A timely black-type performance in a Tasmanian 2YO feature on Sunday has helped propel broodmare Miss Cooper (Medaglia d’Oro) to top lot honours in the Inglis Digital January (Late) Online Sale.

Australian punters are set to become better acquainted with trainers David and Emma-Lee Browne as they get set to move across the Tasman from their Cambridge base.

The Joe Pride-trained Kaapfever loves his home track at Warwick Farm and a strongly run mile and a half, and he had both to suit in the Listed Inglis Australia Day Cup (2400m).

Twelve months ago, Open Minded looked a stakes-winner in waiting when running up a sequence of four wins. Still, his large and enthusiastic bunch of owners had to keep the celebrations in check until the Listed John Dillon Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Australia Day.

Another small field and another shock as the long odds-on favourite Enthaar trailed in last of the four runners in the Listed WJ Adams Stakes (1000m) at Caulfield won by Jamie Kah on Streetcar Stranger.

Flying Artie filly Asfoora was passed in shy of her $30,000 reserve when offered for sale by Noor Elaine Farm at Magic Millions Adelaide in 2020 and their decision to retain and race her looks like being a good one.

Expensive Deep Field colt Mars Mission is a work in progress, but showed the benefit of a lengthy spell when resuming to win at Warwick Farm on Australia Day.

The Group III MRC Blue Diamond Preview (1000m) at Caulfield on Australia Day featured an intriguing battle of blueblood fillies with Exceed and Excel first starter Miss Roseiano showing brilliant  speed to lead and win in slick time.

Despite just five runners contesting the Listed Blue Diamond Preview (C&G) at Caulfield on Wednesday the race looked ripe for an upset, which was supplied by the Godolphin debutant Daumier.

Verry Elleegant has been rated the world’s best racemare according to the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings (WBRR) released by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) on Tuesday.

Arrowfield Stud’s Miss Finland was a champion on the racetrack and has been a superstar at stud producing 2015 Group I MRC Thousand Guineas winner Stay With Me, whose first two foals are about to make their presence felt on the racetrack.

Winning updates for next month’s Perth Magic Millions Sale maxed out Ascot’s postponed 11-race card on Monday.

The Board of New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) has announced further stakes increases.

At this time of year there is great interest in the progeny of first season sires stepping out at the trials so Breednet are tracking them and our report for this week features eight stallions with unraced trial winners in the pipeline including one that had six unraced trial runners right around Australia on Monday and five of them placed!

While the large crowd expected for Wellington Cup Day will no longer be present at Trentham on Saturday, the Wellington Racing Club is thankful the meeting is able to go ahead.

Bloodstock agent Stuart Hale has announced the dates for his 2022 New Zealand Bloodstock Yearling Sale tour.

Australia Day racing at Caulfield sees the race to the Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) gather pace with the first round of preview races and while the runners in the colts and geldings heat can be counted on one hand, the fillies race is deep with talent.

Here is the full list of 24 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The picturesque Stonewall Equestrian Centre at Mangrove Mountain hosted the Inglis sponsored TSHA jumping show on the weekend and when we arrived my daughter Jasmine was quick to remark, “I’ve never seen so many ridden thoroughbreds in the one place that is not a racetrack!”

Racehorse syndicator Go Racing has achieved plenty of success in Australia recently and Racing Manager Albert Bosma is planning to further increase their presence across the Tasman in the future.

Trans-Tasman trainer Michael Moroney has welcomed the arrival of promising Kiwi filly Let’s Say Grace to his Flemington base.

There were plenty of established stars on show at the Randwick trials on Monday with heat winners including Eduardo, Converge and Lost and Running, plus plenty of juvenile action with five heat winners and a filly that didn’t win, but certainly caught the eye as the last foal of a legendary blue hen.

A $310,000 Inglis Easter purchase, four year-old Pierro mare French Declaration scored her third win in South Africa when saluting at Kenilworth on Sunday.

Stronger (Not a Single Doubt) has become the 66th Inglis G1-winning graduate since 2018 with a tenacious win in the Centenary Sprint Cup in Hong Kong this evening.

A stylish debut performance by a two-year-old filly at Randwick on Saturday marked the first southern hemisphere success for Haunui Farm shuttle stallion Ribchester (IRE).

Hong Kong Horse of the Year Golden Sixty was a hot favourite to extend his winning run to a record equalling 17 wins in succession, but came up short in the Group I Stewards Cup when going down to Waikuku (IRE).

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

Former champion jockey Douglas Whyte earned his first win at the highest level as a trainer when The Not a Single Doubt entire Stronger edged out the Deep Field gelding Sky Field in a thrilling finish to the Group 1 The Centenary Sprint Cup  (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday.

The Adam Trinder-trained gelding Bello Beau took his record to two from two when outclassing his rivals in the $100,000 Mills New Norfolk Elwick Stakes at Hobart on Sunday.

A purchase made while on a stint working overseas over twenty-five years ago paid off in spades for Windsor Park Stud’s Rodney Schick, when stylish colt Dynastic took out the $1 million Doubletree by Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie on Saturday night.

First time racegoers to Ellerslie on Saturday evening could have been forgiven if they thought they had mistakenly turned up to a football match, such was the noise and atmosphere generated by a large group of racing enthusiasts in attendance under the unique moniker of Boys Get Paid.

After a luckless run for second in the Dunstan Feeds Stayers Championship Final (2400m) at Ellerslie on New Year’s day, promising mare Rapid Falls returned to the scene of the crime on Saturday to exact a measure of revenge in the Collinson Forex Karaka Cup (2200m).

Vinery Stud’s Star Turn has been on a winning run of late.

On a night he has made somewhat his own in recent years, trainer Jamie Richards scooped a second $1million prize at Ellerslie on Saturday when Pin Me Up scored an upset victory in the Karaka Million 3YO (1600m).

Here is the full list of 92 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Speedy mare Babylon Berlin was at her brilliant front-running best when she led all the way to take out the Gr.3 Brighthill Farm Eminent First Yearlings Concorde Handicap (1200m) at Ellerslie.

The more things change, the more they stay the same was the feeling after the running of the Doubletree By Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie on Saturday.

Talented three-year-old colt Sword Of State shrugged off an indifferent Australian spring campaign to display his true class when he dominated his rivals in the Gr.3 Cambridge Stud Almanzor Trophy (1200m) at Ellerslie.

The $150,000 Listed Carrington Stakes (1400m) at Randwick was lone stakes race in Australia on Saturday, which fell to a proven stakes performer.

The third time was the charm for Dragon Queen (NZ) (Sweynesse) at Ellerslie’s Karaka Million twilight meeting on Saturday, landing a career-best victory in the Gr.2 Westbury Classic (1400m).

 The seemingly endless production line of two-year-olds from the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace stable added another potential topliner at Moonee Valley on Saturday with the I Am Invincible debutant Counttheheadlights.

Godolphin’s 4-time Group 1 winner Ribchester (IRE) is off the mark in the southern hemisphere with a filly that could play a major part over the Golden Slipper carnival.

Royal Ascot hero Merchant Navy posted his second winner with an impressive debut victory for the Phillip Stokes trained filly In the Navy.

The Group 1 ATC Australian Derby has been earmarked for the highly promising three-year-old gelding Silent Impact who gave his supporters a scare before kick-starting his campaign with a hard-fought win over 1100m at Randwick on Saturday.

Gelding might be the making of I Am Invincible three year-old Treporti, who scored a powerful win at Flemington on Friday bringing a timely pedigree update for his three-quarter sister to be offered at Inglis Classic next month.

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

Being born into a racing family and a childhood spent on show ponies ultimately led this young woman to the Godolphin Flying Start program and from there to a great job as sales and marketing manager with a leading thoroughbred stud.

A host of young, well-credentialled racing or breeding prospects headline another appealing catalogue for the Inglis Digital January (Late) Online Auction, which is now open for bidding.

The Trevor Rogers-trained filly Madame Du Gast made a winning debut at Flemington on Friday to credit her sire De Gaulle with his first winner and provide a timely update for a full-sister heading to the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale.

Darling View Thoroughbreds has announced the death of Champion WA sire I’m All The Talk.

Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week with autumn contenders out and about and another strong trial from a million dollar Written Tycoon colt, so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.

With the Blue Diamond and Golden Slipper fast approaching there are some exciting two-year-olds beginning their campaigns on Saturday.

The decision by Premier Mark McGowan to keep WA’s hard-border closed indefinitely has major implications for the Perth Magic Millions Yearling Sale.

From more than 2800 foals born in the spring of 2019, just 14 two-year-olds will enter the Ellerslie starting gates on Saturday to take their shot at one of the most lucrative prizes in New Zealand racing. 

A capacity field at Ellerslie on Saturday stands between On The Bubbles (Brazen Beau) and a slice of Karaka Million history. 

For the second year in a row, the $110,000 Collinson Forex Karaka Cup (2200m) at Ellerslie on Saturday features the Group One star quality of Tiptronic (NZ) (O’Reilly). 

If David Ellis needed any vindication for the quality of yearlings he has bought at Karaka over the past decade, he only needs to look through the past winners' list of the Karaka Million (1200m) and Karaka Million 3YO Classic (1600m).

A past visit to the Karaka Million evening at Ellerslie won Henry Dwyer over and convinced the Victorian trainer he had to become more involved in the $1 million two-year-old feature.

The record breaking Magic Millions Book 1 Yearling Sale proved the perfect showcase for first season sires and so many achieved great results from the bargain priced sires right up to the elite.

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

Westbury Stud’s Reliable Man (GB) has had some very good staying fillies including Oaks winners Miami Bound and Miss Sentimental, so when one of his three year-old fillies wins in this manner at her second start we investigate further.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale in March is set to go ahead, even if the country enters the red alert level of the COVID-19 traffic light system.

Trainers Trent Bussutin and Natalie Young will keep New Zealand-bred mare Sierra Sue to her favoured 1400m distance this preparation.

This time last year an unraced I Am Invincible colt won his first barrier trial earning a highlight slot in the ‘Juvenile Trial Watch’ story of the day and 12 months on that colt is Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes winner Home Affairs and he had a good pipe opener at Warwick Farm this morning.

Racing NSW today announced that the Provincial Championships will be expanded to the Provincial-Midway Championships, with prizemoney totaling $1.55 million.

Stephen Autridge has twice celebrated victories in New Zealand’s richest juvenile event and will on Saturday be bidding to halt the run of his former employer in the Ellerslie feature.

At this time of year there is great interest in the progeny of first season sires stepping out at the trials so Breednet are tracking them and producing a weekly report which features eight first season sires with trial winners in the pipeline including Galileo’s champion son Highland Reel (IRE), while Merchant Navy is showing signs of activity.

The powerful Chris Waller stable had an impressive first starter by Savabeel at Newcastle on Wednesday bred on the magic cross!

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

Wolverine NZ) (Tivaci) will have to overcome a wide draw to keep her unbeaten record intact in Saturday’s $1m DoubleTree by Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie. 

Improving two-year-old Russian Warrior put upwards of eight lengths over four overmatched opponents over 1200m at Ipswich on Wednesday.

Despite making his fourth start, the Chris Waller-trained Forged still has a bit to learn about racing.

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

A record breaking sale and high clearance made for some very happy vendors at the 2022 Magic Millions Yearling Sale and while many stallions recorded best ever stats thank to the buoyant trade, some offered better returns than others.

The catalogue for the 2022 Premier Yearling Sale – the auction that has recently produced the World’s Best Sprinter in Nature Strip and his heir apparent Masked Crusader, young stallions in Ole Kirk and Written By, ageless warriors like Santa Ana Lane, Beat The Clock, Gytrash and Hey Doc and fabulous fillies such as September Run, Kenedna and Youngstar – is NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE.

A couple of well related homebred three year-olds for Kia Ora Stud and Newhaven Park were winners at Wyong on Tuesday and both have the promise of more wins to come.

With all lead-up races run and won, and with the finishing touches being applied to preparations, the order of entry for the $1m DoubleTree by Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) and $1m Karaka Million 3YO Classic (1600m) now provides a clear idea of which horses will enter the Ellerslie starting gates this Saturday for New Zealand’s richest sporting event. 

The recent Inglis Digital January (early) online sale featured a significant clean out of geldings from the Chris Waller stable presenting a golden opportunity for other trainers to buy fully educated blue--bloods with plenty of racing still in them albeit not at a stakes level.

Three Western Australian studs received winning updates for the Perth Magic Millions Yearling Sale when Apache Pass opened his Hong Kong account at Sha Tin on Sunday.

A record breaking Magic Millions Book 1 made for some spectacular pinhook success stories so let’s take a look at some of the best.

The curtain came down on a record breaking 2022 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale today with another successful day's selling at Australia's holiday playground.

It’s a bittersweet week for trainer Jamie Richards as he gets ready for his final tilt at the Karaka Million at the helm of Te Akau Racing’s Matamata stable.

Four heats for juveniles at the Rosehill trials on Monday morning and two of those were won by the progeny of Written Tycoon, the sire of unbeaten Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Coolangatta.

Before the two year-olds had their turn at the Rosehill trials on Monday morning there were a couple of action packed earlier trials featuring Nature Strip, who won as you would expect and then a raft of star three year-olds including Anamoe, Espiona and Mallory, who actually won the heat.

$575,000 Spirit of Boom colt Spiritualised was expected to make a winning debut at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday, but he came up short behind another first starter by Winning Rupert, whose colt from Songbird (Arg) was the equal session-topper at Magic Millions Book 2 on Sunday selling for $180,000.

The momentum of a record breaking Book One catalogue continued at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale as Book Two selling commenced this afternoon.

Here is the full list of 56 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Promising filly Hanalei provided co-owner and breeder Paul Richards with one of the biggest thrills of a more than forty-year career in the thoroughbred racing game when she took out the Listed IRT Wellesley Stakes (1100m) at Trentham on Saturday under the training of son Jamie.

A double on Magic Millions Day at the Gold Coast has moved I Am Invincible to within $1,300,000 of Nicconi in the race for champion sire.

Saturday’s night session brought the curtain down on Book One of Magic Millions Gold Coast and Maree McEwan was talking to some of the major players.

The Breednet Sales Centre offers best stats for analysis – leading sires, buyers and vendors – fully interactive with all you need to know about this  record breaking Book 1 sale.

A colt by Exceed and Excel sold for $1.2 million and was the top seller of the night at the Gold Coast Yearling Sale as records were smashed across the board.

Here is the full list of 113 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Yarraman Park's champion sire I Am Invincible has dominated the sale ring at this week’s Gold Coast Yearling Sale and today at the Gold Coast was the only stallion to post two winners on Magic Millions Day with success for Navy Cross and then King of Sparta.

Girl power was to the fore at the close of Saturday’s Magic Millions card at the Gold Coast as star trainer Annabel Neasham and Group 1 jockey Rachel King combined to win the $1 million Racing Queensland Magic Millions QTIS (1300m) with Headwater entire  Wisdom of Water.

Written Tycoon filly Coolangatta kept up the great strike rate for favourites in the $2,000,000 Magic Millions 2yo Classic (1200m) at the Gold Coast when she held the challenge of the game Russian Conquest.

Dual Group I winning sprinter and Royal Ascot hero Merchant Navy is on the board with his first winner after Galaxy Affair saluted at Ascot on Saturday.

A winner of the race two years ago Halvorsen turned back the clock in Saturday’s $250,000 Group III Standish Hcp (1200m) at Flemington.

Popular Fastnet Rock gelding Eleven Eleven continued his love affair with the Gold Coast on Saturday, prevailing in one of the closest finishes in Magic Millions history to land the $1 million Magic Millions Cup (1400m).

High-class mare Levante broke through for a deserved Group One victory in a heart-stopping finish to Saturday’s JR & N Berkett Telegraph (1200m) at Trentham.