A solid showing in his 1100m trial at Taupo on Wednesday has Catalyst’s connections excited ahead of his Sydney spring campaign.

Keeneland announced today that 4,272 yearlings have been cataloged for the 77th annual Keeneland September Yearling Sale to be held over 12 sessions from Sept. 13-25. Globally recognized as the Thoroughbred industry’s most important sale, the auction will offer online bidding and expanded phone bidding for those buyers participating remotely.

Travel restrictions arising from pandemic may be limiting your opportunities to take advantage of stallion parades in coming weeks, so Breednet are bringing them to you virtually through whatever device you most use, phone, desktop or ipad.

At this time of year when a three year-old Dundeel colt wins on debut we like to know a bit more.

Here is the full list of 24 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

There was an echoed sigh of relief in Waikato today with a handful of trainers receiving travel exemptions for their staff to fly to Australia.

The Randwick trials this morning were held on the polytrack and marked the spring return of dual Group I winning colt King’s Legacy, as well as the first appearance of the full brother to Champion 3YO and now leading young sire Brazen Beau.

Brighthill Farm stallion Eminent has welcomed his first foal with the birth of a colt out of High Chaparral mare Rose Meer at Cambridge Stud on Saturday.

The inaugural National Breeding Awards, to be held in Cambridge later this month, will be sponsored by Hamilton based Ebbett Volkswagen as part of a new partnership agreement with the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders Association.

Breeze Up dates for New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds have been adjusted and will now take place on Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 October at Te Rapa Racecourse, with all prospective buyers welcome to attend. 

Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman will roll out some of their highly regarded unraced three-year-olds as well as a few proven stars at Taupo on Wednesday, while they wait to finalise plans for an Australian-bound contingent.

Thoroughbred Breeders Australia have developed a set of protocols to assist breeders as they plan for the coming months. 

A total of 1614 new season two-year-olds have been nominated for next year’s $1.5 million Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield.

Here is the full list of 16 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The TSHA were excited to be sponsoring classes again at the Equestrian Gold Coast Club Winter Show Jump Festival on Sunday 9th August.

NZ Thoroughbred Racing will be conducting regional roadshows around the country as the industry adapts to the changes brought about by the Racing Industry Act 2020.

A Former WA Turf Club promotions officer Marjorie Charleson, a Perth racing trailblazer, died on Saturday aged 88.

Dual Group One winner Hello Youmzain just came up short of adding a third elite-level victory to his burgeoning CV when finishing runner-up to Space Blues in Gr.1 Prix Maurice de Gheest (1300m) at Deauville over the weekend.

The 1100m maiden at Pakenham on Monday was notable for including the offspring of champion mares Black Caviar and Miss Andretti in the field, but at the winning post neither of those three year-olds were victorious.

Just 10 days into a new season Larneuk Stud’s value sires Cluster and O’Lonhro are on the board with their first winners of 2020/2021.

Sporting a very familiar set of silks in an unfamiliar setting, the John Messara and Arno Curty-owned Skyward chalked up the first victory for his new owners in Sunday’s Group III Prix de Reux, run over 2,500 metres at Deauville.

The familiar Yulong colours were carried to victory overnight in Ireland with exciting two year-old Lope de Vega colt Lucky Vega taking out the Group I Phoenix Stakes (6f) at The Curragh.

Godolphin were expected to win the Group I Prix Maurice de Gheest (1300m) at Deauville in France overnight with the favourite Earthlight, but it was his stablemate Space Blues that got the job done beating Cambridge Stud’s Hello Youmzain.

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

It was a big weekend in Japan for fans of Horse Of The Year Maurice (JPN) with three of his daughters making winning career debuts.

The second Northern Hemisphere crop of Triple Crown hero American Pharoah are up and running with two smart winners in the past two days in North America and a Group place-getter in Ireland.

Scheduled to go under the hammer at the 2017 Magic Millions national Broodmare Sale, the Commands mare Clothing was offered a last minute reprieve by Godolphin when her daughter Raiment (Street Cry) won the Group III Birthday Card Stakes followed by a defeat of  Invincibella in the Group III James Carr Stakes.

The Breednet Foal Gallery has been going for a long time and when exciting colt Anders won the Listed ATC Rosebud Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday there was something in his pedigree that immediately made a few bells ring in my head.

The reigning Champion Australian First Season Sire, Pride of Dubai posted his first Northern Hemisphere stakes-winner overnight in the UK with a strong finishing victory in the Group III Sweet Solera Stakes (7f)  at Newmarket for Star of Emaraaty.

Here is the full list of 115 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

An imported son of Starspangledbanner, Godolphin’s Home Of The Brave (IRE) broke through the $1 million barrier in earnings with a fighting win in Saturday’s Group III Aurie’s Star Handicap at Flemington.

Seven-year-old gelding Eduardo kept his record at a perfect two for two since joining the stables of Joe Pride when leading at every call in Saturday’s Group II Iron Jack Missile Stakes at Rosehill Gardens.

With Aquis Farm’s champion Not A Single Doubt colt Farnan waiting in the wings, they have a more than able deputy in another son of Not A Single Doubt, the glorious chestnut Anders who turned a competitive looking Listed The Rosebud at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday into a walk in the park.

Progressive Rubick filly Café Rizu relished a step up in distance at Flemington on Saturday to score a determined victory.

The Australian Bloodstock team have had a lot of fun with talented galloper Wandabaa, the four year-old daughter of Wandjina winning her first start of the new season at Rosehill on Saturday.

The David Payne-trained filly Montefilia had the honour of being Kermadec’s first winner at two last season and she backed that up by being his first winner at three at Rosehill on Saturday encouraging her trainer to consider a path to the Victoria Oaks.

A lightly raced filly by European sire sensation Kingman that wins in the Yulong colours was always going to be our ‘One to Watch’ on Friday.

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

A quick overview of today's results covering maiden winners, first season sire placegetters, second season sire winners and highest priced winners.

On pedigree, this unraced three year-old colt jumped straight off the page at the Warwick Farm trials on Friday morning and over the last 100 metres he also jumped out of the ground to win with authority, while a favourite of mine has returned in style.

A catalogue bursting with quality has opened for bidding this afternoon, with the Inglis Digital August (Early) Online Sale not only including the Great Southern Sale weanlings (now officially yearlings) but highly prized fillies and mares, including She Will Reign’s half sister Rosina Kojonup.

Two of Australia’s principal racing brands, Inglis and Tabcorp, have extended their long-standing relationship by a further three years.

The business of making champion stallions is a lucrative one and Australia is undoubtedly the best place in the world to find bang for buck in terms of sourcing quality colts that are the raw material from which countless millions are made.

It was business as usual for Team Coolmore overnight with two new Group winning juveniles at Leopardstown, one sired by Galileo and the other from one of this daughters.

Royal by name, regally bred - Prince Of Caviar. - A horse whose sire was high class, a horse whose dam does not really need introduction, but we will talk about her anyway!

The High Chaparral (IRE) sireline is rapidly emerging as one of the most progressive in the country with his champion son So You Think set to follow in his footsteps through his exciting Group I winning son D’Argento.

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

A quick overview of today's results covering maiden winners, first season sire placegetters, second season sire winners and highest priced winners.

Choisir’s historic Royal Ascot double back in 2003 would still rank highly on many racing fan’s list of most exciting moments in the sport.

Kooringal Stud have Tweeted the arrival of the first foal for their dual Group I winning More Than Ready (USA) stallion Prized Icon.

Australia’s biggest showcase for foals is now up and running for the new season with a small selection already on board for what is one of the most popular pages on our website.

The flag is certainly being flown high by exciting jumper Ablaze for his White Robe Lodge sire and the spinoff is being felt at the leading South Island stud.

Grade 1 winner and millionaire Concrete Rose will be offered as a racing or broodmare prospect during the premier Book 1 of this year’s Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, which begins Monday, Nov. 9, and follows the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Keeneland on Nov. 6-7.

The Listed ATC Rosebud Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill this Saturday showcases some talented types gearing up for spring with a horse we featured from the trials earlier this week accepting for the race.

Here is the full list of 35 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A quick overview of today's results covering maiden winners, first season sire placegetters, second season sire winners and highest priced winners.

Four year-old Sebring mare Emeralds contested some of the best three year-old fillies races last season and was never beaten far, so always looked a good thing in a Benchmark 72 race at Canterbury on a Wednesday.

The 2020 renewal of the Inglis Ready2Race Sale is certain to be the strongest yet – in terms of quality of both horses and vendors.

Former Kiwi three-year-old Wertheimer didn’t take long to make his presence felt across the Tasman.

Group One winner Wyndspelle will be on parade at the Hawera racecourse on Saturday ahead of his debut season at stud.

Bennelong Bloodstock have bred some nice horses including Group II winner Jessy Belle, whose three year-old half-brother Tectonicus carried their colours to victory at Canterbury on Wednesday.

Shaune Ritchie was beaming after Jennifer Eccles’ 1050m trial at Ruakaka on Tuesday.

A son of Wootton Bassett out of the Australian-bred, Manhattan Rain mare, The Hunt Is On, Midlife Crisis was the talk of Deauville on Tuesday when he bettered a field of bluebloods by a widening five lengths over 7-furlongs at his career debut.

Arrowfield Stud shuttler Shalaa (IRE) was making news this week when siring the top lot at the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale and featured overnight with a new winner in Cream of the Crop.

A remarkable 2020 Magic Millions National Sale came to a close on the Gold Coast today with progeny of Lonhro starring across the day.

Earlier this week we ran a story highlighting those special stallions that consistently deliver two year-old winners and while we’re all awake to Snitzel, I Am Invincible, Not a Single Doubt and Exceed and Excel, there is another name that really should be added to that list.

With just two more days until he arrives on farm, Haunui’s exciting young sire BELARDO (IRE) (Lope De Vega) is making his presence felt in both hemispheres.

Group One winner Sentimental Miss will head across the Tasman this spring to try and add to her burgeoning CV.

With no new season juveniles for a while yet our look at the Rosehill trials this morning will focus on a couple of Golden Rose nominated three year old colts that looked to have come back in great shape for Team Hawkes.

In the politically correct world we now live in where Coon Cheese is to be renamed and Redskins are no more, how is that a horse called The Fat White is allowed to race - are we not worried that fat white people – and there are millions of them in Australia– will be offended?

Thoroughbred Breeders Australia (TBA) encourages all breeders sending mares interstate for the coming season to consider their transport plans well ahead of any movements.

Cornerstone Stud shuttler Sir Prancealot (IRE) featured in Ireland overnight with a new stakes-winner after promising 2YO Miss Amulet took out the Listed Marwell Stakes (5f) at Naas.

A regally bred colt by Shalaa has topped Day One of the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale at the Gold Coast.

The first Southern Hemisphere foal by Valachi Downs shuttle stallion U S Navy Flag (USA) has been born at Riversdale Farm in New South Wales.

Here is the full list of 16 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A quick overview of today's results covering maiden winners, first season sire placegetters, second season sire winners and highest priced winners.

Waikato Stud has confirmed that the 2020 book is full for rising star stallion Ocean Park (NZ). The Cox Plate winner served 153 mares in 2019 and had been available for a service fee of $20,000 for the upcoming breeding season.

Australian bred sires filled the first ten places on the Australian General Sires List this year giving rise to a pride filled Tweet from Aushorse highlighting this fact, but before you go all anti- shuttle, do have a thought on how those Australian stallions were made and consider a few facts on how tough it is for a shuttle stallion to succeed.

The Auckland Racing Club (ARC) has announced that it will be increasing stakes above minimum levels for this season by contributing close to $1,000,000 of its own monies.

Chatswood Stud mainstay Reward For Effort ended the 2019/20 season as Victoria's leading active sire of winners, amassing 95 individual winners and $4,704,380 in prize-money.

Emma Evans didn’t get the send-off her long-time trainer Wayne Hillis had hoped to provide for her at Matamata on Saturday, but she will be long remembered for her involvement in the racing industry as a passionate owner and breeder.

Entries are now open for the 2021 Inglis Select Yearling Sales Series.

Choisir’s Group I winning son Olympic Glory (IRE) shuttled to Arrowfield Stud for just three seasons and while he’s yet to produce a stakes-winner here, he does have a very good mare in Europe called Watch Me, who won the Group I Prix Rothschild (1m) at Deauville overnight.

Getting the best results from valuable breeding stock is a topic that interests everyone.

The ability to regularly sire plentiful juvenile winners is a unique talent possessed by few stallions and in recent years that title of most successful Australian sire by juvenile winners has been dominated by a handful of stallions.

Kiwi jumpers were again to the fore at Sandown on Grand National Hurdle day, taking out the two jumping features.

Ex-pat Kiwi trainer Bjorn Baker enjoyed a breakout season at the metropolitan level in Sydney over the past twelve months and continued that momentum on Saturday with a winning double at Randwick.

Caroline Searcy’s Bred To Win returns to our screens this Tuesday August 4, 2020 at 8.30pm on Sky Thoroughbred Central (Foxtel Ch 528).

Twin Hill Stud’s Hallowed Crown has a very promising colt in England in the Richard Hughes-trained Karibana.

It was a disappointing field of just three runners in Saturday’s Group II Qatar Lillie Langtry Stakes at Goodwood where the imposing figure of the five-year-old Redoute’s Choice mare Enbihaar monstered a pair of three-year-old fillies to retain the crown she won 12 months ago.

It is with a heavy heart that Windsor Park Stud announce the loss of their very successful sire Rip Van Winkle following a short illness.

Coolmore’s two time Group I winner Fancy Blue is not the only classy Deep Impact three year-old filly running in Europe this year with the Al Shaqab homebred Katara scoring her first Black Type success overnight taking out the Listed Chalice Stakes (1m4f) at Newmarket.

Here is the full list of 92 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A quick overview of today's results covering maiden winners, first season sire placegetters, second season sire winners and highest priced winners.

The Nick Ryan-trained Mahamedeis is rapidly closing in on becoming the fifth millionaire for Sun Stud’s Magnus following a second win in the space of seven days when carrying topweight to a hard fought victory in Saturday’s Vale Rob Gaylard Handicap (2020m) at Moonee Valley.

Not since his own grandsire Danehill dominated the Australian Sire Championships at the start of the millennium has a stallion equalled the feat of Snitzel who was crowned champion sire for the fourth consecutive time at seasons end on Friday.

There will be few better omen bets anywhere on Saturday than the four-year-old Snitzel mare De Grawin who claimed the Four Time Champion Sire Snitzel Sprint (1000m) at Randwick.

Joe O’Neill of Prime Thoroughbreds has a happy knack for finding quality fillies for not a lot of money and he’s got another one in the shape of Super One filly Miss Divine Em, who scored a  thrilling victory at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

With his oldest Australian progeny just turned three, Golden Slipper winning sire Vancouver has enjoyed a successful first season with 11 winners and five stakes horses in the Southern Hemisphere, while in the US his progeny include talented filly Madone, who scored a stylish debut victory at Del Mar on Friday.