Australia’s darling of the turf, Verry Elleegant, will likely get her chance to pit her talents against the best in Europe next year.

Newgate Farm’s young gun Russian Revolution has had a flurry of runners at the trials in recent weeks and sired two impressive heat winners on Tuesday morning in Sydney and Brisbane.

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 seven first season sires with unraced trial winners in the pipeline.

The NZB Ready to Run Sale last week delivered strong results despite the issues arising from Covid and particularly for the top end of the market with 37 two-year-olds selling for over the $200,000 threshold, in comparison to 25 in 2020 and 30 in 2019.

Here is the full list of 15 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The John O’Shea stable produced a couple of well bred two year-old trial winners at Hawkesbury on Monday by champion sires Written Tycoon and Zoustar.

The racing future of impressive debut winner Wolverine lies offshore, but not before she has a crack at New Zealand’s richest two-year-old prize.

It's been almost a decade since Mid Summer Music credited Noor Elaine Farm's Oamaru Force with a career highlight win in the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap. Still, the former Peter Moody-trained mare may have to share the limelight in the future with a new force on the scene in Hong Kong.

The catalogue for the 2022 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale – the auction that has produced the winners of the Melbourne Cup, Golden Slipper, The Everest, Blue Diamond and Inglis Millennium among many other features in recent seasons – is now available online.

Australian bred HK superstar Golden Sixty extended his unbeaten run to 15 at Sha Tin on Sunday with a stylish victory in the Group II  Bochk Private Wealth Jc Mile (1600m), his dam Gaudeamus one of a stellar book of mares covered this spring by Wootton Bassett(GB).

A $430,000 NZB Ready to Run Sale purchase in 2017, Reliable Man (GB) gelding Reliable Team scored his biggest win to date when taking out the Group II The Bochk Jockey Club Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin on Sunday.

Westbury Stud’s El Roca has a serious sprinter in Hong Kong in the shape of Lucky Patch, who captured the Group II Bochk Private Bank. Jc Sprint (1200m) over Aussie bred speedsters Naboo Attack (Warhead) and Sky Field ( Deep Field).

Here is the full list of 64 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Sunday with winners and result details.

Japan has showcased a veritable production line of champion mares around the world in recent years, and another great, Gran Alegria, bowed out of racing with an emotional win in the Group 1 The Mile Championship at Hanshin on Sunday.

Just seven runners went to the post for Sunday’s $160,000 Listed Bet365 Kilmore Cup (1600m), but what a competitive finish it proved to be.

With his final southern hemisphere yearlings set to go through sale rings in early 2022, former Haunui Farm shuttle stallion Iffraaj is back in the Group One spotlight in Australia.

A member of the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young Stable, Cusack was sent out a $10 pop with bookies in a wide open race and overcame greenness for a gutsy win.

Talented Zoustar gelding Zoustyle has never lacked for ability, but soundness issues have kept him out of racing for more than a year with Tony Gollan finally getting him back to the track at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday with happy results.

Newgate Farm's Deep Field has been in the news this week for his popularity at the NZB Ready to Run Sale and was in the winner’s circle at Sunshine Coast on Saturday with his first two year-old winner of the new season in Rose of Shiraz.

Here is the full list of 124 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Saturday with winners and result details.

The $1million Group 1 WATC Railway Stakes (1600m) has been won by some greats of the turf, including Northerly and Better Loosen Up, but none have started shorter than Western Empire, who made a one-act affair of the feature at Ascot on Saturday.  

Tragically beaten at her most recent start, Treasured Star and Willie Pike redeemed themselves in Saturday’s $500,000 Group II Sky Racing-WA Guineas (1600m) when she sailed down the centre of the track to win by widening one and three-quarter lengths.

Worth $300,000, the inaugural The Warra (1000m) sprint at Kembla on Saturday was won with a brilliant late dash by quality Fastnet Rock speedster Eleven Eleven, who looks ready for another tilt at the big Magic Millions race day in January.

Third in the $500,000 Silver Eagle and second in the $7,500,000 Golden Eagle, who could begrudge Count De Rupee his day in the sun in Saturday’s $1,000,000 The TAB Gong (1600m) at Kembla Grange.

With most of the riders keen to get away from the fence in Saturday's $500,000 Listed Sportsbet Ballarat Cup (2000m), Luke Nolan was gifted a rails run on Zayydani, and the daughter of Savabeel did the rest.

A $600,000 Magic Millions purchase for David Ellis / Andrew Williams Bloodstock from the Coolmore draft, speedy filly Bright Blue Sky lived up to the hype when she made a winning debut in the Listed Fasttrack Insurance 2YO Stakes (1100m) at Te Rapa in New Zealand on Saturday.

Another magical ride by Opie Bosson saw gritty mare Showoroses secure her third career stakes victory when she held out all challengers to win the Gr.2 Dunstan Feeds Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1400m) at Te Rapa.

Local trainer David Greene experienced a wonderful moment at Te Rapa on Saturday when he provided the quinella in the Gr.3 Franklin Auctions Counties Cup (2100m).

Class galloper Levante once again showed just what a talent she is when she when she made it back-to-back victories in the Listed Haunui Farm Counties Bowl (1100m) on Saturday.

The Not A Single Doubt colt Cusack earned his ticket for the $2million Magic Millions 2yo Classic in January when making a winning debut in Saturday’s $250,000 Magic Millions Ballarat 2yo Classic (1000m).

Placed in the Group III Scarborough Stakes at Moonee Valley and Listed Reginald Allen Quality at Randwick, the Swettenham Stud colour-bearer Decent Raine finally had things go her way in the valuable John Jens VOBIS Gold Eureka Stockade at Ballarat on Saturday.

Keeneland’s November Breeding Stock Sale, the most important auction of its kind in the world, closed Friday with gross sales of $203 million, the highest for the sale since 2016, and a record median of $37,000 to signal a resumption of the pre-pandemic bull markets.

There is no better place to broaden your horizons and further your bloodstock education than in being a key member of the Inglis bloodstock team.

Yulong continues to expand its global reach. The Victorian-based farm unleashed on the opening day of the November Breeding Stock Sale with five purchases including the session topper.

The $250,000 Magic Millions Classic (1000m) at Ballarat this afternoon has attracted a field of 12 with three of the key runners by first season sires.

Cheveley Park Stud have announced sad news overnight with the passing of their champion sire Pivotal at age 28.

Here is the full list of 52 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Friday with winners and result details.

Pregnant mares and high quality breeding prospects highlight another strong catalogue for the Inglis Digital November (Late) Online Auction.

The best in the New Zealand thoroughbred breeding industry will be celebrated in the New Year.

Classy New Zealand-bred four-year-old Western Empire is set to start an overwhelming favourite in Saturday’s Gr.1 Railway Stakes (1600m) at Ascot in Perth, with the son of Iffraaj set to jump from barrier 3 in the 16-strong field.

The blue, white and red silks of syndicators Go Racing will be carried in feature races in New Zealand, New South Wales and Victoria on Saturday, headed by star mare Atishu in the A$1 million The Gong (1600m) at Kembla Grange.

With six winners in the past week, Capitalist is a sire on fire with his latest success coming with a very promising three year-old trained by Team Hawkes.

Momentum continued on the final day of New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2021 Ready to Run Sale off the back of a positive first day, with a strong market demanding quality juveniles that fetched significant price tags.

The Tapit stallion A Lot (USA) made the perfect start to his stud career when his first runner Costume Party made a winning debut over 1000m at Belmont on Wednesday.

Australian breeders have been well pleased with the first Australian foals born this spring by Kingman’s brilliant son Calyx (GB), whose first Northern Hemisphere bred foals made a good impression during the Goffs November Foal Sale on Wednesday.

Hong Kong trainer Ricky Yiu and New Zealand-based bloodstock agent Dean Hawthorne have teamed up once again to secure a couple of colts at New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale at Te Rapa this week.

On Saturday, the stakes action heads west, with Ascot hosting five stakes races led by the Group 1 Heineken 3-Railway Stakes (1600m).

A son of the late Sacred Falls will be chasing the lucrative prizemoney on offer in Sydney following his sale to Australian interests on the closing day of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale on Thursday afternoon.

A two year-old Fastnet Rock filly being compared to the mighty Avantage is being tipped to make a winning debut in New Zealand on Saturday.

Prominent Australian owner Ozzie Kheir is hoping he has landed another Group One star after he shelled out $640,000 for what his judges deemed the best colt at New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale.

The Greyville meeting in South Africa on Wednesday featured two Aussie bred winners in Port Adelaide (Adelaide (IRE) and Dunyaa (Brazen Beau).

On a day when So You Think sired four metropolitan winners across Sydney and Melbourne, his star performer was undoubtedly this three year-old filly who is definitely going places.

Here is the full list of 46 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A $1,050,000 Magic Millions purchase from the Segenhoe draft for Waller Racing/Mulcaster Bloodstock, good looking I Am Invincible colt Zarastro took another step forward at Rosehill on Wednesday when scoring a stylish victory.

On its opening day of selling, New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2021 Ready to Run Sale continued to reach new heights, reinforcing its position as the leading sale of its kind worldwide.

David Ellis is no stranger to the top end of the buyers sheet at a New Zealand Bloodstock sale, and he found himself there once again on Wednesday when purchasing the top lot on day one of their Ready to Run Sale at Te Rapa.

After winning by nearly four lengths at his career debut at Geelong in January, Adandiman was highly enough regarded by trainer Mitch Freedman to tackle the Group II Caulfield Autumn Classic at his third start.

There are sure to be better days ahead for the Tony Gollan-trained Ashgrove, who had little more than a walk in the park when breaking his maiden over 1640m at  Doomben on Wednesday.

Striking Capitalist colt Capital Tower made a winning debut over 1100m at Doomben on Wednesday to credit Tony Gollan with his first two-year-old winner of the season.

A $350,000 Inglis Easter purchase from the Newgate Farm draft, talented Snitzel colt Calgary Stampede opened his career in the best way possible when scoring a professional debut victory at Rosehill on Wednesday.

There was a flurry of action at Te Rapa on Wednesday when lot 44 came into the virtual sales ring at New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready To Run Sale.

Multiple Group One-winning Australian trainer Tony McEvoy made an early impact on the opening day of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale at Te Rapa on Wednesday when he secured a handsome son of Almanzor.

Buyers have been circling around impressive debut winner Mascarinto, but so far the two-year-old’s connections have knocked back all potential suitors.

Mapperley Stud sire Puccini sired his first winner at Rotorua when the Peter McKay trained Giacomo won impressively over 1560m.

The European flat season is coming to an end, but Wootton Bassett (GB) is not done siring stakes-winners just yet with his consistent mare Speak of the Devil taking out the Listed Prix Tantieme (1600m) at Saint-Cloud overnight.

The Warwick Farm trials on Tuesday morning produced two heat winners for Godolphin by Frosted (USA) and Kermadec, who gave them the recent Group I VRC Oaks winner Willowy.

Here is the full list of 27 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Roger James is hoping for a big day for his mares Two Illicit and Cheaperthandivorce as they seek more black-type success at Te Rapa on Saturday.

Francis Lui will unveil a healthy, strong and more mature Golden Sixty when the Hong Kong superstar resumes in the Gr.2 BOCHK Private Wealth Jockey Club Mile (1600m) at Sha Tin on Sunday.

Sebastian Hutch has been appointed to the new role of CEO, Inglis Bloodstock.

Renowned for his feats on the Karaka buyers’ bench at New Zealand Bloodstock’s annual National Yearling Sales Series, where he has been leading buyer for 16 consecutive years, Te Akau Racing principal David Ellis is also an ever-increasing force at the Ready to Run Sale. 

The NZB Ready to Run Sale starts on Wednesday and Riversley Park will present a sensational draft of 27 two year-olds by a wide range of sires.

If you missed this week’s episode of Thoroughbreds are Go last night on Sky Thoroughbred Central featuring remarkable racehorse turned showjumper turned police horse Lunar Rise then read on for the link to a great show from Caroline Searcy.

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 seven first season sires with trial winners in the pipeline and one sire in particular that has generated a cloud of smoke.

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

The catalogue for Australia's most popular thoroughbred auction, the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, has been unveiled and will present a sensational line up of racing's future superstars.

The powerful Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable were in the winner’s circle at Scone on Monday when promising American Pharoah (USA) filly Wenet scored her second win.

Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup Day has been put back a day to Sunday March 13 in order to accommodate New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale series.

New Zealand-breds are enjoying a golden run in Australian feature racing, winning a quarter of all Group One races last season and seven since August, despite making up only 7.3% of runners. But the (NZ) suffix has also been a recurring theme among blacktype broodmares.

New Zealand Bloodstock has today announced revised sale dates for its 2022 National Yearling Sales Series set to be held in March. 

We’ve run several stories on Breednet highlighting the adventures of a remarkable thoroughbred that was born at Arrowfield Stud with Caroline Searcy taking us into NSW Mounted Police headquarters at Surry Hills for a look into the next chapter of his life.

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

Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou picked a Canberra juvenile event to kick start the career of this promising Rubick two year-old filly, who won with the proverbial leg in the air.

Little Avondale Stud boss Sam Williams admits he will have one small pang of regret when the annual New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds kicks off this week.

Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (USA) has been churning out stakes-winners this year in the Northern Hemisphere with progressive mare Skygaze scoring a career best win in the Group III Maple Leaf Stakes ( 1¼ m ) at Woodbine on Saturday.

A bold front running effort that saw her dominate her rivals in the closing stages of a three-year-old 1400m event at Tauranga on Saturday has set promising filly La Crique on a path that will hopefully culminate in a tilt the Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) next March.

Fresh off providing the first four runners home in the Gr.1 Barneswood Farm New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m), trainer Jamie Richards has already begun to plan what the immediate future holds for each of his three-year-old fillies that contested the event.

Just like so many of New Zealand’s feature races in recent seasons, Saturday’s $300,000 Group One Barneswood Farm New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton Park turned into an astonishing tour de force by Te Akau Racing’s champion trainer Jamie Richards. 

The John O’Shea trained sprinting star Lost And Running (Per Incanto) carried top weight to a decisive victory in the $1m The Hunter over 1300m at Newcastle.

Rob and Heather Grant's mighty little filly Searchin' Roc's is doing much to revive the fortunes of Fastnet Rock's Group 1 winning son Awesome Rock.

The Dan Morton-trained Street Boss (USA) gelding took his earnings to over $1million following a dominant performance in Saturday’s Group III Euroz Hartleys-Colonel Reeves Stakes (1100m) at Ascot.

A homebred for Bob and Sandra Peters, five year-old So You Think gelding Midnight Blue posted his first Black Type success on Saturday when surging clear to win the Listed WATC Ascot Gold Cup (1800m) in Perth.

Here is the full list of 99 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Chris Waller and Kiwi syndicators Go Racing combined to provide the quinella in the inaugural Alf Kneebone Trans Tasman Trophy (1850m) at the metropolitan meeting at Newcastle on Saturday, with Mightybeel and stablemate Lord Ardmore running 1-2 in the Benchmark 88.

Tambo's Mate completed a running treble for trainer Tony Gollan when he turned back the clock in the Listed Keith Noud (1200m) at Doomben.

Fourth in The Everest and second in the Classique Legend, Lost And Running was the class act in Saturday’s $1million The Hunter at Newcastle, and it showed.

A tough, grinding drag it out finish on a heavy track played into the wheelhouse of King Magnus, who bounced back from troubled fifth in the Group 1  Kennedy Cantala Stakes to claim Saturday’s $500,000 Listed TAB Cranbourne Cup (1600m).

Purchased for just $33,000 from the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale by her trainer Matthew Smith, improving Choisir filly Festival Dancer ensured her future worth as a broodmare  when scoring a bold win over the colts in the $160,000 Group III Spring Stakes (1600m) at Newcastle on Saturday.

Trainer Jamie Richards added another milestone to his already storied training career when he provided the first four home in the Gr.1 Barneswood Farm New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton.

A last start winner of the Listed ATC Tattersalls Cup at Randwick, progressive stayer Torrens kept up the good work at Newcastle on Saturday when scoring a resounding victory in the $300,000 The Beauford (2300m).