Foaled and raised at Yarraman Park for Sheikh Hamdan’s Shadwell Stud, seven year-old Nicconi gelding Faatinah campaigned successfully in Dubai earlier this year and showed he was back to his very best with a brave win in the Group II MVRC McKewen Sakes at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

Could the War Front gelding Homesman (USA) be the horse to earn an elusive win in the Cox Plate for Lloyd Williams? Judging on his dominant display in Saturday’s Group II Feehan Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley, the answer is an emphatic yes.

A rejuvenated Samadoubt proved his win in the Group 1 Winx Stakes was no fluke with a dominant performance in Saturday’s Group II Chelmsford Stakes (1600m) at Randwick.

Winless in five starts since capturing the The Everest back in October, Snitzel's remarkable son Redzel showed he is far from a spent force when turning back the challenges of the best sprinters in the land with his third consecutive win in the Group III Concorde Stakes at Randwick.

After making a quick start on the odd-on favourite Exhilarates in Saturday’s Listed Atlantic Jewel Stakes at Moonee Valley, Craig Williams elected to stay out of the early speed battle and it proved the winning move.

Mystic Journey might not be the only Tasmanian superstar in Melbourne this spring with the Scott Brunton trained Dundeel gelding The Inevitable scoring a scintillating four length win in the Listed MVRC Bendigo Bank Stakes at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

Gerry Harvey’s homebred I Am Invincible filly Libertini won the second leg of the Darley Princess Series at Randwick on Saturday, showing tenacity as well as ability when powering to the line to score a determined victory over gallant Villami in the Group II ATC Furious Stakes (1200m).

Lightly raced three-year-old Cooga Doon made it two wins from two starts when he took out the Listed HS Dyke Wanganui Guineas (1340m) in sensational fashion on Saturday.

Winner of the Listed Fernhill Handicap (1600m) at Randwick back in April, Sun Bloodstock's Fiorente (IRE) gelding Power Scheme carried his topweight of 60kgs to a fighting win against a talented field of three-year-olds over 1500 metres in the opener at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

Entered for the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas and Group I ATC Golden Rose, promising Smart Missile three year-old Yao Dash took another step forward when beating highly rated filly Funstar at Randwick on Saturday.

Hastings visitor Riva Capri indicated she will be a filly to watch at a higher level over the next few months after she broke her maiden status in stakes company when taking out the Listed The O’Leary’s Fillies Stakes (1200m) at Wanganui.

Unparalleled experience, unique skills and an unquestionable willingness to share them are among the many qualities that have led to the selection of David Merrick as the winner of the Thoroughbred Excellence category of the 2019 Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards (GSSSA).

Wu Gok had two younger siblings beat him to the punch in landing a stakes win but the six-year-old son of Sebring is fast making up for lost time adding Friday’s Listed Wyong Cup to his last start win in the Group III ATC Premier's Cup at Rosehill.

Talented Foxwedge mare Foxy Housewife has always threatened to win a Black Type race and the six year-old made the quantum leap at Wyong on Friday when taking out a hugely competitive $140,000 Listed Mona Lisa Stakes.

The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman stable already have one potential spring star by So You Think in exciting colt Quick Thinker and they may have another after highly promising Long Jack scored an impressive maiden win at Ballarat on Friday.

The Coolmore colours were carried to victory at Ballarat on Friday by a lightly raced daughter of Pierro that is entered for the Group I MRC Thousand Guineas.

Keeneland’s 76th September Yearling Sale, the world’s largest and most important sale of Thoroughbred racing prospects, starts at noon on Monday, Sept.

Astute trainer Grahame Begg bid farewell to his stable star Written By at the end of last season, but he has a Redoute’s Choice filly that may just step into his shoes and go all the way to Group I success this season.

Newgate Farm’s young gun Russian Revolution covered 226 top class mares last spring and among them was revered blue hen Mica’s Pride, who has delighted everyone at Segenhoe Stud with the arrival of a gorgeous bay filly.

The Group II Feehan Stakes (from 2005 known as the Dato' Tan Chin Nam Stakes) has been a good horses race and over the years boasts a roll call of the some of the nations best.

Prepared by Anthony Freedman, Aerozoom looked to have a forlorn chance of winning when cluttered up back in the field on the fence, but overcame difficulties to score a fast finishing win at Seymour on Thursday.

Horse racing in the world’s newest thoroughbred centre is set to launch in spectacular fashion with the running of the richest race in the Caribbean in 2019.

Multiple stakes-placed gelding Tavisan will be aiming to add a black-type victory to his tally when he competes in the Listed Strathmore Community Bendigo Bank Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

Tarzino Trophy TAB Daffodil Raceday raised $40,000 for Hawke’s Bay cancer patients and their families, surpassing the previous fundraising record of $36,000 set last year.

Thoroughbred Breeders' NSW is proud to host its 2018-2019 awards' presentation in conjunction with the National Jockeys Trust Charity Fundraiser on Saturday September 21 at the Australian Turf Club Director's luncheon in the Grand Ballroom at Royal Randwick.

The horse that put Kitchwin Hills stallion operation on the map Dane Shadow has passed away due to long-term health battles.

Golden Slipper winning sire Pierro has been churning out the winners this season, but even by his standards four metropolitan winners on Wednesday was a great achievement with promising three-year-old The Lifeline a highlight.

With his baldy face and flaxen mane, powerhouse chestnut colt Standout is an easy horse to spot in a race and he zoomed home from near last to win a very competitive Benchmark 64 event for three year-olds at Randwick on Wednesday.

Second at his first two starts, $1million Magic Millions purchase Petronius cast off maiden status with a tenacious victory at Randwick on Wednesday with his trainer Gary Moore declaring the colt has Group I potential.

As one exceptionally famous daughter of Vegas Showgirl prepares for her maiden season at stud, a quality son of the same very celebrated broodmare has already commenced his sophomore season in the Victorian stallion ranks.

Exciting New Zealand galloper Te Akau Shark will kick-off his spring campaign in Australia on Saturday where he will contest the Group II Tramway Stakes (1400m) at Randwick in front of some of his local owners, including Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Captain Paul Gallen.

If you had the impression Coolmore’s Triple Crown winner American Pharoah (USA) had been going well of late, you would be right as he currently leads the first season sires list for all sires based in North America.

Segenhoe Stud released happy news on Tuesday with the arrival of a baby half-sister to Australian Horse of the Year Winx, by the late champion Japanese sire Deep Impact from star broodmare Vegas Showgirl.

It seemed like a run of the mill Tuesday meeting on the synthetic at Ballarat, but a three-year old colt by Shooting To Win and a  Toronado (IRE) filly made career debuts that have connections walking on air.

Have you ever wondered just how far Breednet reaches through the breeding and racing industry? Well after one of our best years ever for audience growth we thought we’d share.

On the back of her dominant first up victory in the Liston Stakes, WS Cox Plate favourite Mystic Journey looks set for a big spring and she is not the only member of the thriving Encosta de Lago sire line in form.

Talented Irish trained two year-old filly Yesterdayoncemore made a winning first appearance in North America when capturing the $102,106 Del Mar Juvenile Fillies Turf Stakes on Monday.

Quick Thinker might not be the only star three year-old by So You Think from the Baker-Forsman stable competing in Australia this spring.

If you don’t go, you won’t know - That’s the mindset South Auckland trainer Allan Morley is taking with Melbourne Cup aspirant Blue Breeze as he prepares to kick-off his spring campaign in Australia on Friday.

The latest round of Thoroughbred Sport Horse Association classes were held at Hawkesbury last weekend at the Sydney Showjumping Club's Jump into Spring Show with a new group of winners and a double up for Jeff Penza and his talented gelding Eli Lamar, who was also a championship winner at the Waratah Jumping Show the previous weekend.

Invincible Spirit’s high class son Cable Bay (IRE) has been busy churning out winners in the Northern Hemisphere this year posting his 16th winner overnight with a tenacious victory for Belle Anglaise at Brighton in the UK.

At the time of the 2018 yearling sales the post-sale media was all about the expensive horses and in particular those big banger colts that purchasers always claim will be winning the Slipper and delivering untold riches at stud, but as this crop of colts turn three it has become apparent that the horses to watch out for this spring flew pretty much under the radar at those sales.

With AMBERDI running second in the Listed Penny Edition Stakes for Sue Jaensch, the 5yo mare’s performance did something quite notable for her sire AMBIDEXTER.

It’s been a big week of trials and at this time of the season there's plenty of interest in the three-year-olds so here’s all the placegetters with breeding and sales results.

Centenarian Barbara Blackie, widely recognised as the oldest racehorse trainer in the world, passed away at home in Christchurch on Friday.

Scales of Justice scored a second career G1 on a day Inglis graduates dominated Stakes racing around Australia, winning seven black type races across three States.

The Oaks Stud General Manager, Rick Williams was quietly confident leading into the weekend that owner Dick Karreman and resident stallion Darci Brahma could be in for plenty of thrills from their racing representatives engaged at both Hastings and Ruakaka on Saturday.

Operating since 2003, the average racing season is paying out over $13 million in cash bonuses, Double Up vouchers and Mare bonuses, bringing the total since the scheme’s inception to over $140 million.

The success of sire sons of High Chaparral was highlighted in Australia last weekend with Group victories for Quick Thinker (So You Think) and Super Seth (Dundeel), while Swettenham Stud shuttler Toronado (IRE) chimed with a new stakes-winner in Germany on Sunday where Wasmya scored an impressive Black Type win.

Spendthrift Farm's Group 1 ATC Spring Champion Stakes winner Hampton Court is off the mark in Australia with his first crop son Sirmaze breaking the ice at his fourth career start in a 1600 metre maiden at Hawkesbury on Saturday.

A big day for Coolmore’s American Pharoah (USA) who chalked up his 12th first crop winner when the highly touted American Theorem made a winning debut at Del Mar while the Wesley Ward-trained Four Wheels Drive took to the turf at his career debut in the black-type Rosie’s Stakes at Colonial Downs to credit the Triple Crown hero with his third stakes-winner.

Remember that gorgeous giant-killing O’Reilly mare Silent Achiever who slew fellow New Zealander Dundeel in the Group 1 Ranvet Stakes and Group 1 The BMW at Rosehill Gardens in the autumn of 2014?.

The Australian love affair with German thoroughbreds was on full display at BBAG Yearling Sale at Baden Baden, which concluded with record figures across the board on Friday.

It’s not often we would cover a maiden at Hawkesbury on a day with stakes races at Rosehill, Caulfield, Morphettville and Belmont Park but this one caught our eye.

Vinery Stud’s All Too Hard built on his excellent start to the new season on Saturday with his top-class son Behemoth earning a well-deserved win in the Listed Penny Edition Stakes (1400m) at Morphettville Parks, while over at Caulfield, Hawkes Racing's Dawn Dawn made the trip down from the Sydney stable count with a dominant performance in the Nitto Denko Handicap.

Two Group 1 races down for the new season and both have fallen to sons of Not A Single Doubt, the latest being the resurgent Scales Of Justice in Saturday’s $1 million New Zealand Bloodstock Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.

Astute Kiwi trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman have a great record in Australia when they bring over classy three year-olds and exciting prospect Quick Thinker showed he can be a real star this spring with a dominant win in the Group III ATC Ming Dynasty Quality at Rosehill on Saturday.

The Written Tycoon mare Pippie took another giant stride in her career when ringing up a maiden stakes win in Saturday’s Group III Cockram Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.

David and Jenny Moodie of Contract Racing have bred a lot of good horses carrying the ‘Crystal’ prefix including Golden Slipper winner Crystal Lily and cheered home her three-quarter brother-in-blood Crystal Dreamer to win the Group III MRC Heath Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday.

Exceedance is the type of horse that can get you to the races just to watch in the parade ring, but he is not just a pretty face, he has a motor that makes him one of the most exciting young horses in training.

Redoute’s Choice mare Lipari was one of the most coveted mares at the 2019 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale earlier this year when snapped up by Gerry Harvey’s Baramul Stud for $1,600,000.

Arrowfield Stud’s Dundeel has a lot of promising three year-olds to run for him this spring and we saw one of them at Caulfield on Saturday with talented colt Super Seth kicking off his campaign with a stylish victory in the Group III MRC HDF McNeil Stakes over 1200 metres.

Co-trainer David Hayes earmarked the Caulfield – Melbourne Cup double for Super Titus (GB) after the European import broke his duck in Australia with a tough performance in Saturday’s Listed Heatherlie Hcp (1700m) at Caulfield.

New Zealand’s best mare, Melody Belle, provided racegoers with another display of her undoubted class when she defended her Group I Tarzino Trophy (1400m) crown with an amazing performance to win on Saturday.

Flashy three-year-old Catalyst contributed to a huge day for The Oaks Stud owner Dick Karreman and his resident sire Darci Brahma, when he captured the Listed El Roca-Sir Colin Meads Trophy (1200m) at Hastings in emphatic fashion.

Coolmore's Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (USA) posted his tenth first crop winner when exciting filly Skygaze scored a resounding seven length victory at Woodbine on Friday.

The green colours and red cap of US investor Jon Kelly have enjoyed some success in Australia and featured in Ireland overnight carried by a blue-blooded two year-old filly that is actually by Epsom Derby winner Australia (GB).

Prominent syndication company OTI Racing is enjoying a good run of form with horses from New Zealand and they are hoping to see a positive start to an Australian campaign from the Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained Quick Thinker when he steps out in the Group III Ming Dynasty Quality (1400m) on what looms as a heavy track at Rosehill on Saturday.

Well bred three-year-old filly Sorceress made an eye-catching winning debut at Ashburton on Friday in the Barneswood Farm Stakes Day 19th October (1250m).

Vinery Stud's All Too Hard has made a great start to the new season reeling off 18 winners since August 1, but the icing on the cake would be a new stakes-winner and Queensland visitor Alligator Blood will be looking to keep his undefeated record intact this Saturday at Rosehill in the Group III ATC Ming Dynasty Quality.

Rangal Park would like to announce that popular Victorian stallion DANERICH will be serving mares this season having recovered from a recent injury.

Over 700 guests attended the annual Darley stallion parade at Kelvinside last weekend with the safari concept again proving popular as visitors took their time to get up close and personal with their favourites.

Hallowed Crown was not the only Darley young gun with a winner on the board on Thursday with Shooting to Win also chiming in with a winner of his own at Warrnambool after Testino saluted as a hot favourite.

A winner of five Group 1’s and a trio of Group II’s now rated as Group 1 in Europe, a daughter of a top-class broodmare sire, from a family that has rewritten the record books, and a regular consort to the best stallions on offer – all the ingredients for a top broodmare, right? Well in the case of this mare it was an emphatic no.

The Group I ATC Golden Rose winner of 2014, Hallowed Crown retired to Darley at the end of his career and produced a smart debut winner at Warrnambool on Thursday.

The Queensland breeding industry has never been as competitive as it is right now and worth noting on a national level the fact both the first season sires’ categories in Australia (winners and earnings) where taken out by stallions standing in the state.

Sire sons of Northern Meteor are more than making their mark and Sun Stud's Fighting Sun is right there with them after siring 10 winners from 28 runners since the start of the season.

One of the very best colts competing in the Sydney spring of 2017 when winning the Group II ATC Run to the Rose and finishing third in the Group I ATC Golden Rose, brilliant Snitzel son Menari has his first foals arriving this spring for Newgate Farm.

This time last year Thinkin’ Big was one of the most promising staying three year-olds in Sydney and 12 months on his three-quarter brother by So You Think looks like picking up where he left off.

The intensity is about to go up a notch in the 2019 New Zealand Bloodstock Caulfield WFA Championship, with all three of the remaining races run at Group 1 level – starting with Saturday’s A$1 million New Zealand Bloodstock Memsie Stakes (1400m).

Talented Pierro colt Fiery Red had three starts in elite company last season at two and appreciated the drop back to maiden class for his first run this preparation, carrying the Aquis colours to a stylish victory at Warwick Farm.

It appears that ‘The Black Flash’ reputation of Lonhro has not fallen far from the tree.

Last Saturday saw the opening of the 2019/20 season of the Thoroughbred Breeders Victoria (TBV) and Racing Victoria Off The Track Ridden Series of Qualifying Classes at local Victorian Agricultural Shows.

Thoroughbred Sport Horse Association jumping classes at the big Waratah event at Sydney International Equestrian Centre last weekend were well supported with some terrific horses and riders competing for good prizemoney and a jockey winning one of the finals.

The most expensive Fastnet Rock filly sold in 2018 cast off maiden status at Mornington on Tuesday.

Raffles Racing's New Zealand-bred Sacred Capital has quickly stamped himself as the star of Macau Racing, with the son of O'Reilly winning Sunday's M$800,000 (NZ$155,000) Macau Gold Cup (1800m) in effortless fashion in testing conditions.

A big set of trials at Randwick on Tuesday morning featured plenty of potential spring stars with prime Everest contenders Sunlight and Classique Legend going head to head.

The first official Order of Entry has been released for next month’s $1 million Group I ATC Golden Rose, but with several of the horses at the top of the list unlikely to contest the race there’s plenty of interest in those further down the order.

A colts and geldings maiden at Scone on Tuesday has been chosen as the starting point for the three year-old half-brother to one of the most charismatic sprinters of recent times in renowned bad boy Chautauqua, so all eyes will be on this youngster just to be sure he gets out of the gates.

Recognizing emerging patterns in the breeding of stakes-winners is a topic that fascinates most breeders and it might be no coincidence that the horse regarded as the best offspring to date sired by I Am Invincible is bred along very similar lines to a filly many are tipping as his next superstar.

The epitome of juvenile speed, Snitzel’s unbeaten two-year-old Jukebox retired to Aquis for the 2018 breeding season, and with his first foals arriving on the ground this season, the Aquis team could not be happier with the outstanding quality they’re seeing.

One of international racing's highlights of the year came last week in the thrilling win of superstar mare Enable in the G1 Yorkshire Oaks.

With an outstanding return to winning form in Sunday's Merlion Trophy (1200m) at Kranji, Countofmontecristo (NZ) (Echoes of Heaven) continued a dominant run for Karaka graduates in the $400,000 sprint feature.

We’ve had 25 days of racing this season and this stallion has given us 25 winners, it it any wonder he’s the most expensive sire in the country.

The Aquis team held three successive days of stallion parades at our Hunter Valley property.

The 2005 Two Thousand Guineas winner Footstepsinthesand (GB) failed to garner much excitement in his two seasons at stud in Australia, however the son of Giant’s Causeway is a solid stallion in Europe and he recently has a couple of juvenile winners that set pulses racing.

Australian Bloodstock has built a reputation of getting it right more often than not and with the purchase of Mustajeer, the winner of Saturday’s £1million Sky Bet Ebor at York, it certainly looks like they have hit the mark again.

After a solid win on the Pakenham Synthetic three weeks back, Greg Eurell's Toronado (IRE) filly Sassy Salitage was heavily backed to keep her record perfect at Moonee Valley on Saturday and she did it in the style of a filly with a future.

Promising Rubick colt Condo’s Express blitzed his rivals to score a stunning win in the Listed MVRC McKenzie Stakes at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

Fourth in two Group I races during the autumn, Zoustar mare Mizzy has always threatened to win a stakes race and did so at Randwick on Saturday taking out the Group III ATC Toy Show Quality.