Darley Stud has announced the death of Group 1 winner and Group 1 producer Mnemosyne.

A particularly strong group of racehorses and racing prospects headline the catalogue for the Inglis Digital October (Early) Online Auction, which is now open for bidding.

Four interesting heats for two year-olds at Randwick on Friday morning and two of them were won by the progeny of first season sires Russian Revolution and Hellbent.

Exciting young sire Churchill (IRE) has enjoyed good success with his first Northern Hemisphere bred two year-olds this year and his stock were popular at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 this week.

The timing was perfect for Fairway Thoroughbreds' John Camilleri when the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale began on October 5.

Leading Everest contenders Classique Legend and Eduardo both won barrier trials at Randwick on Friday morning.

The newly formed partnership of Robbie Griffiths and Mathew de Kock joined the action on a hectic final day of Book One of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.

Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale finished with a flourish with three lots selling for 1,000,000 guineas or more and turnover above 30,000,000 guineas for the second day in a row. Sale turnover, average and median all showed increases on last year as did the clearance rate of 83%. 

Nestled on the banks of the Broken River in north east Victoria, Riverbank Farm may well be idyllic, but its owners, Russell and Caroline Osborne, are anything but idle.

The Australian breeding season may be in full swing, but Widden Stud already have their sights set on next year, enhancing their 2022 roster by the acquisition of exciting Group 1 winning sprinter, Portland Sky.

Here is the full list of 44 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

I Am Invincible's three time winning daughter Iamican topped a successful Magic Millions Online October Sale today.

After finishing second with Castelvecchio in the 2019 Spring Champion stakes, owner Ottavio Galletta and trainer Richard Litt will hope to go one better on Saturday with their $1,900,000 Deep Impact (JPN) colt Profondo.

New Zealand Bloodstock graduate Benaud will be after his first Group One scalp when he contests the Spring Champion Stakes (2000m) at Randwick on Saturday.

The new season two year-olds are off and running and here are the placegetters over the past 10 days with breeding and sale information.

A brand new five star stallion barn and the support of leading breeders ensures these two stallions are getting every opportunity this spring.

The bottle green with white and green checked sleeves colours of the Yuesheng Zhang-owned Yulong Stud are an increasingly familiar sight on European racecourses.

Cambridge trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman have set their sights on another Derby triumph in Australia.

Two year-old stakes racing continues at Caulfield on Saturday with the Listed MRC Debutant Stakes (1000m) for colts and fillies with the race to feature a $1million colt by Zoustar.

A colt by SEA THE STARS from the family of Darley shuttler Too Darn Hot (GB) was the star turn on the second day of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1, selling for 1,200,000 guineas during a session that saw a clearance rate of 87% and turnover of 30,116,000 guineas. 

Our ‘Breed to Race’ stories have been very popular highlighting affordable stallions priced under $10,000 and a winner at Rosehill on Wednesday has the potential to be a new stakes-winner for a sire that has been well found by this sector of the market.

Here is the full list of 33 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Progressive three-year-old Dark Destroyer got off the mark in fine style when winning a maiden over 1300m at Taupo on Wednesday.

It’s been a good few days for Highclere Stud’s More Than Ready (USA) mare Piping Hot.

Fans of the movie Shawshank Redemption will no doubt have been following the career of three year-old Hinchinbrook gelding Dufresne quite closely and after missing narrowly at Randwick last Wednesday, he atoned at Rosehill today with an impressive first win.

New Zealand Bloodstock and the Waikato Racing Club have been given confirmation to stage the 2021 Breeze Ups at Te Rapa Racecourse under Alert Level 3, should the current Hamilton city border restrictions remain in place. 

Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr were on the board early on day one of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale when they teamed up with Dermot Farrington to purchase a son Frankel.

Fillies by NO NAY NEVER and DUBAWI headlined the opening day of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale when selling for 825,000 guineas and 800,000 guineas respectively.

Keeneland’s catalog of 3,594 horses in the breeding stock and weanling portion of its 78th November Breeding Stock Sale, to be held Nov. 10-19, is now online.

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.

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

Two heats for juveniles at Warwick Farm on Tuesday morning and both were won by youngsters trained by Bjorn Baker.

Talented three-year-old Prix De Turn will contest the Group I  Caulfield Guineas (1600m) on Saturday at just his second start.

Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott are continuing to be patient with their high-class galloper Dragon Leap as he attempts to come back from an injury-plagued four-year-old season.

The awesome power of the High Chaparral (IRE) sireline was brought into sharp perspective by Saturday’s feast of Australian stakes racing with the newest member of the sire dynasty putting his name in lights.

There was much praise for the young group of sires who had their first two year-old runners last season with many pundits labelling them as some sort of ‘vintage crop’, so as we move through spring how are they performing?

A debut winner at Wyong last month, this Zoustar colt stepped straight into metro company at Warwick Farm on Monday and showed an impressive will to win to make it two wins in as many starts.

Cox Plate winner Adelaide (IRE) might be the least expensive sire on the power packed Coolmore roster, but he still keeps delivering winners with handy stayer Torrens saluting at Warwick Farm on Monday.

Here is the full list of 29 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Progressive American Pharoah (USA) colt Mackinnon made it back to back stakes wins when taking out the $200,000 Zuma Beach Stakes (1m) at Santa Anita on Sunday.

Little Avondale Stud stallion Time Test (GB) was represented by a stakes winner in Italy on Sunday when The King's Horses won the Listed Criterium Nazionale (1200m) in Rome to advance his record to three wins from four starts. 

Stakes-placed last season at two, talented filly Hoover Lucy scored an overdue maiden win at Warwick Farm on Monday bringing a timely pedigree update for her half-brother to be offered at the Magic Millions 2YO’s in Training Sale.

The racing industry has a reputation for rallying to support its participants when times are tough and right now someone in need of that support is South Island jockey Yong Chew.

Cambridge trainers David and Emma-Lee Browne’s golden run in Melbourne continued over the weekend when Rhinoceros added another win to their tally at Moonee Valley on Friday, while Border Leicester picked up a meritorious second.

On Sunday 3 October, the government imposed an Alert Level 3 ‘border’ placed around Raglan, Te Kauwhata, Ngaruawahia, Hamilton city and Huntly for an initial period of five days, ending at 11.59PM Friday 8 October.  

Applications for the 2022 Keith and Faith Taylor Equine Scholarship which supports the successful recipient to travel to Ireland and complete the world renowned Irish National Stud Diploma Course are set to close next week.

Despite three small crops in Australia, Darley retained faith in the Group 1 winning Invincible Spirit stallion Territories (IRE) and was rewarded last season with his biggest book of mares to date.

Group I races for juveniles at the Arc meeting at Longchamp overnight were both won by youngsters that hold interest for Australian breeders with the filly Zellie sired by Wootton Bassett and the colt Angel Bleu from the famed Australian Circles of Gold family.

The Group I Longchamp Arc de Triomphe (2400m) produced an upset result overnight with German bred and trained four year-old  Taquorto Tasso proving too good for the Aga Khan’s quality mare Tarnawa

Second behind Resistencia in his most recent start in the Group II Centaur Stakes (1200m) at Chukyo, Pixie Knight became a milestone first Group 1 winner for Maurice (JPN) with a career high performance in the Group 1 The Sprinters Stakes (1200m) at Nakayama on Sunday.

A thrilling victory by Justacanta in Saturday’s Listed Paris Lane Stakes (1410m) at Flemington saw the successful culmination of a plan hatched by trainers Shaun and Emma Clotworthy after the now eight-year-old had completed his summer campaign in March this year.

Spendthrift Farm dipped its toe in the water in Australia at the 2014 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale with the purchase of a colt and two fillies.

It has been a red-letter day in America for Darley Stud's Astern.

Outstanding mare Montefilia captured a third Group One success when she did best in a driving finish in today's Metropolitan Handicap (2400m) at Randwick.

Leading syndicator Jamie Walter celebrated his first win at racing's elite level when Sydney star Private Eye stormed home to win the $1.5 million Group One Epsom Handicap (1600m) at Randwick.

A former Pony Club girl from Bundaberg in Queensland has found the busy foaling season in the Hunter Valley to be her favourite time of the year.

Fastnet Rock’s exciting young sire son Merchant Navy had two runners in the time honoured first Australian juvenile stakes races of the season in Sydney at Randwick on Saturday with both horses acquitting themselves well and Drisana earning valuable Black Type with a gallant second placing.

The Longchamp meeting in France overnight saw talented Pride of Dubai three year-old gelding Dubai Honour claim his second Group victory when taking out the Group II Prix Dollar (2000m).

Promising Brazen Beau filly Vadream has been threatening to win a Black Type race all year and got the job done at Ascot overnight when saluting in the Group III Bengough Stakes (6f).

A Caulfield Cup, a Cox Plate, an Everest and an Inglis Millennium.

Here is the full list of 108 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Saturday with winners and result details.

Montefilia erased any doubt about her ability to run out a strong 2400m when she scored a fighting win in Saturday’s $750,000 Group 1 Heineken Metropolitan at Randwick.

The Joe Pride-trained Private Eye came from the tail of the field for a richly deserved first Group 1 triumph in Saturday’s $1,500,000 Epsom Handicap (1600m) at Randwick.

Waikato Stud-bred and raced filly Never Been Kissed proved too strong in Saturday’s Group I Flight Stakes (1600m) at Randwick for Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, with the elite-level success coming at just her fourth start and bringing a huge pedigree update for her 2YO  half-brother to be offered at the NZB Ready to Run Sale.

Every time the bar is raised for Incentivise,  the son of Shamus Award continues to rise to the occasion.

Following the win of Kementari in the Gilgai Stakes, the Medaglia d'Oro (USA) colt Kallos made it running Group II victories for Godolphin in the VRC Members Danehill Stakes (1100m) at Flemington.  

Swettenham Stud’s Toronado (IRE) had a hot half hour with brilliant sprinter Masked Crusader confirming his Everest aspirations with a power packed win in the Group II ATC Premiere Stakes at Randwick and then quality mare Still a Star took out the Group II VRC Rose of Kingston Stakes (1600m) at Flemington.

Kiwi import Elusive Express justified favourite punters confidence when winning the Grroup II Edward Manifold Stakes (1610m) at Flemington on Saturday for trainers Anthony and Sam Freedman.

Kementari likes to space his wins nowadays, but the striking near-black son of Lonhro relished the four-horse war in the Group II Gilgai Stakes at Flemington.

The lone filly in the field, El Patroness chose the right spot to break her maiden in Saturday's Listed Kirkland Gold Super Impose Stakes (1800m) at Flemington.

It was a big payday for Kerry Parker’s stable star Think It Over at Randwick on Saturday with the top class son of So You Think scoring a tenacious win in the $1million Group II ATC Hill Stakes (2000m).

Hometown hero Callsign Mav booked his ticket for a shot at the Gr.1 Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley later this month when he took out the second leg of the Hawke’s Bay triple crown on Saturday, the Gr.1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m) at Hastings.

A second consecutive winner of the Group III Keeneland Gimcrack Stakes (1000m) for Ciaron Maher and David Eustace and reigning champion stallion Written Tycoon as the brilliant Coolangatta confirmed her place at the head of betting for the Golden Slipper.

The current crop of two year-olds by Widden Stud’s much missed sire Sebring are sadly his last, but the Golden Slipper winner may well have some real stars among these babies including quality colt Sejardan, who scored a debut victory in the Group III ATC Breeders Plate (1000m) at Randwick on Saturday.

Despite providing trainer Chad Ormsby with some mid-race jitters, promising three-year-old colt Mana Nui delivered when it counted as he claimed victory in the Gr.2 Dundeel At Arrowfield Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m).

Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr have trained the winners of the two two-year-old races in Melbourne this season, the latest being the Spirit of Boom filly Get In The Spirit, who showed a clean pair of heels in Saturday’s Listed Darley Maribyrnong Trial Stakes (1000m) at Flemington.

Raheen Stud have a lot of faith in their young Fastnet Rock stallion Heroic Valour and as a Group I winning two year-old it was no surprise to see him post his first race winner at Doomben on Saturday with Heroic Son making a perfect start to his career.

Galileo’s champion son Churchill (IRE) featured overnight with a new stakes-winner after talented colt Snaffles captured the Listed Star Appeal Stakes (7f) at Dundalk.

Champion trainer David Hayes had four impressive Aussie bred winners at Sha Tin on Friday, but none more so than Epaulette gelding Super Wealthy, who won the Group III National Day Cup (1000m), his dam sold this year  on Inglis Digital for just $500.

Four year-old Star Witness gelding Nervous Witness made a huge impression winning on debut at Sha Tin last month and he made it two wins in as many starts when scoring just as easily at the same venue in Friday.

Here is the full list of 51 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Darby Racing’s strong recent affinity with Inglis Digital continued today as talented mare Celestial Falls (Hinchinbrook) realised $465,000 in the Spring Boutique Sale.

Stakes-placed in two of his first three starts, this Extreme Choice colt always looked a good thing in a maiden race at Echuca on a Friday and he won exactly as you would have hoped to see.

$500,000 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale graduate Brando resumed in the best possible way when winning the Phill Cataldo Bloodstock 1200m at Te Rapa on Friday.

Since being established in 1985 by prominent Victorian vet, Dr Kim McKellar and his wife Liz, Wyndholm Park Stud has been a constant source of quality performers.

Trainer Tony Pike unearthed a pair of smart three-year-olds at Te Rapa on Friday in the form of The Landing and Pareanui Bay, who provided the Cambridge horseman with a race-to-race double.

To own a share in a Group One winner is a dream for any young racing fan, and for siblings Jamie and Casey Lock that dream has come true.

For many stables and syndicators, horses recruited from New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale and the lucrative prizemoney on offer in Australia are proving to be a winning combination.

With their progeny starting to light up racetracks across Australasia and further afield, the 2021 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale at Karaka in November gives buyers the perfect opportunity to get on board with the early crops of exciting up-and-coming stallion talent.

Three two year-old stakes races on Saturday will command plenty of interest so a look at their sale details and yearling images is a must when assessing their potential.

Leading New Zealand nursery, Westbury Stud, is hardly a stranger to success in the Australian spring with wonder mare, Bonneval, winning the Underwood Stakes and Dato Tan Chin Nam, while Miami Bound followed up her VRC Oaks and Wakeful Stakes victories with another blinder in last year’s Moonee Valley Gold Cup.

Here is the full list of 36 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Renowned trainer Les Bridge has been patient with talented Adelaide (IRE) gelding the Denzel, who cast off maiden status with a commanding six length romp at Wyong on Thursday.

Two blue-blood fillies by champion sire Fastnet Rock fought out the finish of the 1200m maiden at Wyong on Thursday and there will be more wins in store for both.

Peter and Paul Snowden put the polish on Golden Slipper winner and now leading young sire Capitalist and they share in the ownership and also train his latest winner.

Three-year-old filly Rue Cler broke through for her maiden win at the second time of asking when victorious in the Boys Get Paid/Chris Hayes Livestock (1400m) at Waverley on Thursday.

Everything old is new again, and what a remarkable resurgence New Zealand's imperious 'Belle' family has had in recent times.

The two day Goffs Orby Yearling Sale in Ireland this week produced strong results for Coolmore young guns Saxon Warrior (Jpn) and Churchill (IRE), both standing in the Hunter Valley this spring.

The quality of the pedigrees on offer at this year’s Goffs Orby Sale and the potential for glory inherent in each Orby yearling was illustrated perfectly by the Camelot colt that topped the second session of the sale at €1.2m when selling to MV Magnier, achieving a record price for a yearling by the 2000 Guineas and Derby winner.

Hastings trainer John Bary is confident Callsign Mav can make his final race on New Zealand soil a winning one in Saturday's Gr.1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m) at Hastings.