On a bottomless track under leaden skies at Randwick, in-form gelding Bandersnatch lumped his top weight of 59kgs to a three and a quarter-length win in Saturday's $150,000 Drinkwise Winter Stakes (1400m).

Newgate Farm’s Winning Rupert sired his second debut winner in two days when It’sarayday scored a dominant victory at Belmont in Perth on Saturday.

It was a good ten minutes for Brazen Beau with his three-year-old daughter Belsielle impressing over 1100m at Caulfield before the two-year-old colt Taunting led them a merry dance over 1100m at Gawler.

Champion jockey Jamie Kah made history at Caulfield on Saturday becoming the first jockey to ride 100 Victorian metropolitan winners in a season when saluting aboard Deep Field three year-old Deep Speed.

Grahame Begg has enjoyed a deal of success with the progeny of Written Tycoon in recent years, led by the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes hero Written By, and he looks to have another likely type in Libiamo, who made a winning career debut over 1100m at Caulfield on Saturday.

Midweek race watchers were awake to the talents of Deep Field filly Sky Command, who made a winning debut at Warwick Farm on June 30 and repeated the performance at Randwick on Saturday to keep her record perfect.

Frankel has been enjoying an amazing year adding a new Group I winner to his resume overnight in the UK when Snow Lantern captured the Group I Falmouth Stakes (1m) at Newmarket.

Here is the full list of 34 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

G1-winning superstar Funstar headlines the catalogue for the Inglis Digital July (Early) Online Sale, which is now open for bidding.

It’s pretty remarkable that in a country with unequalled access to the best sires from around the world, that the likely first three across the line for the champion sire title this season are locally breds that did not win at the highest level and started out moderately priced.

There was only one race run at Scone before the meeting was abandoned, but that was enough for Newgate Farm’s Winning Rupert to post his tenth winner of the season.

No sooner had the Inglis July Early Online Sale opened on Friday when the first bid arrived for Group One winning mare Funstar at $1million.

An expensive filly by American Pharoah (USA) making a winning debut on Friday was always going to be an obvious choice for the ‘One to Watch’

Three year-old filly Pelorus Princess became the 200th Australian winner this season for Yarraman Park’s champion sire I Am Invincible when she saluted at Sale on Friday as a hot favourite.

The Tattersalls July Sale continued in robust fashion on the second day with four lots selling for 100,000 guineas or more and a clearance rate above 90% for the second consecutive day. 

Entries for the number one sale of its kind, New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2021 Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds are now open, with the Sale taking place at the Karaka Sales Centre on 17 and 18 November. Breeze Ups will be held on 11 and 12 October at Te Rapa racecourse. 

Eight heats for juveniles at the Randwick barrier trials on Friday morning produced plenty of interesting winners, but none more so than one of my favourite colts to step out this season.

The Keeneland September Yearling Sale begins Monday, Sept. 13. In just a few months, the sound of a striking gavel will once again signify the future of the Thoroughbred industry being shaped by yearlings that will go on to compete on racing’s biggest stages.

A filly with a wind issue might be yet another star performer for Tyreel Stud.

Here is the full list of 45 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Yarraman Park’s champion sire I Am Invincible moved to 199 Australian winners for the season on Thursday with two new maiden winners including expensive two year-old filly Authentic Jewel, who saluted at Kembla.

There will be no shortage of hard-luck stories after the running of the Listed The Maclean Hotel Grafton Cup (2350m) at Grafton on Thursday, but take nothing off the winner Purrfect Deal.

When Rosemont Stud announced the addition of Hanseatic to their stallion roster in March this year, it wasn’t long before two significant events unfolded ensuring the son of Street Boss (USA) is one of the most popular first season sires in Victoria this spring.

The Magic Millions National Weanling Sale soared to new heights this year with a buoyant market so strong it was likened to an elite yearling sale and for this exciting young sire it may well prove to be an eye-opening taste of what is to come.

The Tattersalls July Sale got off to a strong start on the opening day with a strong Godolphin draft dominating proceedings with four of the top five prices on a day that saw 15 lots selling for 100,000 guineas or more. The clearance for the day was a remarkable 93% and the turnover of 5,952,100 guineas has been bettered only twice on the opening day of this fixture. 

The Breednet Price Point stories have been super popular and are now archived on the site, so will remain a great source of information and reference as we move towards the breeding season and let’s not forget that the most expensive sire in the country – I Am Invincible – stood his first four seasons at this exact price point.

The first crop Northern Hemisphere winners keep coming for Galileo’s champion son Churchill (IRE), who sired a promising debut winner at Chantilly in France overnight in Dancinginthestreet.

The $80,000 Grafton Guineas (1600m) on Wednesday drew a competitive field with a dominant victory going to promising gelding Tamilaide, a son of Galileo’s Cox Plate hero Adelaide (IRE).

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

The John O’Shea-trained Southern Lad had been winless for seventy-seven weeks before his fast-finishing win in Wednesday’s $200,000 Grafton Services Club Ramornie (1200m) at Grafton.

I Am Invincible two year-old King of Sparta was mixing it with some of the best two year olds in training during the autumn carnival, so always looked a good thing in a maiden at Randwick on Wednesday when returning as a gelding.

Three-year-old filly Angelina Lauro was a strong winner of the Piako Tractors 3YO (1400m) at Rotorua for Te Awamutu trainer Clint Isdale on Wednesday.

Featured in the current Breednet Price Point story for proven sires at an $11,000 fee, Hallowed Crown produced a promising metropolitan winner at Randwick on Wednesday trained by Team Hawkes.

It's that time of year again! As the horses' birthday approaches so does Bloodstockauction.com's annual Ronald McDonald House Charities Greater Western Sydney (RMHC GWS) Stallion Cover Charity Auction.

Reward for Effort is not the only sire to recently hit 100 Australian winners for the season with Cambridge Stud’s much missed sire Tavistock also achieving the feat, which is not common for NZ based stallions.

This year, the weekend of August 15 welcomes two prestigious events to Deauville: the historic August Yearling Sale retakes its spot in the European sales calendar, taking place in parallel with one of the biggest events for the best European milers, the Prix Jacques Le Marois (Gr.1).

The Breednet Price Point stories have been super popular and are now archived on the site, so will remain a great source of information and reference as we move towards the breeding season and let’s not forget that the most expensive sire in the country – I Am Invincible – stood his first four seasons at this exact price point.

Here is the full list of 19 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The colours of well known owner Brae Sokolski were caried by Rubick’s Everest winning son Yes Yes Yes and they were in the winner’s circle at Ballarat on Tuesday aboard another three year-old son of Rubick in The Defiant One.

Chatswood Stud's Reward For Effort has sired his 100th individual winner for the 2020/21 season.

Tavi Mac, the surprise package of this season, made a pleasing start to his preparation at Foxton on Tuesday when comfortably winning his 1000m trial.

A buoyant market at the Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale delivered great results for local vendors with Esker Lodge leading the vendors by average and Rushton Park topping the vendors by aggregate list.

A record individual broodmare price – to complement yesterday’s record individual weanling price - has seen the 2021 Great Southern Sale end as “the best ever’’.

Here is the full list of 20 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) has announced there will be a 20 percent boost to stakes between August 28, 2021, and April 2, 2022.

The NSW Racehorse Owners Association’s Racing’s Night of Champions is an annual highlight on the racing social calendar. Due to the ongoing uncertainties created by Covid-19 however, the red carpet event slated for Thursday 19 August this year, will not proceed.

I’ve sired a Group I winner in five of the past six seasons, I’ve got a 70% winner to runner career strike rate, I’ve sired 10 individual million dollar earners and I’m a Top 10 stallion this season for winners- so who am I?

The three-year-old I Am Invincible filly Jazz Etude must be on the verge of being tested in Group company after she made short work of her elders in the $346,000 KTB Hai (1200m) at Hakodate on Sunday.

A big set of trials at Gosford on Monday featured nine heats won by two year-olds with Godolphin unleashing a large team of blue bloods including the full sister to Kementari.

The record-breaking Hong Kong career of legendary Karaka graduate Beauty Generation (NZ) (Road to Rock) has earned yet another accolade, with the Champion Awards Judging Panel deciding to award him a Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his contributions to Hong Kong racing. 

Aidan O’Brien has been having a great year for Group I results in France and he kept it up overnight winning the Group I Grand Prix de Saint Cloud (1m2f)  with five year-old stallion Broome, a son of Galileo’s Epsom Derby winner Australia.

It was Christmas in July at Oaklands this afternoon as the most expensive weanling ever sold at the Great Southern Sale delivered a remarkable result for Blue Gum Farm.

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

Making her third trip to the races, the Michael, Wayne and John Hawkes-trained filly Turnstar rewarded the faith of punters when opening her winning account over 900m at Newcastle on Saturday.

Coolmore shuttler Churchill (IRE) is quietly adding more Northern Hemisphere first crop winners to his tally with promising colt Unconquerable the seventh to salute after scoring at Naas in Ireland overnight.

If those images of the magnificent Sir Prancealot (IRE) ready to board a plane for Cornerstone Stud were not enough to incentivise breeders, perhaps the victory of Belle Of Yorkes in Saturday’s $100,000 Adelaide Event Catering 2yo (1200m) at Murray Bridge will.

A small but select field of four lined up in the Group I Coral-Eclipse Stakes (1m2f) at Sandown in the UK overnight with victory going to outstanding three year-old colt St Mark’s Basilica, who proved superior to globe-trotting multiple Group I winner Addeybb.

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

Progressive three-year-old gelding Tena Koutou made it three on the bounce, and a first at stakes level, in Saturday’s Listed Aquanita Stakes (200m) at Belmont Park.

Widden Stud’s flagship sire Zoustar has had a sensational year and posted his 12th Australian stakes-winner this season when tough sprinter The Astrologist scored his first Black Type success in the Listed VRC Furphy Sprint Series Final (1200m) at Flemington ion Saturday.

Purchased for just $500, the tenacious Gingerbread Man filly Chili Is Hot scored a fighting win in Saturday's Listed Belmont Oaks (2000m) at Belmont Park.

Oscar Zulu was not the only talented three year-old winner on Saturday bred and sold by Gilgai Farm with promising young stayer Token Spirit taking out the $150,000 VRC GH Mumm Mahogany Challenge Final (2500m) a Flemington.

The despised outsider of the field, rising 7yo gelding Mongolian Marshal, finished determinedly to claim Saturday’s $160,000 Listed Seppelt Wines Winter Championship (1600m) at Flemington.

Gilgai Farm have bred some amazingly good horses including Black Caviar, All Too Hard, Jameka, The Quarterback and more recently Ole Kirk, and while Oscar Zulu is not in their league yet, he is building an impressive record in Sydney over the winter posting his third consecutive victory at Rosehill on Saturday.

The Gary Portelli-trained Royalzel completed a successful hit and run mission in Saturday's $160,000 Listed Kennedy Taj Rossi Series Final (1600m) at Flemington.

The Champs Elysees (GB) gelding Grand Promenade (GB) is another from the seemingly endless production line of top stayers sourced by John Foote in Europe.

A homebred for David Moodie’s Hesket Bloodstock, two year-old Zoustar filly Jagar pricked a nice race in which to break her maiden after powering to victory in the $150,000 VRC Sofitel Next Generation Final (1200m).

A sparkling win at the Te Rapa trials back in late May indicated that promising three-year-old All About You would be hard to beat when he made his raceday debut and that proved correct as he bolted away with the first race on the card at Ruakaka on Saturday.

Gelding might be the making of Zoustar two year-old Sunfall, who charged home from last to break his maiden at Geelong on Friday.

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

It is hard to fathom how a mare can strike gold with her first foal then prove an abject failure for the remainder of her life.

A big set of trials at Canterbury on Friday featured nine heats won by juveniles including an unraced I Am Invincible colt that could easily help his champion sire to crack 200 winners for this season.

It is with immense sadness that STOCKWELL THOROUGHBREDS announce the passing of one of the racing worlds most revered champions, ARAZI, at the grand age of 32 years.

The Breednet Price Point stories have been super popular and are now archived on the site, so will remain a great source of information and reference as we move towards the breeding season and let’s not forget that the three stallions topping the current Australian General Sires List by earnings all started their stud careers at this price point or below.

Here is the full list of 34 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The exciting Camelot (GB) gelding Hosier (IRE) kept his record at a perfect two for two in Australia with an authoritative display in a class 1 over 1600m at Bendigo on Thursday.

Darren and Elizabeth Dance’s Esker Lodge will present three weanlings colts by Capitalist, Toronado (IRE) and Impending, plus three mares at the Inglis Great Southern Sale.

Leneva Park is one of Victoria’s newest thoroughbred pre-training and breeding organisation spanning two properties in the heart of Victorian thoroughbred country.

Highlighted in a recent Breednet ‘Juvenile Trial Watch’ story the half-sister to brilliant stakes-winning filly Isotope made a winning debut at Hawkesbury on Thursday becoming the ninth winner for Winning Rupert.

Arguably the rarest online offering the world has ever seen will be showcased through Inglis Digital next month when superstar G1 winner Funstar is offered for sale.

Earlier this year Juddmonte Farms suffered a painful blow when losing their star broodmare Kind, who died at age 20 of foaling complications after delivering a colt by Kingman.

Stakes-winning 2YO Volcanic Rock has become the most expensive racehorse sold on Inglis Digital, with the June (Late) Online catalogue eclipsing the result of last sale, with an incredible $5.63 million in turnover, making it the second-highest grossing sale in the history of the platform.

Here is the full list of 56 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The end of the Australian Group I season last weekend got us thinking about this amazing pool of horses and what they were like as yearlings so we’ve come up with a gallery featuring all Group I winners with available yearling images ranging in price from $5,000 up to $675,000.

Cox Plate winner Adelaide (IRE) is not the highest profile sire on the Coolmore roster, but he does get his winners and progressive mare Duchess Adele upped the ante at Warwick Farm on Wednesday to post her first metropolitan success.

Following a troubled third on debut at Canterbury on June 9, the Mikki Isle (JPN) gelding Dragonstone made no mistake at start two at Warwick Farm on Wednesday, and he looks to have a bright future.

Australia’s leading third crop sire Deep Field was quickly into stride at Warwick Farm on Wednesday siring the first two home in the juvenile fillies maiden over 1100m.

An expensive yearling by a champion sire that goes on to deliver immediate success on the track is always going to be a highly sought-after commodity when he trades in the turf for the stallion barn.

Hong Kong hero Beauty Generation (NZ) (Road to Rock) has settled nicely into life after racing at the world-renowned Australian-based retired racehorse facility, Living Legends.

Last week saw the passing of champion European broodmare Cassandra Go at age 25 and overnight she was back in the news when her two year-old colt by Churchill (IRE) became her tenth winner.

With record sales across the board and a host of new stallions, it’s shaping to be a cracker of a breeding season for Victoria … and, we might add, a memorable one for Larneuk Stud.

The most expensive yearling sired by Written Tycoon in 2019 broke the ice when winning on debut at Ballarat on Tuesday.

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

“He has had a big rap on him from day one but it has taken a little while for things to click.

There are so many ways in which we can evaluate the performance of sires and while sire tables for two and three year old sires are common, sire tables based on distance parameters are not and they do offer a unique insight into where the strength of a stallion can really be found.

Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week including a very impressive 16 plus length win for a $375,000 Divine Prophet youngster which has switched from Team Hawkes to Kody Nestor at Dubbo, so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.

The talented horse with the quirky name is back in work and looking to accomplish some big things over spring.

Yarraman Park’s super sire I Am Invincible is powering towards his third consecutive title as Australia’s most successful sire of winners and at some point in the next 10 days is likely to pass the phenomenal milestone of 200 individual Aussie winners for the season.

We all know the saying ‘never judge a book by it’s cover’, but in the bloodstock industry that might be better applied as ‘never judge a sire on what he does in his first season’.

Much is made of the performance of first and second season sires in terms of racetrack results , but when their oldest progeny turn four they have to swim in the big pool against all the other sires, so a look at how they are going comparative to each other is interesting.