When I read recently that the famous USA sales house, Fasig-Tipton, became the very first auctioneers worldwide to accept Cryptocurrency as a mode of payment for its 100th Saratoga Select yearling sales, I instinctively knew that it’s about time I wrote an industry article on this topic.

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.

There were three heats for juveniles at Hawkesbury on Tuesday and one of the winners was trained by Greg Hickman, who bought a number of expensive yearlings at the sales this year.

The incredible opportunities arising through Inglis Digital continue with confirmation that the platform will offer a daughter of and a sister to 8-time G1 winning champion More Joyous over the coming 10 days.

Here is the full list of 16 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

John Bary is hopeful Callsign Mav won’t find himself setting the pace for Saturday’s A$5 million Gr.1 Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley.

Australian yearling buyers might be finding it increasingly difficult to purchase stock with some sort of genetic staying aptitude in their pedigree, but there are Australasian sires that can deliver the goods and we need look no further than the Cox Plate to find them.

Westbury Stud’s El Roca sired a new stakes-winner on Sunday when his talented Hong Kong based sprinter Lucky Patch captured the Group II Premier Bowl (1200m) over Aussie bred speedsters Super Wealthy (Epaulette) and Stronger (Not a Single Doubt).

Deep Field has had a string of smart winners in Hong Kong including My Sugar, who bolted in at Sha Tin on Sunday bringing a pedigree update for his half-brother to be offered at the NZB Ready to Run Sale.

On a weekend when his star sprinting son Masked Crusader went very close to winning the $15m The Everest, High Chaparral’s top class sire son Toronado (IRE) also added a new stakes-winner to his tally in France.

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

Ciaron Maher and David Eustace picked an easy race to start this well bred I Am Invincible colt off in and he duly obliged with a stylish debut win.

Quality performer Tavi Mac bounced back from his worst career performance in the best possible fashion with a stylish victory in the Gr.3 Sweynesse Stakes (1215m) at Rotorua on Sunday.

Underrated mare Sweet Clementine backed up a gritty win on a heavy track over 2000m at Matamata at her last start with her first stakes victory when she produced a powerful late finish to take the major honours in Sunday’s Listed Staphanos Classic (1950m) at Rotorua.

Although he couldn’t be on course at Randwick on Saturday to take in the sights, sounds and atmosphere of a truly special raceday, Peter Kean made sure he and his family made it a day to remember when Nature Strip won the A$15 million The Everest (1200m).

Dance Music took a step closer to joining the millionaires club following a fighting win in Saturday’s feature at Ascot, the Group III Northerly Stakes (1400m).

The five-year-old Street Boss (USA) gelding Elite Street chalked up his first win since last year’s Group 1 Winterbottom Stakes in the Listed RS Crawford Stakes (1000m) at Ascot on Saturday.

The richest race in Australia for country trained horses, the $1.3million ATC Kosciuszko is a realistic dream for every broodmare owner no matter what their budget for a sire and Saturday’s winner Art Cadeau will provide inspiration for many.

Raheen Stud’s Group I winning Fastnet Rock stallion Heroic Valour has had a flying start to his stud career with his first two runners both saluting in Brisbane metropolitan races.

A successful global partnership celebrated another international victory when the aptly-named Almanzor colt Franz won at Haydock in England on Friday at the first time of asking.

Purchased in Europe, Buffalo River (USA) has found his niche in the competitive sprinter-miler ranks in Australia, where he earned a richly deserved maiden stakes success in Saturday's Group III Moonga Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.

The skills honed over many years in training and competing elite hacks for the show ring have translated well into the thoroughbred sale ring for this well-known yearling consignor.

The best Australian sprinters were showcased in the $15million The Everest on Saturday and overnight the best European sprinters did battle when 20 lined up in the £301,271 Group I Qipco British Champions Sprint (6f) at Ascot with victory going to the Godolphin owned three year-old Creative Force.

Nature Strip – the World’s Best Sprinter – realised his career-defining moment with a nail-biting victory in the $15m The Everest at Randwick.

Oxley Road completed a banner day at Caulfield for the Peter Moody stable when he ran down the determined Malkovich in the $300,000 Group II McCafe Caulfield Sprint (1200m).

Here is the full list of 126 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Kerry Parker’s stable star Think it Over has been in rare form this spring posting his third win from his past four starts with a commanding victory in the $750,000 Group III ATC Craven Plate (2000m) at Randwick on Saturday.

Following two disappointing runs in Adelaide after defeating the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes heroine Lyre by three-quarters of a length in the Listed Manahi Classic at Morphettville in March, the 4yo Headwater mare Mileva bounced back for an authoritative win in the Listed Alinghi stakes (1100m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

There would be few stories to equal that of Incentivise, who in one preparation has risen from a Sunshine Coast maiden to claim three wins at the highest level, culminating in a jaw-dropping performance in Saturday’s $5,000,000 Carlton Draught Caulfield Cup (2400m).

With $8million in earnings and six Group I wins before today, seven year-old Nature Strip had won just about everything a sprinter in Australia can win barring the Everest and at Randwick on Saturday he added the $15million sprint to his resume with a typically brave front running performance.

Switched back to the 1400m of the Group II Lexus Tristarc Stakes proved no problem for Godolphin’s top-class mare Colette after a foot abscess interrupted her Caulfield Cup preparation.

Visiting Cambridge filly There You Go firmed into the clear favourite for next month’s Gr.1 Barneswood Farm New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton after dominating her rivals in the Gr.3 Barneswood Farm Stakes (1400m) at Ashburton.

Trained by Mark Newnham, five year-old Deep Field gelding Big Parade has been allowed to develop his talented in the restricted grades and blossomed to win his first stakes race at Randwick on Saturday with a  stylish victory in the Group III ATC Sydney Stakes (1200m).

A picture-perfect ride by Danielle Johnson ensured quality staying mare Savy Yong Blonk was given every opportunity to succeed at Hastings on Saturday and she duly delivered with an outstanding victory in the Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2040m).

After Daisies flagged her Oaks credentials in the Ethereal Stakes, Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr look to have another Classic contender in the Victoria Derby-bound Gunstock following his strong-finishing win in the Group III Caulfield Classic (2000m).

Widden Stud’s much missed Golden Slipper winning sire Sebring posted an early stakes double with Daisies winning the Group III MRC Ethereal Stakes (2000m) at Caulfield quickly followed by Fangirl, who captured the Listed ATC Reginald Allen Stakes (1400m) at Randwick.

Noted fresh-up performer Two Illicit provided another example of her undoubted ability when she cruised to victory in the Gr. 3 Red Badge Spring Sprint (1400m) at Hastings.

There was a big shake-up in the betting for the Kennedy Oaks following the dominant performance of the Sebring filly Daisies and the sub-par performance of Kapalua Sunset in Saturday’s Group III Schweppes Ethereal Stakes (2000m) at Caulfield.

A half-brother to Group I winner Invincibella and classy Group III winning stayer Secret Blaze, talented three year-old Extreme Choice colt Extreme Flight became the third stakes-winner for his dam Abscond when taking out the Listed MRC Gothic Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

The Moonee Valley Racing Club (MVRC) is deeply saddened to report that reigning Ladbrokes Cox Plate champion Sir Dragonet sustained a fatal injury in trackwork at The Valley this morning whilst training for his title defence.

Zoustar is not a sire we think about when looking for potential Derby contenders, but if anyone can turn that thinking on it’s head it will be Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott.

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

With the number of stakes races for three-year-olds of late, it is remarkable how these races are holding up with Saturday's Group III Ethereal Stakes at Caulfield shaping as a mini Thousand Guineas. 

Just two heats for juveniles at the Warwick Farm trials on Friday monring with wins for a filly by Arrowfield Stud’s first season sire Pariah and Godolphin colt Contemporary, who has already raced finishing second to Cavalla in the Darley Spring Preview at Flemington.

It was only two short years ago that Yes Yes Yes became the hero of the Everest so let’s take a look at what his babies look like on Everest Eve 2021.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s annual Ready to Run Sale Breeze Up clips and Mounting Yard videos are now available to view online. 

Australian investors have been very active in the past two weeks at the UK’s premier yearling sales Tattersalls October Book 1 and 2 reflecting a growing sentiment that it’s getting harder to find yearlings in this country with pedigree suggesting scope to run a mile and beyond, but if you’re in the market for a sprinter Australian sales are awash with opportunity.

It’s a term usually associated with boxers rather than beefy 550kg thoroughbreds, but Dan Fletcher makes a good point by claiming that – ‘pound for pound’ – Telemon Thoroughbreds is one of the most successful stud farms in Australia.

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

We’re well into the season now and plenty of foals have found their way on to the Foal Gallery so we thought we’d take a look at some of the first foals of the first season sires, first-up Zousain.

Three new Group I winners since the start of the season has prompted us to take a look at Arrowfield Stud’s champion sire Snitzel’s crop by crop stats to see how his later crops of foals conceived from big fees are performing.

A heavy track and inclement weather forced the abandonment of racing at Kembla after just four races, but that was enough time for Gwenda Markwell to produce a promising debut winner by Vancouver that was bought from last year’s Inglis Ready2Race Sale.

Aegon’s A$7.5 million Golden Eagle (1500m) tilt is back on track after he pleased when comfortably winning his 1225m trial at Taupo on Thursday.

Victoria-based trainers Ciaron Maher, Archie Alexander and Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young led the Australian charge of the third and final session of a record-breaking Book 2 of the Tattersall October Yearling Sale.

When opportunity knocks, Richard Litt grabs it with both hands.

New Zealand-bred gelding Young Werther will be looking to score just his second career win on Saturday in the Gr.1 Caulfield Cup (2400m).

Trade at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale continued in record-breaking fashion with turnover of 16,565,000 guineas on the final day pushing the sale turnover past 50 million guineas for the first time in the sale’s history whilst the average and median also recorded new highs. The clearance rate for the sale was a remarkable 88%.  

Kingstar Farm’s young sire Lord of the Sky had an eye-catching barrier trial winner at Newcastle on Wednesday.

Three-time Group I winner and Spendthrift stallion Omaha Beach (USA) is a son of the legendary War Front, who made made headlines over the weekend when son Annapolis became his 100th stakes winner, putting up a courageous effort to win the G2 Pilgrim Stakes at Belmont Park. 

Let’s face it, this industry can be a harsh mistress and only Black Caviar escapes with no breaks in the picket fence. That said, Victorian racehorse owner and breeding tragic, Ken Dean, was one lucky fella.

It’s an exciting time in Kelly Van Dyk’s life, with the Waikato horsewoman taking over sole charge of Prima Park, an equine operation established by her parents, Leighton and Louise Van Dyk.

Here is the full list of 45 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The Symon Wilde-trained Sirileo Miss made it four wins on the bounce when claiming her maiden stakes success in Wednesday’s $200,000 Group III Catanach's Ladies' Day Vase (1600m) at Caulfield.

Two Hawkes Racing-consigned gallopers, offered on behalf of Alan Bell Racing, have topped the Inglis Digital October (Early) Online Sale, with the talented Overmann bound for Hong Kong and recent maiden winner Saskatoon to continue for the stable for Seymour Bloodstock.

Cambridge trainers David and Emma-Lee Browne are now looking to elite-level targets at home with Rhinoceros after he picked up his third victory at Caulfield on Wednesday.

The progressive Snitzel filly Yearning made her maiden stakes success count with a last to first performance in Wednesday’s $1,000,000 Group 1 Schweppes Thousand Guineas (1600m) at Caulfield.

Runner-up to Fake Love in the Listed Debutant Stakes and to General Beau in the Listed Blue Diamond Preview last season, Extreme Warrior blew past his better-fancied stablemate Profiteer to make it Wednesday’s $200,000 Group III Catanach's Jewellers Blue Sapphire Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield a walk in the park.

Queensland Oaks heroine Duais will head to Saturday’s $5million Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) following a determined win in Wednesday’s Group III Coongy Cup (2000m) at Caulfield.

Trial watchers have bided their time waiting for the Chris Waller-trained Espiona to make her debut, which she did in style at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

The Russian Camelot (IRE) connection of trainer Danny O'Brien and agent Jeremy Brummitt made three purchases, while a Kingman colt out of the Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa homebred Galileo filly Reem set a new high as the second session of Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale ended.

A homebred for Shadwell, four year-old Deep Field gelding Al Muthana scored his third win at Vaal in South Africa on Tuesday as a short priced favourite, his success sure to be of interest to all the people now invested in his female family following the Shadwell Dispersal earlier in the year.

This So You Think gelding was an eye-catcher in the mounting yard at Newcastle on Tuesday and ran up to his imposing looks to record a soft victory as a hot favourite.

Day Two of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale Breeze Ups saw the final 139 two-year-olds complete their gallop down the home straight at Te Rapa Racecourse. 

Country trainers will have their biggest day on the Australian racing calendar when they head to the big smoke of Sydney on Saturday for the A$1.3 million The Kosciuszko (1200m) at Randwick and no one is more excited than Cody Morgan.

Yulong Investments and the BBA (IRE) were front and centre on the opening day of Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale with the top-price filly of the session, a daughter of Galileo (IRE).

Champion Miler Charm Spirit (Invincible Spirit) sired two impressive new stakeswinners at the weekend, one in Brisbane and one at Chantilly in Paris, to take the young sire’s international tally of stakes winners to eleven.

Bloodstock agent Bevan Smith has been wearing multiple hats at New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale breeze-ups at Te Rapa this week.

The field is set for the $15million TAB The Everest (1200m) at Randwick this Saturday and the running of Australia’s richest race will reshape the Australian General Sires List by earnings.

Legendary sire Redoute’s Choice is exerting a considerable influence as a broodmare sire highlighted by his daughters producing four stakes-winners last Saturday including Group I winning colts Anamoe and Profondo, so we’ve searched the NZB Ready to Run Sale for 2YO’s from his daughters and they include a colt bred on the exact same cross as Godolphin’s Caulfield Guineas wi

Graeme Rogerson has always been a strong supporter of the $1m Karaka Million 2YO (1200m), lining up 10 starters since its inception in 2008. An exciting start to the new two-year-old season suggests that the Hall of Fame trainer could be set to add to that number at Ellerslie Racecourse on 22 January. 

Stakes racing at Caulfield on Wednesday features four Black Type events highlighted by the Group I MRC Thousand Guineas (1600m) featuring 13 fillies all vying for their first Group I win and they are a diverse bunch on pedigree.

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 this week includes a couple of high profile sires that have had their first trial winners.

Champion mare Verry Elleegant was crowned on Monday night as Australian Racehorse of the Year following an outstanding season that encapsulated five Group 1 victories.

The first day of New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2021 Ready to Run Sale Breeze Ups launched smoothly at Te Rapa Racecourse, with 135 expertly prepared two-year-olds breezing down the home straight.

Te Akau have withstood the A$15 million carrot of The Everest (1200m) with exciting Kiwi sprinter Entriviere and will continue towards the inaugural A$2 million The Invitation (1400m) at Randwick on October 23.

Here is the full list of 23 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A bright future is being tipped for former Kiwi galloper Corretto after he broke maiden ranks in his Australian debut when winning over 1100m at Hamilton on Saturday.

Auckland Thoroughbred Racing (ATR) has announced it will be contributing over $2 million towards stakes at Ellerslie and Pukekohe Park this season.

The Group One stage beckons rising star Mr Brightside (NZ) (Bullbars) after he extended his winning sequence to six with an effortless first stakes success in Sunday’s A$200,000 Listed Bet With Mates Seymour Cup (1600m) at Ballarat. 

For breed to race broodmare owners on a tight budget the dream of breeding to a Golden Slipper winning sire might seem far-fetched, but it’s not.

A two year-old maiden at Hawkesbury on Sunday proved that race experience is invaluable with the first two home both coming out of the recent Group III ATC Gimcrack Stakes and Group III ATC Breeders Plate.

South Island-based stallion Prince of Brooklyn, who stands at Grassyards Farm on the Taieri Plain near Mosgiel, sired his first winner on Sunday from his first runner when the Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained Brooklyn Boss won on debut at Ballarat.

Rosemont Stud subtracted $109,350 from its $1,800,000 outlay for Minhaaj when the daughter of Exceed and Excel stormed home along the rail in Saturday’s Group III The Nivison (1200m) at Randwick.

Widden Stud’s young Sebring stallion Supido didn’t quite get the perfect start to his stud career, but he did go close with his talented gelding Kosta’s Crown finishing second in the $70,000 WATC Amelia Park Plate (1000m) at Ascot on Saturday.

It seemed preordained that the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained mare Mirra Vision should win her first stakes race on Caulfield Guineas – Spring Champion Stakes Day.

Drinks were flowing at Epona Park on Saturday night, the boutique 40-acre property owned by Cambridge couple Tony Forlong and Jennifer Jones after they cheered home emerging star I’m Thunderstruck in the Gr.1 Toorak Handicap (1600m).

Reward For Effort took his season earnings over the $1 Million mark on Saturday, thanks to a quartet of winners at Morphettville.

Six Stakes winners, three Stakes quinellas and one Stakes trifecta - across three States - capped another successful afternoon for Inglis graduates and clients on Saturday.

A Kiwi horseman with a passion for golf has the coveted job of looking after the most expensive stallion in the country.

This season will see the very last crop of two year-olds compete by Arrowfield Stud’s legendary sire Redoute’s Choice, but his influence has never been more powerful with his daughters producing four stakes-winners on Saturday including both superstar colts Anamoe and Profondo.