With five sons at stud in Australia this spring, Shamardal is a sire that holds a lot of interest in this part of the world and he delivered a new Group I winner overnight with Emaraaty Ana taking out the Group I Haydock Sprint Cup (6f).

Here is the full list of 106 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Winner of the Group I ATC George Ryder Stakes (1500m) during the autumn, top class weight-for-age performer Think It Over showed his class when scoring a determined win in the Group II ATC Chelmsford Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday.

The Bob Peters homebred Superstorm earned his first win at his second start for Danny O’Brien in Saturday’s $500,000 Group II Clamms Seafood Feehan Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley, and in the process, booked his ticket for the Cox Plate.

Punters flocked to support the Anthony and Sam Freedman trained Frankel filly Argentia when she resumed from a spell on Saturday in the Listed MVRC Atlantic Jewel Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley , but it was her stablemate Zouzarella that zoomed to a powerful two length victory.

The five-year-old Wandjina gelding Express Pass needed some scratchings to take his place in Saturday's Listed Ladbrokes Chautauqua Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley, and after six previous attempts at stakes level, this was his day in the sun.

The Annabel Neasham-trained Zaaki (GB) took up where he left off with a bloodless win in Saturday's Group II  Fujitsu General Tramway Stakes (1400m) at Randwick.

It was back to business as usual for Jamie Richards and Te Akau Racing at Te Rapa on Saturday when they secured the quinella in the first feature race on the card, the Group III Cambridge Stud Northland Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) with exciting I Am Invincible filly Imperatriz beating her stablemate I Wish I Win.

Punters who thought Saturday’s Gr.2 Valachi Downs Foxbridge Plate (1200m) was a two-horse race between last year’s winner and heavily backed favourite Avantage and Taranaki visitor Tavi Mac were given a lesson in the vagaries of racing as the Team Rogerson-trained Mascarpone upset the applecart in the Te Rapa feature.

Foxton filly Bellacontte picked up a deserved success at stakes level when she produced an irresistible late run to take out the Listed O’Learys Fillies Stakes (1200m) at Wanganui on Saturday.

Despite winning the $1million Percy Sykes Stakes in the autumn and a model of consistency, the Headwater filly Jamaea has often been underrated, which may change following her barnstorming victory in Saturday's Group II Darley Furious Stakes (1200m) at Randwick.

Beaten only once in nine starts in Singapore, Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) gelding The Inferno was the driving reason behind his trainer Cliff Brown returning to Australia from Singapore with the belief he had found the best horse he had ever had.

Underrated three-year-old Soldier Boy caused a minor upset when he took out the Listed HS Dyke Wanganui Guineas (1340m).

With $8million in earnings and Six Group I wins, seven year-old Nature Strip has won just about everything a sprinter in Australia can win barring the Everest and if things go to plan it might be third time lucky for the powerhouse chestnut after his blazing return on Saturday.

The three-year-old Savabeel colt Forgot You looks a stakes-winner in waiting after he shed his maiden status in the PFD Food Services Hcp (1500m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

Galileo’s champion son Churchill (IRE) featured overnight with an impressive new winner in Snaffles, who holds entries for upcoming Group races.

High Chaparral shuttler Toronado (IRE) has begun covering his best ever book of mares at Swettenham Stud this spring following a service fee increase to $49,500 and sired his 17th stakes-winner overnight in France.

Sad news from Racing NSW that the hugely popular Encosta De Lago gelding Racing To Win (Encosta De Lago) passed away today.

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

Racing in career-best form, the John O’Shea-trained import Berdibek (FRA) looked a class above when coming from last to run away with Friday’s $200,000 Listed Carlton Wyong Gold Cup (2100m).

The five-year-old Smart Missile mare More Prophets earned a valuable stakes success in Friday's Wyong Leagues Club Group Listed Mona Lisa Stakes (1350m) at Wyong.

When Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott paid $1,050,000 at Inglis Easter in 2018 for the half-brother by I Am Invincible to Golden Slipper winner Mossfun it’s a fair bet that they did not think they’d be waiting until today for him to break his maiden.

Darley stallion Holler is on the board after the Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained Obfuscation broke his maiden at Bendigo on Friday in the manner that suggests there are better days ahead.

Hawkes Racing have a big team of talented three year-olds running this spring and we can add this Fastnet Rock gelding to the list following his dominant win at Bendigo on Friday.

Astute New Zealand trainer Tony Pike has always had a big opinion of his American Pharoah (USA) colt Khufu and when produced at Hawera on Friday he justified that view with a strong finishing victory.

New Zealand-bred mare Esta La Roca is in a purple patch of form and trainer Lloyd Kennewell is hoping that will continue on Saturday when she contests the Gr.2 McEwen Stakes (1000m) at Moonee Valley.

New Zealand Bloodstock sales are a proven source of elite thoroughbred talent, with Karaka graduates consistently demonstrating their strength, stamina and Group One-winning abilities on the world stage. 

Fontiton represented the highest of highs and the lowest of lows the game offered in her short life.

If you bought a yearling this year by Little Avondale Stud’s new Dubawi shuttle stallion Time Test (GB) you’d be feeling some optimism after he sired his second Group winner in two days at Salisbury in the UK overnight.

A city double and a cracking foal from your prized stakes winning mare might be just about the best way we know how to kick off spring.

Bob Hannon has bred some outstanding horses including Cox Plate hero Shamus Award and Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Shaquero with a filly he passed in at Inglis Classic last year an eye-catching winner at Muswellbrook on Thursday.

Here is the full list of 34 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Lloyd Kennewell has a big opinion of this three year-old Siyouni colt, who cast off maiden status at Cranbourne on Thursday with a facile victory.

With the breeding season underway, those looking to add quality to their broodmare arsenals need look no further than the latest gavelhouse.com catalogue.

Little Avondale Stud shuttle stallion Time Test (GB) recorded his first Group victory as a sire on Wednesday when Rocchigiani won the Group III Renate und Albrecht Woeste Zukunftsrennen (1400m) at Baden Baden.

A small set of eight trials at Randwick on Thursday morning featured Everest contender Gytrash and exciting Godolphin colt Anamoe, who was stepping out for the first time this spring following an interruption to his program due to an elevated temperature last month.

FABILIS set a new record for the Tattersalls August Sale when selling for 350,000 guineas during the second and final session, while two more sons of champion sire Galileo will head to Australia for Darby Racing.

Newgate Farm’s Deep Field has been keeping pace with the calendar to sire a winner a day since the start of the new season and he’s showing no signs of letting up with a winning treble at Randwick on Wednesday.

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

Japan's late, great Deep Impact (JPN) made his presence felt around Australia on Wednesday.

Trial watchers have been eagerly awaiting the race day debut of expensive Deep Impact colt Profondo and he duly delivered on potential at Randwick on Wednesday with a determined head win that has seen his price cut to $9 for the Group I ATC Spring Champion Stakes (2000m).

There weren’t too many people happier about entering COVID-19 Alert Level 3 on Wednesday than Maxim Van Lierde.

The winners continue to flow for Waikato Stud’s young High Chaparral (IRE) stallion Tivaci with Draft Day making the best possible start to his career with a tough performance over 1200m at Sandown-Lakeside on Wednesday.

Standing in Australia for the first time this spring at Coolmore, exciting sire Wootton Bassett (GB) added a new stakes-winner to his tally in the US on Tuesday when progressive colt Wootton Asset took out the $250,000 Group III Colonial Downs Virginia Derby (1 1/8th m).

Returning to Coolmore Australia for his fifth consecutive season this spring, Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (USA) sired a new two year-old stakes-winner in the US on Tuesday when speedy colt Trust Our Journey scored a tenacious win in the $100,000 Colonial Downs Rosie’s Stakes (5 ½ f) on turf.

On the 1st of September stallion barns across Australia and New Zealand kicked into gear, so there is a sense of urgency from many of Randwick Bloodstock’s stallion nomination vendors to sell their nominations sooner rather than later.

Maiden events in Melbourne and Sydney on Wednesday feature a raft of three year-olds entered for the big Guineas races in Melbourne.

Astute trainer Mark Newnham is fast becoming an expert on champion sire Frankel with an impressive maiden winner by the sire at Hawkesbury on Tuesday and the chance of a another winner by him at Randwick on Wednesday.

Here is the full list of 28 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

$2.1million earner Dear Demi was a popular and successful performer for John Singleton and produced her first winner at Hawkesbury on Tuesday.

The Annabel Neasham stable can do no wrong at present with their latest winner coming at Hawkesbury on Tuesday with Inglis Ready 2 Race purchase Eyes to Eye breaking his maiden at his second race start.

The Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young stable will find out if they can add a bit more firepower to their three-year-old ranks when former kiwi-trained runner Riverplate runs over 1200m at Sandown on Wednesday.

Local trainer John O’Shea is looking forward to last season’s Gr.1 Randwick Guineas (1600m) winner Lion’s Roar resuming at Randwick on Saturday.

Rosemont Stud’s Starspangledbanner is having an amazing year with his Northern Hemisphere bred two year-olds with 16 individual juvenile winners so far including speedy filly Flotus, who claimed her first Black type success overnight when winning the Listed Ripon Champion 2YO Trophy (6f).

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

Just a Monday maiden for three-year-old fillies over 1106m at Benalla it may have been, but it was not short on interest.

Waikato Stud is excited to be offering the first son of Champion sire Written Tycoon to stand at stud in New Zealand, with Banquo joining the 2021 stallion lineup. 

Mike O’Donnell at Fairhill Farm has seen enough foals to know quality when he sees it.

COVID-19 lockdown makes for testing times at present, but the weekend news from Sydney for two Auckland near-neighbours has given them something to celebrate.

Te Akau’s Australian raiding party received more firepower over the weekend with the addition of last season’s New Zealand Filly of the Year Amarelinha to their Sydney barn.

Like most New Zealand trainers, Cambridge horseman Tony Pike is champing at the bit to see thoroughbred racing recommence once the current COVID lockdown restrictions are eased around the majority of the country.

Champion Sire Snitzel made his presence felt in no uncertain terms on Saturday when his 3YO sons Bruckner and In The Congo produced a quickfire Group race double at Caulfield and Kembla Grange, which hosted the Sydney metro meeting transferred from Rosehill. 

Triple Group One-winning Karaka graduate Probabeel (NZ) (Savabeel) began her latest campaign on a perfect note with a victory in Saturday’s A$200,000 Group Three W.W. Cockram Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield. 

Arguably the strongest breeze up catalogue ever collated in Australia will see a who’s who of stallions and the best Antipodean horse people represented for the Inglis Ready2Race Sale on October 12.

It’s been a good weekend for Swettenham Stud’s Toronado (IRE) with Everest contender Masked Crusader making a winning return at Caulfield, while at Goodwood overnight in the UK his four year-old son Toro Strike captured the Group III Supreme Stakes (7f).

The Listed MRC Heatherlie Stakes (1700m) at Caufield on Saturday was deep in quality with runners including Melbourne Cup winner Vow and Declare, Australian Derby winner Angel of Truth, VRC Oaks winner Miami Bound, G1 Metrop winner Mirage Dancer and expensive import English King (GB), bought for a whopping 925,000 guineas from the 2020 Tattersalls Horses in Training Sale, but victory went to a mar

Astute trainer Bjorn Baker knows what it takes to prepare a classic style three year-old and the So You Think colt he took to Mudgee on Sunday looks a horse with a bright future.

Australian Grand National Steeplechase day at Ballarat on Sunday got off to the perfect start for supporters of the Kiwi-bred jumping contenders with sons of White Robe Lodge stallion Raise The Flag winning the first two races.

One of the stars of last season’s New Zealand three-year-old crop made a bold return to racing at Caufield on Saturday.

Here is the full list of 55 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A Weight For Age star, a sprinter with the ‘world’s best’ tag in his sights and a trio of exciting 3YOs all starred on a monstrous day of results for Inglis clients and graduates.

Five-year-old Alamosa gelding Second Slip broke through for his maiden stakes victory when making a one-act affair of the Listed Leon Macdonald Stakes (1400m) at Morphettville.

We’ve had a month of racing in the new season with the first two Group I races in Sydney and Melbourne run and won and Vinery Stud will be hoping the sire tables look just like this come the end of the season.

The proposed date of 19 August came and went in lockdown for the NSW Racehorse Owners Association’s Racing’s Night of Champions, however the awarding of titles for the ‘Best of the Best’ for the 20/21 season proceeded as usual this year. Winners were announced throughout the day on social media during the Australian Turf Club’s Rosehill meeting at Kembla Grange.

Here is the full list of 96 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

After battling out the finish of the Group III Spring Stakes at Morphettville a fortnight back, the South Australians Behemoth and Beau Rossa took their feud to Caulfield for Saturday’s $1,000,000 Group 1 Moet & Chandon Memsie Stakes (1400m) and the result was the same.

The Gavin Bedggood-trained No Effort was rewarded for her consistency with a fighting win in Saturday’s Listed Tile Importer Heatherlie Stakes (1700m) at Caulfield.

Class told in Saturday’s Group III WW Cockram Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield when triple Group 1 winner Probabeel made a winning seasonal debut.

Group I winning Fastnet Rock mare Nechita topped the 2013 Magic Millions Broodmare Sale when selling for $1.55 million to Coolmore and has now produced two stakes-winners with four year-old mare Forbearance capturing the Listed Galtres Stakes (1m4f) at York in the UK last week, while her imported son Harpo Marx (IRE) won the Group III ATC Premier’s Cup (2000m) at Kembla on Saturday.

The excitement machine Masked Crusader made his supporters sweat when staging a miraculous last to first performance in Saturday’s Group III McCafe The Heath 1100 Stakes at Caulfield.

The Group III ATC San Domenico Stakes (1100m) at Kembla on Saturday marked the return of Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside, but like so many other Golden Slipper winners in recent years, he failed to make his presence felt.

Four-year-old mare Signora Nera could be in for a big spring judging by her runaway victory when resuming in the Peltzer Special Achievement Handicap (1500m) at Kembla Grange on Saturday.

Fresh off a maiden stakes win at Kembla Grange, the high-priced Snitzel colt Bruckner held off a hard-charging Artorius to open his stakes-account in Saturday’s Group III HDF McNeil Stakes (1200m) at Caufield.

Exciting Fastnet Rock three year-old Coastwatch was narrowly beaten last start in the Group III ATC Up and Coming Stakes and made amends when going back to Kembla on Saturday to score a stylish victory in the Group III ATC Ming Dynasty Stakes (1400m).

Six-year-old gelding London Banker is proving a handy addition to the stable of Eagle Farm trainer Kelly Schweida.

Galileo was expected to sire the winner of the Group III Flame of Tara Stakes (1m) at the Curragh overnight with race favourite Albula, a daughter of Australian Group III winner Dawn Wall, but that filly had to settle for second with victory going to the Yulong owned Magical Lagoon.

The thoroughbred world is mourning today following the news that the much-loved Nini Conallin has passed away.

Newgate Farm’s Deep Field is at present tracking the calendar with 28 Australian winners in the first 27 days of the new racing season his success reflecting the strength of his three, four and five year-old runners which are his first three crops.

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

With Ef Troop taking on the favourite Racecourse Road, Friday's $125,000 Listed Goldmarket Quality (1200m) at the Gold Coast was run at breakneck speed, which set it up perfectly for the fast-finishing Desert Lord.

Not disgraced in Group fillies races last preparation, this well bred Snitzel filly always looked well placed in a maiden at Gosford on Friday.

Bob Peters is looking forward to racing at Caulfield on Saturday where his Group One winner Inspirational Girl will make her Melbourne debut in the Gr.1 Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.

There will be stakes action in four states on Saturday led by the Group 1 Memsie Stakes at Caulfield and the return of some of last seasons most accomplished two-year-olds.

Flemington trainer Michael Moroney admits he is in unchartered waters with triple Group One winning mare ToOcean Park;s Tofane Chasing fane, who is set to contest the Gr.1 Memsie Stakes (1400m) fresh-up at Caulfield on Saturday.

Following on from last year’s successful Series, New Zealand Bloodstock is pleased to announce a further eleven NZB Ready to Run Sale Trainers Series race sponsorships, with incentivised prize packages awarded to domestic trainers over the next three months.

August 2021 is not a month that Rory O’Brien is likely to forget in a hurry.

Here is the full list of 33 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Thanks for the memories, Triple Crown Syndications have announced the retirement of quality stakes-winning mares Missile Mantra (Smart Missile) and Reelem in Ruby (Pierro).

The Vinery Stud virtual parade is now online giving broodmare owners the chance to see how one of the most exciting first season sires in the country in Ole Kirk is letting down as the September 1 start to the breeding season approaches.

With the start of the breeding season fast approaching, Thoroughbred Breeders Australia and the state associations wanted to provide you with an update on the latest protocols for the movement of mares across state borders. TBA has been working closely with state governments to try to ensure breeders have options to get their mares covered.