A patient ride by Sam O’Malley proved the key to victory as Taranaki visitor Justaskme stormed clear to win the Gr.2 Gartshore Tauranga Stakes (1600m) at Tauranga.

It was some Kevin Myers magic at play at Riccarton on Saturday when outsider Mondorani ($22.60) stormed home down the outskirts of the Riccarton track to take out the 158th running of the Gr.3 Martin Collins New Zealand Cup (3200m).

Making his fifth start in seven weeks, the 2yo The Mission gelding Mishani Mental broke through for his first win in Saturday’s Sky Racing Hcp (1100m) at Doomben and banked another $100,000 Aquis bonus for owner/breeder Mike Crooks.

A heavy 10 did not deter connections of twelve youngsters contesting the Rhino The Wrecker Plate (1000m) at Cranbourne on Saturday.

Newgate Farm’s young gun Russian Revolution is on the board with his first winner after the Peter and Paul Snowden trained filly Russian Conquest scored a stylish debut victory in the $130,000 Max Lees Classic (900m) at Newcastle on Saturday.

Speedy filly Grace’s Secret made it two wins from two starts when she led throughout to take out the Listed Riccarton Park Function Centre Welcome Stakes (1000m) at Riccarton on Saturday.

The bullish market continued into the third day of selling at Keeneland’s November Breeding Stock Sale, which recorded strong trade throughout the session  evidenced by double-digit increases in gross, average and median prices and a buy-back rate of less than 19 percent.

Racing at Canterbury and Moonee Valley last night delivered metropolitan success for two siblings to Champion 3YO The Autumn Sun with three year-old colt Field Legend saluting in Sydney and four year-old gelding The Awesome Son getting the cash in Melbourne.

Ballylinch Stud have announced their fees with flagbearer Lope de Vega remaining at €125,000 following a successful year that has seen him sire 19 stakes-winners and 48 stakes horses in total.

Here is the full list of 48 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Friday with winners and result details.

A cowboy at heart and the son of a local bloodstock legend, this week we learn more about a young man with an eye for a good horse and the dream of buying his own farm.

With rain lashing the eastern states, it makes it a little bit more challenging for the inexperienced two-year-olds, however our pick looks to be carrying a bit of stable support in the Max Lees Classic (900m) at Newcastle on Saturday.

Session two of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale is underway and it did not take long for the Australians to strike.

Coolmore’s M.V. Magnier spent $625,000 for Just Before Dawn, a weanling colt by undefeated Triple Crown winner Justify who is a half-brother to multiple Grade 1 winner Moonshine Memories, to lead Thursday’s second session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Australian breeders with foals being born this spring by Coolmore shuttler Magna Grecia (IRE) will no doubt have been following the fortunes of his younger half-brother St Mark’s Basilica this year with the champion son of Siyouni crowned Cartier Horse of the Year for 2021.

The Inglis Digital platform has further enhanced itself as the best place to sell online after Stakes-winning mare Dirty Thoughts (So You Think) realised $575,000 as part of the November (Early) auction.

The first-ever running of the A$130,000 Alf Kneebone Trans-Tasman Trophy (1850m) will be a key component of Saturday’s New Zealand-themed raceday at Newcastle in the Hunter Valley, proudly sponsored by New Zealand Bloodstock. 

Juvenile trials this week produced some encouraging efforts from several runners by Hellbent, The Mission and Menari, whose highest priced yearling appears to have not only his good looks, but also his ability.

Winner of the 2020 Group I VRC Australian Cup when trained by the Hayes Dabernig team, blue-blood stallion Fifty Stars (IRE) has been retired and will take up a position in Ireland at Sunnyhill Stud to stand as a National Hunt stallion in partnership with Bloodstock.Racing.

Here is the full list of 42 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Thursday with winners and result details.

Born and raised in Otago and sold at New Zealand Bloodstock’s South Island Sale, Markus Aurelius (NZ) (Ghibellines) made a triumphant southern homecoming in Wednesday’s $230,000 Group Two Coupland’s Bakeries Mile (1600m) at Riccarton Park.

After a series of impressive performances at various tracks around the country, this season’s elite three-year-old fillies will meet for their first Group One showdown this Saturday.

Spendthrift Farm paid $3.1 million for the Grade 1-winning Curlin filly Paris Lights to lead Wednesday’s Book 1 opening session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. Paris Lights, who was supplemented to Book 1, was the third-to-last horse to appear in the ring during the session, which featured seven horses who sold for more than $1 million each and the highest price paid for a wea

The sales action moved to the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale on Wednesday, with a few familiar names making the scoreboard.

The running of the $1million ATC Golden Gift last weekend and the announcement of an increase in prizemoney for the Group I ATC Golden Slipper to $5million in 2022 got us thinking about two year-old racing and how small a percentage of the horse population is actually capable of contesting these races.

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

Trevor Delroy of Wyadup Valley has a happy knack for breeding and racing quality stayers and we might have seen the beginning of a new chapter in his success with a debut winner at Bendigo on Wednesday.

Lustre Lodge’s broodmare band gained two outstanding additions today as Peter Colley purchased the two top lots of the Inglis Digital November (Early) Online Sale.

Paul Moroney, Newgate Farm and S F Bloodstock, Freedman Brothers, Kia Ora Stud, and Julian Blaxland and Rosemont Stud were all players at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale, but it was the Japanese that flexed their muscles.

Fresh from landing the Gr.1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton last Saturday with glamour colt Noverre, the Te Akau team were again to the fore on the middle day of the New Zealand Cup Meeting.

Five-year-old mare Karalino landed the Gr.3 Valachi Downs Canterbury Breeders’ Stakes (1400m) for trainers Stephen Autridge and Kris Shailer in a dramatic finish to the fillies and mares feature at Riccarton on Wednesday.

Leading Victorian stallion, Reward For Effort, will be withdrawn from service for the remainder of the 2021 breeding season, due to a foot abscess.

Earlier this year Breednet ran a very popular story about the merits of November born foals highlighting their racetrack success and discounted yearling price in terms of how they present in the sale ring, so as we move into the last part of the breeding season we thought it was worth revisiting.

Over the last few weeks, dozens of feature races across Australasia and abroad have enhanced pedigrees throughout the catalogue for New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2021 Ready to Run Sale. 

Fees for the extensive Darley European sire roster for 2022 has been announced with Dubawi topping the list at £250,000 remaining at the same price he was this year.

Racing NSW today announced a prizemoney increase for The Golden Eagle from 2022. Prizemoney for the Golden Eagle will be increased to $8 million from 2022, befitting of its position as Australia’s premier four-year-old race and one of the highlights of the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival.

Central Districts raiders have triumphed in the $1m DoubleTree by Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) twice in the last decade, and a potential contender for 2022 emerged with a superb debut at Otaki on Thursday. 

Robina Joy will complete a unique family double if she can successfully rise to the sternest test of her career at Riccarton on Wednesday.

The bluebloods fought out the finish of the 1100m maiden at Gosford on Tuesday but it was the four year-old debutant mare that got the job done impressively.

Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week including a couple of winners for Spirit Of Boom, whose babies have started the season strongly again, so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.

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

In a year that saw the passing of his legendary sire Galileo, Frankel has soared to new heights with Juddmonte Farms moving to raise his service fee in 2022 to £200,000 up from  £175,000.

Little Avondale Stud’s Per Incanto (USA) was once the well kept secret of savvy buyers looking for real results and serious value at Karaka, but the secret is no longer as a growing legion of fans are now awake to his merits with the likes of Justacanta and Lost and Running keeping him front and centre in recent weeks.

A colt by Newgate Farm's young sire sensation Extreme Choice topped today's Magic Millions Gold Coast 2YOs in Training Sale when selling for $350,000.

Here is the full list of 22 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Gary Portelli has already won a Golden Slipper with the brilliant filly She Will Reign, but as he pointed out last Saturday it’s a lot more profitable to win it with a colt and he may have just the horse to do it.

There were three heats for juveniles at Rosehill on Monday morning that produced winners for Snitzel, Rubick and Spirit of Boom, who sired the fastest winner of the three.

A talented Group II placed three year-old in Australia when racing as Jet Propulsion, the now gelded Rubick four year-old Master Delight scored his first win in Hong Kong at Sha Tin on Sunday.

Spring racing is well and truly underway on both sides of the Tasman and three Haunui graduates certainly provided plenty to cheer about over the weekend in both New Zealand and Australia.

Less than two weeks out from the 2021 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale, a previous graduate of the Sale played the lead role in a remarkable all-Karaka trifecta in Saturday’s A$200,000 Group Three Paramount+ Chatham Stakes (1400m) at Flemington.

Adhering to the maxim of never looking a gift horse in the mouth is serving Robert Dennis and partners well.

Arrowfield Stud have had a great winning run over the past week with stakes victories at Flemington for star graduates Hitotsu, Flying Evelyn and Bend The Knee, the winning groove extending to Sha Tin on Sunday where the Group III Sa Sa Ladies Purse (1800m) was won by Tourbillon Diamond, a horse they sold as a yearling for just $7,000!

The Nervous Witness bubble burst at Sha Tin on Sunday when the boom four year-old could only finish fourth in the Class Three sprint over 1000m with victory going to Star Turn three year-old Cordyceps Six.

A Group I winner in Australia of the ATC Metropolitan, blue-blooded Frankel stallion Mirage Dancer (GB) is headed to Ireland to take up a stud career at Ger O’Neill’s Castlefield Stud as a National Hunt sire.

Trainer Catherine Cameron knows that she has limited time left with impressive Te Rapa winner Solid Impact but is keen to make the most of it with the progressive four-year-old.

The $6 million Longines Breeders' Cup Classic at Del Mar is a story easily told - Knicks Go jumped straight to the lead and refused to surrender it.

After capturing the Breeders’ Cup Mile with the Dubawi homebred Space Blues (IRE), Godolphin and trainer Charlie Appleby struck again with another son of Dubawi, Yibir (GB), in the $4 million Longines Breeders' Cup Turf.

Yoshito Yahagi struck for a second time for Japan when Marche Lorraine (JPN) beat the locals at their own game in the Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Del Mar.

A familiar face in Australia as the trainer of 2019 Cox Plate heroine Lys Gracieux (JPN), Yoshito Yahagi broke new ground for Japan when his world-traveller Loves Only You (JPN) overcame difficulties to triumph in Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Del Mar.

Caroline Searcy’s national thoroughbred re-homing program Thoroughbreds Are Go returns to Sky Thoroughbred Central this Monday night, Nov 8 at 7.30pm on Channel 528.

Newgate Farm’s young Written Tycoon stallion Winning Rupert posted his first stakes-winner on Saturday when promising three year-old It’s Arayday took out the Listed WATC Fairetha Stakes (1400m) at Ascot.

The juvenile event at Eagle Farm on Saturday saw first season sires provide the first four across the line with Spendthrift Australia’s Overshare posting his first winner with Lady Laguna.

Nature Strip (Nicconi) reaffirmed his status as the world’s best sprinter with a demolition job in the G1 Darley Sprint Classic at Flemington.

Here is the full list of 114 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The race to the $5million 2022 ATC Golden Slipper started in earnest at Rosehill on Saturday with the running of the $1million ATC Golden Gift (1100m) with the winner Sejardan, now assured of a start in the world’s richest race for two year-olds.

I suspect Australian breeders’ would like another chance at the Queen Anne Stakes and York International Stakes Stakes winner Declaration Of War (USA).

Scratched on the eve of the Cox Plate due to an elevated temperature, Zaaki (GB) bounced back to dominate Saturday’s $2,000,000 Group 1 Paramount+ Mackinnon Stakes (2000m) under a front running masterpiece by the jockey of the carnival, James McDonald.

Fresh from his last start triumph in the $15million The Everest at Randwick, Nature Strip unleashed his brilliance at Flemington on Saturday to score a commanding victory in the Group I VRC Darley Sprint (1200m).

The partnership of jockey Opie Bosson and Te Akau Racing provided another memorable moment in the history of the Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) when they combined to land the blue ribband event with stunning Savabeel colt Noverre.

A Breednet One To Watch when winning on debut at Seymour in October 2019, and a Best On Breeding after making it two in a row on the same track three weeks later, Zayydani went winless in nine starts before breaking through at the Gold Coast in June.

Topweight Mr Intelligence gave his rivals weight and a beating as he provided the perfect dress rehearsal for next weeks’ Gr.3 Martin Collins New Zealand Cup (3200m) when he took out the traditional lead-up event, the Listed Nautical Boat Insurance Metropolitan Trophy (2500m) on Saturday.

Cambridge trainer Stephen Marsh maintained the winning roll he has been on of late when he produced the quinella in the feature race at Te Rapa on Saturday, the Listed Legacy Lodge Sprint (1200m) with victory going to Aussie bred Foxwedge gelding Raposa Rapida, a full brother to Group I winner Volpe Veloce.

The great Snitzel struck on the final day of the Flemington Carnival when John O’Shea’s progressive three-year-old Bend The Knee outfought Port Louis in the Listed Amanda Elliott Stakes (1400m).

Speedy mare Babylon Berlin got her spring campaign off to the best possible start when she proved too slick for her rivals in the Listed Donaldson Brown Pegasus Stakes (1000m) at Riccarton.

Fresh off his win in the $500,000 ATC ST Leger, the five-year-old Declaration Of War (USA) gelding Warning led every step of the way for Nash Rawiller in Saturday’s $300,000 Group III Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2600m) At Flemington.

Champion sire Fastnet Rock has had Group I winners all over the world, but achieved a new milestone for himself when his exciting two year-old filly Pizza Bianca captured the Group I Breeders’ Cup Turf Fillies (1m) at Del Mar on Friday.

A great start to the Breeders' Cup meeting at Del Mar for Widden Stud after Wesley Ward's speedball Twilight Gleaming became the first filly to win the Group II Juvenile Turf Sprint.

Coolmore Ireland have announced their fees for 2022 with the roster headed by Wootton Bassett (GB) at a fee of €150,000 (A$234,341), the proven Group I sire currently in Australia covering his first book of mares here at a fee of $71,500.

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

Alexia Fraser and her team are still celebrating after a filly they sold at Magic Millions earlier this year, See You in Heaven, won the Group III VRC Ottawa Stakes on Thursday and their draft for the Magic Millions 2YO’s in Training Sale next week features a filly that may be just as quick after breezing as the fastest filly in this year’s sale.

Stakes-winning mares, Stakes-producing dams and mares carrying 45-day positives to in-demand stallions highlight another strong Inglis Digital Online Auction.

The 2022 Keith & Faith Taylor Equine Scholarship has been awarded to a young industry participant from a family ingrained in the fabric of the New Zealand thoroughbred breeding industry.

When you are born and bred in Newmarket, the epicentre of horse racing in the UK, there is really no escaping a career involving thoroughbreds.

Cambridge trainer Tony Pike is confident strapping chestnut Starspangledbanner gelding Field Of Gold can be in the thick end of the prizemoney in Saturday’s Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m).

Promise matched performance at Eagle Farm last Saturday when the Mike Crooks bred & owned, Mishani Warfare, became the first winner for Aquis Farm’s exciting young sire, The Mission.

New Zealand Bloodstock is thrilled to announce the launch of its inaugural sponsorship involving a ‘New Zealand’ based raceday hosted at Newcastle Racecourse (NSW) on 13 November 2021. 

Yarraman Park’s young gun sire Hellbent has his first stakes performer with the Annabel Neasham trained filly Bohemian Daisy running a bold race to finish third in the Group III VRC Ottawa Stakes (1000m) at Flemington on Oaks Day.

It’s been an interesting week for juveniles with stakes races for colts and fillies at Flemington won by Brereton (Zoustar) and See You in Heaven (Divine Prophet) with the focus back at Rosehill on Saturday for the $1million ATC Golden Gift (1100m).

The lure of the $250,000 on offer in the Inglis Bracelet at Flemington was too strong for trainer Andrew Noblet to ignore and it proved a winning decision when consistent mare Foxy Frida was successful.

Here is the full list of 47 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The Mike Moroney-trained Bermadez landed a big payday for connections when taking the lion’s share of the A$500,000 Melbourne Cup Carnival Country Final (1600m) at Flemington on Thursday.

The curtain came down on Kennedy Oaks Day at Flemington when Brett Brebble guided the Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained Flying Evelyn to victory in the $300,000 Group III Network 10 Red Roses Stakes (1100m) at Flemington.

It took the length of the Flemington straight for the favourite Willowy to run down a gallant Douceur in the $1million Group 1 Kennedy Oaks (2500m), but win it she did with the daughter of Kermadec crediting Damien Oliver with a record-equalling seventh win in the race and 126th victory at the highest level.

Brilliant Magnus sprinter Halvorsen won the Group III VRC Standish Stakes up the Flemington straight in January 2020, but had been winless since then until returning to his favourite track on Thursday at his first run back from a spell.

The dawn of what promises to be a spectacular career for Espiona, who kept her record at a perfect two for two with a contemptuous six and a half-length romp in the Listed Off the Track Desirable Stakes (1400m) at Flemington on VRC Oaks Day.

Awapuni trainer Roydon Bergerson unveiled an exciting prospect when two-year-old filly Wolverine made a winning debut over 1100m at Otaki on Thursday.

Fifteen two-year-old fillies charged down the Flemington straight in the Group III Darley Ottawa Stakes (1000m) on Oaks Day and it was the unraced division that dominated the finish.

Consistent Foxwedge mare Foxy Frida came from last to claim the $250,000 Inglis Bracelet (1600m) at Flemington on Oaks Day.

For a stud that has stood 7 Golden Slipper sires, Arrowfield’s launch of Dundeel in 2014  and Maurice in 2017 marked a major shift to the Classic end of the breeding spectrum. 

The NZ suffix has featured prominently in Australia this spring, so it’s no surprise a couple of Kiwi stallions are featuring prominently on the Australian Leading Sires table this season.