The cheapest filly by champion sire I Am Invincible sold at the 2022 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale made a winning debut at Caulfield on Thursday.

It’s a very well read report at Breednet when you want to know what or indeed if anything is in the pipeline for our young gun first season sires, so let’s take a look at which sires have had unraced trial runners and winners in December.

Talented three-year-old Tokyo Tycoon will commence his path towards next month’s $1.5 million TAB Karaka Millions 3YO (1600m) when he heads to Te Rapa on Saturday to contest the Wentwood Grange 3YO (1200m).

Wessex is in good order to resume at Te Rapa on Saturday, although trainer Andrew Forsman believes the four-year-old will improve as she steps up in distance this preparation.

Scoring your first win in front of a bustling home crowd is what dreams are made of for most aspiring trainers, and for Leah Zydenbos that became a reality at Hastings on Wednesday.

Trapeze Artist posted his 20th winner of the season on Wednesday with Star Thoroughbreds celebrating the first win at Eagle Farm for promising filly Leitzel, who has a full sister headed to Magic Millions 2024..

Tasmanian star galloper The Inevitable was expected to win the $125,000 Listed Conquering Stakes (1400m) at Launceston on Wednesday evening, but the eight year-old son of Dundeel couldn’t overhaul 25-1 shot Indispensable, who credited champion sire Fastnet Rock with yet another stakes-winner as a broodmare sire.

Here is the full list of 49 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales Series is often the moment when exciting young stallions announce their arrival in the Australasian industry, with huge demand for the debut crops of Almanzor and Super Seth among the notable recent examples. Now another batch of well-credentialled newcomers are about to make their mark at Karaka 2024.

While New Zealand is renowned for the lush, natural environment that produces some of the very best thoroughbreds on the planet, buyers are also privvy to a quality Karaka 2024 catalogue littered with international families. The best of both worlds.

With wins in the Group 1 SAJC Goodwood Handicap and Group II SAJC Tobin Bronze Stakes, Royal Merchant was the class act in Wednesday’s Magic Millions Wyong 3yo & 4yo Stakes (1200m), but she was put to a stern test from stablemate Semana.

The $900,000 Snitzel colt Highness is off to the Gold Coast for the $3,000,000 Magic Millions 2yo Classic following a dynamic performance in Wednesday’s $200,000 Magic Millions Wyong 2yo Classic (RL) (1200m).

Domeland has spent up big over the years without a commensurate amount of success but may have picked the best winner of all in trainer Sara Ryan who rewarded them by capturing last month’s $3million The Big Dance at Randwick with Attractable.

We’ve seen five months of the Australian racing season unfold so far and from the two year-old perspective it’s a very small percentage of what we will ultimately see, however with the Magic Millions Yearling Sale to be held in the second week of January the performance of first season sires is important to vendors, so we’re taking a look to see how race track reality has related

Set to hit 100 Australian winners for the season some time this week, Zoustar has been in overdrive since the start of the month siring winners all over the world and there was an interesting winner at Southwell in the UK overnight bred by Widden Stud and raced by a partnership headed by Suman Hedge.

Here is the full list of 27 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The build up to February’s Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale reached a major milestone today with the online release today of the outstanding 2024 catalogue.

The iconic TAB Karaka Millions raceday will become even bigger with New Zealand Bloodstock (NZB) joining forces with Entain to introduce an additional $400,000 in available bonuses for horses offered at the 2024 National Yearling Sales Series at Karaka.

The $200,000 Wyong Magic Millions 2YO Classic RL (1100m) at Wyong on Wednesday has drawn a field of nine with the hot favourite being Trapeze Artist colt Spywire, who was scratched from Saturday’s Listed BRC Phelan Ready Stakes in preference for this assignment.

The 2024 Inglis Premier Yearling catalogue has been released with 800 youngsters and we know we’re in Victoria when the top seven sires by representation are all Victorian based.

Outstanding Group I winning mare Prowess has run her last race with Kingsclere Stables announcing the daughter of Proisir has been retired due to a degenerative hoof condition.

As we get closer to the yearling sales vendors have their eyes on the prize and while they can control everything to do with the physical preparation of the horse, it’s pedigree and the possibility of a timely stakes update is in the lap of the gods and for some of them the cards fell the right way last weekend.

Here is the full list of 16 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Two talented fillies have shot into contention from last weekend’s racing with Too Darn Hot (GB) filly Arabian Summer shooting to the top of the list, while Outback Barbie’s little sister Barbie’s Sister will get the chance to emulate her older sibling who finished third in the race to Sunlight in 2018.

Beau Dazzler (NZ) (Ardrossan) added some Australian flavour to the order of entry for the $1m TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m) with his black-type victory in Brisbane over the weekend.

There were two new Group I winners in Australasia on Saturday and one was bred in New Zealand and the other is from a New Zealand bred mare so of course there will be some family connections catalogued for Karaka, plus a young Aussie bred, but Kiwi based sire that buyers need to know more about.

Randwick trials on Monday morning featured four heats that were won by some interesting horses including the half-sister to multiple Group I winner Hartnell and two of the winners have siblings in upcoming sales.

Loch Eagle added a massive boost to his career earnings at Randwick with a New Zealand-dominated syndicate cheering the five-year-old home.

Excitement is building at Ellerslie, with racing set to return to the Auckland venue following its first set of official trials on its new StrathAyr track on Monday morning.

The star studded Hong Kong International race meeting on Sunday at Sha Tin featured some outstanding performances with Golden Sixty’s crowd pleasing victory in the International Mile a highlight and chasing him home for second was the Torryburn Stud bred and sold Voyage Bubble.

If you’re somebody like me that spends their life looking at pedigrees in the context of racing, you’ll be enjoying Breednet’s new family search of upcoming sales yearlings which makes it so much easier to find horses from families that are on the move and we’ve found a good one over the weekend featuring three fillies all on the up.

Here is the full list of 58 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The catalogue for the 2024 Premier Yearling Sale – the auction responsible for Spring stars such as Think About It, Griff, Attrition and I Am Me etc – is now available online.

After Lucky Sweynesse won the Sprint and Golden Sixty claimed a third win in the Mile, it was the turn of the Cox Plate hero Romantic Warrior (IRE) to defend his title in the Group 1 The Longines Hong Kong Cup (2000m) and send the packed-out crowd home happy.

When Vincent Ho let the reins out a notch on Golden Sixty at the 300m mark of the Group 1 The Longines Hong Kong Mile, it was a spontaneous eruption from his adoring fans who had waited 32 weeks since his last start in the Champions Mile in April.

It all went pear-shaped for Lucky Sweynesse (NZ) in last year’s Group 1 The Longines Sprint, when unplaced for the only time in his career, and for a worrying moment, it looked like a repeat was on the cards.

Andre Fabre and Maxime Guyon turned the clock back nine years when Junko came from last on the turn to capture the Group 1 Hong Kong Vase (2400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday.

A Group III winning juvenile by Zoustar, Telemon Thoroughbreds young sire Sun City always had the profile to get early winners and has delivered the goods for the ‘Mishani army’ producing his third winner for trainer Les Ross and owner/breeder Mike Crooks at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday where Mishani Fearless scored at his second start.

Widden Stud’s Trapeze Artist is the leading second crop sire by winners and earnings and he also gave us a One to Watch on Sunday with an impressive maiden winner in the Star Thoroughbreds colours at Hawkesbury.

While not making the first page of leaders, bloodstock agents from Australasia were kept busy on the opening day of the Arqana Vente d'Elevage.

The $500,000 ATC Inglis Nursery RL (1000m) at Randwick on Saturday nearly produced a first stakes-winner for Cosmic Force with the Neil Osborne trained colt Beer Baron running a sensational race on debut to finish a close second to the Maher Eustace entry Odinson and collect the lucrative Pink Bonus.

The final sale of the year at Deauville, the ARQANA Vente d’Élevage began this morning with the first part of the catalogue, offering an exceptional selection of mares, fillies and foals. Of the 224 lots that went under the hammer, 71% changed hands for an average of €227,248, down seven points from the excellent 2022 renewal.

Cambridge Stud’s imported mare Terra Mitica recorded her first New Zealand win with a powerful staying performance in Saturday’s $65,000 Dunstan Horsefeeds Stayers’ Championship Qualifier (2100m) at Pukekohe.

Here is the full list of 108 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

In a titanic struggle, the local hope Dom To Shoot edged Zaaki (GB) and Zipaway in a thrilling $1,500,000 Group 1 Drummond Golf - Northerly Stakes (1800m) at Ascot on Saturday.

New Zealand-bred juvenile Beau Dazzler was thrown in at the deep end for Saturday’s A$200,000 Listed Eureka Stud Phelan Ready Stakes (1000m) at Eagle Farm, and he rose to the occasion with a bold black-type win.

 It was a red-letter day at Eagle Farm for Spirit Of Boom as Chatty Lady made it three stakes-winners for Eureka Stud’s flagship stallion when she sailed down the middle of the track to claim the Listed Ladbrokes Just Now Stakes (1300m).

The likeable Shalaa (IRE) gelding Recommendation was rewarded for his consistency with a fighting win in Saturday’s Listed Racing And Sports Razor Sharp Hcp (1200m) at Randwick.

Quality Pride of Dubai four-year-old Desert Lightning stood tall and claimed his first Group I victory in Saturday’s TAB Classic (1600m) at Trentham writing another chapter of success for Australia’s revered female family of legendary sire Redoute’s Choice.

Emerging stayer Captain Envious took his career to a new level with a runaway victory in the Listed Ballarat Cup (2000m), leading home a Kiwi-bred quinella in Saturday’s A$500,000 feature.

What do you call the full sister to $1.5million earner Outback Barbie? Barbie’s Sister of course and she’s now a stakes-winner too after taking out the $200,000 Listed BRC Calaway Gal Stakes (1000m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

The third emergency, Loch Eagle showed he was worthy of his place with a barnstorming win in the $2,000,000 Group II The Ingham (1600m), which seems fitting as a son of the Ingham family’s beloved Lonhro.

A desperate finish to the Gr.3 Bonecrusher Stakes (1400m) saw exciting three-year-old Lupo Solitario extend his career record to three wins from just four starts as he defeated talented filly Orchestral by the barest of margins in a thrilling conclusion to the age-group feature.

A fast-finishing third when on debut in the Group III Maribyrnong Plate at Flemington, the Night Of Thunder (IRE) colt Odinson overcame a wide barrier to capture Saturday’s $500,000 Listed Inglis Nursery at Randwick.

Te Akau Racing was on top of the two-year-old podium at Trentham on Saturday, with their untapped filly Captured By Love running out a dominant victor in the Gr.2 Mode Technology Wakefield Challenge Stakes (1100m).

Promising mare Give Giggles extended her perfect record at Ballarat to four-from-four with an emphatic win in Saturday’s A$80,000 A Grade Sheds Handicap (1100m).

Following placings in the Group III Ottawa Stakes and Listed Debutant Stakes, the Too Darn Hot (GB) filly Arabian Summer put the field to the sword in Saturday’s $250,000 Magic Millions Ballarat 2yo Classic (1000m).

Racing at Ballarat on Saturday kicked off with the $175,000 VOBIS Gold Eureka Stockade (1400m) with victory going to progressive filly Sunset Dreaming, whose half-brother by King’s Legacy will be headed to Magic Millions in January for Mill Park Stud.

Here is the full list of 71 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The build up to next year’s Inglis Yearling Sales Series continues with today’s release of the Inglis 2024 Preview Magazine.

It's back to Ascot for Group 1 action on Saturday with the Northerly Stakes. There is plenty of two-year-old action with the Aquis Stallions Calaway Gal Stakes and Eureka Stud Phelan Ready Stakes at Doomben, Inglis Nursery at Randwick, Magic Millions Ballarat 2YO Classic, the Magic Millions 2yo at Ascot, and the Thomas Farms Plate at Morphettville.

Inglis sold juveniles get a chance to run for some serious Christmas cash in the $500,000 Inglis Nursery (1000m) at Randwick on Saturday and there is good representation for first season sires with the following all having runners – Blue Point (IRE), Cosmic Force, Exceedance, Tassort and Yes Yes Yes.

With the $3million Magic Millions 2YO Classic on January 13 just a month away, juveniles looking at securing a start need prizemoney on the board and in Victoria the $250,000 MM 2YO Classic at Ballarat on Saturday offers a pathway to the Gold Coast.

New Zealand is renowned as a nursery of world-beating thoroughbred talent, and the catalogues for Karaka 2024 are filled to the brim with those outstanding Kiwi bloodlines.

Peter and Dawn Williams have fond memories in past editions of the Gr.1 Captain Cook Stakes (1600m), and the Byerley Park trainers are hoping another crown lies ahead with Desert Lightning on Saturday.

Lance Noble is sending just one horse down to Wellington this weekend, hoping his rising star Habana can deal to some unfinished business in the race now known as the Gr. 1 TAB Classic (1600m) at Trentham.

Central Coast showjumper Matt Irvine took out the hotly contested Sydney qualifier for the $50,000 Magic Millions Off the Track Cup on January 7 with a fast double clear at the Sydney International Equestrian Centre on Thursday on a dashing grey mare bred by Emirates Park.

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

With his exciting daughter, Jupiter Hills, set to debut in Saturday’s $500,000 Inglis Nursery at Randwick, Vinery Stud’s Exceedance went two for two in Australia when Simply Tina made a winning debut at Cairns.

Last weekend’s impressive black-type winners Just As Sharp (NZ) (Swiss Ace) and Glamour Tycoon (Written Tycoon) have moved up the order of entry and likely secured spots in the starting gates for the $1.5m TAB Karaka Millions 3YO (1600m) at Ellerslie next month.

Shadai Stallion Station has announced the fee for Equinox in 2024.

The 4-year-old Extreme Choice mare, Lady Extreme, recently sold as a breeding proposition for little more than a tenth of her yearling price before making an impressive debut over 1000m at Gosford on Thursday.

Darley Stud's exciting young stallion Too Darn Hot (GB) is off the mark in Australia, with the Shane Nichols-trained filly Climate Change dominating on debut in Wednesday's Wilsons Real Estate Maiden Plate at Geelong.

Trade at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale continued in robust fashion on the third day with 14 lots selling for 50,000 guineas or more headed by a top lot of 160,000 guineas, taking turnover for the Tattersalls December Sale past the 100,000,000 guineas mark.

In an email to members, big on buzzwords and friendly phrases, and light on detail, the Australian Turf Club has announced plans to commence negotiations with the state government on a proposal to develop Rosehill Gardens racecourse, creating 25,000 new homes around a new Sydney Metro West station. 

The Magic Millions 2YO Classic is just over a month away and the $500,000 Inglis Nursery is on this Saturday at Randwick, so interest in what is happening at the trials is on high alert and for the first season sires you need ammo in the locker if you’re going to be able to fire a shot.

Here is the full list of 35 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A fast pre-Christmas stakes-winning juvenile, Kingstar Farm’s promising young sire Unite and Conquer was always a popular contender to strike with a winner of his own before Christmas and has done so at Ipswich on Wednesday with a fast finishing debut win for What a Doozy.

After being active on the opening day of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale, Kia Ora Stud, Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock, and Australian Bloodstock were back in action while Yulong, Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, Mick Price, First Light Racing, Ontrack Thoroughbreds, and China Horse Club entered the fray.

Bloodstockauction.com is proudly hosting its Pre-Christmas Online Signature Yearling Sale, which will go live on the 14th of December 2023.

The Group 1 winner TEONA, offered in foal to FRANKEL, became the third highest priced mare ever to be sold at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale when realising 4,500,000 guineas, while Group I winning mares by champion Australian sires Fastnet Rock and Zoustar sold for 2million guineas plus.

Here is the full list of 20 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Zarastro is a 5YO gelding by I Am Invincible. He was purchased for $32,500 by Tony Gollan Racing as a tried racehorse in the 2022 October (Late) Online Sale.

While Kia Ora Stud hit the leaderboard, Ridgmont Farm / Clarke Bloodstock, Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock, and Australian Bloodstock played supporting roles on the opening day of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale.

An excellent start to the day at Bendigo for Swettenham Stud's Rubick, with Ruada opening his winning account at start two and Ezeiza making the perfect start to her career over 1100m.

High-priced Karaka purchase Mad Max is set to make his much-anticipated debut this week, but where is yet to be decided.

It’s been more than a year since New Zealand punters have seen Aegon step out on raceday in his homeland, but they will get their fix of the gelding when he lines-up in the Gr.1 TAB Classic (1600m) on Saturday.

Steven Cole is hoping to kill two birds with one stone when he heads to Trentham on Saturday with Hard Attack.

There were four heats for juveniles run at Rosehill on Tuesday morning featuring two winners by I Am Invincible, one by Zoustar and a flying machine by Capitalist, all of them offered at Magic Millions.

Kia Ora Stud had a big day at the track on Saturday, their colours carried at Caulfield by stakes-winning fillies Serasana and Eneeza and they were active  during the first session of the Tattersalls Broodmare Sale on Monday.

It’s been a busy year for three year-old Galileo filly Warm Heart and it’s not over yet with the daughter of Australian triple Group I winner Sea Siren looking sharp and ready to fire at  trackwork in Hong Kong this week in preparation for her bid to win the Group I Hong Kong International Vase (2400m).

An “extraordinary’’ Easter Yearling Sale catalogue is close to being finalised as breeders flock to the sale widely regarded as the ‘Best of the Best’.

There are four juvenile spring stakes-winners on the first order of entry list for this year’s $3million Magic Millions 2YO Classic (1200m) to be run at the Gold Coast on January 13.

Here is the full list of 14 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Racing last weekend produced a new Australian stakes-winner from an iconic Kiwi female family that is never without representation at Karaka and a rising star two year-old highlighted a nick that has everyone’s ears pricked.

A return to compete in front of Warrnambool’s boisterous crowd could be on the cards for Nassak Diamond following her dominant win in Sunday’s Jericho Cup (4600m).

Malt Time has gone close this preparation to major success and she will head south later this week in a bid to tick that box.

Graham Richardson is hoping a successful week for his female contingent can continue after Snazzytavi was a stand-out victor at Te Rapa on Saturday.

Talented middle-distance specialist and million-dollar earner Defibrillate has been retired.

The $3million Magic Millions 3YO Guineas over 1400m at the Gold Coast on January 13 will be targeted by the biggest stables in the country with Racing Queensland and Magic Millions releasing an order of entry for the Top 30 contenders as of Sunday.