Five heats for juveniles at Canterbury on Tuesday morning produced some interesting winners including the Group III ATC Breeders Plate winner Shaquero and a $1million colt by I Am Invincible.

A full field of 14 two year-olds plus emergencies have accepted for the $200,000 Magic Millions Wyong Classic (1100m) on Wednesday, the race promising to deliver a great spectacle with so many talented youngsters engaged including an expensive purchase for Godolphin.

With just under six weeks to go until the $1m DoubleTree by Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) and $1m Karaka Million 3YO Classic (1600m), we are currently in a period of calm before the storm. 

The catalogue for the 2021 Premier Yearling Sale – the sale that produced spring stars such as Ole Kirk, Gytrash, September Run, North Pacific, Hey Doc and Sneaky Five – is NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE.

Thoroughbred Sport Horse Association has come a long way and closed out 2020 with a terrific turnout for classes at the Summer Show at Sydney International Equestrian Centre last weekend featuring a horse we deem as a ‘One to Watch’.

Following 12 years of service overseeing Godolphin Australia’s Victorian operation, Northwood Park, and establishing the careers of breed-shaping stallions on Darley’s roster, Andy Makiv has called time on his tenure as General Manager, Victoria.

The illustrious Pencarrow brand has earned recognition and respect across the Australasian and Asian racing landscape, and another quality crop of yearlings from the famous nursery will be sent through the ring during Book 1 of Karaka 2021.

Impressive debut winner The Irishman had a quiet trial at Te Aroha on Monday in readiness for a raceday return over the Ellerslie Christmas Carnival.

The juvenile race at Canberra on Sunday was won on debut by promising gelding Rocket Tiger, whose sire Cluster posted a winning double at the meeting with three year-old Galactic Warrior casting off maiden status later in the day.

Waikato Stud’s champion sire Savabeel added a 106th stakes-winner to his tally last Saturday when Whimsical won the Group III Eulogy Stakes at her third start and his stock are sure to be plentiful and popular at Karaka 2021, so it’s worth a look at what has emerged as the best nick for the powerhouse son of Zabeel.

Two year-old Snitzel colt Sword of State gave promise of big things to come when bolting in carrying the Te Akau colours in New Zealand on Saturday, adding some serious potential upside to his Magic Millions bound sibling.

Golden Sixty confirmed himself as one of the world's best racehorses with a breathtaking win in Sunday's Group One Hong Kong International Mile (1600m) at Sha Tin putting the spotlight firmly on his half-sister headed to the God Coast in January. 

Here is the full list of 52 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia and HK on Sunday with winners and result details.

As was the case on International Stakes Day at Sha Tin, the atmosphere was missing at a near crowd less Hanshin racetrack in Japan on Sunday. However, it was easy to form a picture of the rapturous delight of fans when the charismatic white two-year-old filly Sodashi hit the front in the Group 1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies.

The Japanese gang-tackled Saturday’s Group 1 The Longines Hong Kong Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin with three outstanding chances and they duly finished first, second and fourth in the days feature.

Beaten once in 15 starts, the freakish Golden Sixty was in a class of his own in the Group 1 Longines Hong Kong Mile at Sha Tin on Sunday.

The Japanese struck again for the international contingent when Danon Smash gave Ryan Moore another Group 1 success in The Longines Hong Kong Sprint (1200m).

The Aidan O’Brien-trained three-year-old Mogul (GB) drew first blood for the internationals with a dominant performance in the Group 1 The Longines Hong Kong Vase (2400m) at Sha Tin.

Two year-old Snitzel colt Sword of State gave promise of big things to come when bolting in carrying the Te Akau colours in New Zealand on Saturday.

Toronado four year-old Master Montaro kicked his promising career off in style with am emphatic victory on International Day to keep his unbeaten record intact.

The Inglis Millennium/Golden Slipper double looms as the most favourable option for regally bred Coolmore colt Acrobat following his impressive debut win in the $500,000 Listed Inglis Nursery at Randwick.

Australia remains the leading place to race a horse in the world; a statement demonstrated by there being 52 races run this year worth A$1 million or more, compared to 29 in America and just seven across all of Europe.

Just a cursory glance at Breednet’s leading sire of winners over the past week gives reason to believe that Written Tycoon is like an unstoppable train as he eats into the $2million lead set up by Not A Single Doubt for Champion Australian Sire honours.

Prior to Saturday’s Saturday’s Listed Just Now Stakes at Eagle Farm, the five-year-old Manhattan Rain mare Alison Of Tuffy had contested two stakes races, finishing last of 13 in the Group III James Carr Stakes and beating just two of the 18 runners home in the PJ Bell takes, both at Randwick.

Six new winners into catalogue pages from Saturday’s races as siblings or half-siblings along with two stakes winners and four stakes placegetters so here’s the full list.

Here is the full list of 117 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

 A first Australian stakes-winner for the former Darley stallion Kuroshio and a first for jockey Caitlin Jones when the top-weight Savatoxl ground out a determined win in Saturday’s Listed Adelaide Galvanising Xmas Hcp at Morphettville.

After winning on debut ar Rosehill as a two-year then placing in the Blue Diamond Prelude, Magic Night Stakes, Kindergarten Stakes and fourth in the Group 1 Blue Diamond, it seemed inconceivable that Athiri would be lining up for her 17th start hoping to break her stakes duck.

She’s the favourite mare for a lot of racegoers and her trainer Mark Newnham and gorgeous glamour girl Greysful Glamour scored her biggest win at Randwick on Saturday when setting a race record in the Group II ATC Villiers stakes (1600m).

Living his life out in contented retirement, the great Choisir has not finished adding to his list of stakes winners just yet, his latest coming with the admirably honest Usmanov in Saturday’s Listed Sky Racing Bribie Handicap (1000m) at Eagle Farm.

Lightly raced Cambridge visitor Whimsical showed she will be a force to be reckoned with in the upcoming age-group staying features when she produced a gritty performance to take out the G3 Lawnmaster Eulogy Stakes (1600m) at just her third start.

Coming down the Eagle Farm straight like a drunken sailor, Sweet Dolly almost unseated a hapless Aaron Bullock on Miss In Charge inside the final 150m, yet still found a way to win Saturday’s Listed Boomer Bloodstock Calaway Gal Stakes (1000m).

The Better Than Ready colt Alpine Edge will head to the Magic Millions 2yo Classic at the Gold Coast in January after making the bravest of debuts in Saturday’s Listed The Phelan Ready To Buy A Boom Stakes (1000m) at Eagle Farm.

Underrated mare Showoroses made full use of an electric beginning from a wide barrier to lead her rivals a merry dance as she took out the feature race at Te Rapa on Saturday, the Gr.2 Cal Isuzu Stakes (1600m).

The $500,000 Inglis Nursery (1000m) at Randwick on Saturday has proven a launching for subsequent Golden Slipper winners She Will Reign and Mossfun as well as Blue Diamond winner Extreme Choice with this year’s winner Acrobat showing all the attributes of a future superstar.

Apprentice Callum Jones made the most of a late call up when he guided outsider Ocean Billy to victory in Saturday’s Group III SKYCITY Hamilton Waikato Cup (2400m) at Te Rapa.

Promising mare Coventina Bay added valuable black type to her burgeoning race record when she prevailed in a desperate finish to the Gr.3 J Swap Sprint (1400m) at Te Rapa.

Astute trainer Clare Cunningham seems to have found the key to talented Frankel stallion Significance, who made it three wins from his past four starts when scoring a bold all the way victory in the Listed ATC Christmas Cup (2400m) at Randwick on Saturday.

Strapping Capitalist colt Profiteer has the two-year-old autumn features in his sights following a bloodless victory at his career debut over 1100 metres at Flemington on Saturday.

Here is the full list of 69 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Friday with winners and result details.

A busy day of racing on Friday and here are the yearling catalogue updates for the day covering Magic Millions Gold Coast, Inglis Classic and NZB Karaka Books One and Two.

There was obviously a wrap on this Written Tycoon three year-old and after three “duck eggs” from three starts the penny looks to have dropped after the gelding gear change.

Trainer Symon Wilde believes in-form Tavistock mare Tralee Rose could be a stayer of the future and that is why he regards tomorrow’s Flemington assignment as imperative.

A horse that Gai Waterhouse considers “one of the most talented 3YOs racing in Sydney”, 3YO Belieber (Zoustar), heads an impressive line-up in the Inglis Digital December Online Auction, which is now open for bidding.

Two lovely three-year-olds destined for bigger and better things emerged from the meeting at Geelong on Friday.

With eleven first crop sires already registering their first winners, the race to be the first to take their tally to two was won Newgate Farm’s Flying Artie.

First season sires have good representation right around the country on Saturday with 12 stallions set to have runners in Australia and New Zealand including Capitalist, who has three.

Here is the full list of 38 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Annabel Neasham is building up an impressive team of young horses that include this three year-old gelding by More Than Ready (USA) that has a half-sister headed to Magic Millions in January.

Ken and Bev Kelso would love nothing more than for classy mare Supera (NZ) (Savabeel) to sign off her career with a win.

Kirsty Lawrence’s $2,600 gavelhouse.com buy Pep Torque took his earnings to just shy of $120,000 with a determined victory over the Hawke’s Bay mile yesterday.

The babies take centre stage on Saturday with a fantastic Christmas assured for the connections of the winner of Saturday’s $500,000 Inglis Nursery (1000m) at Randwick.

Highly experienced and respected bloodstock figure, Tony ‘Tubba’ Williams will rejoin Newgate, as Director of Stallions from 1 January 2021.

Saturday’s $70,000 Group Three LawnMaster Eulogy Stakes (1600m) at Awapuni gives a new wave of talented fillies the chance to make an impact in the 2020-21 New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series. 

2020 has been a challenging year for most people and also for our champion racemare Winx, who tragically lost her first foal earlier in the spring with the decision now made for her not to be covered again this year.

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

Pride of Dubai sired his 20th Australian winner of the season on Wednesday when the Peter Moody trained filly Dance to Dubai saluted at Sandown as favourite.

If you’re a fan of a flashy baldy faced chestnut, you would have had the trifecta in race 1 at Warwick Farm.

A two-year-old son of Frankel leading at every call in a pre-Christmas maiden over 1200m at Warwick Farm, provides plenty of promise for the future and there was a lot to like about the career debut of Converge on Wednesday.

In-form hoop Lisa Allpress has a good handle on the leading contenders in the Gr.3 Lawnmaster Eulogy Stakes (1600m) at Awapuni on Saturday, where she will ride last-start Gr.3 Wellington Stakes (1600m) runner-up Key.

The Wilf Mula homebred Flying Tyrol impressed when winning the first of three barrier trials for the two-year-olds at Kembla Grange on Wednesday.

The independent welfare panel established by the Thoroughbred industry earlier this year, which is chaired by former Victorian Premier Dr Denis Napthine, will publish its report in early 2021.

The 2021 Magic Millions Yearling Sale will usher in the beginning of a new era for Queensland’s sire sensation Spirit of Boom, with this crop of yearlings his first bred from a higher fee of $55,000 resulting in a premium selection of youngsters.

The list of top selling two and three year-olds to race each day often highlights some interesting horses to keep an eye out for and it certainly does that today with a $2.8million Inglis Easter sale-topper set to make his re-appearance at Warwick Farm.

There have been 11 first season sires to post an Australian winner this season, but the five freshman stallions that have runners on Wednesday are not among them.

Keeneland has cataloged 1,588 horses for its 2021 January Horses of All Ages Sale, which will include dispersals of Sam-Son Farm, Paul Pompa Jr. and Spry Family Farm during the four sessions of the sale, to be held Jan. 11-14. Keeneland will continue to offer online and phone bidding to enable buyers to participate in the January Sale remotely while employing onsite COVID-19 protocols similar to t

The tremendous run of form shown by the stock of Rich Hill stallion Shocking continued with the Kelvin and Aimee Tyler-trained City Slicker producing a supreme staying effort winning Saturday’s time-honoured Chalmers Handicap (2500m) at Trentham.

Cambridge trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman have welcomed back high-class trio The Chosen One, Aegon and Quick Thinker after their respective breaks following spring campaigns.

Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week including a couple of winners for freshman sire Star Turn, so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.

Fifth in last Saturday’s Group I WATC Kingston Town Classic, grand old warrior Gailo Chop (Fr) has been retired from racing at age 10.

Bruce Slade’s Kestrel Thoroughbreds is set to join forces with leading trainers Adrian Bott and Gai Waterhouse from 2021.

Here is the full list of 15 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Last weekend’s Sydney Jump Club Championships were held at their Clarendon grounds which are a stone’s throw from the Hawkesbury racecourse, but the thoroughbreds performing at this venue were showing their talents at jumping up off the ground rather than galloping across it!

If Westbury Stud needs a highlight reel for its stallions ahead of the 2021 yearling sales, it won’t need to look far beyond Saturday’s racing.

Trainer Leanne Elliot is pleased with the way Group I Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) winner Rock On Wood has come through his exertions on Saturday but isn’t rushing to make immediate plans for his next start.

The late Tavistock has been one of the success stories of the New Zealand breeding industry in recent times and a new stakes-winner in Australia last Saturday in She’s Alight has us thinking about what nicks work best for the son of Montjeu outside of the much documented affinity he shares with Zabeel.

 $26,000 purchase at the 2016 Festival Sale at Karaka took a popular family to racing’s pinnacle in the $200,000 Group One Rydges Wellington Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) at Trentham on Saturday.

The same connections that won last year’s S$125,000 Golden Horseshoe (1200m) in Singapore with superstar Karaka graduate Inferno (Holy Roman Emperor) struck again on Saturday with a repeat result at Kranji. 

Karaka-sourced She’s Alight (NZ) (Tavistock) added valuable black type to her quality pedigree page with a determined win in Saturday’s A$100,000 Listed Ascend Sales Jungle Dawn Classic (1400m) at Ascot. 

As predicted by Breednet last Friday, one of our two current big gun sires was going to hit the 100 winners for the season milestone over the weekend and he did it with a treble of winners on Sunday.

Four decades on from the inaugural Japan Cup, launched to test and improve the quality of home-bred horses, the bloodstock world’s respect for Japanese breeding & racing is now well-established. 

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

Having purchased the talented racemare Transonic for $6,000 at the Inglis March Online Sale, Telemon Thoroughbreds would be feeling mighty pleased after Transonic's son Sonic Tycoon demolished a field of maidens over 1500m at Hawkesbury at his career debut on Sunday.

Popular South Canterbury horseman Michael Daly passed away on Friday afternoon just minutes before quality sprinter Don Carlo tried to provide his former mentor with a final win at Riccarton.

I Am Invincible is drawing closer to the seasonal milestone of being the first stallion to sire 100 winners since August 1, racking up his 99th winner at Hawkesbury on Sunday when Hurt Money broke his maiden for Peter and Paul Snowden.

As one of the highest-profile new recruits among New Zealand’s stallion ranks, Cambridge Stud shuttler Almanzor is set to make waves with his first yearlings at Karaka next month.

Well-travelled sprinter/miler Endless Drama has been retired after failing to find his best form in his latest campaign.

The celebrations started early at Westbury Stud on Saturday when Stormy claimed the Group II Wakefield Challenge at Trentham to become the first stakes-winner for Telperion. However, the celebrations were no less muted at Ascot when Telperion's often-maligned, but much-loved, half-brother Kementari stormed home to win the Group III A J Scahill Stakes.

From the time Brad Parnham and his brother Chris quinelled the opening race for their father Neville on Kingston Town Classic day at Ascot, it was all leading up to something memorable for Western Australia's premier racing family.

Here is the full list of 111 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Part of a five runner entry by trainer Dan Morton, the Written Tycoon filly Kissonallforcheeks came with a barnstorming finish to open her stakes account in Saturday's Listed Tabtouch-Sir Ernest Lee-Steere (1400m) at Ascot.

Deep Field filly Isotope has always had a boom on her since winning on debut in April this year by 10 lengths, but the Tony Gollan trained three year-old now looks ready to come of age after powering to an explosive win in the Listed BRC Mode Plate (1200m) at Doomben on Saturday.

Taking on stakes company for the first time in her career, the five-year-old Tavistock mare She’s Alight came out on top in a driving finish to the Listed Ascend - Jungle Dawn Classic (1400m) for fillies and mares at Ascot on Saturday.

Given a ground-saving ride by Brad Stewart, the rejuvenated seven-year-old gelding Hard Empire overpowered the favourite Jonker in the closing stages of Saturday’s Group III George Moore Stakes (1200m) at Doomben.

Underrated filly Opalescence dented several reputations when she swept to victory in Saturday’s Gr.3 Mitchell Family Bonecrusher Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie.

Punters were on the ball in Saturday's $300,000 Listed Sportsbet Pakenham Cup (2500m), hammering the Matthew Smith-trained Attorney (FR) into favouritism.

Mogumber Park Stud’s Rommel became the 11th first-crop sire to get off the mark before Christmas when the Neville Parnham-trained filly Ultimare Comand made a winning career debut at Ascot.

Quality galloper Rock On Wood shed the tag of a Group One winner in waiting in emphatic fashion when he dashed home to take out the Group I Rydges Wellington Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) at Trentham bringing a big update for his Karaka bound full sister.

Gilgai Farm have bred and sold some amazingly good horses including current star Ole Kirk as well as Black Caviar, All Too Hard, Jameka and The Quarterback, so while the Gilgai bred and sold three year-old Epaulette gelding Oscar Zulu is not in their class yet, he is an up and comer with a lot more to offer.

Flashy chestnut colt Stormy repaid the faith of punters who installed him as a $1.50 favourite as he powered to victory in the Group II Pete’s Joinery, Precise Design & Build Wakefield Challenge Stakes (1100m) at Trentham providing his young Westbury Stud based sire Telperion with his first stakes-winner.