If you have a mare by Redoute’s Choice and she’s still not in foal you probably should read this story!

Racing NSW today announced that its BOBS Scheme will be enhanced by the addition of a Platinum and Gold Category. Commencing from January 2020, selected races will have a BOBS Platinum bonus of $100,000 or a BOBS Gold bonus of $50,000, offered for the winners of the race.

Exciting filly Euphoric Summer burst into contention for January's $2 million The Star Gold Coast Magic Millions 2YO Classic after a thrilling win in the Clockwise Classic at Ballarat bringing a timely pedigree update for her MM 2020 bound half-sister.

Earlier this year exciting Pierro gelding Regal Power showed his quality and stamina when winning the Group II WATC West Australian Derby (2400m) and he upped the ante at Ascot on Saturday when he beat a hot field to win the $1million Group I WATC Railway Stakes (1600m).

The royally-bred Frankel mare Miss Fabulass came with a barnstorming finish to earn her second stakes win in Saturday’s Listed The Spirit Of Boom Classic (1200m) at Doomben.

Winless in eight starts since capturing the same race 12 months ago, local hero Kiwia showed his love of the track with a hard-fought win in Saturday’s $500,000 Ballarat Cup.

After Yes Yes Yes captured the $14 million The Everest and Kolding added the $8,500,000 Golden Eagle to his win in the Group 1 Epsom Handicap, the topweight Mister Sea Wolf (IRE) kept the run going for champion trainer Chris Waller when he scored a record-breaking win in the inaugural running of the $1 million The Gong (1600m) at Kembla Grange on Saturday.

Aquis Farm’s expensive Fastnet Rock colt Rathlin looked to have the measure of Phoenix Thoroughbreds Not A Single Doubt filly Euphoric Summer in the closing stages of Saturday’s $250,000 Magic Millions 2YO Clockwise Classic (1000m) at Ballarat but Euphoric Summer showed she had inherited plenty of the intestinal fortitude of her overachieving dam Mid Summer Music.

Champion sire Fastnet Rock was in hot form in New Zealand on Saturday with a stakes-winning double at Pukekohe where exciting two year-old Unition won the Listed Fasttrack Insurance 5K Bonus 2YO Stakes (1100m) followed by rugged stayer In A Twinkling taking out the Group III Ssangyong Counties Cup (2100m).

Ultra-consistent galloper Yearn finally put it all together in stakes company to record a deserved success at Group level when she took out the Gr.2 Dunstan Feeds Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1400m) at Pukekohe on Saturday.

Underrated mare Its Destinys Child upset the apple-cart to provide rider Sam Spratt with a winning black-type double at Pukekohe on Saturday when taking out the Listed Haunui Farm Counties Bowl (1100m).

More than a decade after Darley took over the Ingham family’s Woodlands Stud, the families that were nurtured over many generations by Woodlands are still producing with the latest being the Exceed And Excel debutant Destination who opened his winning account over 1000 metres at Kembla Grange on Saturday.

Blue-blooded two year-old Unition showed plenty of grit as he made a winning debut at Pukekohe in New Zealand on Saturday when he took out the Listed Fasttrack Insurance 5K Bonus 2YO Stakes (1100m).

Bill Waterhouse, one of Australia's best known bookmakers and head of the famous Waterhouse clan, has passed away aged 97 years.

The racing and breeding industry are mourning the passing of legendary bloodstock agent, journalist and long serving committee member of Thoroughbred Breeders NSW Mr Les Young, aged 76.

There are two boxes to be ticked for the proven stallion... is he a reliable source of winners? Can he get sales results?

The committee of Thoroughbred Breeders NSW along with the breeding and racing industry together mourn the passing of legendary bloodstock agent and fellow committeeman Les Young, found deceased at his home.

The 2019 Karaka Ready to Run Sale achieved strong results and while the average was down slightly on last year, the median remained on a par at $60,000 and the clearance rate of 74% was up, creating opportunity enough to deliver pinhooking success, so let’s take a look at the big winners headed by the sale-topping son of Shamus Award.

The lure of a one million purse has been too attractive for leading Sydney trainer Chris Waller.

With his days as a barrier rogue seemingly behind him and a maiden victory under the belt, the Spreyton-trained Mywordis looks set to deliver on his early promise. 

As the dust settles on this week’s Ready to Run Sale, attention quickly shifts to New Zealand Bloodstock’s eagerly-anticipated showpiece – the National Yearling Sales Series.

Ocean Park may be something of a slow burner, but the Waikato Stud stallion is enjoying a breakout season in Australia.

Day 2 of selling at New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2019 Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds saw 257 lots go under the hammer and NZB’s Managing Director Andrew Seabrook was pleased with the final outcome of the Sale.

There was plenty of interest in lot 375, the Shamus Award colt out of stakes-placed mare Exchanges, on the second day of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready To Run Sale of 2YOs, but when the dust settled it was Andrew Williams who came out on top.

The barrier trials at Warwick Farm this morning were abandoned after six heats due to smoke haze, but there were two heats run for the juveniles and both were won by the progeny of Darley’s champion sire Exceed and Excel.

Cambridge Bloodstock agent Garry Carvell has had plenty of success with progeny of Per Incanto he has acquired from Karaka, and he went back to the same well on Thursday.

Shaune Ritchie has backed his judgment once again at Karaka.

A new record for a colt foal capped a remarkable third day at the Goffs November Foal Sale as the Dubawi own brother to 2019 Group 1 winner Ghaiyyath out of the Classic winning Galileo mare Nightime sold for €1.2 million to Godolphin. 

Everyone that purchases an expensive broodmare from a sale would love to have a result like this and the news just got better this week with the arrival of a prized filly foal from this acclaimed blue hen.

Sam Beatson’s Riversley Park dominated proceedings on the first day of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready To Run Sale of 2YOs at Karaka on Wednesday, selling seven of the top 10 lots.

It was a red-letter day for Fairdale Stud principal Duncan Fell at Karaka on Wednesday.

Day 1 of the 2019 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds saw an astute buying bench with both local and international markets active.

The juvenile maiden at Rosehill on Wednesday always promised to be an interesting contest with two outstanding colts in Hinchbeast and Volterra clearing away from their rivals to fight out the finish.

A very strong second day at Goffs November Foal Sale saw the clearance rate soar to 85%, up from 76% on Day 2 last year, as well as a 17% increase in turnover and 4% rise in average price. 

Boutique Hunter Valley breeder Bruce Neill of Cressfield would be well pleased to have kept this Fastnet Rock filly who won easily on debut at Sandown on Wednesday.

Celtic Dream is developing into a valuable broodmare.

Hong Kong trainer Dennis Yip struck early on the first day of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready To Run Sale of 2YOs at Karaka on Wednesday, securing lot 9, the Press Statement colt out of Karata from Riversley Park’s draft for $420,000.

The juvenile maiden at Rosehill later this afternoon features a field of seven first starters including Volterra, an I Am Invincible colt bought for $1.3million at Magic Millions.

The leading North American Thoroughbred racing organizations have announced the creation of an industry-led effort to unify and enhance existing protections and work together to develop new reforms to ensure the safety of the sport’s equine and human athletes.

Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA) is pleased to announce that it has purchased a new property ‘Touchstone Farm’ in North Dandalup, as one of the many commitments outlined in the WA Racehorse Welfare Plan.

Grandview Stud stallion Whittington is proving one of the better value QTIS stallions as he continues to notch up early wins in the second season sire standings.

With 28 two-year-olds set to go through the ring at Karaka this week, the 2019 Ready to Run Sale marks another big step in the rapid rise of Woburn Farm.

The first day of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready To Run Sale of 2YOs will commence at their Karaka sales complex on Wednesday, November 20, at 11am.

A top price of €100,000 and a significant rise in clearance rate were among the highlights of the opening day of Goffs November Foal Sale . 

With progeny of 21 individual sires, Kilgravin Lodge  are offering quality in all sectors of the market at the 2019 NZB Ready to Run Sale this week.

Three significant winners on Saturday by this champion sire were all bred from daughters of Redoute’s Choice.

A big set of 15 trials at Hawkesbury on Monday morning included two heats for juveniles which were both won by Gooree Stud homebreds prepared by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott with one of those winners a colt from an illustrious sire producing family.

Prestigious and highly competitive racing during Melbourne’s Spring Carnival attracts top gallopers from around the globe, and this year’s Carnival saw Mill Park Stud’s graduates come out on top in several of the feature races.

After a string of successes with his Ready to Run Sale purchases, Toowoomba trainer Matt Kropp has returned to Karaka in search of some more future stars.

Shaune Ritchie is going from chasing Group One glory at Riccarton on Saturday to attempting to win the longest flat race.

Keeneland’s 2019 November Breeding Stock Sale has concluded after 12 days of competitive trade fueled by a deep domestic and foreign buying bench. Kicking off the sale was the premier Book 1 catalog of stakes-producing mares, stakes-winning fillies and exceptional weanlings, which delivered 14 seven-figure horses led by the sale of champion Take Charge Brandi, in foal to 2018 Triple Crown wi

The great Fastnet Rock appeared in the pedigrees of two runners in Sunday’s Group 1 The Mile Championship (1600m) at Kyoto, as the sire of Fiano Romano and the sire of the dam (Mosheen) of Primo Scene, but they were to prove bit players in a race where Indy Champ became the seventh horse to claim the Mile Championship - Yasuda Kinen double.

Spring in Melbourne is one of world racing’s greatest stages, and the results of this year’s carnival have given a massive boost to the catalogue for this week’s New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds at Karaka.

The catalogue for the 2020 Classic Yearling Sale – the sale that has produced the winner of a Melbourne Cup, Golden Slipper, Victoria Derby and Inglis Millennium in recent years – is now available online.

Beaten only once in six starts, exciting Sebring three year-old gelding Aethero blitzed his older rivals to score a resounding win in the Group II Jockey Club Sprint Cup (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday leading home an Aussie bred trifecta and bringing a big pedigree update for his half-brother headed to Inglis Easter 2020.

It was a case of little fish are sweet for the powerful Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable when they unleashed this expensive Not a Single Doubt two year-old at Canberra on Sunday.

The decision to withdraw a nomination for their royally bred Redoute’s Choice filly from the 2018 New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale paid off in spades for Cambridge couple Brent and Cherry Taylor on Saturday when she took out the Group I gavelhouse.com New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton.

Talented 3YO filly Pretty Brazen headlined a red-letter day for Inglis graduates at Sandown, with a bold victory in the G2 Sandown Guineas over 1600m.

Saturday’s $300,000 Group II Quayclean Zipping Classic (2400m) at Sandown may have been an afterthought for Southern France (IRE) after failing in the Melbourne Cup but the highly regarded son of Galileo gave fans a taste of his undoubted ability.

Devotees of the Rassmussen Factor (inbreeding to superior females) would have been excited by the wins of Jamaican Rain in Saturday’s Group III Le Pine Funerals Summoned Stakes at Sandown and Flirtini in the Group III South African Air-Colonel Reeves (1100m) at Ascot.

WA based owner/breeders Bob and Sandra Peters have had phenomenal success with their homebreds, but it was a Fastnet  Rock filly that they purchased from Inglis Easter that claimed their latest Black Type success with Tuscan Queen capturing the Group III WATC Champion Fillies Stakes (1600m) at Ascot in Perth on Saturday.

Godolphin had a very profitable day at Newcastle on Saturday with the Medaglia d’Oro (USA) filly Asiago opening her stakes account in the Group III NZ Bloodstock NJC Spring Stakes (1600m) moments before Savatiano carried the royal blue to victory in the inaugural running of the $1 million Pages Event Hire The Hunter (1300m).

The expensive Brazen Beau filly Pretty Brazen became the seventh consecutive stakes performer and third stakes-winner for the remarkable broodmare, Pretty Penny when she toughed out a win in Saturday’s $250,000 Group II Ladbrokes Sandown Guineas (1600m).

Saturday is shaping as a great day for Woodside Park’s champion sire Written Tycoon with classy mare Teleplay taking out the Group III MRC Kevin Heffernan Stakes (1300m) at Sandown,  while talented two year-old filly Tilia Rose made a winning debut at Newcastle in the $125,000 Max Lees Classic (900m).

Viridine looked a world beater when kickstarting his career with four consecutive wins, culminating with the Group II Roman Consul Stakes at Randwick, but it has been lean pickings since.

Talented Deep Field filly Xilong put the writing on the wall with a desperately close third in a stakes race at Flemington during the Cup Carnival and atoned for that narrow loss with a resounding win in the Listed MRC Twilight Glow Stakes (1400m) at Sandown on Saturday.

There were plenty of tears being shed in the Riccarton birdcage as the supporters of trainers Peter Corbett and Terrill Charles waited for the pair’s bonny staying mare Dee And Gee to make her way off the track after scoring her greatest victory when taking out the 157th running of the Group III Christchurch Casino New Zealand Cup (3200m) on Saturday.

Last start Sale Cup winner Gold Fields gave popular jockey Stephen Baster a fitting finale to his riding career when battling on bravely to nose out Mr Exclusive in Saturday’s $160,000 Group III Ladbrokes Sandown Stakes at Sandown.

Despite displaying some wayward tendencies over the closing stages Cambridge filly Loire stamped her class in emphatic style as she took out the Group I  gavelhouse.com New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) on Saturday.

Progressive Savabeel mare Supera overcame a wide run in transit throughout to dominate her rivals in the closing stages of the Group II Gartshore Tauranga Stakes (1600m) on Saturday.

Ciaron Maher has a real affinity with the stock of Myboycharlie (IRL) and he has another one for the collection in the French import Azuro (FR).

Godolphin’s Street Boss (USA) colt Hanseatic accelerated impressively from midfield to make a winning career debut in Saturday’s Listed Merson Cooper Stakes (1000m) at Sandown-Hillside.

La Romanee is proving a dashing advertisement for his Cambridge Stud-based sire Burgundy.

Four years ago this week, Ohukia Lodge sold 8 horses at the NZB Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds and produced a Stakes-winning, Group 1 horse. The following year, they sold a Group 1 winner. Their ascension says everything about the importance of great horsemanship and positive people.

What a spring carnival it was for renowned Tasmanian nursery Armidale Stud, the Whishaw family proud to have had the opportunity to cheer on a third W.S Cox Plate runner sired by one of their resident stallions - Mystic Journey as game as the likes of previous contenders The Cleaner and Sydeston.

A $120,000 Magic Millions purchase from the Newgate Farm draft for Mulcaster Bloodstock, three year-old gelding Bigboyroy made it look all too easy when bolting away to win as he pleased at Canterbury on Friday night bringing a timely pedigree update for his half-brother headed to Magic Millions 2020.

Saturday’s Thoroughbred Club Merson Cooper Stakes (1000m) at Sandown-Hillside is a smorgasbord for those on first-season sire watch with five of the 16 acceptors by stallions with their first crop of two-year-olds with four of those ready to make their career debuts.

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.

It seems a long time ago that French Derby winner Lope de Vega (IRE) shuttled to Patinack Farm in Australia, the top class son of Shamardal now one of Europe’s most desirable stallions with Ballylinch Stud lifting his fee for 2020 to 100,000 euros.

Spendthrift Farm’s four-time champion & three-time Breeders’ Cup winner Beholder will be bred in 2020 to Bolt d’Oro (USA), who is currently in Victoria standing for Spendthrift Australia.

After impressive auditions throughout the spring from numerous New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series contenders, Saturday’s $300,000 Group One gavelhouse.com 47th New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton is one filly’s time to shine.

Racing NSW Chairman, Russel Balding has made a  21 page complaint to the ABC over the ‘Final Race’ segment broadcast on the 7.30 Report claiming the national broadcaster had fallen far short of its statutory duty and its Editorial Policy requirements.

When you have a $700,000 yearling with six siblings that are all stakes performers that brings a certain amount of pressure.

Two heats for juveniles at the Rosehill barrier trials on Thursday morning produced two Magic Millions sold winners, one of which fetched $1.3million at the Gold Coast and the other is a daughter of first season sire Exosphere.

Scrapbook or Cheque book - It’s a dilemma that faces the majority of New Zealand owners and trainers when they have a promising galloper and a flood of overseas money comes knocking.

Blue Gum Farm has stood Golden Slipper producing sire Manhattan Rain for the past three seasons and Phillip Campbell is on a mission is to resurrect the stallion’s name ahead of the 2020 yearling sales which will see his first Victorian bred offspring enter the sale ring.

Blue Gum Farm’s Phil Campbell has no illusions of where Turffontein stands in the pecking order of stallions.

The wait is over for Bombora Downs after their stallion Warhorse produced his first winner when Toots is Tops won at Ballina during the Melbourne Cup Carnival for trainer Stephen Lee.

Unprecedented support from breeders across Australasia has led to Magic Millions assembling a star studded catalogue for the 2020 Gold Coast Yearling Sale.

On a day when six of our second crop sires all posted winners, only one of them managed a winning double and that was Darley’s Hallowed Crown, who had two short priced favourites salute at Bendigo for Godolphin.

A half-sister to multiple Group II winner Catkins, in foal to exciting Aquis-based first season sire Brave Smash, has topped Inglis Digital’s November (Early) Online Sale, selling to Mark Player’s International Thoroughbred Solutions Pty Ltd. for $245,000 (plus GST), a record price for a broodmare on the platform.

The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained True Enough was backed into $4 favoritism by punters in the Group II Coupland’s Bakeries Mile (1600m) at Riccarton on Wednesday, a race won last year by outstanding galloper Te Akau Shark.

Melbourne-based jockey Michael Dee made a fleeting visit to Riccarton on Wednesday to join forces with emerging trainer and long-time friend Daniel Miller and the pair combined for a double, including Group III success in the Lindauer Stewards Stakes Handicap (1200m) with four-year-old mare Sheezallmine.

Producing tough, sound athletic racehorses is the goal of every thoroughbred breeder and when two such horses from the same farm come out and win the two richest races in Australia, you can’t help but wonder what factors are working behind the scenes to deliver such phenomenal success.

Melbourne Cup hero Shocking has been enjoying success this spring with his classy stayer Surprise Baby, who was fifth in the Melbourne Cup, the Rich Hill Stud based sire also producing a new Group III winner in New Zealand on Wednesday.

The combination of trainers Michael and Matthew Pitman and owner Jim Bruford has again come to the fore during New Zealand Cup week in Christchurch.

Outstanding mare Enable has been crowned Cartier Horse of the Year for a second time, following a fruitful season which saw her win three of four starts in Group I races before finishing a brave second in the Arc de Triomphe, a race she had won twice before.

Last year’s Karaka Million 3YO (1600m) winner Scott Base will make his raceday return in the Waka Property, Building and Maintenance Handicap (1200m) at Awapuni on Thursday.

Run over four fabulous days at Flemington, the 2019 Melbourne Cup Carnival featured 26 stakes races ranging in distance from 1000m up to 3200m with several sires producing multiple stakes-winners at this most celebrated meeting.

Frankel is still the most expensive Juddmonte owned stallion standing at Banstead Manor in the UK, but Invincible Spirit’s rising star son Kingman is hot on his heels after the decision was taken to double his service fee for 2020.