The Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman-trained Roadcone is best known for his on-speed exploits but after being a shade slow to begin on Saturday, the son of Almanzor found a new trick in his kit-bag as he triumphed narrowly at Flemington.

David Greene has always thought Free Bird would thrive over further ground, and she fulfilled that promise when winning over a middle distance at the first time of asking at Ellerslie on Saturday in the Golf Warehouse 2100.

Promising three-year-old Wine Rocs indicated there are more wins in store in his current campaign as he produced a sustained finish to claim victory in the Elsdon Park 1400 at Ellerslie.

 A yearling bought by his trainer Jack Bruce for just $7,000 at the 2024 Magic Millions National Yearling Sale became a stakes-winner at Eagle Farm on Saturday and cracked half a million dollars in prizemoney!

Darley shuttler Pinatubo (IRE) registered his first Australian bred stakes-winner when the Nick Olive trained filly Voynichese captured the $160,000 Listed BRC Show a Heart Stakes (1500m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

A full sister to Group III winner The Three Hundred, talented I Am Invincible mare Monte Supreme has been working towards a stakes win of her own and got the job done at Eagle Farm on Saturday when taking out the $160,000  Listed BRC Lightning Quality (1000m).

An astute trainer and very successful horse breeder, Danny O’Brien was hoping to breed an Oaks filly when he sent O’Reilly mare Tralee Chorus to his Cox Plate winner Shamus Award, but he might have got something even better.

Vinery Stud stalwart All Too Hard is having a good season with his juveniles and produced a promising debut winner at Randwick on Saturday with Why So Hard arriving on the line to salute.

A new addition at Oaklands Stud in Queensland for this spring, young Redoute's Choice stallion Prague featured in New Zealand on Saturday  with a stylish juvenile winner at Ellerslie.

A baldy faced chestnut colt by Frankel (Benvenuto Cellini) is favourite for the Group I Epsom Derby to be run this evening our time and overnight it was baldy faced chestnut Frankel filly Thundering On, who did just that to win the Group I Epsom Oaks (1 ½ m) in commanding style.

A Group-winning mare in foal to Too Darn Hot and a share in Champion First Season Sire Ole Kirk are among the highlights of the Inglis Digital June (Early) Online Sale, which is now open for bidding.

Here is the full list of 32 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Astute trainer Henry Dwyer was in the frame at Swan Hill on Friday when his promising two year-old Street Boss (USA) filly Mountjoy won the $125,000 Elvstroem Classic (1300m).

The Rosehill barrier trials on Friday morning featured six heats won by juveniles that included some interesting unraced youngsters by Zoustar, I Am Invincible, D’Argento and first season sire Acrobat.

The last G1 race for three year-olds in Australia this season, the $750,000 Group I BRC Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Eagle Farm this Saturday has a capacity field of eighteen ( four emergencies). 

Since its inaugural running in 1951, the Queensland Oaks has launched some storied careers on the turf and in the broodmare paddocks of the nation.

Here is the full list of 36 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The thirst for quality stakes winners off the track continued at the Magic Millions Digital (29 May-4 June) Sale which concluded with record results with the sale the best in the history of the selling platform.

Kia Ora Stud has been quick to demonstrate its ongoing commitment to supporting its stallions with quality bloodstock following the recent consolidation of its stallion operations with Vinery Stud.

Progeny of and siblings to G1 performers are among a quality group of supplementary entries confirmed for next week’s Great Southern Weanling Sale at Oaklands.

Three quality weanlings will further boost NZB’s 2026 National Weanling Sale, with the bonus lots set to be offered immediately following the 140 lots originally catalogued for sale at Karaka on Thursday 25 June.  

Recording their second juvenile winner in as many days, the Peter Snowden stable headed to Hawkesbury on Thursday where the unraced 2yo D’Argento filly Scuro Star made her debut over 1100m, defeating the older horses in the Family Funday 19 July F&M Maiden Plate.

If your goal this spring is to choose a stallion that can breed you a nice winner with upside it might not be as expensive as you think.

Fairhill Farm was the leading vendor by aggregate at the recent Inglis Australian Weanling Sale in Sydney, but that was not the entire crop from the farm with Mike O’Donnell electing to hold a few youngsters back to be offered in Melbourne at the Inglis Great Southern Sale next week on June 11 and 12.

Here is the full list of 48 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Kiwi filly Solid Gold will be on the quick back-up when she takes her place in Saturday’s Gr.1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) following her fifth placing in last weekend’s Gr.1 Queensland Derby (2400m).

As a son of Arrowfield Stud’s shuttle-stallion Maurice (Jpn) in the stable of Ciaron Maher with a pedigree that suggests he’ll appreciate further than the 1400m he scored over on Wednesday, could Sandown winner Vallice be another Hitotsu?

The $100,000 super maiden races at midweek metro meetings have been a great innovation by Racing NSW and collecting the cash at Warwick Farm on Wednesday was speedy I Am Invincible filly Lady Invictus.

Grassdale Pastoral is pleased to announce that multiple stakes-winning Fastnet Rock stallion LONG LEAF will stand at the property for the 2026 breeding season, providing Victorian breeders with access to one of the most credentialled sons of the legendary Coolmore sire standing outside the major commercial breeding centres.

Hellbent has had a good season with his juveniles siring Group III winner Zip Lock and $1million ATC Golden Gift winner Revengeance as well as two more stakes performers and he added a fifth 2YO winner to his tally at Warwick Farm on Wednesday when Helldeeva saluted.

Weather, weight and poor barriers pose a challenge for Andrew Forsman as the Cambridge horseman readies for a busy trans-Tasman weekend.

Fresh from siring the winner of the Group II Italian Derby on Tuesday in the Northern Hemisphere, Coolmore shuttler St Mark’s Basilica (Fr) produced an exciting winner at Doomben on Wednesday with La Barrita stamping herself as a stakes contender for the future.

D’Argento has made an encouraging start to his stud career at Bowness Stud, emerging as a promising young son of champion sire So You Think.

All roads are leading to a home track black type feature for talented youngster She’s No Saint who has already proved competitive with her leading age group rivals.

If your goal this spring is to choose a stallion that can breed you a nice winner with upside it might not be as expensive as you think.

2021 European Horse of the Year St Mark’s Basilica (Fr) will be headed back to Coolmore Australia later this year and he featured overnight when the Andrew Balding trained colt Venetian Prince made a successful raid on the Group II Derby Italiano (2200m) at San Siro.

A colt by Extreme Choice topped Day Two of the 2026 Magic Millions National Sale on the Gold Coast on Tuesday helping to bring down the curtain on a successful two weeks of sales.

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

Following the recent announcement of its 2026 return, National Thoroughbred Week is calling on thoroughbred industry participants across Australia and New Zealand to get involved as event hosts.

Four yearlings by Newgate Farm’s champion sire Extreme Choice were always billed as a standout for the MM National Yearling Sale this week and his filly from Volks Lightning sold for $580,000 on Monday and today the remaining three youngsters were all sold with the colt from Coco as in Chanel (USA) the highlight.

Our Group One winning son of High Chaparral, Wrote (IRE) continues to make headlines.

Sunday’s HK$4.2m Sha Tin Vase (1200m) added some Group Three success to an outstanding run of form for Ready to Run Sale graduate Patch Of Stars (All Too Hard).

The $700,000 Group I BRC Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Eagle Farm this Saturday is the last G1 race of the season for three year-olds and has attracted a full field of 18, plus emergencies with last start G1 Australasian Oaks winner Panova drawing favourably in gate six.

If your goal this spring is to choose a stallion that can breed you a nice winner with upside it might not be as expensive as you think.

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

A cracking son of classy international sire Lope de Vega topped Day One of the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale on the Gold Coast.

Two newly minted Australian bred Group I winners last Saturday showed that Australian breeders big and small can achieve the same goal, one paying a $22,000 service fee and the other $71,500.

Fresh from siring progressive colt Berzelius to win the $1million Group II BRC Sires Produce Stakes at Eagle Farm on Saturday, Newgate Farm’s Extreme Choice was always going to make his presence felt at the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale this week with the first of his four entries for this sale selling for $580,000.

Fresh from a four winner Saturday, Gooree Stud’s Everest winning sire Yes Yes Yes kept the winners coming at Kilmore on Monday with promising juvenile winner Signed By a Kiss carrying the Prime Thoroughbreds colours to victory.

Te Akau Racing’s founder and principal, David Ellis, has been appointed a Knight Companion (KNZM) of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2026 King's Birthday Honours, in recognition of his services to Thoroughbred Racing and Philanthropy.

The tragic loss of Coolmore shuttler Wootton Bassett (GB) was highlighted over the weekend when he produced a pair of Group I Derby heroes with Providence saluting in Australia and Constitution River in France.

Four year-old All Too Hard gelding Patch of Stars has been carving through his grades in Hong Kong and had his first crack at Black Type in the Group III Sha Tin Vase (1200m) on Sunday emerging with a win, a timely result for his yearling half-sister to be offered at the Gold Coast .

The Group III Lion Rock Cup (1600m) at Sha Tin on Sunday produced an Aussie bred trifecta with five year-old Rubick gelding Light Years Charm claiming his first Black Type success when beating Beauty Joy (Sebring) and Copartner Prance (Epaulette).

Here is the full list of 61 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Widden Stud’s young sire Portland Sky added a new winner to his tally when Sambuca Sky scored an easy victory at Scone on Sunday.

Inglis Digital graduate Headley Grange (Exosphere) won his maiden G1 at Eagle Farm today when scoring a deserved victory in the Kingsford Smith Cup.

Newgate Farm proprietor Henry Field celebrated his first Derby success when emerging Easter colt Providence (Wootton Bassett) scored a decisive victory in today’s G1 Queensland Derby at Eagle Farm.

Reigning champion sire Zoustar had four winners around Australia on Saturday including his new stakes-winner Hearcomesthestar and blueblood mare Silver Wedding, who promises to become a stakes-winner.

Here is the full list of 109 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The $160,000 Listed BRC Helen Coughlan Stakes (1200m) produced a blow out result when rank outsider Savagery Vibe saluted to give her sire Brutal his fifth stakes-winner.

Classy galloper Western Empire had to call on all his fighting qualities to pick up his latest stakes victory as he thrust his head in front in the very last stride to claim the Gr.3 PKF Perth – Hyperion Stakes (1600m) at Belmont on Saturday.

The second season sire table changed shape after the Group I Queensland Derby with the late Wootton Bassett (GB) zooming into second place with a bullet after his classy colt Providence took the prize.

Having not recorded success since winning the $1.5m ATC Alan Brown Stakes (1400m) back in October, Joe Pride’s Exosphere gelding Headley Grange took his earnings to just shy of $2.5m with a late dive victory in Saturday’s $1m G1 BRC Kingsford Smith Cup (1300m) at Eagle Farm.

Second to eventual G1 winner Panova during the Spring, the Phillip Stokes trained Regal Award has form around some handy performers, and now the 3yo son of Ole Kirk has secured his place in the $3m G1 BRC Stradbroke Handicap field with victory in Saturday’s $300,000 G3 BRC Fred Best Classic (1400m).

Coming off a last start effort in the G3 Chairman’s Handicap (2000m) at Doomben, Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott’s Mastercraftsman (IRE) mare Alalcance (GB) appreciated the step up to 2400m on Saturday, defeating stablemate Bella Montagna (NZ) in the $200,000 G3 Premier’s Cup (2400m) at Eagle Farm.

The well-travelled Bright Stripes showed he could have found a handy home in New Zealand when he won first up for team Te Akau Racing in the Fleet Image Celebrating 50 Years in Business (1400m) at Te Rapa on Saturday.

Underrated mare Electron turned some indifferent form of late upside down when she clung on by the barest of margins to take out the Listed AGC Training Stakes WFA (1600m) at Wanganui on Saturday.

The $1million Group II BRC Sires Produce Stakes (1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday featured a full field of talented juveniles with Extreme Choice colt Berzelius putting himself in the picture for a G1 future.

Newgate young gun sires Tiger of Malay and Wild Ruler delivered the quinella in the open juvenile race at Caulfield on Saturday with exciting prospect Obambulate scoring a dominant win over promising first starter Vivid Storm.

Exciting Toronado (IRE) colt Tron Bolt could not have been more impressive at Rosehill on Saturday when surging away from his rivals to stake a big claim for the Group BRC I JJ Atkins Stakes (1600m) in two weeks time.

Newgate shuttler State of Rest (IRE) is on the board with his first winner after talented filly Anad scored a dazzling last to first win on debut at Wolverhampton in the UK overnight.

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

The buying power of major Australian-based players has been an almost unstoppable force in securing well-bred and stakes-performed New Zealand mares in recent seasons, but May's Premium Broodmare Sale on Gavelhouse Plus bucked that trend.

The 140-lot catalogue for next month’s?2026 NZB National Weanling Sale?at Karaka is stacked with the right bloodlines and credentials for buyers to pursue those big dreams, like that on offer at Karaka but in smaller packaging.  

Nicky and Nick White are hoping Catwalk Queen’s debut win at Tauranga on Friday is the first of many, with the Kaha Nui Farm principals raising awareness and funds for the CatWalk Trust through the filly.

Bidding is now open for the Magic Millions Digital (29 May-4 June) Sale with 105 lots catalogued, making this sale the platform’s largest to date.

Cambridge Stud mare Joliestar got the green tick of approval from trainer Chris Waller following her 900m jump out win at Flemington on Friday, her final public appearance before she begins her marathon journey to England next week ahead of competing at Royal Ascot.

Awapuni trainer Lisa Latta will be chasing stakes success on both sides of the Tasman on Saturday, starting close to home at Wanganui where she will have a two-pronged attack in the Listed AGC Training Stakes WFA (1600m).

Magnum Park is proud to announce that proven Group 1-winning stallion SIZZLING will stand in Tasmania for the upcoming breeding season.

The $1million Group I BRC Kingsford Smith Cup (1300m) has a full field of 16 plus emergencies with a myriad of serious contenders looking to stake their claims for Stradbroke glory in two weeks time.

The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears. - Bedouin proverb

If your goal this spring is to choose a stallion that can breed you a nice winner with upside it might not be as expensive as you think.

Fiorenza (Kingman) – the top lot in today’s Inglis Digital May (Late) Online Sale – will be immediately retired and visit Arrowfield’s new stallion Lead Artist this season after selling to the famed Hunter Valley nursery for $325,000.

Here is the full list of 9 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The Gr.1 Queensland Derby (2400m) will always have special meaning to Cambridge horseman Robert Wellwood, who won his first Derby in the 2022 edition of the race with Pinarello, and he is hoping to double his tally in the Classic this weekend.

Mike Breslin couldn’t be any happier with Crouch ahead of Sunday’s Listed Sandown Cup (3200m), with his only concern being his 60-kilogram impost.

The New Zealand Thoroughbred industry is mourning the loss of another member of its community this week with the passing of Group One-winning trainer Anne Herbert, aged 68.

The $1million Group I BRC Queensland Derby (2400m) has attracted a full field of 18 and with no established G1 stars engaged it’s a dartboard job- shut your eyes, toss the dart and you may well find the winner!

With a host of stallions represented in Bowness Stud’s Magic Millions National Yearling Sale, James and Joss Daly will head north with a draft of 19 yearlings, ready for inspections from Friday morning at the complex.

This time last week owners of off the track thoroughbreds had eyes on the prize at the TSHA National Titles at Stonewall, an event Breednet have supported since it’s inception in 2022.

Here is the full list of 51 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes winner Switzerland was super popular last spring covering a book of 195 mares and a small selection in foal to the brilliant son of Snitzel were sold at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on Wednesday for up to $560,000.

Group performed mare Miss Hellfire, in foal to world class sire Extreme Choice, was the headline act on the second and final day of the 2026 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale at the Gold Coast.

A full brother to Cambridge Stud’s exciting young sire Sword of State, this well bred three year-old made a winning debut at Canterbury on Wednesday for the Waterhouse Bott stable.

Yulong have the highest regard for Extreme Choice and secured two of the three mares offered in foal to him at the Magic Millions National Sale paying $2.05 million for Miss Hellfire at the start of the day and then $1.3million for Amen Corner.

One of three runners in the nine-horse field for the Tom Charlton yard at Canterbury on Wednesday, 2yo Pinatubo (IRE) filly Pin Up Sheila announced herself as one to watch as she took up the running and gave nothing else a chance to win on debut.

I Am Invincible mare Bleu Zebra has been a goldmine for Eureka Stud giving them their first million dollar yearling when her colt by Stay Inside was sold at Magic Millions in 2025, so it was a bittersweet moment when they parted company with her at MM National today for $725,000.

Widden Stud’s Zousain had a big result at Magic Millions National on Tuesday when his three year-old filly Bellazaine sold for $900,000 as a breeding proposition and on Wednesday young Zousain mare Amelita was also in demand fetching $800,000 in foal to Ole Kirk.

A share in Newgate Farm’s champion sire Extreme Choice was traded at the Magic Millions National Sale on Tuesday with Julia Ritchie of Bangaloe Stud the successful purchaser at $735,000 and she featured on the buyer’s list on Wednesday when securing quality mare Thalassophile for $850,000.

Winner of the Group I Tatts Tiara in 2022, speedy Star Turn mare Startantes was subsequently bought by Widden Stud at the 2024 Inglis Chairman’s Sale for $1.15 million and she was back in sale ring at Magic Millions on Wednesday to dissolve a partnership.