After playing an integral role in the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace stable’s interstate success, Annabel Neasham is applying for a trainer’s license to be based at Warwick Farm Racecourse for the 2020-21 racing season.

What a fascinating race to kick off proceedings at Rosehill on Saturday with the admirable blue-collar filly Lady Banff once again threatening to see off a field of bluebloods over 1100m.

The Inglis Australian Weanling Sale produced pleasing results for a number of first season sires despite the challenging market with five posting sales of $100,000 or more and five also featuring in the top 10 sires by average.

An easy winner at Royal Ascot of the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes last month, Toronado colt Tactical took another step forward when carrying the colours of The Queen to victory in the Group II July Stakes (6f) at Newmarket overnight.

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

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

On the advice of the Hume City Council and relevant health authorities, the Melbourne Gold Yearling Sale inspections scheduled for Oaklands from this coming Monday will no longer take place.

Lauriston Thoroughbred Farm’s James O’Brien has had a week like no other, but today it ended in the best way possible as a Not A Single Doubt filly he offered topped the Australian Weanling Sale.

An inspired ride by a nerveless Jason Collett resulted in trainer Kris Lees earning his first win in the Listed Iron Jack Grafton Cup (2350m) with Sixties Groove (IRE).

A rush trip across the border to Corowa with his star performers Front Page and News Girl could well pay off for trainer Geoff Duryea as the brother-sister combination have been elevated to favourite and equal third favourite respectively for the $1,300,000 The Kosciuszko at Randwick in October.

A full sister to the stakes-placed Legend Of Condor lit up day 2 of the Inglis Australian Weanling Sale when Suman Hedge Bloodstock/Grant Bloodstock had the final say at $280,000.

As career debuts go, they do not come much better than the last to first display put on by the John O’Shea-trained Bravado in a 1000 metre 2yo maiden at Kembla Grange on Thursday.

A colt by Coolmore’s Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (USA) was expected to win the Japan Dirt Derby (2000m) at Ohi Racecourse on Wednesday, but the one that saluted was not the favourite Café Pharoah.

An emotional Verna Metcalfe of Middlebrook Valley Lodge celebrated “an awesome result’’ as an Exceed And Excel colt she offered for long-time client Kate Gadsby topped Day 1 of the Australian Weanling Sale at Riverside.

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

Here is the full list of 42 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

It doesn’t carry Black Type, but the $80,000 Grafton Guineas ( 1600m) is still a nice race to win and on Wednesday the Michael Costa trained Star Witness gelding Reus took the prize.

Behind a wall of runners at the 200-metre mark of Wednesday’s Listed Ramornie Handicap at Grafton, Jeff Penza needed an ounce of luck on Signore Fox.

Featured recently in one of our Breednet stories on Australia’s most expensive mares, $1.6 million purchase Polska kept her record perfect as the dam of four foals to race all winners with her two year-old Sebring colt Toyetic saluting at Sandown on Wednesday.

The Triple Crown Syndications team were in the winner’s circle at Warwick Farm on Wednesday when two year-old Smart Missile colt Smart Image made a winning debut.

Golden Slipper winning sire Vancouver added a smart new winner to his tally with talented filly Zacouver hitting the line hard to win at Sandown on Wednesday.

South Coast bloodstock enterprise Bell View Park have built a reputation for meeting the market, which is important in the current economic climate and since their first draft of mares in 2017 have sold 67 out of 68 lots offered at the Magic Millions National Sale, which is good reason to see what they are offering in 2020.

Arrowfield Stud shuttler Shalaa (IRE) posted his third winner overnight with promising filly No Speak Alexander bolting in by six and a half lengths.

It’s not all doom and gloom - Stockwell Thoroughbreds’ Mike Becker can see plenty of advantages coming out of the delayed Melbourne Gold Yearling Sale.

Following a distinguished career on the track, Kenbelle signed off in 2016 following 19 honourable years at stud and her 14th and final foal looks likely to add to her legacy.

Here is the full list of 32 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Boom Kiwi galloper Te Akau Shark remains in an equine hospital in Sydney after undergoing eye surgery.

Invincible Spirit stallion Kingman is one of the hottest young sires in Europe and he made it two Australian winners from two runners when his talented colt Kingsheir (GB) won as a short priced favourite on debut at Newcastle on Tuesday.

All efforts to ensure the return of Deep Impact’s Group One-winning son Satono Aladdin to Rich Hill Stud this year have been foiled by the impact of COVID-19.

One of Australia's most successful thoroughbred nurseries will hold a quality packed unreserved reduction sale at the upcoming Magic Millions National Sale at the Gold Coast.

Etak Thoroughbred’s decade long tradition of trading weanlings will enter a new chapter at this week’s Inglis Australian Weanling Sale, with a draft of four to be offered under Jilly Henderson’s Noogee Park Thoroughbreds.

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

The management of Gooree Park Stud are extremely excited to announce a new relationship with Aquis that will see their NSW based bloodstock relocated to Gooree Park Stud for the upcoming breeding season.

Multiple Group winner Teleplay is among the latest 17 supplementary entries received for this month's Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale at the Gold Coast.

As a result of the official border closure between NSW and Victoria, it is no longer possible for Inglis to host the Melbourne Gold Sale as a live auction.

With another treble of winners taking his tally to thirteen for the week, leading young sire Charm Spirit continues on his rich vein of winning form.

The 2020 Inglis Australian Weanling Sale this week at Riverside Stables will mark the first sale ring appearance of the progeny of two very high profile first season sires in Merchant Navy (Coolmore) and Russian Revolution (Newgate Farm).

Six heats for juveniles at the Warwick Farm barrier trials on Monday produced some interesting winners, but none more so than the half-brother to $5million earner Pierata.

The Group I Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby) and Prix de Diane (French Oaks) were both run over 2000m at Chantilly in France overnight with the winners of both races posting their first success at the elite level.

The Group I Coral Eclipse Stakes (1m2f)  at Sandown overnight in the UK produced an upset result with the Godolphin entry Ghaiyyath emerging as the winner.

A colt out of a half sister to champion mare Winx topped today’s Easter Round Two sale at Riverside.

World champion racehorse Winx retired to stud last season and is due to foal this spring to I Am Invincible and for those curious as to what the resulting foal may be like we have probably seen a sneak preview in the shape of the top lot at Inglis Easter Round 2.

It is getting to sound like a broken record of late, the fourth winner in a week for the sire on fire Headwater, but this one came with a twist.

Yulong have hit another home run at Inglis Easter Round 2 on Sunday with their I Am Invincible colt out of Gypsy Diamond purchased by Coolmore Stud’s Colm Santry for $500,000.

A filly by super sire Frankel made the early running when Round 2 of the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale commenced on Sunday, when hammered down to Satomi Oka Bloodstock, on behalf of a Japanese client, for $500,000.

Three-season Arrowfield Stud shuttler Mikki Isle (JPN) has beaten his former stablemate Maurice (JPN) to the punch by siring his first winner at Hanshin on Saturday.

Galileo might be 22, but you would never know that looking at racetrack results this year with his progeny continuing their domination of major races wining both the Group I Epsom Derby (1m4f)  and Oaks (1m4f) overnight in the UK.

It proved to be a successful day at Belmont for Victorian-based stallions for shortly after Fiorente’s Cousin Ivan claimed the Listed Aquanita Stakes, it was the turn of the Puissance de Lune (IRL) filly Chantrea to run her unbeaten sequence to five in the Listed Belmont Oaks (2000m).

Lightly raced three-year-old Fiorente (IRE) gelding Cousin Ivan gave his trainer Holly Tailor a dream start to her training career with a fighting win in Saturday’s Listed Aquanita Stakes at Belmont.

Winner of the Group II VRC Sires Produce Stakes as a juvenile, Nicconi gelding Sircconi is still going strong as a five year-old scoring a resounding four length victory at Flemington on Saturday in the Listed VRC Winter Championship Final (1600m).

As her record indicates, Jami Lady has not run a bad race in her 19-start career so it was a well-deserved maiden stakes win in Saturday’s Listed Bright Shadow Stakes (1200m) at Eagle Farm for the four-year-old daughter of Sprit Of Boom.

Four years after capturing the Listed A.R. Creswick Stakes (1200m) at Flemington, Lord Von Costa earned his second stakes success in Saturday’s Victorian Sprint Final over the same track and distance.

After making a winning debut at Doomben back in February to become the first winner for her sire Rich Enuff, the Chris Anderson-trained filly Plutocrat earned the honour of being her sire’s first stakes-winner with a courageous performance in Saturday’s Listed Tattersall's Club Stakes at Eagle Farm.

Exciting two-year-old Cherry Tortoni kept his record at a perfect three for three in Saturday’s Listed Taj Rossi Final (1600m) at Flemington however the son of Night Of Thunder (IRE) was made to fight for it.

The leading first season sire by earnings, former brilliant dual Group I winning juvenile, Pride of Dubai is passing on his talent and trainability to his offspring including progressive filly Sense of Honour, a tenacious winner at Flemington on Saturday .

An eye-catching half-brother by I Am Invincible to Group I winner Volatile Mix topped the Hong Kong International Sale (July) at the Sha Tin Parade Ring on Friday night with all19 lots offered sold for a total of HK$74.3 million

Darley shuttler Territories (IRE) is slated to return to their Aberdeen base in NSW this spring at the modest fee of $11,000 and was making news overnight with two smart winners.

More than 1,000 race meetings at 51 venues throughout New Zealand were confirmed today by the Dates Committee of the Racing Industry Transition Agency (RITA) for the forthcoming racing year.

Audience interest in the whereabouts and performance of the most expensive broodmares sold at public auction in Australia has led to another story highlighting all of those in the popular price bracket of $1.4 million.

Equilume Light Masks are an integral component of the breeding management at one of Australia’s leading Thoroughbred nurseries, Arrowfield Stud.

The search is on for a new Team Rogerson stable star after the retirement of Ferrando, who will shortly begin a stud career.

For the second year, NZB Airfreight is pleased to announce the sponsorship of the qualifying heats for Australia’s longest flat race, the annual Jericho Cup (4600m).

An impressive draft of breeding stock to be offered by Godolphin – 37 broodmares and 4 race fillies – headlines what is shaping as another extremely strong catalogue for the Inglis Digital July (Early) Online Auction.

Dubai’s exciting young sire son Night of Thunder is not coming to Australia for Darley this year, but he will be available to cover a limited number of mares to Southern Hemisphere time this year.

The race for champion first crop sire for number of winners has plenty of legs left in it yet as we head down the home straight for season 2019-20 with Headwater continuing his late season rally with his son Mr Colorful opening his winning account over 1000 metres at Hawkesbury on Thursday.

Though he has had two two-year-old stakes-winners in New Zealand, So You Think has not yet ticked that box off in Australia, an anomaly we will be banking on to be righted at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

A change in business model will see Tamac Stud Farm selling a select draft of quality youngsters at the Inglis Australian Weanling Sale at Riverside Stables next week highlighted by two stunning babies from the second crop of Golden Slipper winner Capitalist.

Medaglia D’Oro (USA) no longer shuttles to Australia for Darley, but he has given us some great horses during his time here including Golden Slipper winning sire Vancouver and featured at Cranbourne on Thursday with an ultra impressive juvenile winner.

Why be paying service fees when you could be standing your own stallion by Australia's champion sire.

Well-bred filly Le Gai Soleil made it three wins in succession when scoring a comfortably victory on the Kensington track at Randwick on Wednesday over 1550m under leading jockey James McDonald.

The Hong Kong market is an important one for any young stallion and a winning double at Sha Tin on Wednesday for Deep Field with Winning Dreamer and True Legend has cemented his credentials as a fine source of winners for this jurisdiction.

With three winners in the past two weeks, Vinery Stud’s Headwater continued his late season rally when the Richard and Michael Freedman-trained Gunnamatta toughed out a well-deserved win in Wednesday’s the Yes Yes Yes @ Coolmore Mdn (1150m) on the Kensington track at Randwick to chalk up winner number eight for the son of Exceed And Excel.

Regally-bred filly Grand De Flora recorded back-to-back wins at Sandown on Wednesday when taking out her 1600m contest.

Cambridge Stud, in partnership with CatWalk Trust, are running a competition to name the Brazen Beau – Stepanova filly purchased at the New Zealand Bloodstock Yearling Sale earlier this year.

Time waits for no man and Ian Smith of Edinburgh Park is looking to the future with his three yearlings to be offered at the Inglis Easter Round 2 on Sunday, the trio now broken in by one of the best breakers in the country and entered and paid up for the 2021 Golden Slipper and Blue Diamond.

Deep Field unleashed an impressive two year-old winner at Sandown on Wednesday with Lindsay Park trained colt Aysar opening up to win by three lengths.

Audience interest in the whereabouts and performance of the most expensive broodmares sold at public auction in Australia has led to another story highlighting all of those in the popular price bracket of $1.5 million.

Thoroughbred Racehorse Owners Association (TROA) chairman Jonathan Munz welcomed the Victorian prizemoney reinstatement recently announced by Racing Victoria.

As a result of advice from the NSW State Government and Racing NSW resulting from the increasing COVID-19 situation in Victoria, all Victorian-domiciled persons will be unable to attend Riverside Stables at the upcoming Inglis July Sales Series auctions.

Gilgai Farm have bred some amazingly good horses including Black Caviar, All Too Hard, Jameka and The Quarterback, so when a two year-old they bred and sold wins on debut for the Chris Waller stable we like to know a bit more.

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.

Astute Cranbourne trainer Greg Eurell has confirmed the sale of his promising two year-old colt Ilovemyself, who opened his career with a debut win in the Listed VRC Very Special Kids Plate (1000m).

The Oaklands Stud Farm were thrilled to see resident stallion, Power (Oasis Dream) sire his 12th stakes winner courtesy of Wakanaka’s (2f ex Storyline by Kodiac) win in the Premio Vittorio Crespi (Listed, 1200m) at Milan. 

Boutique Hunter Valley nursery Cressfield have already enjoyed success breeding with champion sire Frankel having produced last Saturday’s new stakes-winner Frankely Awesome and the stunning filly by her sire they are offering at Inglis Easter Round 2 has the pedigree to suggest she too will be a stakes-winner of the future.

Rosemont’s flags will be lowered to half-mast and a fitting tribute will stand at the front of the office entrance to honour Danehill’s first ever stakes winner, Danzero, who passed away peacefully on the weekend at the Geelong farm at age 28.

Australian-based Group One winning mare Rollout The Carpet (Holy Roman Emperor), in foal to The Autumn Sun, is part of a high-profile unreserved dispersal sale live now on Gavelhouse Plus.

A Redoute’s Choice two year-old filly that wins on debut is always a candidate for ‘One to Watch’.

Southland trainer Kelvin Tyler may have lost one of his star three-year-olds to Australia, but he is excited about the prospects of another.

The great run of success for Windsor Park shuttler Charm Spirit (Invincible Spirit) continued overnight when he scored a treble of winners, including a new 2YO stakes winner at Newmarket in England.

FIGHTING SUN, a Champion Victorian First Season Sire, has died at Sun Stud following an attack of colic.

When boutique Hunter Valley nursery Cressfield secured young stakes-winning Galileo (IRE) mare Personify for $2million at the 2008 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale it’s fairly safe to say they did not anticipate they would be still waiting for her to produce a stakes-winner in 2020, but that looks set to change next season.

Following significant consultation with vendors and buyers, it has been agreed to move the Great Southern Sale to Sydney.

The most popular racehorse of his time, who kept doing battle right until the end of his five year-old season, Lonhro might be in the twilight years of a magnificent career, but good fertility in recent times has ensured he’s still a popular choice for the astute breeder.

This two year-old I Am Invincible colt had plenty of excuses at his first two starts, but joined the dots for an impressive win at Ballarat on Sunday to become the 20th juvenile winner for his sire this season.

Coolmore's Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (USA) has been running hot in the Northern Hemisphere posting his third Group winner in the past 10 days at Churchill Downs on Saturday.

Making her career debut in an 1100 metres maiden at Dubbo on Sunday, the Brett Cavanough-trained filly Water Dove toughed it out in a driving finish to credit her sire Headwater with his seventh first crop winner.

A G2 quinella in South Africa overnight capped off a big weekend for Inglis graduates where Easter, Premier, Classic, Ready2Race and Inglis Digital sales all provided Stakes winners.

Four-time Group 1 winner Mosheen (Fastnet Rock) had her second winner in Japan when her three-year-old Deep Impact colt Mawson Peak won a 2000 metre maiden at Hakodate on Saturday.

Coolmore’s Golden Slipper winner Vancouver has sired his first stakes-winner with exciting two year-old colt Mount Pleasant beating another Aussie bred Starspangled banner colt Najem Suhail to win the Group II World Sports Betting SA Nursery Stakes (1160m) at Turffontein in South Africa on Saturday.

Aidan O’Brien and the Coolmore team produced the trifecta in the Group I Irish Derby (1m4f) overnight at The Curragh, but while the two place-getters were both colts by Galileo, the winner Santiago is by Authorized, who now stands in Turkey.