Ottavio & Wendy Galletta remain in the ownership, John Messara becomes Castelvecchio’s racing manager and the colt will stand at Arrowfield at the end of his racing career.

Salivating over scores of promotional videos of yearlings can be a trap for young players although with the passage of time you can, more often than not, admit that you dodged a bullet there - yet this one was a bit different.

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.

The Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale continued in strong fashion on the third and penultimate day, with the Listed-placed SALUTE THE SOLDIER heading proceedings.

The Group I VRC Victoria Derby is worth a whopping $2 million making it the richest race for spring three year-olds in the country and the testing trip of 2500m means not always the best horse wins, but rather the horse that stays best on the day.

Group 3 winning entire Charge has topped the October (Late) Online Auction, with the son of Zoustar selling to overseas-based buyer HBL for $190,000.

The number one Sale of its kind, NZB’s Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds is the unrefuted source of Stakes winners and performers purchased from 2YO Sales in Australasia.

A last start second to Wolfe (JPN) in the Group III Coongy Cup at Caulfield, Top Of The Range benefitted from an inspired ride by William Pike to capture Wednesday’s Group III Jayco Bendigo Cup (2400m).

Hunter Thoroughbred Breeders Association, awarded the 2020 Irish National Stud Breeding Course scholarship to local lass Ms Rachel Thompson of Barador Stud in Martindale.

No wonder the Whishaw family are all smiles this week, the brand of the famed Tasmanian nursery Armidale Stud carried to WS Cox Plate weekend victory by two very nice horses - Double You Tee and Soul Patch.

With many farmers and breeders in Australia, especially in NSW & QLD, being affected by a severe drought, it gives me pleasure to pass on information relating to any type of financial relief for primary producers.

New Zealand-bred galloper Kolding is on song for the A$7.5 million Golden Eagle (1500m) at Rosehill on Saturday, according to jockey Glenn Boss.

Darley Stud’s Braze Beau is having some kind of a week.

Despite not buying in the same numbers as the opening day, Australian buyers again made their presence felt on day two of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale on Tuesday.

Almost twenty years after Dubai Millennium's win in the 2000 Dubai World Cup, his influence on the Darley roster has never been more apparent.

Impressive young sire Charm Spirit (Invincible Spirit) confirmed his class among an outstanding group of emerging stallion talent, when striking his second Group winning blow from his first southern hemisphere 3YO crop at the weekend.

Three heats for juveniles at Rosehill on Tuesday morning produced some interesting horses including a Choisir colt bought by Darby Bloodstock for $240,000 at the Inglis Ready2Race Sale last week and the sibling to Golden Slipper winner She Will Reign, who has a bit to learn but is going the right way.

The Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale got off to a strong start with two of the top three lots headed to Australia to join the Chris Waller stable and the average and median rising significantly.

Armidale Stud is deeply saddened to announce the passing of White Gold, most famously known for being the dam of Group 1 winner Mystic Journey. 

Set to return to Australia next year to take up the role of CEO at Aquis Farm, Goffs UK Managing Director Tony ‘Tubba’ Williams enjoyed the thrill of a lifetime on Sunday winning the Countryside Alliance Charity Race at Aintree.

With his first Australian bred offspring set to be offered at local yearling sales in 2020, Coolmore’s Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (USA) has done everything right so far with his first Northern Hemisphere runners, delivering his 20th winner this week at Churchill Downs.

Talented Darci Brahma gelding Harlech added his name to the list of northern raiders bound for Riccarton next month when he dominated his three-year-old rivals in the Group II James & Annie Sarten Memorial Stakes (1400m) at Te Rapa.

The Explorer Program has confirmed itself as the best way to fast track a career in the thoroughbred industry with the 2019 intake of cadets, coming from right across Australia, on track for jobs upon graduation or committed to pursuing further equine-related educational opportunities. 

The same colours carried by mighty colt The Autumn Sun featured on Monday aboard a super impressive debut winner by Pierro.

Tavistock has sustained an injury in his paddock which will impact his ability to cover. Cambridge Stud have decided that Tavistock will be withdrawn from service for the remainder of the 2019 season.

Racing Victoria has announced a $25 million boost to fund the first three years of an expanded welfare program while the Victoria Racing Club will donate 10 per cent of ticket sales for next week's carnival to its Equine Wellbeing Fund.

Two mares bought for $800 and $700 in 2014 have proven an amazing investment.

Second crop sires are making their presence felt in a powerful way this spring.

With the Ballan Cup and Wodonga Cup already on the mantlepiece, the Logan McGill-trained Gold Fields added some more silverware and a first black-type win with a courageous performance in Sunday’s $200,000 Listed Sale Cup (1600m) and round out a wonderful weekend for Blue Gum Farm.

Aquis Farm’s Spill the Beans posted his first winner on Sunday and just for good measure made it a quinella siring the first two home in the juvenile maiden at Townsville.

A full brother to Group I MRC Oakleigh Plate winner Booker, expensive Written Tycoon colt Banquo broke the ice for his first win at Sale on Sunday.

The $2m Inglis Millennium looms as an autumn target for Premier Yearling Sale star Ideas Man (Brazen Beau x Innovation Girl) following his strong debut win in the Listed Inglis Banner at The Valley.

Coolmore's champion sire Fastnet Rock sired his 150th stakes-winner on Saturday when progressive three year-old Sherwood Forest won the Group III War Decree stakes at Riccarton in New Zealand.

The death on Friday evening of Sheryl McGlade saw the passing of a highly accomplished horsewoman and one of jumps racing strongest advocates.

Exaltation, a three-year-old half-sister by Not a Single Doubt to star mare Melody Belle, turned in an impressive debut victory when winning the Helston & Associates Maiden (1200) at Riccarton on Saturday for trainer Jamie Richards.

For the second time in three seasons, the French connection of trainer Jean Dubois, jockey Jean Van Overmeire and Haras de Bonneval’s top-class stallion Siyouni have an exciting two-year-old prospect.

The amazing last to first win by Jericho Missile in the Listed D'Orsogna-Belgravia Stakes (1200m) at Ascot rounded out another successful Saturday Twin Hills Stud’s resident stallion Smart Missile.

The Hawkes family enjoyed a great ride with the outstanding racehorse All Too Hard and they have an emotional attachment to his daughter Amangiri who earned her first stakes win in Saturday’s $200,000 Group III Powerflo Solutions Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley.

Trainer Aidan O’Brien was beaten to the punch by his son Joseph in claiming a Melbourne Cup but the master of Ballydoyle has a live cup prospect this year in Hunting Horn (IRE) who relegated Joseph’s horse Downdraft (IRE) to third place in Saturday’s $500,000 Group II McCafe Moonee Valley Gold Cup (2500m).

The Japanese are well on the way to sweeping the big three features in Melbourne this spring after Lys Gracieux (JPN) added Saturday’s $5,000,000 Group 1 Ladbrokes W S Cox Plate (2040m) to the win of Mer De Glace (JPN) in the $5,000,000 Group 1 Stella Artois Caulfield Cup (2400m).

The aggressive stance adopted by Racing NSW in taking on the Melbourne Spring Carnival with a series of lucrative races in Sydney produced a dream result for Star Thoroughbreds on Saturday when classy Shooting to Win colt Kubrick took out the inaugural $1million ATC Bondi Stakes (1600m).

It was a United Nations Cox Plate day at Moonee Valley with the British-bred, Australian-owned Chief Ironside (GB), trained by French-born UK-based David Menuisier, playing his part with a hard-fought success in the $500,000 Group II Schweppes Crystal Mile (1600m).

Talented Zoustar mare Madam Rouge has been knocking on the door of a Black Type win for some time now with four previous seconds in stakes races before casting off the bridesmaid tag on Saturday at Randwick with a tenacious victory in the Group III ATC Nivison Stakes (1200m).

The Whishaw family of Armidale Stud will be biting the fingernails down to the quick as the countdown to Mystic Journey’s historic bid for the Cox Plate draws ever closer but the nerves would have been settled somewhat by the win of the Victoria Derby bound Soul Patch in Saturday's Group II Drummond Golf Vase (2040m).

Unbeaten filly Travelling Light snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in Saturday’s Gr.3 Barneswood Farm Soliloquy Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie, earning clear favouritism for next month’s GroupI  gavelhouse New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton.

Promising Fastnet Rock 3YO Sherwood Forest showed he will be a force to be reckoned with at Group One level next month when he stormed home to take out the Group III War Decree Stakes (1600m) at Riccarton on Saturday.

Trainer Mitchell Freedman’s impressive stable of three-year-olds, which includes Classic hopefuls Moonlight Maid and Southern Moon, grew by one at Moonee Valley on Saturday when the Smart Missile filly Broadwayandfourth powered home to earn her first stakes win in Saturday’s Listed Crockett Stakes (1200m).

Tenacious six-year-old Mauna Kea scored the biggest win of his career to date when his never-say-die attitude paved the way for a gritty victory in Saturday’s Group III Gee & Hickton Funeral Directors Thompson Handicap (1600m) at Trentham.

Darley young gun Brazen Beau sired exciting two year-old colt Ideas Man to win the $500,000 Inglis Banner at Moonee Valley on Cox Plate day (read about him here) and then made it a stakes double when his talented three year-old Sartorial Splendor scored a dominant victory in the Group III MVRC Australia Stakes (1200m).

The Mark Newnham stable has been in hot form of late and claimed another Black Type success at Randwick on Saturday when talented sprinter Diamond Thunder upstaged Magic Millions sale-topper Faretti to win the Listed ATC Sir Brian Crowley Stakes (1200m).

Just one of the nine three-year-old fillies contesting Saturday’s Group II Antler Luggage Fillies Classic at Moonee Valley had a stakes win to their credit but at the end of the 1600 metres, that number had increased to three.

Pukekohe visitor Play That Song backed up an impressive debut win at Ruakaka earlier in the month with another dominant performance to take out the Listed Hanley Formula Wellesley Stakes (1000m) at Trentham on Saturday.

The most expensive runner in the $500,000 MVRC Inglis Banner (1000m)  for two year-olds at Moonee Valley on Saturday was Brazen Beau colt Ideas Man, who emerged the winner in a stirring finish.

Glamour colt Bivouac might have been the hot favourite for the Group I MVRC Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday night , but an inside gate brought about his downfall with exciting I Am invincible filly Loving Gaby producing a career best performance to win the prestigious 1200 metre WFA sprint.

Rubick might have been making news this week thanks to his Everest winning son Yes Yes Yes, but he was quickly back into the winner’s circle at Moonee Valley on Friday night when promising three year-old Ruuca saluted for Gold Coast trainer Toby Edmonds.

Officials from State and Territory Thoroughbred racing authorities met in Sydney today, at a meeting coordinated by Racing Australia, to identify options to further strengthen Australian racing’s equine welfare programs.

Saturday afternoon, across Tasmania racing fans will be crowding into their local TABs or sitting at home, glued to their television sets or computer screens, excitedly anticipating cheering on the much loved Betty - Mystic Journey - in the Group I WS Cox Plate.

John Sargent has a great record with Oaks type fillies and is no doubt thinking that way with this blue-blooded Dundeel filly that broke the ice for her first win at Canberra on Friday.

Now the CEO at Cambridge Stud, Henry Plumptre has a great recollection of one of his favourite Cox Plates won by iconic Cox Plate champion Octagonal.

The regally bred COPLOW, dam of outstanding 1000 Guineas and recent Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes winner BILLESDON BROOK, and the star Group 1 winning sprinter MABS CROSS head a quality catalogue for the forthcoming Tattersalls December Mares Sale which takes place December 2nd - 5th.

The annual Breeze Ups saw 369 two-year-olds gallop down the home straight of Te Rapa Racecourse, with their last 200 metres of work filmed and timed. Once again, NZB’s Ready to Run Sale vendors presented their horses in a professional manner reflecting the high quality of thoroughbreds on offer at the Sale.  

With seven winners in the past seven days and five stakes-winners this season, dual Cox Plate winning sire So You Think is in the best form of his life as a sire and added an impressive maiden winner to his tally at Ballarat on Wednesday.

Fresh from defeating subsequent Everest winner Yes Yes Yes in the Group I ATC Golden Rose last month, Godolphin’s blue-blooded Exceed and Excel colt Biouac will chase further Group I glory on Friday night at Moonee Valley when he takes on the older sprinters in the Manikato Stakes (1200m).

A strong field of 14 runners will contest the $500,000 Restricted Listed Inglis Banner at The Valley on Saturday, launching the $8m Inglis Race Series for the foal crop of 2017.

Saturday’s $500,000 Inglis Banner (RL) kickstarts a wonderful day of racing on Ladbrokes Cox Plate day at Moonee Valley.

A shot at stakes company is on ice for promising filly Neon Moon, but Matamata trainer Chad Ormsby is confident she can still make a splash on debut at Ellerslie on Saturday as she sets off on a path towards January's $1 million Karaka Million (1200m) at the same venue.

Based on prices and performances, top Victoria Derby prospect Thought of That was a bargain buy.

Ten years ago in 2009, So You Think was winning the first of his two Cox Plates and on Wednesday he sired his fifth stakes-winner this season when Long Jack cemented his claim on the Group I VRC Victoria Derby with a stylish victory in the $140,000 Listed Geelong Classic.

Connections are hopeful Prince of Arran (GB) has done enough to earn a spot in the $8 million Lexus Melbourne Cup following a courageous performance in Wednesday’s $400,000 Group III bet365 Geelong Cup (2400m).

Group III placed twice previously, progressive Smart Missile mare Smart Coupe finally scored a well-deserved first Black Type success when resuming from a spell to win the $140,000 Listed The Breeze Retirement Stakes at Geelong on Wednesday.

Ian Smith of Edinburgh Park was making news earlier this week for his stance on thoroughbred welfare (read about it here), but one of his horses carrying the IKS brand that won’t be returning home any time soon is talented sprinter Chicago Cub, who won his third race at Geelong on Wednesday.

Federal politicians from across the political divide have rallied behind thoroughbred breeding, as the industry committed to tackling any issue around welfare.

As the Thoroughbred industry becomes increasingly global, Australian buyers are traveling more to seek out the world’s best breeding stock. For any Australian breeder, the Keeneland November Sale is a can’t-miss opportunity to obtain high-quality bloodstock that will excel in Australia.

Based in the heart of Victoria, Glen Eden Stud is a high quality thoroughbred stud located one hour north of Melbourne standing a selection of stallions including proven sire of winners Mint Lane (USA), who relocated this year from South Australia.

This weekend’s Cox Plate has drawn together a fascinating field featuring a host of international raiders to take on the best of the locals and while for the past four years Winx has made this event almost a foregone conclusion as she raced her way into the record books, this year we have something new and intriguing to excite racing fans.

Two colts by exciting young sire Deep Field set the sale ring alight at the Inglis Ready2 Racle Sale on Tuesday selling for $340,000 and $320,000.

Day 2 saw the final 181 two-year-olds sprint down the straight of Te Rapa Racecourse, concluding the NZB Ready to Run Sale Breeze Ups.

The Encosta de Lago sireline is running hot through the likes of Zoustar, Rubick and Deep Field with quality Northern Meteor stallion Eurozone bringing this prized bloodline to the Canberra district offering a perfect outcross for the plethora of Danzig line mares in the area.

Two heats for juveniles at the Warwick Farm trials on Tuesday morning produced a well named homebred filly for Segenhoe that won at the first time of asking and a colt that didn’t win his heat, but has a pedigree that would prick the ears of most followers of racing.

Go Racing and Marsh Racing have joined forces to purchase the property formerly known as Monovale Farm, near Lake Karapiro just outside of Cambridge.

The Queensland Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced an urgent inquiry into the treatment of retired racehorses and animal welfare concerns in dealing with retired racehorses at Queensland abattoirs.

I have loved racing and horses all my life with the first Tuesday in November being a day seen as not far short of Christmas, but the times are changing and while the Melbourne Cup has history and tradition on its side, the future belongs to The Everest.

The Inglis Ready2Race Sale is on today featuring a catalogue of 191 lots and for those curious to know from where they were sourced and for how much, our pinhook report makes the research easy.

Wild winds might have put a damper momentarily on the NSW State Showjumping Championships at Canberra last weekend but there was still plenty of action in the main rings with thoroughbreds proving their worth in the latest round of Thoroughbred Sport Horse Classes.

Coolmore have announced fees for their US roster for 2020 which features three stallions currently standing in Australia in American Pharoah, Justify and Mendelssohn.

Day One of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale Breeze Ups saw 188 two-year-olds charge down the final straight of Te Rapa Racecourse.

Kiwi Group I winner Nicoletta has been retired to stud following her unplaced run in the Group III Taranaki Breeders’ Stakes (1400m) at Hawera earlier this month.

The pressure goes on Long Jack at Geelong on Wednesday to keep alive the Group I Victoria Derby (2500m) prospects for Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman.

In the wake of ABC's investigation into what happens to racehorses post racing that went to air last Thursday night , Breednet has published a number of responses from various industry bodies on the issue including one from Racing NSW (that can be read here)  and now the ABC have issued their own response to Racing NSW.

A dual Group III winning daughter of Pivotal, Enticing teamed up with Fastnet Rock to produce the dual Group 1 Prix de la Foret winner One Master who ran an excellent second on Saturday in the Group 1 British Champions Sprint at Ascot and now Enticing’s unraced daughter Compostela has struck gold in Ireland with her first foal by Epaulette.

Champion sire Snitzel’s daughter Akari is not only his 92nd stakeswinner – she also boosts the excellent racetrack record of his million-dollar yearlings.

Well known NSW breeder Ian Smith of Edinburgh Park has moved swiftly in response to last week’s shocking ABC documentary The Final Race, announcing all horses that carry his brand can always come home.

Two stakes-winners from last weekend highlighted the power of very successful nick involving a Golden Slipper winner and a champion racehorse and sire.

Yes Yes Yes emerged as one of the world's hottest stallion prospects with a record breaking win in Saturday's $14 million The Everest (1200m) at Randwick making his half-brother a pedigree standout for the MM Gold Coast 2020 Yearling Sale..

The Japanese-breds have been having the time of their lives in Australia of late so when Damian Lane drove A Shin Rook (JPN) through on the rails in Sunday’s $200,000 Listed Seymour Cup (1600m0 it looked a matter of here we go again but this one was destined to be a local victory.

The $2m Inglis Millennium (Restricted Listed) and $1m Inglis Sprint will be run over new distance

Sun Stud’s Statue Of Liberty (USA) earned an honourable retirement earlier this year and the royally-bred son of Storm Cat looks to have an exciting prospect in the Mick Kent-trained Sea Dragon who broke his maiden in style over 1200 metres at Seymour on Sunday.

The $1,300,000 Kosciuszko at Randwick restricted to 12 NSW country-trained horses plus two from Canberra, has been one of the most popular innovations in recent times and Saturday’s winner Handle The Truth rewarded two stalwarts of the industry in trainer Keith Dryden and Laurel Oak Bloodstock’s Louis Mihalyka who heads a large syndicate of owners in the son of Star Witness.

The wonderfully courageous Magical in the Group 1 Champion Stakes and a resurgent Kew Gardens overturning the seemingly unbeatable Stradivarius in a thrilling Group II British Champions Long Distance Cup, completed another magnificent season for the champion Galileo on Champions Day at Ascot.

Despite leaving some handy types, the former star racemare Star Shiraz did not provide Darley a great return on the  $1,125,000 shelled out at the 2007 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale before on-selling her to Aquis Farm for $200,000 ten years later.