Luberon will bid to complete a hat-trick of wins on Saturday and remain undefeated this preparation ahead of her spring grand final at Riccarton next month.

The press release said, 'Australian Buyers Dominate Second Day of Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale', and you better believe it. There will be a few plane loads crossing the equator shortly. 

The reputation of renowned South Australian breeder Harry Perks has been in the spotlight this spring with a new flurry of stakes performers headed by Group I MRC Toorak Handicap winner Attrition and stakes-winning three year-olds Air Assault and Arctic Glamour, who both hold Group I aspirations.

Australian buyers were to the fore on the second day of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale, buying six of the top eight lots including the session topping BALANCE PLAY at 575,000 guineas that will head to Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott. 

A juvenile fillies maiden at Randwick on Wednesday will see the powerful Waterhouse Bott stable look to continue their winning run with the babies while we also get a first look at the full sister to Champion 3YO Colt and now leading second crop sire Trapeze Artist.

An exciting colt by American Triple Crown winner American Pharoah topped today’s Magic Millions Gold Coast 2YOs in Training Sale when selling for $400,000.

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

Couple of heats for juveniles Eagle Farm on Tuesday held some interest with a super impressive winner for first season sire Zousain, who beat a blueblood Lonhro filly with a story.

A beaten favourite at Pakenham when second at her only start at two, the Graeme Begg-trained Grunt filly Miraval Rose made no mistake at her 3-year-old bow over 1115m at Kyneton on Tuesday.

Stakes targets are looming for Imwonderfultonight following her win in the Karl Davis Team Bayleys – A Sure Bet 1100 at Te Rapa on Saturday.

With the foaling season nearer the back end than the front end we thought it’d be timely to have a look at some more of the foals of this season’s first crop sires.

The field and barrier draw is out for Saturday’s $5 Million Group One W.S Cox Plate in a race which sees Gold Trip backing up from his Caulfield Cup placings and three-year-old Militarize attempting to emulate So You Think.

Annabel Neasham, Darby Racing, Ciaron Maher, Dom Sutton, Domeland, Bennett Racing, and Australian Bloodstock were active on the opening day of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale.

The Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale got off to a solid start on the opening day with eleven lots selling for 100,000 guineas or more and a wide cross section of buyers active. Topping proceedings during the opening session was the Coolmore consigned CARRACCI at 320,000 guineas. 

The Magic Millions 2YO’s in Training Sale is on today with a catalogue of 151 to be offered at the Gold Coast and if you’re interested in the pinhook information read on.

Here is the full list of 25 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A $500,000 Inglis Easter purchase for De Burgh Equine / William Johnson Bloodstock (FBAA) / Glen Hill Farm from the Lime Country Thoroughbreds draft, Worth Avenue became the 11th winner this season for Trapeze Artist when saluting at Muswellbrook on Monday in the colours of US bloodstock investor Craig Bernick.

Caulfield Cup Day last Saturday delivered a new Group I winner and a Group I quinella for Galileo son Teofilo, who shuttled to Australia for six seasons, while the support program produced some progressive three year-olds with serious Group I aspirations.

The Thoroughbred Racing Industry is today mourning the loss of pioneering former trainer Mrs Betty Lane OAM.

Brilliant Group winning sprinter Thronum transferred from Victoria to Maiton Ag in Mangoplah in NSW earlier this year and the young Snitzel stallion featured on Sunday with an impressive winner at Sha Tin in Hong Kong.

Smart three-year-old filly Coeur Volante made it back-to-back stakes victories when running out a resounding winner of the Gr.2 Thousand Guineas Prelude (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

The second leg of the National Pony Racing Series is set down for this Friday night, October 27, at The Valley, where some of Victoria's best junior riders will showcase their horse skills while being mentored by two legends of Australian racing.

Busy set of trials at Warwick Farm this morning featured outstanding three year-old Brave Smash (Jpn) filly Kimochi, who was given a taste of that winning feeling, while two heats for juveniles were taken out by the progeny of Written Tycoon and Russian Revolution.

With the 2023 edition of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale now only a month away, racetrack success is coming thick and fast for previous graduates of the world’s leading sale of two-year-olds.

Australian investors have well and truly awoken to the merits of Rich Hill Stud’s reigning champion New Zealand sire Proisir and they got a timely reminder ahead of the NZB Ready to Run Sale next month when his high class three year-old filly Coeur Volante (NZ) won the Group II MRC Thousand Guineas Prelude at Caulfield on Saturday.

The Group II Premier Bowl (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday was expected to see champion Kiwi bred sprinter Lucky Sweynesse return to the winner’s circle after his first up defeat last month, but he came up short again when seven year-old Magnus gelding Sight Success overpowered him on the line.

Here is the full list of 70 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Sunday with winners and result details.

We know how many of our high class mares find their way to Japan and several had a big impact at the weekend with three Oaks winners – More Than Sacred, Mosheen and Kirramosa(NZ)  - all producing interesting Japanese bred winners – G1 Japanese St Leger winner Durezza, Danon Ayers Rock and Tropical Tea.

Antipodean mares are enjoying a jolly old time of it of late in Japan, and the latest high-level success came at Kyoto on Sunday when Durezza, a son of More Than Ready’s Group 1 NZ Oaks heroine More Than Sacred, powered to a three and a half-length triumph in Sunday’s Group 1 Kikuka Sho (Japanese St. Leger).

The 2013 Group 1 VRC Oaks and Group II Wakeful Stakes heroine Kirramosa has a promising two-year-old in Japan.

Palentino’s half-brother Junipal won his first race in 153 weeks when leading home a 1-3-4 for Ciaron Maher and David Eustace in Sunday’s Listed Bet365 Seymour Cup (1600m).

Four-time Group 1 winner Mosheen (Fastnet Rock) was represented by her second stakes-winner when Danon Ayers Rock (JPN) kept his record at a perfect two for two in the Listed Ivy Stakes (1800m) at Tokyo on Saturday.

The Champion Australian 3YO Colt of 2018/2019 and now a promising young sire, The Autumn Sun was making news in Australia on Saturday with his daughter Autumn Angel winning the Group III MRC Ethereal Stakes, while later in the day his two year-old half-sister by Siyouni scored an auspicious debut win at Leopardstown in Ireland.

Royally bred colt Savaglee lived up to his impeccable breeding when he gave his rivals a galloping lesson at Trentham on Saturday.

Exciting sprinters Doull (Snitzel) and Arkansaw Kid (Harry Angel), as well as G1 VRC Derby prospect Sunsets (Dundeel) advanced their credential for future stud careers with stirring black type victories on a productive day for Inglis graduates at Caulfield.

King of Steel has been a top class three year-old colt in the UK this year finishing second in the Group I Epsom Derby and third in the Group I King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the son of Wootton Basset (GB) got his just rewards when capturing the Group I Qipco Champions Stakes (1m2f) at Ascot on Saturday for Frankie Dettori in his final UK ride.

Here is the full list of 140 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Saturday with winners and result details.

Some 119 weeks after his last win in the Group III Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield in July 2021, Red Can Man returned to the winner's circle in the Furphy RS Crawford Stakes (1000m) at Ascot.

With just one of the ten starters behind her at the 200m, the 5-year-old Rich Enuff mare Lempicka came with a barnstorming finish to claim her third consecutive win and a maiden stakes success in Saturday's Listed Carlton Draught Alinghi Stakes at Caulfield.

A Group 1 quinella for the former Darley shuttler Teofilo (IRE) in Saturday’s $5,000,000 Carlton Draught Caulfield Cup (2400m) with Without A Fight (IRE) overpowering a game West Wind Blows (IRE) in what proved another outstanding result for Yulong Stud.

The ageless Buffalo River (USA) turned back the clock to win a second Group III Moonga Stakes at Caulfield two years after his first.

Talented five-year-old mare Wrote To Arataki has added further black-type to her record when leading throughout to land the Gr.2 Tristarc Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

It all went pear-shaped for Arkansaw Kid after a career debut win in the $500,000 Inglis Banner (RL) last spring. Still, the son of Harry Angel (IRE) looked back to the form that saw him finish third in the Blue Diamond, with a fighting win in Saturday’s Listed Stow Storage Gothic Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.

The $300,000 Group II MRC Caulfield Sprint (1000m) produced a huge result for the Rosemont Stallion Alliance syndicate when their Snitzel stallion Doull scored a career best win to beat the favourite Spacewalk.

The highly regarded The Autumn Sun filly Autumn Angel launched late to claim Saturday’s Group III Schweppes Ethereal Stakes (2000m) at Caulfield and punch her ticket for the Victoria Oaks.

A supreme ride from jockey Blake Shinn aided smart three-year-old filly Coeur Volante to make it back-to-back stakes victories when running out a resounding winner of the Gr.2 Thousand Guineas Prelude (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

Awapuni trainer Lisa Latta celebrated her fifth win in the Gr.3 Gee & Hickton Funeral Directors Thompson Handicap (1600m) when Diss Is Dramatic scored an emphatic victory in Saturday’s $100,000 feature at Trentham.

Saturday’s Gr.2 James and Annie Sarten Memorial (1400m) at Te Rapa was an eagerly anticipated clash between a number of up-and-coming talents, but it turned into a tour de force by New Zealand’s most exciting three-year-old.

A wide draw and an energy-sapping fast pace were not enough to stop Johny Johny in Saturday’s Gr.3 Sweynesse Stakes (1200m) at Te Rapa.

Sunsets needed to make up over six lengths on Riff Rocket from their most recent meeting in the Listed Super Impose Stakes at Flemington and turn it around he did in Saturday’s Group III Neds Caulfield Classic (2000m).

Deep Field’s brilliant son Cosmic Force is on the board with his first winner after the Chris Munce trained filly Devine Force produced a scintillating finish to charge home and win on debut at Eagle Farm on Saturday over 1000m.

In what has been a memorable week for Yulong Stud, Shangri La Express became the second winner from as many runners for the first season stallion Alabama Express when leading at every call in the James Squire Kirkham Plate (1000m) at Randwick.

A stakes-winner last season at two, Brave Smash (Jpn) colt Brave Mead would have been a certainty beaten if he had gotten rolled at Caulfield on Saturday, but he managed to get clear running at just the right time and hit the line hard for Mark Zahra to snatch a well-deserved win.

Leading 3-year-old Arabian Lion, who became Justify’s first Grade 1 winner after capturing this year’s Woody Stephens S. (G1) at Belmont, has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Spendthrift Farm for the 2024 breeding season at an introductory fee will be US$30,000 S&N.

Here is the full list of 44 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The chance to buy into a runner in next month’s G1 Melbourne Cup or $3m The Big Dance presents in a unique set of offerings in the Inglis Digital October (Late) Online Sale.

Two weeks after a forgettable trip to Flemington, Group One-winning New Zealand mare Skew Wiff will have a second attempt at an Australian debut in Saturday’s Gr.2 Sharp EIT Tristarc Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.

On the anniversary of the biggest win of his career so far, classy New Zealand-bred gelding Mr Maestro will race in black-type company on Caulfield Cup Day again in 2023 – this time in his first run back from an injury lay-off.

There are no juvenile stakes races in Australia on Saturday, but there have been plenty of trials right around the country this week so a look at our weekly report for unraced triallers by first season sires features a couple of horses set to run in the $160,000 ATC Kirkham Plate at Rosehill.

There was only one heat for juveniles at Randwick on Friday morning and the powerful Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable produced the trifecta with Written Tycoon colt Catoggio taking the win in the Rosemont alliance colours.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2023 Ready to Run Sale Breeze Up clips and Mounting Yard parade videos are now available to view online at nzb.co.nz.

An outstanding collection of fillies and mares including five Group 1 winning race fillies - two of them by Fastnet Rock and Zoustar - have been catalogued for the forthcoming Tattersalls December Mares Sale, headlined by the Sceptre Sessions which received international acclaim in their inaugural year. The December Mares Sale will take place Monday 4th to Thursday 7th December with the Sceptre Se

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

Value Queensland sire Sidestep has a strong crop of three year-olds to run for him this season conceived in the year his daughter Kiamichi won the Golden Slipper and already they are making an impact putting him at the top of the Queensland based sires by three year-olds for winners and earnings.

Hampered by injury, illness, and not being the most fertile of stallions, Teofilo (IRE) left six Australian crops ranging from as low as forty-two to a high of sixty-nine.

There are just two horses in the Warrnambool stables of Mark O'Donnell and whilst one is ten and the other four, they have something in common - both are talented horses who have been given every chance to succeed due to the patience and horsemanship skills of their trainer.

New Zealand Bloodstock has announced the sponsorship of two large prizemoney races in Malaysia with graduates of NZB’s sales set to be able to compete for stakes of RM100,000.

Moorookyle Park Thoroughbreds is delighted to announce the addition of the very handsome, very talented and very well bred Giant's Steps (Arg)  to the 2023 roster.

As we move towards November, getting your mare in foal promptly becomes a high priority for commercial breeders, so choosing a stallion with high fertility can be a big plus, particularly when you are rolling the dice on an up and coming third crop sire.

The progeny of Justify (USA) have shone this week in the tangerine silks of Te Akau Racing, and the good form continued with three-year-old Rule of Law producing his maiden victory at Tauranga on Wednesday.

Promising colt Monday Melody has pleased trainers Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott in his build-up to the stiffest challenge of his brief career at Te Rapa on Saturday.

Patience is paying off for Bryce Heys with talented I Am Invincible mare Dancing Alone, who made it six wins from seven starts when scoring arguably her best win to date at Caulfield on Wednesday.

Here is the full list of 47 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The Gary Portelli-trained Trapeze Artist colt Flying Trapeze kept the winning run going for his sire when scoring a stylish win at Randwick on Wednesday breaking the course record for 1400m on the Kensington track.

The Listed MRC Debutant Stakes (1000m) at Caulfield on Wednesday produced a quinella for first season sires with Pierata colt Coleman saluting as favourite over Too Darn Hot (GB) filly Arabian Summer with Capitalist colt Aardvark a distant third some four lengths back.

Shortly after Winx's Deep Impact (JPN) half-sister City Of Lights triumphed at Randwick, Deep Impact (JPN) made it a double when Muramasa became the 199th black-type winner for the Japanese legend when capturing Wednesday's Group III Neds Coongy Cup (2000m) at Caulfield.

There was a little bit of joy in what has been a sad few days for John Camilleri's Fairway Thoroughbreds when the Deep Impact (JPN) mare City Of Lights made it two wins from three starts with a hard-fought success in the Star Turn @ Vinery Stud Hcp (1550m) at Randwick Kensington on Wednesday.

I Am Invincible colt Mojave Desert topped the 2022 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale for Widden Stud when purchased by Tom Magnier for $950,000 and he cast off maiden status with a well-deserved win at Caulfield on Wednesday.

Emerging filly Star Of Justice provided Pencarrow Stud with a timely result when she bridged the gap to black type company with aplomb at Ashburton.

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The Listed MRC Debutant Stakes at Caulfield on Wednesday for two year-olds has a field of 10 with three first season sires represented and there is plenty of interest in a colt that was sold and scratched from the Magic Millions 2YO’s in Training Sale next week so the pressure will be on him to perform.

You would have to be living under a stone not to have noticed the torrent of high class Group winners for exciting young sire Justify (USA) right around the world in recent months and the show rolled into New Zealand this week in the shape of progressive filly Star of Justice and the NZB Ready to Run Sale features a filly bred on the same cross.

Coolmore have announced fees on their US roster and given top billing for 2024 is Justify, who is currently serving a stellar book of mares in Australia.

Opening his account with a debut victory at Newcastle on Tuesday was the full brother to Rosemont stud’s young I Am Invincible sire Strasbourg.

Here is the full list of 15 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Day Two of New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2023 Ready to Run Sale Breeze Ups saw the final 169 two-year-olds complete their gallop down the home straight of Te Rapa Racecourse.

On The Bubbles claimed his $1M Karaka Million 2YO purse over 1200m, and the now five-year-old may have found his sweet spot back at the sprinting trip when making a winning southern debut at Ashburton.

La Crique’s spring preparation is over.

Outstanding sprinting mare Seradess will go under the hammer next week at a stand-alone Magic Millions Virtual Sale as an elite breeding prospect.

Federal politicians have pledged bipartisan support for the thoroughbred industry, emphasising its importance to the economy and the integral part it plays in the social fabric of rural, regional and metropolitan Australia. 

With the inaugural Equimillion done and dusted, owners of off the track thoroughbred performance horses will now be looking towards the TSHA National Titles at Stonewall next month (November 16 – 19) and for sponsors looking to become involved in this outstanding event there are still opportunities available.

Following a ‘super Saturday’ for the Sebring sireline there has never been a better time to get on board and Blue Gum Farm are thrilled to be standing his fastest and most precocious son in Sejardan, who is working through his first book of mares this spring.

First run in 2017, the $20million The Everest has evolved into the race most trainers and owners want to win and as a result the quality and profile of the horses now aimed at this race is entirely different to how it started as pedigree shows the first three home this year are in fact milers, so where does that leave the one dimensional sprinters?

Here is the full list of 21 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Day One of NZB’s 2023 Ready to Run Sale Breeze Ups kicked off today at Te Rapa Racecourse with perfect weather and track conditions for the two-year-olds. 

Viva Vienna might have been the hot favourite in Monday’s transferred Group III Barneswood Farm Stakes (1400m) at Ashburton in New Zealand, but it was her stablemate Star Of Justice who took centre stage when winning the three-year-old feature.

There was just one heat for juveniles at Hawkesbury, but it featured the full sister to champion three year-old colt Trapeze Artist, who is basking in the glory of siring Griff to win the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas on Saturday.

The influence of Widden Stud’s much missed Golden Slipper winning sire Sebring was demonstrated on Saturday when his outstanding daughter Fangirl thrashed the best milers in the country to win the $5million Group I ATC King Charles Stakes (1600m), while at Caulfield Sebring featured as a broodmare sire with his daughter Chateau Griffo producing up and coming colt Griff to win the $3million G

Mark Corcoran savoured a top-flight victory on the racetrack at Hastings and a few hours later the Grangewilliam Stud co-principal had further cause to celebrate.

Grey gelding Chattahoochee has been a stable favourite for trainer Debbie Sweeney for some time and he is quickly taking the mantle as the stable star as well.