While his training partner is an old hand when it comes to producing winners at the elite level, Robert Wellwood was an uncapped novice until just after 5pm at Ellerslie on Saturday.

With 11 wins from 17 starts including two at the elite level, the Yellow Ribbon Stakes and Gamely Handicap, Tates Creek had all the attributes to make an outstanding contribution as a broodmare for Juddmonte Farms.

Zoustar had a winning metropolitan double in Sydney and Melbourne on Saturday with a pair of progressive horses in Zoushine and All Time Legend.

Progressive mare Amica has been gradually working her way through the grades and looked good scoring a half length win in a Benchmark 78 event (1800m) at Randwick on Saturday.

It was a Boxing Day to savour for Robert and Barbara McClure’s Morning Rise Stud with their homebred Splendoronthegrass winning at Eagle Farm before Splendoronthegrass’ half-sister Jazz Etude made a winning debut in Japan.

A long list of updates to yearling sale catalogues from Boxing Day races including two stakes winners, four stakes placegetters and seven new winners so here’s the full list.

Here is the full list of 130 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

It was a sea of Godolphin blue trying to chase down The Oddysey in Saturday’s Listed Magic Millions Falvelon Quality (1200m) at Eagle Farm, and it was left to Roheryn to achieve the feat.

Seven year-old Fastnet Rock gelding The Harrovian is racing in career best form and made it 11 wins in succession at Eagle Farm on Saturday when claiming his second Black Type victory in the Listed BRC Bernborough Plate (1600m).

The omen tip Pandemic opened his stakes account in Saturday’s $140,000 Listed Neds Christmas Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.

Royally-bred colt The Elanora has the talent to match his pedigree; however, Redoute's Choice's son still has a bit to learn.

Hard to do much better than two starts for two stakes wins.

Champion sire I Am Invincible added a promising new stakes-winner to his tally in New Zealand on Boxing Day when lightly raced four year-old mare Vamos Bebe scored a dominant win in the Listed Hallmark Stud Sprint (1200m) at Ellerslie.

Versatile mare Concert Hall bagged the Group One victory she richly deserved when she stormed home out wide to snatch victory in the Group I  Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie defeating Supera to give champion sire Savabeel a G1 quinella..

Champion trainer Jamie Richards and the Te Akau team have sent out an abundance of talent this season, and a remarkable performance in Saturday’s Group II Jamieson Park Eight Carat Classic (1600m) at Ellerslie may have moved Amarelinha towards the top of the list.

The all-conquering Te Akau team is sticking to a proven Group One formula with rising star three-year-old Brando, a $500,000 Karaka Ready to Run purchase.

Spendthrift Farm's first season stallion Swear made the perfect start to his stallion career when his first starter Faulds powered home from the rear of the field to open his account over 1100m at Geelong on Saturday.

Beaten into second place at her first two starts, the Will Clarken-trained Bleriot would not be denied in her third over 1050m at Morphettville on Boxing Day to claim the honour as the first winner for Aquis Farm’s Divine Prophet.

There were three smart debut winners taking each other on in the juvenile event at Randwick on Boxing Day and at the post it was the least fancied of the trio in Rocket Tiger, who was too good for the fillies Vandoula Lass and Vianello.

Matamata mare Sheezallmine gave her southern rivals a galloping lesson when she strode away in the home straight to take out the Listed Alleviate Administration Hazlett Stakes (1200m) at Wingatui.

Godolphin took the wraps off another smart two-year-old with the Shooting To Win filly Picarones making a winning career debut over 1200m at Caulfield on Boxing Day.

A great racing program in Australia and New Zealand on Boxing Day sees plenty of opportunity for first season sires to make their mark with division leader Capitalist represented by no fewer than four runners.

Shaquero and Astrologer's defection from Randwick to Eagle Farm on Saturday has shortened the odds of a first season stallion coming out on top in the Group III Magic Millions BJ McLachlan Stakes.

Talented filly Miss Hipstar became the first winner for Vinery Stud’s promising young sire Star Turn when she won on debut at Doomben back in November and booked her ticket for the Gold Coast when making it two wins in as many starts at Ipswich on Thursday.

The cream of the Western Australian yearling crop will converge on the Swan Valley in February when the world class sales complex hosts the 2021 Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale.

Racing on Wednesday included two winners at Sandown and three winners at Happy Valley in the evening that all have siblings to be offered in coming weeks by sires such as Captialist, I Am Invincible and Zoustar.

With 28 points up for grabs in two Group Two races within the space of six days, Ellerslie’s Christmas Carnival looms a pivotal period in the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series. 

Vendor images are coming thick and fast onto the Magic Milllions site for the Gold Coast Yearling Sale next month so let’s have a look at the first of the Hellbents.

Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.

Thankyou to everyone that voted for their favourite Breednet foal this year and a record response has produced an interesting winner owned by a legendary breeder in Sandy Tait.

Aussie breds posted a winning double at Kenilworth in South Africa on Wednesday with exciting Press Statement filly Kitty Cat Chat going to two for two, while Pierro filly French Declaration saluted for the first time.

Here is the updated list for NSW inspections of Magic Millions drafts with four vendors moving their drafts into the Hunter Valley, including South Australia’s Mill Park Stud who’s draft of 15 yearlings will be available for inspection on Jan 3 at Williamtown.

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

Third in the Group I ATC Flight Stakes at three behind Funstar and Probabeel, Dissident mare Foxborough has always shown a touch of class and was too good at Warwick Farm on Wednesday when leading all the way to win.

The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained three year-old Narvaez was fit and ready to fire at his third run back from a spell at Sandown on Wednesday and got the job done in style.

Champion trainer Chris Waller posted an early double at Warwick Farm on Wednesday with the offspring of champion sire Fastnet Rock, scoring first with exciting two year-old Ranch Hand and then with blue-blooded filly Fifteen Aria, who carries the colours of leading Japanese breeder Katsumi Yoshida.

Champion sire Fastnet Rock already has two exciting two year-olds running for him this season in Sneaky Five and Acrobat and we can add another name to that list with Ranch Hand bolting in on debut at Warwick Farm in the manner of a future stakes-winner.

Last start Group III Counties Cup (2100m) winner In A Twinkling will be vying for Group One glory at Ellerslie on Boxing Day when he lines-up in the Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic (2000m).

Thoroughbred Breeders Victoria (TBV) are delighted to announce today that Breednet have extended their partnership with TBV.  

The first two races at Geelong on Tuesday were both won by three year-olds having their first start and both dominated in a manner that would suggest more wins are in store.

Here is the full list of 23 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

After four placegetters including Flemington second Ranveer, Winning Rupert is off the mark with the Roy Chillemi-trained Vienna Cruise leading all the way in an eventful 1000m QTIS maiden at Townsville on Tuesday.

Five heats for juveniles at Randwick on Tuesday morning produced some interesting winners including a Sebring colt from the famed Scandinavia family that has produced superstars Black Caviar, All Too Hard and now Ole Kirk.

Punters who have taken the $6.50 about unraced juvenile Khufu in next month’s $1m Doubletree by Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) can breathe a little easier after the son of American Pharoah looked all class when winning an 800m trial at Cambridge on Tuesday.

Last week we learned of the passing of much loved stallion Danewin, but back in 1994 when he first entered the Bob Thomsen stable there was already a superstar in residence and that was bonny filly Slight Chance, who was also recently laid to rest at Hobartville Stud.

Coming to grips with life away from the saddle has been tough for former jockey Donavan Mansour, and a new role managing Byerley Park for prominent owner Daniel Nakhle has been a godsend for the well-liked horseman.

New Zealand currently boasts one of its strongest stallion line-ups in decades. In addition to outstanding exploits on home soil, kiwi stallions have sired the winners of seven Group One races in Australia this season, and feature prominently on the Australian premiership. Over the last six years, New Zealand-based sires have also won four stallion titles in Singapore and two in Hong Kong.

Darby Racing had a lot of fun with baldy face juvenile flyer Scarlet Rain and their colours were carried to victory at the Hawkesbury trials on Monday morning by her first born son.

One of New Zealand’s most exciting weight-for-age gallopers, dual Group One winner Te Akau Shark, has been retired.

Former Kiwi galloper Nikau Spur has made an impression in Australia in just his second start across the Tasman.

Waikato bloodstock agent Stuart Hale’s annual Auckland/Waikato yearling inspection tour will return in 2021.

Nine winners around Aus and in Hong Kong yesterday with half or full relations in yearling sales, including four in Hong Kong and five new winners for yearlings by Ocean Park, Winning Rupert, Pride Of Dubai, So You Think and Spirit Of Boom.

This nick has become one of the best known and most successful in Australasia with an impressive 21% stakes-winners to runners and Karaka Book 1 features two youngsters bred this way and two more that are very close.

Created in 2019 as the brainchild of respected showjumper and unabashed thoroughbred fan Krissy Harris, the Thoroughbred Sport Horse Association goes from strength to strength in working towards the goal of improving demand for retired racehorses as competition horses.

Widden Stud based sires produced three winners at the Sha Tin meeting on Sunday with victory for Celestial Power (Star Witness), Healthy Happy (Zoustar) and impressive first starter Carroll Street (Outreach).

Here is the full list of 70 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Following the heroic of Japanese horses at last weeks International Stakes Day at Sha Tin, the tables were turned to some extent when the Frankel colt Grenadier Guards defeated the best juvenile colts in Japan in Sunday’s Group 1 The Aasai Hai Futurity Stakes at Hanshin.

There were four Randwick winners on Saturday that have siblings in upcoming sales and one of them is exciting Deep Field sprinter Big Parade.

There were four Randwick winners on Saturday that have siblings in upcoming sales and one of them is progressive I Am Invincible mare Saigon, who looked good winning in the Laurel Oak Bloodstock colours over 1400m.

There were four Randwick winners on Saturday that have siblings in upcoming sales and one of them is yet another good winner for Shamus Award in Rich and Shameless, who scored his first metro win when successful in the Highway event over 1300m.

There were four Randwick winners on Saturday that have siblings in upcoming sales and one of them is talented Fastnet Rock gelding Edison, who scored his first win in open company when saluting over 1400m.

Busy putting in the hard yards conducting his pre-Christmas inspections for the annual NZB National Yearling Sale at Karaka next month, Te Akau Racing principal David Ellis CNZM took time out to reflect on the stables’ achievements in 2020.

Trainer Emma-Lee Browne was still sporting a smile a mile wide on Sunday morning following the winning double that she and husband David picked up at Te Rapa on Saturday.

The sight of promising galloper Lincoln Falls storming past his rivals to win at Awapuni on Saturday provided trainer Lisa Latta with a special moment after she has endured plenty in her battle to get him back to the racetrack.

17 winners around Aus and NZ yesterday with half or full relations in yearling sales, including a stakes winning upgrade and four new winners for yearlings by Awesome Rock, Tivaci, Written Tycoon and Redwood.

We’d like to thank thoroughbred breeders from throughout Australia and New Zealand for supporting the 2020 Breednet Foal Gallery which again has showcased a huge variety of gorgeous foals from both hobby and commercial breeders.

The Simon Miller-trained mare Dance Music threatened a return to her best when third in the AJ Scahill Stakes at her previous start, and to the punter's delight she led every step of the way in Saturday's Listed Agent Fresh-Starstruck Classic at Ascot.

Here is the full list of 123 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The Group 1 Kingston Town Classic hero Truly Great blew past Trap For Fools in the final furlong of Saturday’s Group II Ted Van Heemst Stakes at Ascot to add to the Peters family’s burgeoning trophy cabinet.   

With just twenty-five live foals from three seasons at stud, the unheralded Fastnet Rock stallion Rocker may have quietly slipped away without a trace had it not been for Soxagon earning a career highlight win in Saturday’s Listed Lough Neagh Stakes at Doomben.

Progressive Deep Field filly Isotope was taking on an A grader in Away Game in the Listed BRC Gold Edition Stakes (1200m) at Doomben on Saturday and she proved her class when scoring a thrilling last stride victory.

Hastings visitor Hunta Pence overcame his apparent dislike of the Awapuni track to register his biggest career victory when he took out the Group III Bramco Granite and Marble Manawatu Cup (2300m) in a desperate finish on Saturday.

Pocket rocket Tavi Mac, who affectionately carries the moniker Frodo due to his diminutive stature and ungainly build, captured the biggest victory of his burgeoning career when he dashed away from his rivals in Saturday’s Group II Kevin Pratt Memorial Manawatu Challenge Stakes (1400m) at Awapuni.

Given a ground-saving ride by Jackson Morris, the Scott Morrisey-trained Rockin' Artie proved himself the strongest at the finish of a 1200m maiden an energy-sapping heavy ten at the Gold Coast on Saturday.

Promising three-year-old Mongolian Wings showed he could be on a similar path to his illustrious sire when he produced an eye-catching display to shed his maiden status at Te Rapa.

A hugely impressive winner when on debut at Moonee Valley on November 28, Godolphin's Dawn Approach (IRE) colt Paulele made the trip to Sydney for Saturday's Precise Air Hcp (1200m) where he kept his record perfect with the minimum of fuss.

Veteran jockey Chris Johnson established a new national record for race victories on Saturday at Awapuni when Sassenach provided him with win 2452 in New Zealand.

Six winners around Aus and NZ yesterday with half or full relations in yearling sales, including five new winners with relations for sale by Dundeel, Sebring, Not A Single Doubt and Tavistock.

First season sires have been busy putting winners on the board this season and on Saturday Flying Artie will have a chance to add to his tally with three runners around the country.

Here is the full list of 59 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Friday with winners and result details.

Three heats for two year-olds at Rosehill on Friday morning all held interest with one of the three winners being the full brother to Golden Slipper winner Estijaab.

Long time breeder at Kitchwin Hills John McGrath has been named the Thoroughbred breeders NSW breeder of the year, following a huge year on the track for the Tangerine team.

All eyes will be on a number of sensational new names from stallion line-ups on both sides of the Tasman when their first crops of yearlings go through the ring during Karaka 2021.

Irish bred two year-old Galileo colt Kondo Isami broke his maiden overnight on the all weather track at Chelmsford in the UK.

Here is the full list of 41 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The quest to find the next life changing racetrack star from the renowned Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale is underway with the online release of the 2021 catalogue.

Isotope and Away Game dominant the betting for Saturday's Listed Hellbent Gold Edition Stakes at Doomben and so we will be looking for a horse to fill the trifecta.

It was only a three horse juvenile race at Ipswich on a Thursday, but when the winner is by All Too Hard and trained by David Vandyke, you tend to get a bit more interested!

A unique chapter in Australian thoroughbred industry history was brought to a close on Wednesday, December 16 when five-time Group 1 winner and proven Group 1 sire Danewin was humanely euthanized at Emirates Park, Murrurundi — his home for close on 25 years.

As we move towards Christmas, Lyndhurst Stud’s young sire sensation Better than Ready has again proven himself a superior source of precocious juveniles with six winners on the board this season to make him the leading sire of two year-old winners in the country.

As successful young sire Charm Spirit (Invincible Spirit) departs to perform his shuttle duties in Europe, impressive Sydney Saturday winner Kirwan’s Lane provided him with a fitting ‘bon voyage’.

Seven winners around Aus and NZ yesterday with half or full relations in yearling sales, including four new winners with relations for sale by Snitzel, Zoustar, Starspangledbanner and Pierro.

She’s yet to hit the race track, but blue eyed and white faced Sapphire Sioux has become something of a sensation after being unveiled on social media last week.

Winner of the Group IIII Hobart Cup earlier this year, quality staying mare Toorak Affair indicated she’ll be in for a big summer carnival in Tasmania when taking out the Listed Conquering Stakes (1400m) at Launceston on Wednesday evening.

Here is the full list of 59 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Inglis Digital has concluded an astonishing year with the December Online Auction smashing the $50 million barrier for overall turnover in 2020 and recording the sixth consecutive top lot to make $200,000 or more.

On Tuesday we ran a story on Breednet predicting a big run from Kiwi bred Sacred Falls filly Impecunious at Caulfield on Wednesday, but punters were obviously oblivious to that as she went to the post at 30-1 and cruised home by more than two lengths.

Champion trainer Chris Waller will have at least two runners in the $2million Magic Millions 2YO Classic next month after his I Am Invincible filly She’s All Class bolted away with the $200,000 Magic Millions Wyong Classic (1100m) on Wednesday to earn a slot beside her stablemate and Breeders Plate winner Shaquero.

Fastnet Rock gelding Eleven Eleven has matured into a powerhouse individual and stripped fitter at his second run back from a spell to score a stylish win in the $100,000 Magic Millions Three and Four Year Classic (1200m) at Wyong on Wednesday.

The build-up to the 2021 Inglis Sales Season continues today with the launch of the annual Preview Magazine.