It took eight starts and six wins for Yellow Brick to earn the respect he deserves, but the 3yo son of The Mission made an army of new admirers with his dominant performance in Saturday’s $200,000 Group III Brandons Gold Coast Guineas (1200m) at the Sunshine Coast.

Palmetto had to wait seven starts for his first win in Australia, but the second came much more quickly – and in a race worth A$500,000.

Last start H C Nitschke Stakes winner Caste continued on an upward curve with an impressive performance in Saturday’s Group II Queen Of The South Stakes (1600m) at Morphetttville.

The Joe Pride trained So You Think gelding Think About It has charged through the grades this year and looks set to keep his winning run going in Brisbane with a stylish first up victory in the Listed Takeover Target Stakes (1200m) at Gosford on Saturday.

The talented Matt Laurie-trained filly Chilled continued the winning run of Woodside Park Stud’s new resident Shalaa (IRE) with a fighting win in Saturday’ Listed Without Fear Stakes (1050m) at Morphettville.

Russian Revolution has been running hot with his two year-olds this season, but none of them have won more races than the Kevin Kemp trained filly Russian Alliance, who posted her fifth win from six starts when upping the ante to score a tenacious win in the Group III Ken Russell Memorial Classic (1200m) at the Sunshine Coast.

Back with the tailenders on the home turn, the 3yo Reliable Man (GB) filly Renaissance Woman stormed home to claim Saturday’s  Aquis Stallions Gold Coast Bracelet (1800m) at the Sunshine Coast.

The father and daughter training partnership of Kelvin and Aimee Tyler were to the fore at Riccarton on Saturday when they produced class performer Lightning Jack to win the Listed Daphne Bannan Memorial Great Easter Stakes (1400m).

Trained at Alice Springs by Will Savage, Savatoxl earned a second win in the Group III D C McKay Stakes (1100m) at Morphettville to become racing’s latest equine millionaire.

Yulong were the biggest buyer at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale and Broodmare Sale this week, but a mare they bought out of the Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale last year for 350,000 euros looms as a future stakes-winner in Australia for Frankel.

Speedy North Island visitor Illicit Dreams proved too fleet of foot for her two-year-old rivals when she took out the Listed Berkley Stud Champagne Stakes (1200m) at Riccarton.

While comparisons with his older stablemate Sharp ‘N’ Smart are inevitable, promising two-year-old colt Solidify is the son of Redwood currently in the limelight after adding his first win at stakes level to a burgeoning career when taking out the Listed Waikato Equine Veterinary Services 2YO Stakes (1200m) at Te Rapa.

The strapping Better Than Ready colt Chrysaor added his name to the rapidly growing battalion of Chris Waller-trained horses heading to Queensland for the winter following a hugely impressive win in the  Thymely Food Co Hcp (1200m) at Gosford on Saturday.

The Listed Newmarket Stakes (1m2) run overnight in the UK produced a stakes quinella for Cambridge Stud shuttler Almanzor (Fr) with the race won by an expensive yearling purchase for Godolphin in Castle Way.

Here is the full list of 52 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Two mares realised $400,000 or more in today’s Australian Broodmare Sale, bringing to an end a stellar week of Breeding Stock Sales Series trade at Riverside, while Group I winner Graceful Girl who passed in last night was recorded as a $1.1million sale today.

A fourth win in the Listed Raine and Horne Wagga Wagga Cup (2000m) for owner Richard Pegum and a fifth for Chris Waller as the import Wicklow (IRE) scored a hard-fought victory in the $200,000 feature on Friday.

Two prestigious races for the fillies and mares, the Group 1 Furphy Robert Sangster Stakes and the Group II Queen Of The South Stakes, highlight a champagne day of racing at Morphettville on Saturday.

Stakes mares, proven producers and broodmares covered by popular stallions including Proisir headline another bumper catalogue for the Inglis Digital May (Early) Online Sale.

Kris Lees is never afraid to take a smart juvenile to the country to break the ice and he unleashed Brave Smash (Jpn) filly La Boqueria at Coffs Harbour on Friday for an easy win.

There was a busy set of 15 trials at Canterbury on Friday morning and seven were for juveniles with a couple of eye-catching heat winners by Pierro and Zoustar.

The record breaking Inglis Chairman’s Sale last night produced eight mares that sold for $1million or more and seven of those were bred in Australasia and six of them were purchased initially as yearlings.

A Chairman’s Sale described as “staggering’’, “incredible’’ and “the crème de la crème’’ tonight concluded with superstar mares Nimalee and Montefilia both selling for north of $3m.

The first mares in foal to I Am Invincible’s champion son Home Affairs were offered at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale and proved much in demand with Tell Your Mama (USA) providing the best result when selling for $800,000.

Here is the full list of 46 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The Inglis Chairman’s Sale produced another big banger hot on the heels of Montefilia with the Matthew Smith trained Group I ATC Queen of the Turf Stakes winner Nimalee selling for $3.6million.

Offered in the Newgate Consignment, four-time Group I winner Montefilia was offered as a breeding and racing proposition at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale with Yu Long adding another gem to their star studded broodmare band at $3.4million.

The consistent Anacheeva gelding Rolls bid his trainer Maddie Raymond a fond farewell when winning the $300,000 Listed  Sungold Milk Warrnambool Cup (2350m) on Thursday.

Sacred Falls mare Icebath (NZ) has been a stalwart of the Brad Widdup stable for the past three years racking up a series of lucrative wins and placings before finally a G1 victory in the VRC Empire Rose Stakes last spring.

A dual Group III winning mare by Woodside Park’s value sire Rich Enuff, Dosh was the first broodmare to sell for seven figures at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale on Thursday afternoon when fetching $1.35million.

From a 3-mile maiden win as a 5yo on debut at Oldcastle in Ireland to a three-length triumph in the $400,000  Brandt Grand Annual Steeplechase over 5500m at Warrnambool, it's been some journey for Rockstar Ronnie (IRE).

Gavelhouse Plus has become Te Akau Racing’s platform of choice for selling high-quality mares as they retire from the racetrack, and that trend is continuing over the next week with the sale of G1 Newe Zealand Oaks winner Belle En Rouge (NZ) (Burgundy Rose) and Burgundy Rose (NZ) (Burgundy).

Prominent Western Australian Breeders Gold Front Thoroughbreds are excited to announce that their highly credentialled sire, Awesome Rock, will be standing for a fee of $9900 in the upcoming breeding season.

Now a five year-old stallion, quality miler Chindit has won at his first run of the year in each of four seasons of racing taking out the Listed Paradise Stakes (1m) at Ascot overnight prompting speculation he may race in Australia later in the year.

Almanzor (FR) has already proved a stallion force to be reckoned with in feature age group events with his first two crops excelling at the elite level.

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

The Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale on Friday is set to continue a great week of trade at Riverside Stables with Middlebrook Valley Lodge to offer 15 mares with the first into the ring being the dam of a weanling that sold on Monday for $200,000!

If the Chairman’s Sale on Thursday night is priced is a little out of your league, the good news is there is only one more day to wait before the Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale on Friday with Holbrook Thoroughbreds offering a significant draft.

It has been confirmed that Justify will stand for $77,000 including GST this season.

Twin Hills Stud will present half a dozen mares at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale on Thursday night including two in foal to champion sires Frankel and Zoustar, plus the only mare in the sale with a cover to red hot young sire Blue Point (IRE).

Local trainer Daniel Bowman earned the feature $200,000 Listed The Midfield Group Wangoom Hcp (1200m) on day two of the Warrnambool Carnival with the Reward For Effort gelding Outlaws Revenge.

Returning to Coolmore Australia this spring, Triple Crown hero Justify (USA) added a fourth Australian winner to his tally at Warrnambool on Wednesday when Scentify scored a determined debut win.

Kandinsky Abstract was the most expensive yearling in Australia last year when sold by Widden Stud for $3million at Inglis Easter and made a winning debut at Canterbury on Wednesday.

DENBY ROAD provided SHAMEXPRESS with his ninth individual Stakeswinner at the weekend when impressively winning the Gr.3 Cambridge Breeders Stakes at Te Rapa in an outstanding training performance by Cambridge trainer Shelley Hale. 

Middlebook Valley Lodge have 17 mares to be offered at Riverside Stables in the next few days with the first two to be offered in the Chairman’s Sale on Thursday night.

Top staying prospect Arby has taken no harm from a last start defeat in trying conditions at Pukekohe Park.

A quick glance at Breednet in the morning at the Top Sellers for Today graphic always gives a quick reference as to what might be of interest later in the day on the track and today certainly caught the eye.

A Deep Field colt realised a day-high $300,000 late on Day 2 of a successful Australian Weanling Sale which saw year on year gains across a majority of key metrics.

An outstanding result for Woodside Park recruit Shalaa (IRE) when the Matthew Williams-trained filly Rose Of Shalaa broke her maiden in the $125,000 Callaghan Motors VOBIS Gold Strike (1000m) on the opening day of the Warrnambool Carnival.

The Inglis Australian Weanling Sale this week provided the first test of the market for a new generation of first season sires and seven of them sired youngsters that sold for $100,000 plus and two more had babies that sold for just under.

The rarest of opportunities will arise at this month’s Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale with one of the world’s best young broodmares joining a star studded catalogue.

Holbrook Thoroughbreds topped the 2021 Ingis Chairman’s Sale selling Group I winning mare Celebrity Queen on behalf of Bob And Sandra Peters for $2.5million and their select draft of five for this year’s sale features two more G1 winning mares that raced in the famed cerise and white.

Stephen Marsh has made a successful practice of targeting Saturday’s black-type feature at Te Rapa as a springboard to future success.

Aquis Stallions has today announced their 7-strong stallion line up for the coming spring.

The first juvenile stakes race of the year in Ireland was run overnight with business as usual for ‘King of the Kids’ No Nay Never, while classic trials for three year-olds produced new stakes-winners for Siyouni and Saxon Warrior.

The most expensive colt ever sold at the Australian Weanling Sale topped today’s Day 1 action at Riverside as buyers’ thirst for quality young stock reached new heights.

All eyes were on Everest victor Giga Kick winning his hit out at the Randwick trials on Monday morning as did Australian Oaks runner-up So Dazzling, but there were also seven heats for juveniles with some interesting unraced winners.

Here is the full list of 31 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Undefeated world champion sprinter Black Caviar is yet to produce a horse with her exceptional talent, but she did post a fourth winner from five foals to race when I Am Caviar opened his account at Bairnsdale on Monday.

It’s been impossible to ignore the torrent of Group I winners in Australia during the autumn carnival that carry the NZ suffix so a look at the busiest sires in New Zealand last year offers an insight into the future for this most fertile source of elite thoroughbreds.

Returning to Coolmore Australia this spring, Starspangledbanner enjoyed a good weekend with a new stakes-winning juvenile in Australia in Treasurway, while at Sha Tin on Sunday his progressive son Beauty Eternal posted an impressive win.

The Group I Prix Ganay (2100m) at Longchamp was won last year by Cox Plate hero State of Rest (IRE), who will stand at Newgate this spring, with the 2023 edition of the race run overnight and featuring the return of quality Churchill stallion Vadeni.

Yulong is proud to present a seven-stallion roster brimming with exceptional young sirepower for the 2023 breeding season, while stalwart champion sire Written Tycoon will be looked after as his career moves towards the twilight years with his fee listed as private.

After another exceptional season of racetrack results and with his yearling average rising 20%, Spirit of Boom has a well-earned fee increase for 2023.

Here is the full list of 75 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

It was a day for the returning heroes as Romantic Warrior (IRE) made it a clean sweep for the locals in the three features with a commanding performance in the Group 1 FWD Queen Elizabeth II Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin.

The Group 1 FWD Champions Mile (1600m) at Sha Tin proved a fascinating tactical race. Still, there was ever only going to be one winner, which was the hometown hero Golden Sixty who sent the packed crowd into raptures with a third consecutive win in the race.

Odds-on favourite Lucky Sweynesse stood tall in the Group 1 The Chairman's Sprint Prize (1200m) at Sha Tin and took his place among the world's elite sprinters.

Te Kauwhata breeders Courtney and Mandy Howells had cause for celebration on Saturday night when Affaire A Suivre, a filly they bred and sold, won the Gr.1 Australasian Oaks (2000m) at Morphettville for trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace.

Graeme and Debbie Rogerson hope that it is a case of lightning striking twice after Solidify put his rivals to the sword when winning the Decise Electrical and Control 2YO (1200m) at Te Rapa on Saturday.

Ben Thompson found the fast lane hard against the fence on Alpine Edge to deny Emerald Kingdom back-to-back successes in the $775,000 Bentleys 2023 The Archer (1300m) at Rockhampton on Sunday.

Platinum Thoroughbreds are pleased to announce three exciting additions to their 2023 roster - sons of Teofilo, Snitzel and Pierro to join the well credentialled Invincible Spirit line horse Scorpz at the Seymour stud.

Woodside Park are welcoming Shalaa (IRE) to their roster this spring and he sired a new G1 performer on Saturday in Jennilala and a new stakes-placed 2YO Chill the Krug, but the farm’s ever reliable Foxwedge was also making a splash with three metro winners!

The Super One filly Super Smink proved a class above her opponents in Saturday's Group III Quayclean WA Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m) to stamp her claim as the best two-year-old in the west.

The Inglis Australian Weanling Sale on Monday and Tuesday features a good selection of youngsters by first season sires with the most represented being – King’s Legacy, North Pacific, Ole Kirk, Anders, Farnan and Prague – so let’s take a look at the gallery pages for these sires, who were sale ring and racetrack rivals, now taking the battle into a new arena, so who will co

Here is the full list of 116 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Red Sun Sensation captured Saturday's Group III Chairman's Stakes (2000m) at Morphettville and is beginning to repay the faith shown by Peter Moody since the son of Awesome Rock broke his maiden at Geelong last August.

The Chris Waller-trained Kovalica further enhanced his Gr.1 Queensland Derby (2400m) claims with the son of Ocean Park an arrogant winner of the Gr.2 Queensland Guineas (1600m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

A maiden a month ago, the NZ-bred Astern filly Affaire A Suivre is now a Group 1 winner after she captured the $500,000 Grand Syndications Australasian Oaks (2000m) at Morphettville on Saturday.

Local hero Rothfire needed to call on every ounce of his courage to capture Saturday’s Group II Channel 7 Victory Stakes at (1200m) at Eagle Farm.

Three-year-old gelding Dunwoody called upon all his staying reserves as he lead from barrier to box under in-form rider Jordan Childs to land the Listed VRC St Leger (3000m) at Sandown on Saturday as the $61 outsider of the field.

The Melbourne Cup dream is back on for the injury-plagued Hasta La War after the son of Declaration Of War (USA) found the winner’s circle for the first time in eighty-three weeks in Saturday’s Listed Port Adelaide Cup (2500m) at Morphettville.

Progressive mare Aromatic rounded out her current campaign with another impressive victory when she cruised home in the Gr.2 Travis Stakes (2000m) at Te Rapa.

The postponed Listed MRC ANZAC Day Stakes (1400m) was run at Sandown on Saturday and won in spectacular style by untapped Justify (USA) filly Legacies, who looms as a real star of the future.

Two two-year-old stakes-winning fillies at Sandown and Morphettville in a matter of minutes made it a day to remember for Anthony Mithen and the Rosemont Stud team.

Commentator George Simon will be the first to admit he didn’t cover himself in glory in the final stages of his call on the Gr.3 Inglis Sales Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes (1200m), but he had good reason as Denby Road, the horse that he and wife Maryanne bred and race, saluted in the Group Three feature.

Wewillrock, one of last season’s progressive three-year-olds, bounced back to winning form on his home track on Saturday when he took out a rating 75 1200m contest at Hastings.

The Listed BRC Dalrello Plate (1000m) was a competitive affair at Eagle Farm on Saturday with promising Capitalist filly Appin Girl making it two wins in as many starts when powering to a dominant  victory.

The likeable Lonhro filly Dipsy Doodle continued on an upward curve with a fighting win over 1100m at Rosehill on Saturday.

The 6yo Galileo (IRE) gelding Serpentine visited the winner's stall for the first time since the 2020 Epsom Derby when downing three opponents in the Robbie Fradd Hcp (2200m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

Little Avondale have announced that the 2023 service fees for Per Incanto and Time Test remain unchanged from last season.

Here is the full list of 57 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Friday with winners and result details.

There were six heats for juveniles at Rosehill on Friday morning that included an unraced heat winner for Trapeze Artist and two winners by Pariah, who has packed his bags and departed Arrowfield to stand at Oaklands Stud in Queensland.

The Sir Patrick Hogan Dispersal Sale was a one-of-a-kind chance to tap into the bloodlines built up by arguably the most influential figure in New Zealand’s thoroughbred breeding history, and buyers came out in force on Friday to embrace that special opportunity.

Leading Queensland nursery Lyndhurst Stud will stand three stallions this spring with Better Than Ready topping the roster at a fee of $27,500 inc. GST.

Two exciting two-year-old features at Muswellbrook on Friday fell to debutants whose breeding suggests better days ahead.

Excitement is building for Champions Day at Sha Tin on Sunday, with all the winners of the three features last year back to defend their titles.

The Australian thoroughbred breeding industry has rallied behind the family of Dean Holland and will contribute to a major fundraiser at next month's Magic Millions National Sale on the Gold Coast.

Blue Gum Farm is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Lindsay as Sales Manager.

With Rosemont Stud relying on the impressive Justify (USA) filly Legacies in the Listed Anzac Day Stakes (1400m) at Flemington, it has freed up Rosemont’s Starspangledbanner filly Treasurway to claim a long overdue win in the Group III Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville.