Sunday Aug 8
Here is the full list of 62 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Sunday Aug 8
It is with great sadness we announce the passing of one of our foundation sires, Mossman.
Sunday Aug 8
As debuts go, they do not come any better than that of Her World (IRE) in Saturday's Listed Tyro Stakes at Monmouth Park, with the two-year-old daughter of Caravaggio (USA) never out of second gear in a six-length romp.
Saturday Aug 7
Not a day goes by without Starspangledbanner siring a winner somewhere in the northern hemisphere, but the four-time Group 1 winning son of Choisir broke new ground at Saratoga on Saturday when his son State Of Rest captured the $1 million Grade 1 Saratoga Derby Invitational.
Saturday Aug 7
We have become quite numb to European imports winning in Australia; even so, they had a day out on Saturday with several notable performances at Flemington and Randwick.
Saturday Aug 7
Standing at Widden Stud Victoria this spring, young Invincible Spirit stallion National Defense (GB) is on the board with his first stakes-winner after exciting filly Twilight Gleaming won the Listed Prix de la Vallee d’Auge (1000m) at Deauville in France overnight.
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Saturday Aug 7
Here is the full list of 117 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday Aug 7
Consistent five year-old gelding The Astrologist finished last season as the final stakes-winner of 2020/2021 for Zoustar and he is now the first of the new season for his sire after taking out the Group III VRC Aurie’s Star (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday.
Saturday Aug 7
There may be a few hard-luck stories but take away nothing from Paulele, who carried his top-weight to a two and a half-length triumph in Saturday's Listed The Rosebud (1100m) at Randwick.
Saturday Aug 7
Trainer Michael Costa was still celebrating the win of She Can Sing at Doomben when the Dream Ahead (USA) gelding Phobetor earned the trainer a career-high in the Group II Missile Stakes (1200m) at Randwick.
Saturday Aug 7
Local runner Follow Your Dreams showed he was right on target for the Gr.3 Cambridge Stud Northland Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) in a fortnight when he took out the main lead-up event at Ruakaka on Saturday.
Saturday Aug 7
Scenes of unbridled joy and celebration broke out on the Riccarton public lawn shortly after outsider Ritani ($21) took out the 124th running of the Winning Edge Presentations Winter Cup (1600m) on Saturday.
Saturday Aug 7
So often a silver medalist, Zorro's Dream took his place at the top of the podium with a thoroughly deserved success in the Jockeys Celebration Day Hcp (1100m) at Flemington on Saturday.
Saturday Aug 7
The progressive Zoustar gelding Sunfall bounced off an honest five-start campaign at two, to make a winning start to his three-year-old season in a competitive benchmark 70 over 1410m at Flemington on Saturday
Friday Aug 6
There were proven stars and up and comers in action at the Randwick trials on Friday with a newly gelded Mamaragan giving every indication he will be a force to reckon with this spring.
Friday Aug 6
Aquis Farm are delighted with the arrival of the first foal for Pierro’s Group I winning son Pierata with a gorgeous colt foaled at Torryburn Stud.
Friday Aug 6
G2-winning, dual G1 placed mare Moonlight Maid headlines a typically strong Inglis Digital August (Early) Sale, which also features some intriguing lots from the continued dispersal of Shadwell’s Australian stock.
Friday Aug 6
Here is the full list of 45 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Friday Aug 6
Group One winning galloper Catalyst was back in action at the Cambridge trials on Thursday and pleased his connections when finishing a nose second behind stablemate Marchioness in a hit-out over 950m.
Friday Aug 6
There is a taste of spring on Saturday with the Group II Missile Stakes and Listed The Rosebud at Randwick and the Group III Aurie's Star Handicap at Flemington.
Friday Aug 6
The 2021 Melbourne Cup will come too soon for this Lloyd Williams owned son of Camelot, but in 12 months time it may be a very different story.
Friday Aug 6
There is keen anticipation for the first runners this season by Cambridge Stud’s exciting young shuttle sire Almanzor (Fr), whose first yearlings set sale rings alight this year and he is also the sire of their first foal born this spring.
Friday Aug 6
The Covid pandemic has disrupted so many things in our lives, but planning is still going ahead for the 2022 TSHA National Titles next November which promises to bring the worlds of racing and equestrian together as never before.
Thursday Aug 5
The Deauville meeting in France overnight delivered a new stakes-winner for Godolphin with their homebred Invincible Spirit colt Egot taking out the Listed Prix de Tourgeville (1m), the three year-old bred from an Australian stakes-placed mare from a very familiar family.
Thursday Aug 5
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Thursday Aug 5
Here is the full list of 35 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Thursday Aug 5
After working at Brent and Cherry Taylor's famed Trelawney Stud in Cambridge New Zealand for the past 22 years, the last 19 of them as Stud Manager, we are thrilled to welcome Kevin 'Millie' Walls to Blue Gum Farm.
Thursday Aug 5
The Listed ATC The Rosebud (1100m) marks the beginning of a new season for our stakes class three year-olds and while the winner of this race is often lauded as a potential superstar, past results from this race would suggest we should not get carried away.
Thursday Aug 5
Thoroughbred Breeders Queensland Association is proud to announce the 2020-21 Queensland Breeding Champions and QTIS Premiers.
Thursday Aug 5
A brilliant stakes-winning two year-old by Hinchinbrook, Kingstar Farm’s Unite and Conquer has his first foals being born this spring including this lovely filly.
Thursday Aug 5
Symon Wilde is daring to dream with Tralee Rose this spring.
Wednesday Aug 4
A name change, a gelding operation, and a fourth trainer, seems to have done the trick for The Awesome Son, a $900,000 three-quarter brother to Arrowfield Stud’s 5-time Group 1 winner The Autumn Sun.
Wednesday Aug 4
Just four days into the new racing season and Vancouver already has two metro winners on the board with Mynumerouno saluting at Sandown last Sunday and today at Randwick Yukon got the cash for Team Hawkes.
Wednesday Aug 4
With just three foals from his final crop that have just turned two, Testa Rossa won't have too many more opportunities to add to his record, but he looks to have a likely type in the Anthony Cummings-trained Lovemetender.
Wednesday Aug 4
Breeders seeking a proven Group I producing sire in Queensland this spring will find their choices limited with this stallion offering the potential of breeding a serious top line horse at a reasonable fee.
Wednesday Aug 4
Former Central Queensland based stakes winner Better Reflection has sold for $350,000 during today's Magic Millions August Online Sale.
Wednesday Aug 4
Opening his account with a fast finishing win at Randwick on Wednesday was talented Flying Artie gelding Flying Crazy.
Wednesday Aug 4
An inexperienced field of new season three-year-olds stretched out to 1500m of the Sky Racing Maiden at Randwick-Kensington, and it was a son of Street Boss (USA) that came up trumps.
Wednesday Aug 4
Cambridge trainer Tony Pike was savouring the last few hours of a brief Queenstown getaway on Wednesday before the focus switches to overseeing his team for a busy spring.
Tuesday Aug 3
Camelot was the Champion Staying Sire in Australia last season and his outstanding son Russian Camelot (IRE) is an exciting addition to Widden Stud Victoria this spring, the Epsom Derby winning sire adding a new stakes-winner to his tally overnight in France.
Tuesday Aug 3
Aidan O’Brien’s run of Group I success in France this year continued overnight when Newmarket 1,000 Guineas winner Mother Earth landed the Group I Prix Rothschild (1600m) for fillies and mares at Deauville.
Tuesday Aug 3
Entries for the big spring majors – Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate - have been taken so we are going to have a look at some of the big contenders to see if they have any relevance at all to the Australian breeding industry.
Tuesday Aug 3
Here is the full list of 29 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Tuesday Aug 3
Nominations for the Gr.1 Caulfield Cup (2400m), Gr.1 Cox Plate (2040m) and Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) were received on Tuesday, with the three reigning champions Verry Elleegant (Caulfield Cup), Sir Dragonet (Cox Plate) and Twilight Payment (Melbourne Cup) headlining a star-studded list of nominations for the marquee races of the 2021 Victorian Spring Racing Carnival.
Tuesday Aug 3
It was another busy day at the trials for Te Akau trainer Jamie Richards as he oversees the preparation of his spring stars.
Tuesday Aug 3
Nowhere else in the world is such a dazzling line-up of elite stallions available for inspection in one geographical region, the Hunter Valley and international centre of Thoroughbred Breeding Excellence.
Tuesday Aug 3
Gooree Park Stud has announced the appointment of their new Stud Manager, Peter Ward. He joins the team following the departure of long-time Stud Manager, Andrew Baddock, in July this year.
Monday Aug 2
A $1.3million Inglis Easter Yearling purchase, blue-blooded Fastnet Rock mare Dawn Wall was a Group III winner in Australia and produced her first winner overnight in Ireland.
Monday Aug 2
Two year-old  Starspangledbanner filly Little Miss Dynamo scored an impressive win at Ripon overnight, her dam Frankly So (IRE) now in Australia for Rosemont Stud.
Monday Aug 2
The Epaulette gelding Highly Decorated has had three trainers and has travelled a heck of a lot of kilometres before his tour de force in Monday's $200,000 Darwin Cup (2050m) at Fannie Bay racetrack.  
Monday Aug 2
We have two champion sires in Australia for 2020/2021 in Written Tycoon, who takes the title by earnings, and I Am Invincible, who set a new record for individual Australian winners, and both came from the wrong side of the tracks so to speak, so a look at how they got to where they are statistically is well worth reading.
Monday Aug 2
Here is the full list of 33 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Monday Aug 2
Everest hero Yes Yes Yes was the busiest first season sire in 2020 covering 205 mares, so expect to see plenty of his gorgeous foals in the next few months starting with this beauty bred by Anthony Cummings.
Monday Aug 2
Finishing a memorable season on a high note, Contributer was crowned New Zealand’s Champion 2nd season sire. Contributer has emerged as the most exciting young sire in New Zealand, leading all 2nd season sires in winners, total wins and earnings.
Monday Aug 2
Larneuk Stud like to support their own sires and were well rewarded when Cluster delivered two homebred debut winners at Pakenham last Saturday.
Monday Aug 2
The effort of Haunui graduate Yeaboi (NZ) (Belardo) in the Ryder Stakes on Saturday not only added another stakes performer to BELARDO’s first crop tally but also secured him the title of New Zealand’s Champion First Season Sire for 2021.
Monday Aug 2
Clear Mountain Fairview Stud have good cause to be proud of their young sire Worthy Cause, who posted a new winner at Toowoomba on the last day of the racing season.
Sunday Aug 1
The Fastnet Rock x Galileo nick is one of the best there is and it produced a new stakes-winner in France overnight when the Coolmore owned filly Joie de Soir captured the Listed Grand Prix de Clairefontaine – Prix Ferme Saint-Simeon (1m4f).
Sunday Aug 1
Widden Stud are delighted with the arrival of the first foal for Zoustar’s stunning Group II winning son Zousain.
Sunday Aug 1
Vinery Stud have reported the first foal born for their brilliant Group I winning Exceed and Excel stallion Exceedance.
Sunday Aug 1
Here is the full list of 71 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Sunday Aug 1
Coolmore will stand outstanding European sire Wootton Bassett (GB) in Australia for the first time this spring and the proven Group I sire proved his stripes here on Sunday siring his first Australian trained winner with a brilliant debut victory for Rapid Achiever (FR).
Sunday Aug 1
Gee Gee Studs prolific stallion Wordsmith came out firing on the first day of the season, siring five of the eight winners at Devonport.
Sunday Aug 1
Australia’s only thoroughbred breeding TV program Bred To Win returns for the spring season, profiling an exciting crop of first-season stallions and revisiting our favourite proven sires.
Sunday Aug 1
Outstanding Waikato Stud stallion Savabeel has asserted his dominance yet again in season 2020-21 with another clean sweep of New Zealand’s three major stallion awards.
Sunday Aug 1
The first of August marks the beginning of a new season and all the hard work of the previous 12 months is reflected in end of season sires tables with Breednet’s new addition of distance sire tables offering a unique insight into our leading sires.
Sunday Aug 1
The first of August marks the beginning of a new season and all the hard work of the previous 12 months is reflected in end of season sires tables with the leading Two and Three Year Old Sires highlighting stallions whose progeny come to hand quickly.
Sunday Aug 1
The first of August marks the beginning of a new season and all the hard work of the previous 12 months is reflected in end of season sires tables with the second and third season divisions producing two new champion sires in Headwater and Deep Field.
Saturday Jul 31
The first of August marks the beginning of a new season and all the hard work of the previous 12 months is reflected in end of season sires tables with Yulong Stud’s Written Tycoon capturing his first title as Australia’s Champion Sire by earnings.
Saturday Jul 31
Widden Stud Victoria have three stallions on the roster this spring to all sire 100 plus winners in Star Witness, Nicconi and Magnus, who ended his season on a high with a metropolitan treble on Saturday.
Saturday Jul 31
Here is the full list of 104 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Saturday Jul 31
So You Think has had a personal best season siring 133 winners of over $13.7 million including 12 stakes-winners and his season ended with another four winners saluting on Saturday highlighted by promising three year-old filly So You Assume.
Saturday Jul 31
Eleven weeks off the scene on a bottomless track was not enough to stop the powerhouse sprinter Beau Rossa in Saturday’s Listed Lightning Stakes (1050m) at Morphettville.
Saturday Jul 31
Vinery Stud’s Star Turn took it to the final day in his quest for champion first-crop sire for individual winners. Despite the victory of the Kim Waugh-trained gelding Turning in a 1000m maiden at Muswellbrook on Saturday, Star Turn will fall one winner short of equalling Newgate Farms season-long leader Capitalist.
Saturday Jul 31
Talented filly Ima Roca Bee produced an undeniable finish in testing conditions to take out the final stakes race of the 2020/21 racing season, the Listed Courtesy Ford Ryder (1200m) at Otaki.
Saturday Jul 31
The spring riches await for the talented Brazen Beau filly Zapateo who defeated a talented field of 2yo fillies over 1000m at Moonee Valley on Saturday.
Saturday Jul 31
Trainer Allan Sharrock rounded off arguably his best season with a winning double at Otaki, where the successful return of popular equine personality Tavi Mac was one of the highlights of the day.
Saturday Jul 31
Larneuk Stud is the new home for Snitzel’s Group I winning son Wandjina and he featured at the last metropolitan meeting of the season in Melbourne when two year-old gelding Rock Artist scored an all the way win at Moonee Valley.
Saturday Jul 31
There could be a nice race in-store for Godolphin's Tamerlane after the 3yo son of English Derby and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe hero Golden Horn came with a barnstorming finish to win the opener over 1300m at Randwick on Saturday.
Friday Jul 30
Australian breeders only had access to Darley shuttler Night of Thunder (IRE) for one season, but we saw enough to know he’s a top class sire and he featured at Goodwood overnight where his three year-old filly Suesa bowled over the older sprinters to win the Group II King George Qatar Stakes (5f).
Friday Jul 30
Darley have announced the sad passing of Group I sire Bernardini (USA), who shuttled successfully to Australia between 2008 and 2015 covering over 900 mares.
Friday Jul 30
Gai Waterhouse has  had a lot of success with Gooree Stud bred horses over the years but she and trainer partner Adrian Bott had to buy this debut winning two year-old from the Gooree draft at Inglis Classic.
Friday Jul 30
Here is the full list of 32 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Friday Jul 30
The $550,000 outlaid by Hawkes Racing for the Star Turn colt Montana Flash represented a high mark for his sire and dam, who descends from a family that once ruled the ring.
Friday Jul 30
Our crystal ball story on Thursday featuring Golden Rose contenders became news topical on Friday morning when three of the key colts mentioned in the story won barrier trials at Rosehill.
Friday Jul 30
It will be a homecoming of sorts for Lloyd Kennewell on Saturday when the Caulfield trainer tries to nab stakes success at his old stomping ground of Morphettville with his promising filly Esta La Roca.
Friday Jul 30
There is still one stakes race up for grabs this season and Karyn McQuade is hoping to get her hands on it.
Thursday Jul 29
Galileo stallion Nathaniel might be best known as the sire of champion mare Enable, but he added a new Group I winner to his tally at Goodwood  overnight where five year-old mare Lady Bowthorpe held off the three year-olds to win the Nassau Stakes (1m2f).
Thursday Jul 29
A two year-old filly by Sebring that is a sister-in-blood to a pair of Group II winners is an obvious horse to follow from Wyong on Thursday.
Thursday Jul 29
Here is the full list of 33 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Thursday Jul 29
The final breeding season nomination to champion Darley shuttle stallion Too Darn Hot has sold online for $55,000 with all proceeds to support the CatWalk Spinal Cord Injury Research Trust.
Thursday Jul 29
El Nymph is living proof of the old adage never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Thursday Jul 29
The end of the racing season has many of us looking forward to the next and the first big test for the three year-olds comes in the Group I ATC Golden Rose (1400m) on September 25 and with 200 plus nominations there are plenty of dreams alive, but in reality very few winning hopes.
Wednesday Jul 28
The last Australian bred foals by Coolmore shuttler No Nay Never (USA) are about to become yearlings, the Scat Daddy stallion making news overnight when siring two stakes-winners at Glorious Goodwood including Alcohol Free, who won the Group I Sussex Stakes (1m).
Wednesday Jul 28
Here is the full list of 42 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Wednesday Jul 28
The final Inglis Digital Auction of the 2020/21 season has been topped by 4YO mare Egyptian Missile (Smart Missile), who is set for a Written Tycoon cover.
Wednesday Jul 28
Victorian breeders looking for a little genetic magic in their matings this spring in the quest to breed a champion sprinter of the future will be intrigued by this newcomer stallion. Larneuk Stud are proud to add brilliant Group II winning sprinter miler Endless Drama (IRE) to their roster in 2021 providing Victoria breeders with an affordably priced son of outstanding sire Lope de Vega (Fr).
Wednesday Jul 28
Godolphin received the first dividend on the $1,000,000 outlaid for Jadida when the three-year-old daughter of Medaglia d’Oro (USA) opened her winning account with an impressive performance over 1100m at Randwick-Kensington on Wednesday.
Wednesday Jul 28
The last Sydney metropolitan race of the season for two year-olds was run on Wednesday at Randwick with victory going to talented Zoustar colt Starman.
Wednesday Jul 28
The two-year-old Galileo filly Twinkle, a sister to Epsom Derby hero Anthony Van Dyck (IRE) and a half to Group 1 ARC Railway Stakes winner Bounding (Lonhro), broke her maiden at Galway overnight in the strangest of circumstances.