Consigned by Yarraman Park and in foal to their champion sire I am Invincible, one of the early highlights at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on Wednesday was young Spirit of Boom mare Mighty, who sold for $700,000.

A mare in foal to Extreme Choice is a valuable commodity and particularly a well related Group II placed mare like Miss Hellfire in her first season at stud.

New Zealand superstar racemare Legarto topped Day One of the 2026 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast when selling for $2.8 million.

The Waterhouse Bott stable make plenty of headlines for purchasing expensive yearlings, but they can also find value and were well rewarded at the Magic Millions National Sale today for a smart investment at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale in 2024.

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

Te Akau Racing boss David Ellis has had a lot of luck with Magic Millions having secured Group I winners from the Gold Coast yearling sale as well as selling Group I winning mares through the auction house and Captured by Love combined both of those things.

Top class Harry Angel (IRE) mare Stretan Angel has done everything bar win an actual Group I race, but with five top four finishes in elite races, she’s morally a G1 winner and Arrowfield Stud recognized her achievements when paying $1.6million for her at the Magic Millions National Sale on Tuesday.

Bennett Racing hit the jackpot when they bought a modestly priced Snitzel filly for just $200,000 at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale in 2023 and today Snitzanova was sold at MM National for $1.8million.

Attunga Stud were given the task of preparing 2025 Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner O’ Ole for the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale and she may be packing her bags for Japan after being purchased by Katsumi Yoshida for $1.5million.

Speedy Capitalist filly Memo is no stranger to the Magic Millions sale ring having been purchased at the Gold Coast as a yearling by Snowden Racing for $350,000 and she sold at the MM National Broodmare Sale on Tuesday for $1.1million.

A $300,000 Karaka Book 1 purchase from Curraghmore back in 2023 for  Champion Thoroughbreds / Annabel Neasham Racing paid dividends at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on Tuesday when Lilac sold for $1.5million.

The 2026 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale got underway on Tuesday with a stellar offering of race fillies and mares and it was not long until the first million dollar mare was sold with top class Kiwi bred mare Legarto (NZ) selling for $2.8million to Yulong.

The $1million Group I BRC Queensland Derby (2400m) will be a great contest with a full field of 18 plus emergencies and all runners are seeking their first G1 victory.

Group One performer Bellatrix Star has been plagued by issues over the last 18 months, but she will make her much-anticipated return to the track at Caulfield on Saturday.

The hot run of form from Wrote’s progeny has continued in Hong Kong with the Highview stallion represented by a winning double at Sha Tin on Sunday.

The $1million BRC Kingsford Smith Cup (1300m) ay Eagle Fam on Saturday has attracted a capacity field of 16 sprinters plus emergencies and there are formlines converging between Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide.

The Magic Millions Weanling Sale on Sunday provided another look at the progeny of several exciting young first season sires, so let’s take a look at their best results.

Darley shuttler Too Darn Hot (GB) is held in high regard in Australia and added a new feature winner to his tally overnight with interesting colt Title Role, who won the Group II German 2000 Guineas for the Coolmore partners.

The outstanding people behind Australia’s thoroughbred racing and breeding industry were recognised tonight at the 2026 Australian Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards, held at the Sheraton Grand Mirage Resort on the Gold Coast.

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

With wet weather in Sydney the Warwick Farm trials were shifted to the polytrack on Monday morning and five heats were won by juveniles that included two youngsters by Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside.

The Thoroughbred Breeders Australia Board has elected Antony Thompson as President at today's AGM, following Basil Nolan’s decision to step down after more than a decade leading the national breeders’ body.

Paul Moroney writes - I am saddened by the passing of my uncle and childhood hero, former jockey and trainer Raymond James (Buzz) Leggett, aged 83.

The New Zealand thoroughbred industry is mourning the loss of highly respected Waikato identity Colin Thompson who passed away at the weekend aged 97.

The racing industry has lost one of its most colourful characters with the recent passing of Bob Autridge, aged 85.

Chris Wood may have lost two of his stable flagbearers in That’s Gold and Canheroc, but he is hoping two recent stable additions in Sassy Lass and Son Of Sun can be worthy replacements.

Back in 2009, exciting Choisir colt Starspangledbanner claimed the first of his four G1 victories when taking out the MRC Caulfield Guineas and in Ireland over the weekend he achieved something remarkable in siring the winners of both the G1 Irish 2000 Guineas and 1000 Guineas!

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

A half sister to Group One winner Madame Pommery by first season sire sensation Home Affairs topped today's Magic Millions Gold Coast National Weanling Sale when selling for $680,000.

The Danny Shum trained Romantic Warrior (IRE) won the 2023 Group I MVRC Cox Plate and while a win in that race is often the pinnacle of success for the victor, in the case of this Hong Kong trained legend it was just a springboard to global greatness.

Set to be crowned the most dominant Champion Australian First Season Sire this century, Home Affairs was the sire of the moment at the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale on Sunday with his filly from Cancel topping the sale when fetching $680,000.

With a day for the dust to settle on Monday following the Magic Millions Weanling Sale, the focus quickly turns to broodmares with Kia Ora to offer five lovely broodmares at MM National on Wednesday – all are in foal to Group producing sires.

The Magic Millions Weanling Sale is often seen as a pinhooker’s paradise, but it was an end user that purchased the Ole Kirk filly from Oxford Angel for $400,000.

The Magic Millions National Weanling Sale on Sunday featured just one youngster by champion sire I Am Invincible and the good looking bay colt was snapped up by astute Hunter Vallery nursery Fernrigg Farm for $400,000.

With a last-start Group Three placing in Adelaide under his belt, accomplished Kiwi-bred gelding Pudding ventured to Victoria on Saturday and landed a deserved victory in the A$150,000 MRC Life Member David Sims 90th Birthday (1800m) at Sandown.

Here is the full list of 111 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A week after stable star Rothfire captured the G1 BRC Doomben 10,000, his Robert Heathcote trained stablemate Abounding (Rich Enuff) charged late to win the $300,000 G3 BRC BRC Sprint (1350m) in a photo finish.

Becoming just the third trainer to record 200 individual G1 winners, joining the great Tommy Smith and Bart Cummings, Chris Waller saddled up three runners in Saturday’s $1m G1 BRC Doomben Cup (2000m), with Birdman (IRE) recording a facile victory for connections.

Highlighted as a Breednet ‘One To Watch’ earlier this year when breaking her maiden, Ciaron Maher’s lightly raced Bivouac filly Fireball Miss improved from her last start third in the Listed Gold Coast Bracelet (1800m) to capture the $300,000 G2 BRC The Roses (2000m) in style.

Given a freshen up since her effort in the G1 ATC Queen of the Turf Stakes in April, the Chris Waller trained Pinito achieved her second G3 level success, and third black type win overall, winning the $200,000 G3 BRC Magic Millions Fillies And Mares Mile (1600m) at Doomben on Saturday.

A winner of his last four starts, Flying Artie gelding Flying Destiny has really come into his own since being trained out of Michael Freedman’s Gold Coast stable, adding Saturday’s $160,000 Listed BRC Chief De Beers Stakes (1110m) to his solid record for Darby Racing.

Bigger and better things beckon Thebudgiesmugla after his determined victory in the A$160,000 Sporting Chance Cancer Foundation Handicap (2400m) at Randwick on Saturday.

Any doubts about Khor’s stamina were put to bed by the Kiwi-bred gelding’s never-say-die performance in the A$130,000 The Big Screen Company Handicap (2400m) at Sandown on Saturday.

Talented gelding Exit Fee returned to winning form with a late lunge to take out the A$120,000 TAB Highway Handicap (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday.

Stepping up in trip held no concerns for Bjorn Baker’s I Am Dirty as the 2yo daughter of Champion Sire I Am Invincible charged clear to win the $160,000 Listed BRC Bill Carter Stakes (1350m) at Doomben on Saturday in impressive style.

Promising juvenile filly Pounce did just that at Ellerslie on Saturday when running over the top of her rivals to take out the MyRacehorse 1100 for trainers Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott.

Farnan produced a two-year-old with potential when the Gary Portelli trained Friendly Fire scored a tenacious win at Randwick.

Here is the full list of 53 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

After having to endure an anxious few moments where the favourite was taken out of the barriers after being slightly fractious, connections of $2.8m yearling purchase The Next Episode had nothing to worry about as the Ciaron Maher trained colt powered to victory in the $1m Magic Millions National 2YO Classic (1200m) at the Gold Coast.

Previous stakes placed on three occasions, Michael Freedman’s 3yo I Am Invincible filly Sylph has finally had luck go her way, breaking her maiden at Friday night’s Gold Coast meeting over 1200m.

There are 17 first season sires with weanlings set to sell at the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale which starts on Sunday so our First Season gallery makes for some very interesting viewing.

Fiorenza – a beautifully related “Chairman’s-quality’’ mare with significant international appeal – headlines the Inglis Digital May (Late) Online Sale catalogue, which is now open for bidding.

Two more stakes winners have joined the supplementary catalogue for next week's Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale at the Gold Coast.

The Rosehill trials on Friday saw four two-year-old heats on a soft track with an All Too hard youngster looking good again, and a Zoustar colt that looks to be warming to the task nicely.

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 this week’s May Premium Broodmare Sale on Gavelhouse Plus bucked that trend.

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

Securing a run as the first emergency in the opening race at Seymour on Thursday, the Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr trained 2yo So You Think (NZ) gelding Piazza made a winning debut over 1200m.

Magic Millions is delighted to announce key updates to its leadership and team, reinforcing the company’s commitment to excellence, innovation, and long-term growth across both bloodstock and emerging commercial opportunities.

Select field of seven for the $1million Group I BRC Doomben Cup (2000m) with a battle of tactics set to make it a must watch race.   

The first Doomben Cup was run two days after the first Doomben 10,000, the two features installed as part of the track's gala opening program in 1933.

The Magic Millions Weanling Sale starts on Sunday so we’ve taken a look at the most successful pinhooks from the sale in the last couple of years and what these lilttle money makers looked lilke when you could have bought them.

Novara Park has announced its 2026 service fees, with owner Luigi Muollo reinforcing the stud’s commitment to offering breeders quality bloodlines and genuine value across its stallion roster.

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

Lovatsville has unveiled its 2026 stallion roster, a six-horse line-up headlined by the arrival of Espionage and built, top to bottom, around fees pitched with a breeders-first mentality.

A half-sister to $5.2 million earning Group I winner Icebath, the progressive Superfabulistic continued her rise with a back-to-back metropolitan victory at Warwick Farm on Wednesday

Champion trainer Chris Waller isn’t expecting Hello Captain’s winning run to stop anytime soon while James McDonald expects him to "shoot through the grades".

Having not raced since July 2025, 4yo Brutal (NZ) gelding Glorious Moments continued where he left off, recoding his third win from just five starts with a promising return to the track on Wednesday at Warwick Farm.

Northern Rivers based Viva Racing teamed up with leading bloodstock agent Neil Jenkinson to secure the son of Wootton Bassett from the Coolmore Stud draft.

With form behind narrow G1 Goodwood runner-up Extragalactic, 4yo Zoustar mare Electric Star has flourished since joining the Lyn Tolson and Leonie Proctor yard, going two from two with a fighting win at Caulfield on Wednesday.

Winning his most recent trial, the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained Our Emperor become the seventh first crop winner for his Newgate Farm-based, Golden Slipper-winning sire Stay Inside, recording an emphatic all the way victory on debut at Wednesday’s Warwick Farm meeting.

The Peter Snowden yard is in solid form, and 3yo Too Darn Hot (GB) filly Spice Prawn continued that winning run on Wednesday, coming from well back in the opening race at Warwick Farm to record her second career victory.

To suggest Australian breeders embraced Officiating when he arrived at Aquis Farm in 2024 would be something of an understatement.

New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) has confirmed the Racing Calendar for the 2026/2027 season, with 310 thoroughbred race meetings scheduled across the country.

A Listed winner last season at two, three year-old Hello Youmzain (Fr) colt Dostoievsky claimed another feature win overnight at Chantilly when taking out the Group III Prix Texanita (1200m).

Horses carrying the Vinery V brand have been enjoying an outstanding run of success and just last Saturday the long list of stakes-winners to come out of the Hunter Valley nursery this season got a little longer when Losesomewinmore captured the Listed VRC Straight Six at Flemington.

If you own an off the track thoroughbred chances are you will be feeling a bit excited this week with the 2026 TSHA National Titles show to be held at picturesque Stonewall Equestrian on the Central Coast of NSW.

The Yulong NSW roster has a couple of young gun sires to tempt broodmare owners this spring in Group I winners Devil Night and Private Harry, whose fees have now been set.

Westbury Park in Western Australia have announced an exciting new addition to their roster with Group II ATC Silver Slipper Stakes winner Straight Charge to stand at a fee of $6600 inc GST.

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

A pair of brilliant Group Two winners headline the latest supplementary lots for next week's Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale at the Gold Coast.

After six unforgettable days in the saddle, Tour d’Horse wrapped up on Saturday, with riders making a memorable final arrival up the straight at the iconic Scone Racecourse.

There are not a lot of stallions standing at a fee of $13,200 to go to this spring that have sired FOUR stakes-winners this season.

The late Wootton Bassett (GB) posted his first new season juvenile stakes-winner overnight in Ireland with the Group III Coolmore Stud Irish EBF Fillies Stakes (6f) going to Victorious.

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

A massive pinhook winner at the sales, Zousain three year-old Superb Spirit is now a racetrack winner after saluting at Sha Tin on Sunday.

The progeny of some of Australasia’s most appealing young stallions are set to take centre stage at next month’s Great Southern Weanling Sale, for which the catalogue is now online.

The half-brother to this year’s Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Unit Five opened his account at Sale on Sunday and is another promising winner for young Widden Stud sire Anders.

Three years ago Graham Begg's gifted staying mare Lunar Flare asserted her dominance by five and a half lengths in the Listed VRC Andrew Ramsden Stakes at Flemington to deny her rivals a golden ticket and cement her place at the top of Melbourne Cup markets.

Much missed Coolmore champion sire Fastnet Rock hit a milestone on Saturday at Scone when producing his 200th stakes-winner and fittingly it was trained by Chris Waller, who put the polish on the best Fastnet Rock ever in Via Sistina (IRE).

There was a lot of racing in Australia on Saturday, so if you missed the debut win of St Mark’s Basilica (Fr) gelding West Coast it’s worth a look.

Dubawi stallions are all the rage in Australia with no fewer than six of them standing at commercial studs in NSW and Victoria, but one elite stallion by the legendary Darley sire has elected to race on at five and Notable Speech landed the Group I Lockinge Stakes (1m) overnight at Newbury.

Here is the full list of 107 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

New Coolmore acquisition Super Seth sired the winner of last year’s Group I BRC Queensland Derby in Maison Louis and will have another great chance in the race this year in progressive three year-old Kilman, winner of the $250,000 Group III BRC Rough Habit Stakes (2000m) at Doomben on Saturday.

Continuing his strong affiliation with the Flemington straight, the well-named Richard and Chantelle Jolly trained All Too Hard gelding Losesomewinmore recorded his fifth win down the famed straight, taking out the Listed Straight Six (1200m) in emphatic fashion on Saturday.

A model of consistency, Tom Charlton’s Shalaa (IRE) gelding Bev's Nine recorded his sixth win from just eight starts, taking out the $200,000 Listed Ortensia Stakes (1100m) on the second day of the two-day Scone carnival, becoming the 24th stakes winner for his sire.

The Peter Snowden stable was in hot form at the big Scone standalone meeting on Saturday with a feature race double courtesy of three year-old filly Miss Freelove and quality four-year-old old So You Think mare Tuileries, who won the $250,000 Group III Dark Jewel Classic (1400m).

About as tough as they come, Rob Heathcote’s Rothesay gelding Rothfire was all quality from the very start, winning six of his seven starts at 2 highlighted by a stunning victory G1 BRC JJ Atkins (1600m), and on Saturday the rising 9yo powered to the line to capture the time-honoured $1.5m G1 BRC Doomben 10,000 (1200m).

Carrying the famed Ingham cerise as does her close relation Fangirl, Cigar Flick has been a stable stalwart for Chris Waller, racing successfully in every season since she was two and the five year-old daughter of Churchill (IRE) finally landed a stakes victory at Doomben on Saturday in the Listed BRC Bright Shadow Quality (1110m).

Having previously record black type success overseas, as well as finishing third in last year’s G1 VRC Melbourne Cup, Ciaron Maher’s Roaring Lion gelding Middle Earth (GB) delivered connections his first Australian stakes victory, taking out the $200,000 G3 BRC JRA Chairman’s Handicap (2000m) at Doomben. 

A year ago talented Tassort filly Miss Freelove ran fourth in the Listed Woodlands Stakes at the big Saturday meeting at Scone and she returned to the same venue to capture the $200,000 Listed Denise’s Joy Stakes (1100m) as a three year-old.