willie Pike in the Group II Perth Cup (2400m) at Ascot on New Year's Day.
Saturday January 1
The five-year-old Helmet mare Beret is in the best form of her life.
Saturday January 1
New Year’s Day racing saw Yarraman Park’s champion sire I Am Invincible become the first stallion to hit 100 Australian winners for the season with a treble of winners highlighted by a new stakes-winner in Salateen.
Saturday January 1
A rapidly deteriorating track at Doomben proved the catalyst for the Tony Gollan-trained Tiger Heart to return to his best in the Group III Magic Millions Vo Rogue Plate (1350m).
Saturday January 1
Lightweight runner Mali Ston produced a performance that had to be seen to be believed when he weaved through traffic to take out the Gr.2 Rich Hill Mile (1600m) at Ellerslie becoming the fifth stakes-winner for Westbiry Stud's El Roca.
Saturday January 1
The Luke Fernie-trained Sheeza Belter kick-started her career with a hugely impressive win in the Magic Millions Plate (1100m) on Perth Cup day at Ascot to credit her sire Gold Standard with his first winner.
Saturday January 1
Te Akau Racing, trainer Jamie Richards and jockey Opie Bosson have gone back-to-back in the world’s first Group One race of the year, stealing the show with a scintillating performance by Entriviere in the Sistema Railway (1200m) at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day.
Saturday January 1
 The plan to send the American-owned mare Lighthouse (USA) down under in search of black-type paid off big time at Flemington on New Year’s Day when keeping her Australian record at a perfect four for four in the Listed Chester Manifold Stakes (1400m).
Saturday January 1
Veteran sire Artie Schiller (USA) will have a runner in the $2million Magic Millions 2YO Classic with his promising son Golden Artie defeating boom filly Soaring Ambition at Doomben on New Year’s Day.
Saturday January 1
The Rob Blacker-trained Tigertiger overcame a stubborn Skelm in a  slogging finish to Flemington's $200,000 Listed Bagot Handicap (2800m) at Flemington on New Year's Day.
Saturday January 1
With back-to-back stakes wins including a last-gasp thriller in Saturday’s Gr.2 SKYCITY Auckland Guineas (1600m) at Ellerslie, Dark Destroyer is stepping up to fill a void for owners David Archer and Diane Wright.
Saturday January 1
A Breednet ‘One to Watch’ when breaking his maiden at Hawkesbury in November, Capitalist three year-old Clemenceau kept the wins coming when saluting at Flemington on New Year’s Day to put the spotlight on his Magic Millions bound yearling half-brother.
Saturday January 1
The ominous sound of the protest siren sounding shortly after the runners crossed the line in the Gr.2 First Global Logistics Eclipse Stakes (1200m) at Ellerslie threw shudders through the supporters of first past the post Pacific Dragon.
Saturday January 1
In a thrilling finish to the Gr.2 Valachi Downs Royal Stakes (2000m) at Ellerslie, it was the Jamie Richards-trained Self Obsession who got in the deciding stride to claim victory by a nose over Princess Lowry.
Saturday January 1
A recent injury prevented popular owner-breeder Joan Egan from attending the New Year’s Day races at Ellerslie on Saturday, but her pride and joy Concert Hall gave her a timely boost with a masterful performance in the Gr.3 Skycity City of Auckland Cup (2400m).
Saturday January 1
Rebel Dane filly Fireburn is looking much more than an offseason two-year-old.
Saturday January 1
The first metropolitan race in Melbourne for 2022 was won in good style at Flemington by talented two year-old Capitalist filly Latizia, a $475,000 Magic Millions purchase from the Newgate Farm draft.
Friday December 31
The 2022 Magic Millions Yearling Sale will showcase the first Australian progeny for a number of high profile first season sires and Breednet’s user friendly image galleries make a swift assessment of their stock an easy task.
Friday December 31
Here is the full list of 60 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Friday December 31
Champion trainer Peter Moody purchased a number of first crop American Pharoah (USA) yearlings in 2020 and produced an impressive debut winner by the Triple Crown winner at Moonee Valley on New Year’s Eve.
Friday December 31
Gerry Harvey has bred and raced a lot of good mares over the years and one of the best would be Lotteria, who gave us a ‘One to Watch’ on the last day of 2021.
Friday December 31
The 2022 Magic Millions Yearling Sale is not far away with the first horses to go under the hammer on January 11 so let’s take a look at some of the siblings to Group I winners we are yet to highlight from previous stories.
Friday December 31
An Oaks target is on the agenda for Dundeel filly Aquacade in the autumn, but on what side of the Tasman that will be could be dictated by her performance at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day.
Friday December 31
Isotope has looked a Group 1 winner in waiting from the time she became the talk of the town with a dazzling 10-length romp on debut at Doomben in April last year.
Friday December 31
A trip to the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale in 2000 sparked a keen passion for thoroughbreds and pedigrees that has led this young woman to forge a career in bloodstock leading to a key role with global breeding operation Darley.
Friday December 31
Opie Bosson has never partnered high-class mare Entriviere on race day, but the champion jockey is confident their first time together at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day will be an occasion to savour.
Thursday December 30
The 2022 Magic Millions Yearling Sale will showcase the first Australian progeny for a number of high profile first season sires and Breednet’s user friendly image galleries make a swift assessment of their stock an easy task.
Thursday December 30
Here is the full list of 43 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Thursday December 30
Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week with some likely autumn contenders showing themselves after their spring break, so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.
Thursday December 30
From Cups contenders to Slipper hopefuls, Mill Park Stud in South Australia is a thoroughbred nursery that consistently delivers results at the highest level and their exciting draft of eight for Magic Millions 2022 holds the promise of more success to come.
Thursday December 30
A $65,000 stake attracted a strong line-up for this year’s running of the Harcourts Taupo Cup (2000m) on Thursday and Hawke’s Bay trainer Patrick Campbell was delighted to take home the lion’s share of the purse courtesy of his evergreen galloper Hunta Pence.
Thursday December 30
Five heats for two year-olds at the Warwick Farm trials on Thursday morning produced some interesting winners including two very smart types by I Am Invincible that have already raced and shown good ability in the Group III ATC Breeder’s Plate and Gimcrack Stakes back in the spring.
Thursday December 30
The new year brings a new challenge for this season’s New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year contenders, who will stretch out beyond 1600 metres for the first time in Saturday’s sixth leg of the series – the $120,000 Group Two Valachi Downs Royal Stakes (2000m) at Ellerslie. 
Wednesday December 29
The 2022 Magic Millions Yearling Sale will showcase the first Australian progeny for a number of high profile first season sires and Breednet’s user friendly image galleries make a swift assessment of their stock an easy task.
Wednesday December 29
Spendthrift Farm have announced they are discontinuing their operation in Australia and putting the Spendthrift Australia property in Victoria up for sale.
Wednesday December 29
DArley sire Kermadec featured in South Africa on Wednesday with an impressive Australian bred winner at Kenilworth in Sunday Island, who appreciated a step up in distance to a staying trip.
Wednesday December 29
Here is the full list of 49 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Wednesday December 29
Supporters of the odds-on favourite Brookspire would have been on good terms with themselves when she eased around the leader Expat coming around the turn in Wednesday’s Group III Gosford RSL Belle Of The Turf Stakes (1600m), but there was plenty of fight left in the leader.
Wednesday December 29
An interesting winner in Tasmania on Wednesday was blue-blooded Frankel filly Unclouded (GB), who was quietly snapped up from the 2021 Inglis September (Early) Online Sale for $65,000 by Tasmanian breeder Rob Dixon’s Reibey Lodge.
Wednesday December 29
Godolphin’s Exceed And Excel gelding Bacchanalia loves to get his toe in the ground and found conditions to suit in Wednesday’s $150,000 Listed Gosford Guineas (1200m).
Wednesday December 29
This three year-old Capitalist colt has had a good grounding at the barrier trials and unleashed for real at Gosford on race day produced an explosive debut victory.
Wednesday December 29
Second on debut when she did a few things wrong, four year-old Zoustar mare Twilight Affair made no such mistakes when racing straight and true to win with ease at Gosford on Wednesday as a short priced favourite.
Wednesday December 29
Tutukaka might be dropping back from a Derby trip but there's little doubt that the two-time Australian stakes winner spearheads a three-pronged attack for Cambridge trainer Tony Pike on Saturday's Gr.2 SkyCity Auckland Guineas (1600m) at Ellerslie.
Wednesday December 29
Well-performed Karaka graduate William Wallace (NZ) (Darci Brahma) is continuing to deliver at the age of nine, romping home by a wide margin in Tuesday’s $60,000 Listed Craigmore Sustainable Holdings Timaru Cup (1600m) at Phar Lap Raceway. 
Tuesday December 28
The 2022 Magic Millions Yearling Sale will showcase the first Australian progeny for a number of high profile first season sires and Breednet’s user friendly image galleries make a swift assessment of their stock an easy task.
Tuesday December 28
Here is the full list of 60 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Tuesday with winners and result details.
Tuesday December 28
A quartet of promising three-year-olds captured the first four races at Yarra Glenn on Tuesday, and there was a lot to like about the Logan McGill-trained debutant Il Braccio.
Tuesday December 28
Widden Stud sires Outreach and Star Witness both had smart winners at the Sha Tin meeting on Monday with four year-old Carroll Street making it four wins from eight starts, while three year-old Galaxy Witness was a winner on debut.
Tuesday December 28
Promising three-year-old filly Miss Ella set tongues wagging at Rotorua on Tuesday as she broke her maiden status with a ten-length romp over 1400m.
Tuesday December 28
Gosford will host the final two stakes races of the year in Australia on Wednesday, the Group III Belle Of The Turf Stakes (1600m) and Listed Gosford Guineas (1200m).
Monday December 27
A classy three year-old in the Chris Waller stable last season winning the Group III ATC Frank Packer Plate and finishing second in the Group I BRC Queensland Derby, Senor Toba has opened his account in Hong Kong with a stylish win at Sha Tin on Monday.
Monday December 27
Proven Thoroughbreds /O’Dea Hoysted Racing upped the ante at the 2021 Magic Millions Yearling Sale paying $450,000 for a Snitzel filly bred on a ‘nick that clicks’ and she made a winning debut at the Sunshine Coast on Monday .
Monday December 27
Magic Millions have released updated order of entry lists for their $2million Magic Millions 2YO Classic and $2million 3YO Guineas on January 15.
Monday December 27
Here is the full list of 47 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Monday December 27
Te Akau Racing principal David Ellis has announced the retirement of Gr.1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) winner Noverre.
Monday December 27
Boxing Day races provided opportunity for some of our first season sires to put runs on the board and as we get to the end of 2021 we see four of our young first season stallions tied on three winners each – can you name them?
Monday December 27
2022 yearling sale catalogues are a moving picture that evolves and changes with every race meeting up until sale day, so this weekly report seeks to bring you all the relevant updates in the one place and this week includes the full brother to a new stakes-winner and the half-brother to a Group I winner that has returned from a spell in top form.
Monday December 27
The retirement of one champion and the ordination of another was the takeaway following a thrilling Group 1 Arima Kinen (2500m) at Nakayama Racecourse on Boxing Day.
Monday December 27
The remarkable consistency and class that Belle En Rouge (NZ) (Burgundy) has shown through the first half of the 2021-22 New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series has been rewarded with a place at the top of the points table. 
Monday December 27
Trelawney Stud’s colours were prominent in black type events at Ellerslie on Boxing Day with three placings, but two of them came at a physical cost.
Sunday December 26
Here is the full list of 110 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Boxing Day with winners and result details.
Sunday December 26
Coolmore’s Golden Slipper winning sire Pierro featured with a stakes double on Boxing Day with Parry Sound winning the Group III ATC Summer Cup (2000m ) and Holbien taking out the Listed MRC Lord Stakes (1700m) at Caulfield.
Sunday December 26
Twelve months ago, Roheryn won the Listed Falvelon Quality at Eagle Farm, which earned him a wildcard entry for the $1million Snippets Sprint on magic Millions Day on the Gold Coast, where he clocked in third.
Sunday December 26
In 2005, high class Danehill mare Aqua D’Amore was just at the start of her sparkling career backing up from winning the Group II ATC Villiers Stakes to also take out the Group III ATC Summer Cup and at Randwick on Boxing Day her six year-old son Parry Sound followed in her footsteps to win the feature race claiming his  first Black type success.
Sunday December 26
After going winless for two years and twenty starts since winning the $1million Bondi Stakes at Randwick in 2019, the striking Shooting To Win gelding Kubick has become a winning machine.
Sunday December 26
Yarraman Park’s champion sire I Am Invincible posted a trans-Tasman stakes double with Festivity successful in New Zealand and then exciting mare Marabi made it five wins from five starts when taking out the Listed MRC Christmas Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield.
Sunday December 26
Gimcrack Stakes heroine Coolangatta erased any doubt about running a strong 1200m when keeping her record at a perfect two for two in a furiously run Group III Magic Millions BJ McLachlan Stakes at Doomben on Boxing Day.
Sunday December 26
Veteran galloper Tiptronic led all the way to take out his second career Group One prize when he captured the Gr.1 Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie
Sunday December 26
Yarraman Park’s champion sire I Am Invincible kept the winners coming for Jamie Richards at Ellerslie on Boxing Day with Te Akau owned Festivity outpointing her stablemate Vamos Bebe to win the Listed Hallmark Stud Handicap (1200m).
Sunday December 26
A shift to the South Island has worked wonders for Hasabro, who picked up his first black-type win in the Listed Alleviate Administration Hazlett Stakes (1200m) at Wingatui on Boxing Day.
Sunday December 26
A brilliant performance by emerging star Bankers Choice completed a dream Boxing Day for Okaharau Station owner-breeders Ross and Corrine Kearney.
Sunday December 26
A year on from their five-win bonanza on Boxing Day at Ellerslie last year, Te Akau Racing and trainer Jamie Richards got the 2021 edition of the famous fixture off to an eerily similar start.
Sunday December 26
The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained Jacquinot will have a short break before embarking on a Blue Diamond Stakes campaign following a brilliant debut performance in the Frank O’Brien Handicap (1200m) at Caulfield on Boxing Day.
Sunday December 26
Newgate Farm’s young gun Russian Revolution will have a runner in the $2million Magic Millions 2YO Classic next month with his talented filly Russian Conquest making it two wins from two starts when saluting at Randwick on Boxing Day.