Saturday December 5
Third behind You'll Be Mist when on debut at the Sunshine Coast on November 21, the Matthew Dunn-trained Subterranean left that filly in her wake over 1200 metres at Doomben on Saturday to credit the former top-class sprinter Rebel Dane with his first winner.
Saturday December 5
Promising galloper Invisible Spirit made a winning return to the track when he led throughout to capture the first event at Trentham on Saturday.
Friday December 4
Here is the full list of 62 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Friday December 4
Les Bridge might have lost his stable star Classique Legend to Hong Kong, but gee he has a nice three year-old to attempt to fill the void and he’s a son of Shamus Award, who is a young sire that has come of age in 2020.
Friday December 4
She might have only won by a small margin, but three year-old Lonhro filly Tiny highlighted a super successful nick when she scored her second win from three starts at Randwick on Friday afternoon.
Friday December 4
Each year, New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales Series features a number of quality thoroughbred youngsters that catch the eye of astute pinhookers looking to further their investments.
Friday December 4
The Michael and Matthew Pitman-trained Marine has been sold to clients of Hong Kong trainer Caspar Fownes and will do his future racing in the Asian racing jurisdiction.
Friday December 4
With an overseas sale off the agenda for now, Te Awamutu trainer Stephen Ralph is free to dream big with highly talented three-year-old Explosively – starting with a first black-type test in Saturday’s Gr.3 Mitchell Family Bonecrusher Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie.
Thursday December 3
There’s a head to head rivalry at the top of the Australian Sires List between two of our big guns, who are vying to be the first stallion this season to crack 100 winners.
Thursday December 3
The jewel of the North East Thoroughbred region of Victoria, Woodside Park Stud’s Morningside is a world-class property with a history the envy of any thoroughbred breeder.
Thursday December 3
The Tattersalls December Sale concluded with a spirited fourth and final session of the December Mares Sale that brought the curtain down on the 2020 renewal of Europe’s premier foal and breeding stock sale .
Thursday December 3
Here is the full list of 38 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Thursday with winners and result details.
Thursday December 3
Cambridge trainer Tony Pike will head south to Trentham on Saturday to a wet welcome, with rain forest for the weekend’s premier meeting.
Thursday December 3
The Matthew Cumani-trained Tycoon Bec made a belated start to her career worth the wait when she caned a field of maiden fillies and mares by upwards of four and a half lengths over 1450m at Kyneton on Thursday.
Thursday December 3
With just three stakes races and a scarcity of two-year-old action around Australia on Saturday, it looks a suitable time for a stallion to get off the mark.
Thursday December 3
For a first season sire whose yearlings were not exactly selling like hotcakes earlier this year, Flying Artie has made a great start to his stud career and at the Newcastle trials on Thursday morning we saw a colt that may well add to his success sooner rather than later.
Wednesday December 2
The sire of last weekend’s Japan Cup winner Almond Eye, Lord Kanaloa has been announced as the most expensive publicly-priced member of the 30-strong roster at Shadai Stallion Station in Japan for 2021.
Wednesday December 2
Fillies from the drafts of Juddmonte Farms, Godolphin and Shadwell Estates were the flavour of the day on the third and penultimate day of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. Leading the way was the Juddmonte filly CRESSIDA at 360,000 guineas on a day that saw 11 lots sell for 100,000 guineas or more and a clearance rate of 88%.
Wednesday December 2
Astute Victorian bloodstock agent Sheamus Mills does know how to find a nice filly and his decision to purchase the most expensive filly by Al Maher sold in 2019 looks like a good one as she won by five lengths at Sandown on Wednesday.
Wednesday December 2
Punters got it right at Sandown on Wednesday when Team Hawkes unleashed exciting Vancouver filly Vandoula Lass as a short priced favourite in the juvenile fillies event.
Wednesday December 2
Bringing an important Magic Millions pedigree update after breaking his maiden at Echuca on Wednesday was Sebring gelding Nuclear Energy, who has had three starts in three states for three different trainers.
Wednesday December 2
Well-related three-year-old Cheaperthandivorce made the perfect start to her racing career on Wednesday winning the TW Moore 1400 at Rotorua for Roger James and Robert Wellwood.
Wednesday December 2
After an action-packed two days of trading both physically and virtually, final results have been accumulated for NZB’s 2020 Ready to Run Sale.
Wednesday December 2
Happy versus Grumpy - Not a clash between two of the seven dwarves but a snapshot of trainers Roger James and Robert Wellwood's two contestants for Saturday's Gr.1 Rydges Wellington Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) at Trentham.
Tuesday December 1
BEACH FROLIC, the dam of Cartier Champion PALACE PIER, was the star turn on the second day of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale, selling for 2,200,000 guineas to MV Magnier. Turnover fell just shy of 25 million during the session with seven lots selling for 500,000 guineas or more.
Tuesday December 1
A two year-old fillies event at Sandown this afternoon offers interest for the first season sire division with runners engaged by Victorian based sires Frosted (USA), Palentino and Holler.
Tuesday December 1
The second session of the Tattersalls December Broodmare Sale is underway with the appearance of the dam of this year’s dual Group I winning three year-old Palace Pier sparking keen competition.
Tuesday December 1
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.
Tuesday December 1
Here is the full list of 25 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Tuesday December 1
Regular users of the Breednet race results each day will have noted the inclusion of nicks information for all winners into our daily results, but for those who’ve never used them now is the time to start if you want to improve your knowledge of pedigrees.
Tuesday December 1
From the last Australian crop of foals by Teofilo (IRE), who sired Twilight Payment to win this year’s Melbourne Cup, two year-old filly Vianello was featured in a recent ‘Juvenile Trial Watch’ story and made her race day debut at Newcastle on Tuesday with a dominant win.
Tuesday December 1
The Tattersalls December Mares Sale got off to a strong start on the opening day with the two-year-old filly AUNTY BRIDY topping proceedings at 410,000 guineas and a clearance rate of 89%. The turnover, average and median all compared favourably with last year’s corresponding session given that the Waddesdon Stud dispersal, which realised almost 3 million guineas, was the feature of that ope
Monday November 30
Hot weather did not dampen enthusiasm for the latest round of Thoroughbred Sport Horse Classes held at the Stonewall Showjumping last weekend on the Central Coast.
Monday November 30
Deep Field narrowly missed siring two stakes-winners last Saturday with Deep Speed and Spaceboy both finishing second in Black Type races in Melbourne and Sydney, but he’s had a string of promising winners of late including this debut winner at Wangaratta on Monday.
Monday November 30
The career-ending accident sustained by jockey Tye Angland is widely known in the racing industry. Now wheelchair-bound, Tye has demonstrated great resilience and a determination to make the best of his situation.
Monday November 30
It was a busy morning for the two year-olds at Rosehill on Monday with six heats for juveniles and while spring stakes-winner Fake Love looked in top form with an easy win there were plenty of interesting unraced winners including three by first season sires Sooboog, Maurice (Jpn) and Star Turn.
Monday November 30
Medaglia D’Oro (USA) already has the best horse in Hong Kong on current form in Aussie bred Golden Sixty and he also has a serious contender for the future after ex Godolphin horse Chenier made a winning HK debut at Sha Tin on Sunday under his new name of Enrich Delight.
Monday November 30
At home he’s an eccentric whose curling lips make him seem like he’s got a trunk - On the racetrack, though, Elephant is one of the more promising gallopers in New Zealand, unbeaten in two starts, the latest of which came in the Rating 65 Stella Artois 1500 Championship Qualifier (1400m) at Ellerslie on Saturday.
Monday November 30
Ocean Park has become a big favourite with Australian investors thanks to the deeds of his Group I stars Kolding and Tofane along with Group winners Oceanex and Another Dollar with Ocean Beyond, his new Melbourne stakes-winner last Saturday, highlighting a successful nick for the Cox Plate winning sire.
Sunday November 29
A horse that caught the eye of trainer Daniel Bowman at the 2019 Ready to Run Sale at Karaka is now an unbeaten stakes winner in Victoria.
Sunday November 29
Progressive Australian bred Camelot (GB) stayer Anse Lanzio won his fourth race in South Africa on Sunday when scoring an easy win at Scottsville adding a pedigree update for his half-brother headed to the 2021 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale.
Sunday November 29
Setting the pace on the Australian General Sires List by earnings, Not a Single Doubt added a new stakes-winner to his tally on Saturday and Niedorp has a half-sister headed to the 2021 Magic Millions.
Sunday November 29
A Saratoga Grade III winner for American Pharoah earlier in the year, Turned Aside added a second stakes win to his record in the $100,000 Listed Aqueduct Turf Sprint Championship Stakes on Saturday.
Sunday November 29
Grangewilliam Stud stallion Zed is having a spring to remember and as we venture into summer the juggernaut continued as his six-year-old son Count Zero raced away with the A$300,000 Haymes Paint Jericho Cup (4600m) at Warrnambool for local trainer Symon Wilde.
Sunday November 29
A huge crowd at Cromwell on Sunday was treated to an extended glimpse of the silky skills of Chris Johnson as the rider they call the magic man guided enigmatic galloper Camino Rocoso to victory in the Loveracing.nz Cromwell Cup (2030m).
Sunday November 29
Amidst the hustle and bustle of another busy morning at Waikato Stud, principal Mark Chittick was pleased to be able to sit down and catch his breath as he reflected on another stellar 48 hours for the iconic Matamata nursery.
Sunday November 29
Champion mare Almond Eye claimed a second Group 1 Japan Cup at Tokyo on Saturday to bow out of racing with her record as one of the all-time greats intact.
Sunday November 29
Shane Oxlade’s One More Jack boasts a record that has earned the respect of punters, yet he sent pedigree buffs scurrying to the Stud Book when he became a milestone first stakes-winner for the unheralded Typhon in Saturday’s Listed City Of Marion Stakes at Morphettville.
Sunday November 29
Australian Group I winner Sweet Idea looked an intriguing addition to The Queen’s broodmare band when she was exported to the UK in 2015 and on Friday produced her first winner for Her Majesty.
Sunday November 29
Coolmore young gun Saxon Warrior (Jpn) is the only son of Japanese sire sensation Deep Impact standing in the Hunter Valley this spring and his first foals had everyone paying attention at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale during the week.
Sunday November 29
A selection of the first Northern Hemisphere bred foals by champion Australian sire Zoustar met with a warm response at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale this week.
Saturday November 28
The Tattersalls December Foal Sale came to a close on the fourth and final day with the sale continuing in robust fashion and a colt by SIOUX NATION topping proceedings at 88,000 guineas. A strong final day clearance of 78% saw turnover for the sale of 26,255,100 guineas, at an average of 41,807 guineas, the fifth highest at the fixture, and a median of 20,000 guineas.
Saturday November 28
Here is the full list of 107 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Saturday with winners and result details.
Saturday November 28
A maiden just five months ago, the four-year-old Street Boss (USA) gelding Elite Street continued on his remarkable rise to the top with a dominant performance in Saturday’s $1 million Group 1 Crown Perth – Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot.
Saturday November 28
Champion sire Fastnet Rock landed his 164th stakes-winner at Doomben on Saturday with seven year-old gelding The Harrovian, who may be one of his most interesting stakes-winners of all.
Saturday November 28
The temptation would be to keep a mare in foal to I Am Invincible wrapped in cotton wool however Sledmere Stud's Catriona and Royston Murphy had some unfinished business with the Exceed And Excel mare Invictus Salute.
Saturday November 28
Mark Newnham has a lot of horses in his stable, but Greysful Glamour lays claim to being the favourite of them all having been with him from the start.
Saturday November 28
After falling short thirteen times previously at stakes level, the stars finally aligned for Outrageous in Saturday’s Group III Fujitsu General Festival Stakes at Rosehill Gardens bringing an important pedigree update for his Magic Millions bound half-brother.
Saturday November 28
It took every metre of the Ellerslie home straight for consistent galloper Gino Severini to finally gain the upper hand over his rivals as the Fastnet Rock gelding captured his first stakes victory in the Group III Eagle Technology Stakes (1600m).
Saturday November 28
Ocean Beyond and Deep Speed engaged in a two-horse war in Saturday's Listed McMahon's Dairy McKenzie Stakes at Moonee Valley with the waife-like Ocean Beyond doing just enough in the closing stages to open his stakes account.
Saturday November 28
Promising three-year-old Tellall enhanced his credentials for some of the summer age group features when he registered his first victory at stakes level when taking out the Listed Trevor Eagle Memorial 3YO (1500m) at Ellerslie to become the first stakes-winner for Aquis Farm's ill-fated stallion Spill the Beans.
Saturday November 28
Evergreen galloper Hunta Pence was rewarded for his perseverance when he took out the Listed Steelform Roofing Group Wanganui Cup (2040m) after finishing runner-up in the race in the past two years.
Saturday November 28
A homebred for Ingham Racing, promising two year-old Nicconi colt Conexy made amends for his debut defeat two weeks ago when scoring a dominant win at Doomben on Saturday to become the 50th winner for his sire this season.
Saturday November 28
There was no shortage of connections wiling to back their judgment in the opening event of 1100 metres for two-year-olds at Rosehill on Saturday.
Saturday November 28
Jamie Richards and Te Akau Racing continued their dominance of spring two-year-old racing when they notched their sixth individual juvenile winner at Ellerslie on Saturday, while also adding the quinella for good measure.
Friday November 27
The Tattersalls December Foal Sale continued in robust fashion on the third day with the equal second highest price for a colt at this fixture of 700,000 guineas for a DUBAWI colt and 21 foals selling for 200,000 guineas or more. Turnover fell marginally short of last year’s figures whilst the clearance rate improved to an impressive 87%.
Friday November 27
Here is the full list of 70 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Friday with winners and result details.
Friday November 27
The first race at Canterbury on Friday night produced an impressive So You Think winner that delivered an exciting pedigree update for his half-brother being taken to Magic Millions in January by Valiant Stud.
Friday November 27
18 month old Jacob Keyte has certainly shown us all that even during a global pandemic, life really isn't that tough.
Diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia, Jacob has been undergoing chemotherapy at the John Hunter in Newcastle as well as a range of other procedures.
Friday November 27
Cambridge trainer Tony Pike will introduce punters to a colt at Ellerslie on Saturday that could one day become their darling.
Friday November 27
You might expect this standard of software to come from locations synonymous with horse racing and breeding like Kentucky, maybe Ireland or the UK, but this is Australian born, it’s one of a kind and it’s global.
Friday November 27
The Board of New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) has announced a number of key decisions and initiatives that were recently agreed upon at its 25 November Board meeting.
Friday November 27
First season sires are set to play a role on Saturday with runners around the country including youngsters contesting metropolitan races in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.
Friday November 27
Off the back of a successful Ready to Run Sale with the addition of a new online bidding facility, New Zealand Bloodstock is pleased to announce their further expansion into the realm of online thoroughbred auctions.
Thursday November 26
Eleven lots sold for 100,000 guineas or more during a strong second session of the Tattersalls December Foal Sale. A colt by top class stallion SEA THE STARS topped the session at 170,000 guineas, with the progeny of first season stallions SAXON WARRIOR and HAVANA GREY also featuring amongst the top lots.
Thursday November 26
Breaking his maiden in style at his second start at Bendigo on Thursday was an eye-catching son of Rubick, who brought a timely pedigree update for his half-brother to be offer at Magic Millions 2021 next month.
Thursday November 26
Here is the full list of 55 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Thursday with winners and result details.
Thursday November 26
Golden Slipper winning sire Vancouver gave us a promising debut maiden winner at Wyong on Thursday.
Thursday November 26
David Ellis and his Te Akau Racing Syndicates are renowned for their success from purchasing out of the Karaka sale ring, but it was an I Am Invincible two year-old filly sourced from Magic Millions in Australia that had them in the winner’s list at Otaki on Thursday.
Thursday November 26
The ATC Champagne Stakes and Rosehill Guineas hero Castelvecchio will be a tough act to follow for Centro Storico who begins her own journey in Saturday's De Bortoli Wines Hcp (1100m) for two-year-olds at Rosehill on Saturday.
Thursday November 26
Stephen Marsh looks to have a vice-like grip on the Group III Lucia Valentina Wellington Stakes (1600m) after winning the three-year-old feature for the third consecutive year at Otaki on Thursday.
Thursday November 26
He may be small, but he is mighty.
Wednesday November 25
The COVID 19 pandemic has brought many challenges for international bloodstock agents whose business revolves around them being fully cognisant of racing and breeding right around the world, but one thing never changes and that’s the ability to identify quality.
Wednesday November 25
Leading Hong Kong trainer John Size will welcome talented three-year-old Bourbonaire to his stable after his purchase out of Stephen Marsh’s Cambridge barn.
Wednesday November 25
The four-day Tattersalls December Foal Sale got off to a solid start on the opening day with a son of IFFRAAJ topping proceedings at 57,000 guineas on a day that saw six lots sell for 40,000 guineas or more. The turnover fell narrowly short of last year’s opening session despite offering 18% fewer foals, whilst the average and median rose significantly by 16% and 60% respectively.
Wednesday November 25
Here is the full list of 57 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Wednesday with winners and result details.
Wednesday November 25
A new Inglis Digital record has been set in the November (Late) Online Auction, with Small Minds – the dam of outstanding 2YO Sneaky Five – selling for $410,000 to Sandhurst Bloodstock on behalf of Rosemont Stud.
Wednesday November 25
David Vandyke has bid farewell to his stable favourite Alligator Blood, who is set to join the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott team in Sydney, but he might have a replacement by the same sire in All Too Hard waiting in the wings.
Wednesday November 25
A quickfire race to race double for Sun Stud’s prolific Magnus, and it was oh so close to three on the trot at Sandown on Wednesday.
Wednesday November 25
Cambridge trainers Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray have a staying filly of the future on their hands with Samina Bibi, a daughter of in-vogue stallion Reliable Man, an impressive debut winner at Te Rapa.
Wednesday November 25
Talented three-year-old Explosively lived up to his name when winning on debut at Te Rapa on Wednesday.
Wednesday November 25
The first race at Warwick Farm on Wednesday featured a thrilling finish with a trio of blue-blooded three year-olds seeking to cast off maiden status and the final result decided in the steward’s room.
Wednesday November 25
A couple of super interesting trials at Gosford on Wednesday morning featuring an Inglis Easter sale-topper on the comeback trial and a well bred colt by Golden Slipper winner Capitalist.
Wednesday November 25
She may have lived on the Central Coast of New South Wales for 40 years but Margaret Reid, the part-owner and breeder of the Listed Ballarat Cup (2000m) winner Irish Flame, is still very much a Taranaki girl.
Wednesday November 25
Tough is a word that comes up several times in conversation with Otaki trainer Johno Benner when talking about his talented filly Key.
Tuesday November 24
In the first full year of his training career, young Cambridge horseman Glen Harvey has two fillies qualified for the $1m DoubleTree by Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie on 23 January 2021.
Tuesday November 24
Three year-old filly Glowing Red has a long way to go to emulate the deeds of her dual Group I winning half-sister In Her Time, but she is now a winner after saluting at Newcastle on Tuesday.
Tuesday November 24
The renowned colours of the Hutchins family made famous by Australian Horse of the Year Typhoon Tracy were carried to victory at Newcastle on Tuesday by the half-sister to Group I ATC Australian Oaks winner Once Were Wild.
Tuesday November 24
Cambridge trainer Andrew Campbell is looking towards the lucrative Karaka Million twilight meeting in January with a couple of his promising juveniles.
Tuesday November 24
Promising three-year-old Basarwa will have to overcome his outside barrier in the Group III Lucia Valentina Wellington Stakes (1600m) at Otaki on Thursday to keep his undefeated record intact.