The WA Magic Millions 2yo Classic winner Ex Sport Man overcame a slow start to score a thrilling win in a driving finish to Saturday's $500,000 Group II Karrakatta Plate (1200m) at Ascot.

Registering his first win since the Group 1 Toorak Handicap at Caulfield last October, Mr Quickie lumped his top-weight to a hard-fought win over the game Tasmanian  Still a Star in Saturday’s Group III Elvis Thurgood Victoria Hcp (1400m) at Caulfield.

Newhaven Park bred and sold Yao Dash became the 20th stakes-winner for his Twin Hills based sire Smart Missile when scoring a resounding victory in the Group III ATC Doncaster Prelude (1500m) at Rosehill on Saturday.

Getting back to the form that saw him win the Group 1 WS Cox Plate at Moonee Valley at his Australian debut last spring, Sir Dragonet was a class above in Saturday's $1,470,000 Kia Tancred Stakes (2400m) at Rosehill Gardens.

Yu Long Investments gorgeous homebred Frankel filly Hungry Heart overcame the track bias when coming from last to run down the brave favourite Harmony Rose in Saturday's Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill Gardens.

James Mcdonald has five wins from as many rides on the five-year-old Exceed And Excel entire Signore Fox, with four in stakes races, the latest coming in Saturday’s Group III Star Kingdom Stakes at Rosehill Gardens.

Hardly a week has gone past during the autumn carnival that we haven’t seen a stakes-winner by So You Think and he kept up the good work at Rosehill on Saturday when progressive mare Nimalee overpowered a gallant Greysful Glamour to win the Group II ATC Emancipation Stakes (1500m).

Awapuni has been the happiest of hunting grounds for Beauden, who returned to his favourite track on Saturday for a career-best victory in the Gr.2 City of Palmerston North Awapuni Gold Cup (2000m).

Bred in Victoria at Burnewang North, classy Aussie bred two year-old On the Bubbles became the first Group I winner for his sire Brazen Beau when winning the Group I Courtesy Ford Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) for Jamie Richards and Te Akau Racing.

Venerable eight-year-old Shadows Cast turned back the clock as he gave his rivals weight and a beating when taking out the Listed Bramco Granite & Marble Flying Stakes (1400m) at Awapuni.

The Jean Dubois-trained colt Arnaqueur made a winning career debut over 1300m at Kembla Grange on Saturday to become the fourth winner for Astern and provide a timely update for his half-brother heading to the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

He might have won the Golden Slipper, but promising sire Vancouver is set to have a runner in the Group I ATC Australian Derby at Randwick next Saturday after Yaletown scored a bold front running win in the Group II AT Tulloch stakes (2000m) at Rosehill.

Taken straight to the front by James McDonald, Shared Ambition (IRE) led at every call in Saturday’s Group III Neville Sellwood Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill to add a second stakes success over two years since his first.

A thrilling four-way finish to Saturday’s Gr.3 Higgins Concrete Manawatu Classic (2000m) at Awapuni was settled in favour of Cambridge filly Joy Alone, courtesy of a powerful staying performance.

Emirates Park bred horses have been racing up a storm over the past month with stakes-winners Lightsaber, Enthaar, Marboosha and Liwa all carrying the Emirates Park brand as does impressive two year-old I Am Invincible filly Najmaty, who took out the Listed MRC Redoute’s Choice Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

They say timing is everything and it’s certainly worked out well in this case with the Group III ATC Schweppervescence (1400m) at Rosehill on Saturday won by lightly raced Pride of Dubai gelding Saif, whose full brother will be offered by Coolmore at Inglis Easter next Wednesday.

The flat season is underway in Europe with the Listed Burradon Stakes (1m) run overnight at Newcastle and won by a promising three year-old colt by exciting sire Kingman, who has one entry for Inglis Easter.

There’s no stopping Written Tycoon, Australia’s leading sire of stakes-winners this season.

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

Leading Hunter Valley boutique nursery Cressfield are renowned for bringing superior quality to Inglis Easter and their draft of nine sets a high standard this year with every single yearling either out of a stakes-winner or a sibling to a stakes-winner.

Every vendor loves a big pedigree update before a major sale and Torryburn Stud have been gifted with the double whammy in offering a sibling to a current season star 2YO by arguably the hottest first season sire in the country, Capitalist.

Several top class 2YO's are off to the spelling paddock including Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside and Kiwi Group One winning two-year-old Sword Of State, who will bypass a trip to Sydney and instead be sent to the spelling paddock.

Star galloper Catalyst may not have a trainer, but he is in great order as his team looks ahead to spring racing.

We saw the best of Fastnet Rock yesterday and his Easter collection, but what about his champion son Merchant Navy, who has 12 yearlings set to sell at Inglis Easter next week.

Here is the full list of 37 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Fastnet Rock has been a stalwart at the top of the yearling sales list because he delivers on the racetrack year in and year out, so let’s look at a gallery of his top class performers as they were as yearlings and see if it’s any help with the 15 yearlings set to be offered at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale next week.

Any horse that can win a maiden, a class 1, a class 2 and now a Benchmark 64, by a combined total of 10 lengths at her first four starts is a horse we are falling a little bit in love with!

The focus on Saturday is again on the meeting at Rosehill Gardens, where the Japanese Horse Of The Year Maurice (JPN) has an excellent opportunity to become the seventh first-crop stallion to put a stakes winner on the board.  

A dual Group I winner on the track, who made $2million when bought by Tom Magnier at the 2019 Inglis Chairman’s Sale, Srikandi produced her first winner on Thursday.

Let’s Elope, one of the great racemares in Group I Melbourne Cup (3200m) history, has earned induction to the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame.

All is in readiness for next week’s Easter Yearling Sale, with inspections well under way at Riverside.

Progressive staying three-year-old Deepstrike made it back-to-back win at Sandown on Wednesday with an impressive victory over 1800m.

Group One winner Aegon pleased his connections with his trial win over 1175m on the polytrack at Warwick Farm on Thursday ahead of his tilt at the Gr.1 Doncaster (1600m) at Randwick next Saturday.

Exceptionally talented colt North Pacific has run his last race after sustaining an injury.

This Saturday’s Group I ATC Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m) features an intriguing field of fillies with Group I VRC Oaks winner Personal and star Frankel filly Hungry Heart taking on a field of promising up and comers, so respected pedigree analysts G1 Goldmine have produced an in-depth pedigree report for each runner to shed light on their prospects.

Hunter Valley nursery, Willow Park Stud, has a reputation for selling, with 92.4% of horses offered at auction sold, from 1020 offered.

Another spectacular Inglis Digital Online Auction has seen in excess of $3.2m grossed, with Victoria’s Larneuk Stud enjoying a stunning night selling the top two lots.

A ‘One to Watch’ when winning on debut at Pakenham earlier this month, Frankel filly Steinem confirmed our high opinion of her when bolting in at Sandown on Wednesday

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

They’re not making any more Not A Single Doubt’s but you can still buy one, so we thought we’d have a look at a gallery of his past stars to see if it can help us with the selection on offer at next week’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

Annavisto’s win in the Listed Bendigo Guineas (1400m) last Saturday proved to be more than just a highlight for her big group of owners ans the Reliable Man filly provided her breeder Greg Tomlinson of Nearco Stud with a very significant treble.

With his brother currently parading before prospective purchasers at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained Snitzel colt Zerelle scored a timely win over 1300m at Sandown-Hillside on Wednesday.

Cambridge Stud has announced the books for its European shuttle stallions Almanzor and Hello Youmzain are full with both horses offered at a fee of $30,000 + GST and limited to 140 mares.

Fergal Connolly has just the one entry for Inglis Easter to be offered under the Valiant Stud banner, but when you take a look at this colt you can see why this horse is well worth presenting at Australia’s number one yearling sale.

Talented juvenile Synchronize made an impressive debut at Matamata on Wednesday, winning the NZB Insurance Pearl Series Maiden 2YO (1050m), landing a Pearl Series bonus in the process.

The juvenile maiden at Warwick Farm on Wednesday was won by promising Snitzel gelding Holstein, a half-brother to this year’s Group I New Zealand Derby winner Rocket Spade, who is due in Sydney for a crack at the Group I ATC Australian Derby on Saturday week.

Japan’s Caulfield Cup hero Mer De Glace (JPN) has found a home at stud in Turkey.

Richard and Michael Freedman may have sent Golden Slipper winning colt Stay Inside to the spelling paddock, but they have another colt by his sire Extreme Choice ready to make his debut at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

Arrowfield is proud to present our Inglis Easter 2021 Online Catalogue, featuring videos, photos, pedigree analysis and extra information on each of our 47 yearlings. 

Here is the full list of 30 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Yearlings by leading sires such as Capitalist, Deep Field, So You Think, Zoustar, Sebring and More Than Ready headline a quality catalogue for the inaugural HTBA May Yearling Sale.

There looks to be better things ahead for the gorgeous looking Ifraaj (GB) filly I Say Hello, who scored a last stride win in a competitive benchmark 64 for fillies and mares over 1200m at Newcastle on Tuesday.

A typical little professional from the Waterhouse/Bott stable, the royally bred Snitzel filly Chimes made a winning debut over 900m 2yo maiden at Newcastle on Tuesday.

One of Australia's best sprinters will go under the hammer at the 2021 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast in late May.

Whatever your thoughts on the positives and negatives of ‘double Danehill’, the reality is that we’ve now had two Golden Slipper winners in a row bred this way so a blanket dismissal is obviously a mistake.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s annual South Island Sale of yearlings is now live and available to view on their leading online subsidiary Gavelhouse Plus. 

Wet weather in the Hunter Valley last week meant the Inglis Easter inspection touring party missed out on their scheduled stop at Willow Park Stud, which was a shame as Breednet owner Craig Tompson had been keen to catch up with a yearling that has already made an impression on the Breednet audience as the Favourite Foal of 2019.

Here is the full list of 25 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Next week’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale sees the last of the Redoute’s Choice’s to be offered so we thought we’d pull out a gallery of his best performers that were offered as yearlings to see if we might be able to spot a trend which will help with this year’s offerings.

The Rosehill trials on Monday morning featured eight heats for two year-olds and the winners included an Exceed and Excel colt bought from Magic Millions for $1million.

A big set of 18 trials were run at Rosehill on Monday morning and while Australian Horse of the Year Nature Strip was low flying in cruise control to win his heat, there was another eye-catching sprinter that went quicker.

If you thought Dubawi (IRE) could not top siring the winner of the Listed Golden Mile at Bendigo on Saturday, you would be wrong, it proved a mere appetiser for a notable double on World Cup night in Dubai.

A smorgasbord of Group I racing at Rosehill last Saturday led us to update our table of Group I producing dams this season highlighting what stallions they went to last spring and what foals they have in the pipeline.

Brilliant grey dual Group I winning sprinter Caravaggio (USA) shuttled for just one season to Coolmore Australia and that crop of foals are being offered at our sales this year.

Here is the full list of 62 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Sunday with winners and result details.

Fastnet Rock has a long list of sire sons that have enjoyed success at stud and has a new sire son with a winner on the board after Awesome Rock posted his first winner at Ascot on Saturday.

Another feature goes to the first season stallions with the Star Turn filly Sonnet Star carrying the Vinery Stud colours to victory in Sunday’s $200,000 Hermitage Hill Wellington Boot (1100m).

While Jamie Walters Proven Thoroughbreds had to be satisfied with three placings from its three runners at Doomben on Saturday, supporters of the stable had a day out at the Gold Coast.

It was a productive day for Vinery Stud's Headwater at Morphettville on Saturday with his two-year-old son Karacasu opening his account over 1100m before the three-year-old filly Mileva putting the icing on the cake when conquering her elders in the Listed Manihi Classic.

After Military Gambler turned over the odd-on favourite Stellar Magic in the opener over 1100m at Doomben on Saturday, winning trainer Chris Munce admitted he knew little about the winner's sire Rommel, but the Mogumber Park stallion has been a quiet achiever among the first season stallions.

The famed colours of Hong Kong based Everest winning owner Bon Ho were carried to victory in the  $250,000 VOBIS Gold Rush (1000m) at Bendigo on Saturday by exciting Zoustar colt Starry Legend .

We sang the praises of Australian Bloodstock’s exquisitely bred import Ironclad (GB) following his last start win in the Listed CS Hayes Memorial (1600m) at Morphettville, then he took it to another level at Bendigo on Saturday.

An eight-start maiden, the $51 outsider Lunar Impact silenced the crowd at Ascot on Saturday with a fighting win in the $250,000 Group III City Of Belmont-WA Oaks (2400m) to ring up a first Australian stakes-winner for the former Arrowfield shuttler Real Impact (JPN).

Here is the full list of 126 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Saturday with winners and result details.

Fourth in the Group III ATC Birthday Card Quality (1200m) 12 months ago, the Les Bridge trained Sebring mare Seasons returned this year to take out the feature event, posting her first victory in a Black Type race.

Eduardo fails to excite the purists with his blue-collar pedigree, but for fans that value a big-hearted performer that leaves it all on the track, the seven-year-old gelding is star.

Stay Inside looked a picture in the mounting yard before the running of Saturday’s $3,500,000 Longines Golden Slipper (1200m) at Rosehill Gardens and looked even better a short time later with a dominant performance in the world richest race for two-year-olds.

Earlier in his career, talented So You Think gelding Think It Over was tried as a long distance stayer, but kept to shorter journeys this preparation by astute trainer Kerry Parker Think It Over has soared to new heights winning the Group I ATC George Ryder Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill on Saturday.

Cambridge conditioner Stephen Marsh enjoyed a successful day at Riccarton on Saturday when honest mare Belle Fascino provided him with the second leg of a race to race double in the feature event on the card, the Gr.3 Valachi Downs South Island Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m).

Rookie trainer Annabel Neasham was entrusted with talented Savabeel colt Mo’Unga late last year after first taking out her trainer’s licence and at Rosehill on Saturday he gave her that all important first Group I success when taking out the Group I ATC Rosehill Guineas (2000m).

Leading northern rider Leith Innes produced a front-running masterclass at Tauranga on Saturday as he guided gritty galloper Packing Rockstar to his first stakes victory in the Gr.2 Ultimate Mazda Japan Trophy (1600m).

It was a case of déjà vu as Verry Elleegant and Addeybb (IRL) went at it hammer and tong over the final 400 metres of the Group 1 Ranvet Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill on Saturday, but this one was going to the hometown heroine.

The Chris Waller-trained Polly Grey finally broke her Australian duck at her eleventh start in her adopted homeland. Still, she chose the right spot to do it, the Group III Roadwork Solutions Epona Stakes (1900m) at Rosehill on Saturday.

After winning the Group III Manion Cup (2400m) twelve months ago with Young Rascal (FR), William Haggas has done it again with Favorite Moon (GER).

Exciting three-year-old Rocket Spade provided his connections with the perfect dress rehearsal for his Gr.1 Australian Derby (2400m) challenge next month when he gave his age-group rivals a start and a beating over 1600m at Tauranga on Saturday.

Tony Gollan’s outstanding Deep Field filly Isotope had her first race start outside of Queensland in the Listed ATC Darby Munro Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill on Slipper Day and lived up to expectation when surging late to beat Group I winner Odeum.

Darley stallion Frosted (USA) took another step closer to claiming the leading first season for number of winners sire when his daughter Translation thumped her opponents by upwards of three and a half lengths over 1000m at Cranbourne on Friday.

Another strong Inglis Digital catalogue is live and open for bidding, with 312 lots finalised for the March (Late) online auction.

Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week including a second win for million dollar baby, Billiondollarbaby, so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.

Thoroughbred Breeders Victoria is sad to announce that Life Member Lillian Cooney has passed away.

The Tony Pike-trained Rangi Toa was an impressive debut winner of the Kasa Bloodstock 2YO (1100m) at New Plymouth on Friday, and has the makings of a horse with plenty of ability.

Following last week’s postponement, it is take two for the Golden Slipper meeting at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday.

“After consultation with our vets Cambridge Equine Hospital and, in particular, Dr. Robert Hitchcock, we decided to install Equilume lighting in our new stallion barn, built during 2019.".....Read on for the scientifically proven results Equilume offers stallions.

The Inglis Easter touring party had an interesting trip into Widden Stud on Thursday with a flooded causeway making for an unscheduled adventure aspect to their arrival, but it was well worth the effort taken to see this outstanding draft that includes the half-sister to Melbourne Cup winner Vow and Declare.

Torryburn Stud provided a stop on the way home for the Inglis touring party and their draft features the half-brother to this Saturday’s leading Golden Slipper fancy Home Affairs, who they sold at Inglis Easter last year for $875,000.

A hugely successful private bloodstock enterprise for many years as the vision of the late Mr Eduardo Cojuangco, Gooree Park Stud is now a mainstream commercial thoroughbred business offering full agistment and pre-training services to outside clients and presenting a select draft for the 2021 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (USA) posted his third Australian winner on Thursday evening at Pakenham with a brilliant debut winner from the Team Hawkes stable.

Star Thoroughbreds were in hot form on Thursday with a treble of winners at Randwick in Kalino (Pierro), Achiever (Pride of Dubai) and highly progressive Zoustar filly Kiku, the full sister to Group I VRC Newmarket Handicap winner Zoutori.

Purchased for just $40,000 at the 2018 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, Lost And Running is proving to be a little star for the John O'Shea stable, as he ran his unbeaten sequence to four with a facile win over 1100m on the Kensington track on Thursday.

Placed behind outstanding colts Acrobat and Stay Inside at her first two starts, I Am Invincible filly Ashema broke the ice for Annabel Neasham at Randwick on Thursday when saluting over 1100m.