Friday Jul 7
Three Chimneys Farm have announced champion sire Gun Runner will again be made available for Southern Hemisphere time covers as he was last year, but with the added incentive of a A$500,000 bonus paid to the breeder of any resulting offspring that can win the Golden Slipper.
Friday Jul 7
With many Australian breeders and agents currently in Europe, Darley has announced fees for seven of its stallions who will not shuttle to Australia, but will be available to cover to southern hemisphere time headed by Night of Thunder.
Thursday Jul 6
2015 Australian Horse of the Year Dissident might not be flavour of the month in the Hunter Valley anymore, but he’s more than welcome at Riverdene Farm having sired 87 Australian winners to sit just outside the Top 20 sires by winners for this season and one of those winners is another success story for Inglis Digital.
Thursday Jul 6
Here is the full list of 40 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Thursday Jul 6
Miss Roseiano – only the second ever Group-winning 2YO filly by Exceed And Excel to be offered for public auction off the track in Australia – will feature in an Inglis Digital standalone sale later this month.
Thursday Jul 6
A close second on debut at Ballarat back in February, this Peter Moody trained two year-old daughter of Pierro was a short priced favourite when returning at Moe on Thursday.
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Thursday Jul 6
Bred and retained to race by Cressfield, talented two year-old Zoustar filly Spring Lee improved sharply at her second start to score a fast finishing win at Gosford on Thursday.
Thursday Jul 6
Test your mare with any of the Premium stallions on Breednet to produce a five generation tabulated pedigree with highlighted duplications – it’s addictive and fun, you might not be able to afford to send a mare to I Am Invincible, but there’s no harm in seeing what the mating looks like and how about one of his more affordable sons!
Thursday Jul 6
We’re into the last few weeks of the Australian racing season and the first season sires by winners list features four stallions that are all quite close together in terms of individual winners so we thought a look at the unraced triallers report might offer some insight as to which of them might have a few more winners in the pipeline.
Wednesday Jul 5
Here is the full list of 44 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Wednesday Jul 5
There are few more honest 3yo fillies than Movader who broke through for a richly deserved success in Wednesday’s Ladbrokes Racing Club (Bm64) over 1400m at Sandown-Lakeside.
Wednesday Jul 5
Promising Kiwi filly Elsie May broke through for her first victory for trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace in the Tobin Brothers Celebrating Lives Handicap (1600m) at Sandown on Wednesday under a determined Luke Campbell ride.
Wednesday Jul 5
Widden Stud’s young gun Written By posted an impressive debut winner in Perth on Wednesday with the Grant and Alana Williams trained filly Written Melody scoring an easy victory.
Wednesday Jul 5
Natalie McCall looks to have secured a rare bargain in the long-striding Better Than Ready gelding Already A Star, who impressed on debut in the XXXX Dry Maiden Plate (1200m) at Eagle Farm.
Wednesday Jul 5
The Dundeel debutant Fukubana was backed if unbeatable in Wednesday’s  Mekkafest 19 August Maiden Plate (1000m) at Eagle Farm and duly got the job done and credit his highflying sire with his sixteenth 2yo winner of the season.
Wednesday Jul 5
Cox Plate winning sire Adelaide (IRE) is the bargain priced option on the Coolmore roster this spring and he gave us a 'One to Watch' on Wednesday with an ultra impressive winner at Eagle Farm.
Wednesday Jul 5
Champion sire I Am Invincible continued his late season surge of juvenile winners when stakes-placed filly Sicilian saluted for her first win at Randwick on Wednesday.
Tuesday Jul 4
The response to our ‘red flags’ story regarding factual data from the Australian Studbook has led to a follow up story about a quality stallion that is perceived to have gone quiet, but as we mentioned in the previous story it’s tough to fight a battle when you have very few bullets.
Tuesday Jul 4
Here is the full list of 23 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Tuesday Jul 4
There was no more impressive winner anywhere in Australia today than Benaud, as he should be as a G1 placed earner of over $580,000, who had frustratingly forgotten how to win!
Tuesday Jul 4
After placing in four of his previous six starts, The Wallet broke through over 1200m at Townsville on Tuesday to become the 19th 2yo winner of the season for Spirit Of Boom.
Tuesday Jul 4
Former long-serving New Zealand Bloodstock employee Danny Rolston is loving life with the Hong Kong Jockey Club.
Tuesday Jul 4
After earning the ire of stewards with a disinterested last when on debut at Randwick in February, the 2yo filly Shaken looked every inch the horse she is bred to be when opening her winning account over 1000m at Wyong on Tuesday.
Tuesday Jul 4
There were just four heats for juveniles at Rosehill on Tuesday morning, but we did see two fillies that finished third and fourth in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic back in January.
Tuesday Jul 4
We’re in the final month of the Australian racing season and the same two stallions that ran the quinella last year are on track to repeat the effort this year, but is it a record breaking season?
Monday Jul 3
Coolmore’s champion Aussie bred sire Fastnet Rock might be turning 22 this year, but he posted his 43rd Group I winner in Ireland last weekend with quality mares Via Sistina and Stay Alert running one-two in the Pretty Polly Stakes so there is no better time to take a closer look at his legacy as a sire of sires.
Monday Jul 3
It’s no wonder that renowned breeder Catherine Remond elected to keep a share in this two year-old Deep Field filly that made a winning debut  at Muswellbrook on Monday.
Monday Jul 3
Here is the full list of 23 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Monday Jul 3
Young sire Winning Rupert continued a great month for the Grandview Stud stallion with two more metropolitan wins on Saturday thanks to 3yo filly Semana and 4yo mare Seonee.
Monday Jul 3
With his first Australian bred progeny to race here next season, Invincible Spirit’s dual Group I winning son Magna Grecia (IRE) has his first stakes-winner on the board with the Listed Prix Yacowlef (1000m) won by speedy colt Myconian.
Monday Jul 3
Returning to Coolmore Australia this spring, Starspangledbanner posted a new stakes-winner on Sunday in France with three year-old filly Exxtra taking out the Listed Prix Kistena (1200m) at Deauville.
Monday Jul 3
The Group II Railway Stakes (6f) at The Curragh on Sunday for juvenile colts produced a quinella for Wootton Bassett with Bucanero Fuerte edging out the race favourite Unquestionable.
Monday Jul 3
The Group I Irish and German Derbies were run overnight with hot favourite Auguste Roding leading home a first four trained by Aidan O’Brien at the Curragh, while in Hamburg it was Sea the Moon colt Fantastic Moon that scored a decisive win.
Sunday Jul 2
Here is the full list of 63 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Sunday Jul 2
In 2023, Inglis yearling sales achieved a higher average and median that its nearest Australian competitor, as well as attracting more official buyers at Classic, Premier and Easter per 100 horses sold, ensuring more vendors achieved the results they dream about.
Sunday Jul 2
The Australian Studbook is one of the great impartial sources of factual data that often predicts the future if you know what you are looking for.
Sunday Jul 2
It was a good Saturday for Oaklands Stud’s Lonhro stallion Exosphere, who sired a new stakes-winner in Perth when Upper Limits won the Listed Aquanita Stakes and he also has a very promising horse in Hong Kong with Dream Winner going three for three at Sha Tin.
Sunday Jul 2
After placings in the Fairetha Stakes, Raconteur Stakes and Belmont Guineas, the 3yo Exosphere gelding Upper Limits had his day in the sun in Saturday’s Listed Aquanita Stakes (2000m) at Belmont Park.
Sunday Jul 2
There is tremendous mutual respect between Japanese and Australian breeders with some of our very best racemares now calling Japan home including recent Group I Tatts Tiara winner Palaisipan, while Japanese bred sires have made their presence felt in Australia most recently with Brave Smash (Jpn) the current leading first season sire by winners.
Sunday Jul 2
Champion Australian sire Fastnet Rock featured in Ireland overnight with a Group I quinella in the Pretty Polly Stakes (1m2f) at The Curragh won by Via Sistina defeating Stay Alert.
Saturday Jul 1
Here is the full list of 108 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday Jul 1
It’s been a long time between drinks for six year-old Deep Field gelding Riddle Me That, who had not won a race since 2020, but he relived the glory days when taking out the $200,000 VRC Winter Championship Final (1600m) at Flemington on Saturday.
Saturday Jul 1
Trainer Chrissy Bambry celebrated her recent engagement with a huge result at Hastings on Saturday when Flower Of Wanaka downed a solid line-up of fillies and mares in the Listed Team Wealleans Tauranga Classic (1400m).
Saturday Jul 1
It’s been a steep learning curve this year for talented Extreme Choice gelding Knight’s Choice, who capped his meteoric rise with a resounding win in the $300,000 Group III Winx Guineas (1600m) at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday.
Saturday Jul 1
The rising 8yo gelding Irish Songs earned a second stakes success fourteen months after his first to claim the Listed Glasshouse Hcp (1400m) at the Sunshine Coast.
Saturday Jul 1
Fresh from winning the Listed ATC McKell Cup (2000m) at Rosehill two weeks ago, progressive Zoustar gelding Zoumon added the $300,000 Listed Caloundra Cup (2400m) to his tally at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday.
Saturday Jul 1
Popular Albury-based trainer Mitch Beer and the unstoppable Blake Shinn combined to capture Saturday's Santa Ana Lane Sprint Final (1200m) with the rising 6yo gelding Mnementh.
Saturday Jul 1
Four-year-old mare Ancient Girl (NZ) has maintained her perfect record since joining the stable of Steve O'Dea and Matthew Hoysted with a determined victory at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday.
Saturday Jul 1
The Mark and Levi Kavanagh trained Churchill (IRE) three year-old First Immortal has been one of the finds of the winter in Victoria and capped his rise through the grades with a dominant victory in the $200,000 VRC Mahogany Challenge Final (2500m) at Flemington on Saturday.
Saturday Jul 1
Placed in three of his previous six stakes attempts, Renosu made no mistake at his seventh when leading at every call in the Listed VRC AR Creswick Stakes (1200m) down the Flemington straight at his first start past 1100m.
Saturday Jul 1
Kiwi bred Dolphin Skin was well beaten by Steparty in her first two starts, so with the defection of the nominal favourite in Saturday's Listed  Schweppes Taj Rossi Final at Flemington, the Telperion filly found the perfect spot to break her maiden.
Saturday Jul 1
Promising three year-old gelding Resonator was offered in the Inglis Digital Sale this week by China Horse Club, Newgate and partners, but passed in shy of his modest $150,000 reserve and was quick to prove his worth with a bold front running win at Rosehill on Saturday.
Saturday Jul 1
With three of the six starters, Spirit Of Boom had a stranglehold on Saturday’s Butler McDermott Lawyers Bruce McLachlan Classic (1000m) at the Sunshine Coast, and they duly clocked in 1-2-4.
Saturday Jul 1
Lindsay Park have been unstoppable with their juveniles this season and produced a lovely late season prospect in Stellar Olympus, who made a winning debut in the $150,000 VRC Next Generation Series Final (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday.
Saturday Jul 1
Sensationally backed import Chorlton Lane (IRE) made a winning Australian debut over (1300m) at Rosehill on Saturday.
Saturday Jul 1
A quality Australian Zoustar gelding, bred and sold by Ian Smith’s Edinburg Park topped the 2023 Hong Kong International Sale at Sha Tin on Friday evening.
Friday Jun 30
Here is the full list of 46 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Friday Jun 30
The New Zealand thoroughbred industry is mourning the loss of one of its great characters with the passing of Stuart Hale on Friday, aged 74.
Friday Jun 30
Fresh off a Group 1 Royal Ascot treble, Frankel (GB) is hot property worldwide. Australia cannot get enough of the undefeated champion, who has a record thirty-one Australian-born foals in 2022.
Friday Jun 30
Eureka Stud’s freshman sire Encryption is enjoying a stellar start to his career and he had winner number five with a debutant on Friday.
Friday Jun 30
Grebeni received no favours from the barrier draw in Saturday's $300,000 Group III Winx Guineas (1600m) at the Gold Coast, where he will attempt to stretch his winning sequence to four.
Friday Jun 30
Justify has had a thumping first season in Australia and he added another promising one to his arsenal with a five-length debut winner in Victoria on Friday.
Friday Jun 30
There were four two-year-old heats at the Randwick barrier trials on Friday with all the winners yet to race including a couple of promising types by Trapeze Artist.
Friday Jun 30
The 2023 National Online Breeding Stock Sale is now live online on Gavelhouse Plus, with 54 lots on offer.
Thursday Jun 29
Another Award (Shamus Award) and She’s All Class (I Am Invincible), two hugely desirable race mares, are the latest high profile entrants confirmed for the Inglis Digital online platform.
Thursday Jun 29
Here is the full list of 48 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Thursday Jun 29
One of the most successful shuttle sires to ever come to Australia, More Than Ready (USA) was a much loved favourite at Vinery Stud.
Thursday Jun 29
There will be no winter blues for veteran trainer Jim Wallace this year, who will shortly return from a well-deserved break overseas.
Thursday Jun 29
The Lindsay Park training partnership of Ben and JD Hayes have had an outstanding season with their juveniles and sent out another promising two year-old winner at Bendigo on Thursday by Trapeze Artist.
Thursday Jun 29
A Deep Field gelding bred by Tasmanian based  Grenville Stud that topped the 2022 Hong Kong International Sale when selling for HK$7.8 million (A$1.4million) was an interesting winner at Happy Valley on Wednesday evening with the 2023 edition of this sale to be held this Friday.
Thursday Jun 29
With an enviable history of producing highly sought after sale ring yearlings and champions of the track, ‘Edinburgh Park’ offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to secure and build on a proud history of the highest level of success in the Australian thoroughbred industry.
Wednesday Jun 28
Bloodstock agent Sheamus Mills was “rapt with the prices’’ and grateful for the “phenomenal service’’ after selling two of the top three lots in the Inglis Digital June (Late) sale, the second biggest in the platform’s history.
Wednesday Jun 28
Here is the full list of 44 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Wednesday Jun 28
The Breednet Premium Stallions Directory has been given a massive boost with addition of a hypothetical mating box allowing the user to enter their mare’s name to get an instant five generation tabulated pedigree with any duplications highlighted.
Wednesday Jun 28
A $1.2million Inglis Easter purchase, the first foal of Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes winner Catchy opened her account at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
Wednesday Jun 28
It was a rewarding day for Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray at Cambridge on Wednesday, with the local training partnership heading home with a winning double.
Wednesday Jun 28
Defying his inexperience, the Spirit Of Boom debutant Town Crier made short work of six rivals in the Mount Franklin Maiden Plate Plate (1200m) at Eagle Farm.
Wednesday Jun 28
The two year-old colts and geldings maiden over 1200m at Warwick Farm on Wednesday produced a stirring battle to the line with a pair of Zoustar colts trading blows all the way to the finish until Zouprince finally poked his nose in front of Dazzle Legend with nearly four lengths back to the next horse.
Wednesday Jun 28
Bred and sold by Newhaven Park, talented Written Tycoon filly Taormina made a winning debut at Warwick Farm on Wednesday for Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott.
Wednesday Jun 28
Pierro has been in hot form of late racking up his 100th winner of the season last weekend and the winners kept coming at Eagle Farm on Wednesday with the Ingham family homebred two year-old filly Utopian Wine opening her account at her second start.
Wednesday Jun 28
Two year-old maidens at Warwick Farm today for fillies as well as colts and geldings hold plenty of interest with the most expensive I Am Invincible filly sold in 2022 set to debut as well as the three-quarter sister to G1 Stradbroke winner Trekking ad the half-brother to Home Affairs.
Wednesday Jun 28
When Street Cry (IRE) arrived in Australia for the first time 20 years ago as a Group I Dubai World Cup winner by Machiavellian, Australian breeders had no clue what to make of him, but his sireline delivered six Australian Group I winners this season including the best of them in Anamoe, so it’s time to get on board or get left behind.
Wednesday Jun 28
Breednet have put together a gallery of all the Group I winners this season that were offered at auction and had yearling images with the most expensive being two time Group I winning I Am Invincible filly In Secret purchased by Godolphin for $900,000 at Magic Millions.
Wednesday Jun 28
Swettenham Stud are delighted to announce the appointment of Adam McLaughlin as the new Stud Manager at their Nagambie property, commencing 10th July 2023.
Tuesday Jun 27
Here is the full list of 26 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Tuesday Jun 27
Formula One fans would have thrown a bet on promising two year-old Choisir colt Piastri, who opened his account with an easy win at Ballarat on Tuesday.
Tuesday Jun 27
Kris Lees is never frightened to start a talented horse off in the country with Group I Queensland Oaks winner Amokura starting her career with an unplaced debut at Taree earlier this year and that venue was also chosen for a promising two year-old filly by Churchill (IRE) from the family of Champion 3YO Filly Samantha Miss.
Tuesday Jun 27
Darryn Weatherley is eyeing an Australian spring raid with a couple of his stable’s leading lights, including Group One winner Pier.
Tuesday Jun 27
Widden Stud have enjoyed great results mining the Encosta de Lago sireline through his influential son Northern Meteor and current champion sire Zoustar, but you can always add more strings to your bow and securing the best son of Deep Field is a strategy that fits with an established pattern of success at this world renowned farm.
Monday Jun 26
The $700,000 Group I Tatts Tiara (1400m) at Eagle Farm last Saturday was the last of 74 Australian Group I races run this season that produced 61 individual Group I winners, so let’s take a look at the best of the best.
Monday Jun 26
There was a big set of trials on Monday morning at Canterbury and while we are deep into the season there are still plenty of nice unraced juveniles learning their craft including the full sister to a filly that sold for $2million and a good-looking son of Satono Aladdin (Jpn).
Monday Jun 26
A two time champion Australian sire and runner-up on four more occasions, Encosta de Lago took a little while to hit his straps as a sire of sires, but then along came Northern Meteor.
Monday Jun 26
Bred on the magic Fastnet Rock x Galileo cross, lightly raced five year- old gelding Fenelon made it back to back stakes wins when taking out the Listed Lyon-Parilly Grand Prix de Lyon (2400m) on Sunday in France capping a great week for Fastnet Rock.
Monday Jun 26
Time has been called on the racing career of Group One winner On The Rocks.
Monday Jun 26
A highly successful season for Redwood (GB) continued at the weekend with another pair of significant home-bred winners for the Westbury Stud resident.
Monday Jun 26
Widden Stud in Victoria is home to one of the most popular sires in the state in quiet achiever Magnus, who racked up his 100th winner of the season over the weekend.
Monday Jun 26
Aussie bred Starspangledbanner gelding Beauty Eternal capped a sensational season with victory in the Group III Premier Cup (1400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday taking his trainer John Size and jockey Zac Purton closer to respective trainer and jockey championships.
Monday Jun 26
Westbury Stud’s Redwood (GB) has a number of promising galloper son the rise and one of them is Tuchel (NZ), who scored a deserved win in the Group III Premier Plate (1800m) at Sha tin on Sunday.
Sunday Jun 25
Here is the full list of 58 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Sunday Jun 25
The half brother by Pride of Dubai to this month's Group One winning juvenile King Colorado today smashed the all time record price for the Magic Millions Perth Winter Yearling Sale when he sold for $260,000 in the Swan Valley.