Vinery Stud is delighted to announce that it has reached an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in the exciting dual Group 1 winning three-year-old colt Warwoven.

An eight-strong draft from Godolphin, high-class race mare Wrote to Arataki, an intriguing 3YO, shares in leading stallions Ole Kirk and Wild Ruler plus shares in multiple G1 performers are among the highlights of the Inglis Digital November (Early) Online Sale, which is now open for bidding.

Ohukia Lodge has a proud record and a well-earned reputation as one of the NZB Ready to Run Sale’s top vendors, so they don’t need much in the way of extra publicity – but a pair of Group One contenders over the next two weeks won’t hurt.

Three heats for juveniles at Warwick Farm on Friday were won by youngsters sired by Written Tycoon , Farnan and I Am invincible, who might have a filly with serious Magic Millions potential.

The Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale concluded with turnover exceeding 30 million guineas for the sixth consecutive year. The depth and diversity of international demand was particularly noticeable, with buyers from more than 30 countries active throughout the week.

With the peak-season rush behind us, there is greater availability across our stallion roster, offering increased flexibility with covering times.

Exciting four-year-old He Who Dares made a pleasing start to his season at the Avondale trials on Thursday when finishing strongly to win his 1000m heat, and now trainers Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson are setting their sights on some lucrative targets for the son of Snitzel.

2025 Cartier Champion Two-Year-Old and the record-breaking Irish 2,000 Guineas winner this year, Gstaad has been retired to stand at Coolmore in Ireland for the 2027 season.

Here is the full list of 27 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The expected uber-classy field lines up for this year's edition of the $2million G1 Coolmore Stud Stakes and two blueblooded sons of Snitzel are the most expensive purchases in the field by no small margin.

A shape shifting race that has had several reinventions, the G1 Coolmore Stud Stakes has gone from 'Golden Slipper of the South' to gold plated sire making race for the 21st century.

The Gr.1 Victoria Derby (2500m) is a sentimental favourite for expat Kiwi trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young, who will be seeking to score their second victory in the Flemington Classic on Saturday.

Exciting times for the team at Lovatsville this spring with the arrival of first foals for Move to Strike, a 2YO Group I winning son of champion sire I Am Invincible, whose growing list of sire sons includes Home Affairs, Hellbent and Brazen Beau.

Australian connections made their presence felt on day three of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale, securing three of the top five lots. Strong demand led to an excellent clearance rate of 92% and turnover was up by 8% from this day last year. 

During more than a decade as a vendor at the annual NZB Ready to Run Sale, Prima Park has risen through the ranks to become one of the go-to sources at the Karaka two-year-old auction.

Champion trainers Ciaron Maher and Chris Waller might be focused on a massive Saturday of racing this weekend, but they also have an eye on the future with both securing new prospects at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale overnight.

The Group I VRC Victoria Derby at Flemington on Saturday is worth a whopping $3 million and the testing trip of 2500m means a lot of horses are not going to see it out strongly and this looks a competitive year with no G1 winners engaged and a full field of up and comers set to do battle, so let’s see what the pedigrees have to say.

Here is the full list of 40 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Stakes-placed Trapeze Artist mare She’s an Artist is lightly raced with loads of upside and brought a touch of class to Warwick Farm on Wednesday when winning the Benchmark 88 event over 1200m.

Five new people will have a runner in Tuesday’s $10m G1 Melbourne Cup at Flemington following a successful inaugural Inglis Digital Spring Carnival Online Sale, which concluded this afternoon.

In the south-west of NSW the deeds of Group I thoroughbred breeder Bob Manwaring are the talk of the town of Harden after he was honoured at the TBNSW awards at Randwick last Saturday with local journalist Matt Stadtmiller telling his story.

Bjorn Baker’s So You Think (NZ) gelding So Your Are added a fourth consecutive black type victory to his record, taking out Wednesday's $500,000 G3 Bendigo Cup (2400m), but still needs a decent penalty to secure a position in Tuesday’s $10m G1 VRC Melbourne Cup (3200m).

Talented Perth galloper Decision Maker will be set for a string of country cups in Western Australia after topping the Magic Millions Digital (23-28 Oct) Sale which concluded today.

Although his stablemate was all the rage, Chris Waller’s Written Tycoon colt Horologist appreciated the step up to 1400m for the first time, with the Coolmore and partners raced 3yo breaking his maiden impressively at Warwick Farm on Wednesday in a $100,000 Super Maiden.

Awapuni gelding Platinum Pantheon will fly New Zealand’s flag in Saturday’s Gr.1 Golden Eagle (1500m) at Randwick, and his chances have been aided after drawing barrier two on Tuesday.

Strong international participation continued into day two of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale. The top two lots of the day were secured by Najd Stud in conjunction with Archdale Bloodstock and are both set to target Saudi Cup Day.

The 2026 Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale is underway at Newmarket and as we know it is a happy hunting ground for many Australian stables with Ciaron Maher Racing/ JS Bloodstock signing for an interesting horse overnight that already has Aussie connections.

In a relatively short space of time the $10million ATC Golden Eagle (1500m) has gone from an innovative novelty to a bona fide G1 race with a track record for producing superstars, so who will add their name to the honour roll at Randwick on Saturday?

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

The Group I VRC Oaks will probably come up a bit quickly for this lightly raced daughter of The Autumn Sun, but there will be a myriad of options next year for this blue-blood filly that opened her account at Hawkesbury on Tuesday.

Peter McKay holds a special place in the history of the TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m), and the Matamata trainer set himself up for another shot at the $1m feature when Aquila Veloce (Capitalist) won the $45,000 Speight’s 2YO (1100m) at Ellerslie on Saturday.

Galileo stallion Armory (IRE), has made an exciting start to his stud career, siring his first Australian winner when the promising three-year-old Armorware claimed victory over 1200m in the opening race on Sale Cup Day.

Exciting colt Coniston was destined for the sales ring as a yearling, however, unfavourable x-rays curtailed those plans, which has proven to be a blessing in disguise for owner-breeders Graham and Helen-Gaye Bax of Blandford Lodge, who now have a Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) favourite on their hands.

Six winners in six days for Bowness Stud’s G1 Rosehill Guineas winner D’Argento have put his next crop of yearlings firmly in the spotlight ahead of the 2027 sales.

The opening day of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale was headlined by strong international trade, with the top four lots destined for Hong Kong, Australia, America and Dubai. 

Aga Khan Studs homebred filly Valasara was a stakes-winner last year at two and upped the ante in France overnight winning the Group III Prix de Seine-et-Oise (1200m) at Chantilly.

A quality packed catalogue for the 2026 NZB Ready to Run Sale is now online and in the lead up to the sale we’ll go looking each week for some horses of interest that jump out on pedigree for various reasons.

We talk about the Cox Plate Legend that just got made at Flemington last Saturday and why it’s making us feel our age and take inspiration from Kenny and Max still going strong with a $1million race named in their honour.

Cosmic Crusader was a memorable Cox Plate winner for so many reasons and one of them is pedigree given he has an NZ suffix, but no actual Kiwi bloodlines and while that tail female line is Aussie, it’s taken the injection of NH bred stallions to create a Cox Plate legend.

Here is the full list of 29 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Coniston got his Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) campaign back on track at Te Rapa on Labour Day when claiming the Gr.2 James & Annie Sarten Memorial (1400m).

Brent and Cherry Taylor’s Trelawney Stud enjoyed a rewarding day at Trentham where the Waikato farm celebrated a winning double and collected further black type with a future member of their broodmare band.

Fancy a two in 15 chance of securing a $25,000 bonus when your horse wins a two-year-old city race? - That is what is on offer in Bloodstockauction.com's upcoming sale of 15 well related youngsters hailing from the paddocks of one of Australia's best thoroughbred farms, Arrowfield Stud.

Australia’s only national thoroughbred re-homing TV program Thoroughbreds Are Go returns Monday night on Sky Thoroughbred Central.

The second season sires division has been a hotbed of action since the start of spring with GI winners for St Mark’s Basilica (Fr), Pinatubo (IRE) and Sword of State, three SWs for Home Affairs and an Everest runner for Stay Inside, but on the score of winners Wild Ruler sets the pace.

The final G1 races of the French flat season were run at Saint Cloud overnight and Aidan O’Brien and Ryan Moore won two of them and one of those horses franked the form of leading Melbourne Cup contender Trustyourinstinct (IRE), who will be ridden by James McDonald next Tuesday.

James Cummings got his first winner as a trainer in Hong Kong a week ago with Farnan gelding Grand Eagle and he got his second at Sha Tin on Sunday when another son of Farnan in Speedy Power, who saluted as favourite.

Per Incanto (USA) is well known for his classy sprinters that include Group I winner Jimmysstar and he posted a new stakes-winner in Hong Kong on Sunday when Raging Blizzard took out the Group II Premier Bowl (1200m) at Sha Tin.

Here is the full list of 54 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The rain arrived in Victoria on Sunday and the $200,000 Listed Sale Cup (1600m) was run on a heavy track with progressive gelding Makdane faring best in the testing conditions to become a new stakes-winner for Larneuk Stud’s value sire Impending.

Lope de Vega stallion Belardo (IRE) is hardly a name up there with the greats and now calls Turkey home, but he has had a pair of Group winners in Australasia successive days with his NH bred son Juja Kibo (IRE) winning the Group II MVRC Moonee Valley Gold Cup, while in NZ his SH bred son Tisse landed his first stakes race on Sunday at Trentham.

Promising three-year-old filly Puzzle opened her winning account with a convincing performance at Trentham on Sunday, with trainer Johno Benner confident there is plenty more to come from the daughter of Satono Aladdin.

Promising three-year-old Thunder In Motion put himself in contention for a tilt at next month's Gr.1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) with an impressive maiden victory at Trentham on Sunday.

Unbeaten Waverley colt Old Fashioned is unlikely to contest the Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton on November 14 after a minor foot issue forced his withdrawal from Sunday's meeting at Trentham.

Champion trainer Ciaron Maher is assembling a powerful battalion of stayers to fight off the international raiders in next Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup and produced the trifecta in the $750,000 Group II MVRC Moonee Valley Gold Cup (2500m) at Flemington on Saturday.

WA Guineas- bound colt Beatty could not have been more impressive on his return to the track as a three year old, when romping in the Listed Belgravia Stakes over 1200m at Ascot yesterday.

Cox Plate hero Cosmic Crusader was not the only horse with WA connections in the limelight at Flemington on Saturday with exciting sprinter Smooth Chino proving well up to Eastern States company earning a crack at the G1 Champions Sprint on the last day of the Flemington carnival.

Frankel colt Giant Sequoia is bred to be a Derby contender next year and the Aidan O’Brien trained 2YO ended his juvenile season claiming the last G1 of the British flat season when taking out the William Hill Futurity Trophy (1m) at Doncaster overnight.

Here is the full list of 115 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Talented mare Soverato headed a New Zealand-bred trifecta when she claimed the third and most significant win of her career to date in Saturday’s A$300,000 Gr.3 Powerflo Solutions Tesio Stakes (2040m) at Flemington.

Chris Waller and Tommy Berry combined for a Snitzel-sired double at Randwick on Saturday with 5yo mares as Lazzura won the G2 $2m ATC The Invitation (1400m), before Delichy Boulevard followed in the very next race with victory in the $1m ATC Five Diamonds Prelude (1500m).

New Zealand-breds filled three of the first four placings in a unique running of the $6 million Group I Cox Plate (2040m) at Flemington on Saturday, and it was Cosmic Crusader who shone brightest of them all.

Proxima Dea extended her flawless record to five out of five with a powerhouse performance in the $2m Gr.1 Moet & Chandon Spring Champion Stakes (2000m) at Randwick on Saturday.

With backing up in next Saturday’s $1m G1 VRC Empire Rose Stakes (1600m) a real possibility, the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained Surfin’ Bird highlighted her chances with victory in the $400,000 G2 MVRC Kia Ora Stud Mile (1600m).

A homebred for Woppitt Bloodstock that was foaled and raised at Coolmore, Lindermann has amazingly only ever won the one G1 race which was the ATC Rosehill Guineas as a 3YO, but he has cut a swathe through the Sydney WFA races from 1600 to 2000m and one of his favourites is the $750,000 Group II ATC Craven Plate (1800m).

It was an emotional victory at Flemington as 3yo Captivant filly Caddington came from near the tail to win the $200,000 Listed MVRC Crockett Stakes (1200m) for Liam Howley with the winner racing in honour of Nicole Strang, who tragically lost her battle against breast cancer in July last year.

Blueblood Frankel colt Central Europe was Australia’s best maiden this morning and he will finish the day a Group winner after scoring a commanding victory in the $1million Group III ATC Callander Presnell (1600m) at Randwick.

Consistent performer Sir Albert found his way to the top step of the podium at Riccarton on Saturday when he held out a determined bid from race favourite Hakkinen to secure victory in the Listed Pavilion Now Open Spring Classic (2000m).

With form around some of the leading 3yos of this season, Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr’s 3yo Harry Angel (IRE) colt Buggsy defeated his stablemate to win the $240,000 G3 MVRC Red Anchor Stakes (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday.

The $200,000 Listed ATC Sir Brian Crowley Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday delivered a great result for B2B Thoroughbreds when their homebred Russian Revolution filly Revolina outgunned the colts to score a valuable Black Type win.

Exciting filly Sword Of Stars thrust her name into contention for Group One glory at Riccarton next month when she downed a handy line-up of three-year-olds in the Gr.3 War Decree Stakes (1400m) at Riccarton.

The $400,000 Group II MVRC  Drummond Golf Vase (2000m) at Flemington on Saturday showcases up and coming young 3YO stayers with lightly raced Rebel Dane gelding True Rebel taking the prize in a driving finish.

The $160,000 ATC Kirkham Plate (1000m) does not carry Black Type, but the race is often a good guide to the $1million Listed ATC Golden Gift next month and a very competitive field lined up at Randwick on Saturday with Chris Waller producing the quinella.

Profondo has made an exciting early impression on the racetrack, with Wildcatter (ex Mary D’Or) becoming the stallion’s first trial winner in an encouraging sign for the young sire at Waipa on Thursday.

Here is the full list of 54 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Next week will see shares in Melbourne Cup contenders offered on Inglis Digital, giving buyers the opportunity to have a runner in Australia’s most iconic race, just days out from the first Tuesday in November.

Bidding is now open for the Magic Millions Digital (23-28 Oct) Sale with the vast majority of the catalogue offered unreserved.

There were three juvenile trial winners at Randwick on Friday by I Am Invincible, Hellbent and in form sire Maurice (Jpn).

Excitement is building at Te Akau Racing’s Riccarton barn as New Zealand Cup Week draws nearer, with the stable once again holding a strong hand at their home meeting on Saturday.

Last season’s Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) winner Road To Paris resumed with a pleasing trial at Te Awamutu on Thursday, and now trainers Roger James and Robert Wellwood are setting their sights towards a feature mile with their charge.

It's a one-off Cox Plate at fabulous Flemington, with an extra dose of the intrigue we expect from Australasia’s WFA Championship!

Thoroughbred Breeders Australia (TBA) is delighted to announce that Fast Track graduate Molly Spalding has been awarded the 2026 Nolan Scholarship, providing her with the opportunity to undertake the prestigious Irish National Stud Breeding Management Course in Ireland next year.

The 2026 NZB Ready to Run Sale will be the fourth appearance for Barry Donoghue’s BMD Bloodstock and is shaping up to be the biggest one yet.

Graeme Rogerson and prominent Australian owner Lloyd Williams have plenty of fond memories together, and they are hoping to add to them with promising three-year-old Glamorgan, who won on debut at Te Aroha on Wednesday.

Palmerston North mare Manzor Blue will carry the hopes of a nation at Flemington on Saturday as the sole New Zealand-trained entry for next month’s Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) bids to secure one of the last two golden tickets into the coveted race.

From our vantage point in 2026, we can look back at modern Cox Plate history and marvel at how quickly the years are passing.

Widden Stud’s value sire Written By featured with a winning double at Happy Valley on Wednesday evening with smart wins for Super Sixty and Virtus Glory, who looks to have a bright future.

The Australian and international thoroughbred racing communities are mourning the passing of Robert Burnet, a respected racing media publisher whose professional life brought together a family heritage in publishing, involvement in breeding and racing partnerships, and a longstanding connection to the international thoroughbred industry.

If you thought Coolmore Australia had a big and diverse roster with 14 sires to choose from, their Kentucky base Ashford Stud has even more with 16 stallions to choose from and topping the roster is Justify at US$200,000.

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

Progressive 3YO colt Confederation (Wootton Bassett) topped today’s Inglis Digital October (Late) Online Sale, selling to Sandhurst for $205,000.

The $500,000 Group III Geelong Cup (2400m) on Wednesday featured a big and competitive field of stayers all looking to secure their place in the Group I VRC Melbourne Cup in 13 days time and imports making their Australian debut ran the trifecta with Ciaron Maher winning the race for the first time.

Coming off a debut third over 1200m, Ciaron Maher’s 3yo Ghaiyyath (IRE) gelding improved with a small step up in trip, scoring an emphatic victory in the opener of the day at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

Already the sire of a Group I VRC Victoria Derby winner in Hitotsu, Maurice (Jpn) has produced two new stakes-winners in the past week in Kosaji and Murshidi that both have designs on the staying classic that will carry $3million in prizemoney this year.

The last Kiwi bred and trained Cox Plate winner was Ocean Park in 2012.

Working through a full book of mares at Darley Victoria this spring, Ghaiyyath (IRE) added a new stakes-winner to his tally overnight with an impressive win for 2YO filly Chattering Classes in the Group III Staffordstown Stud Stakes (1m) at The Curragh.

Blueblood Night of Thunder filly Marylebone topped the 2025 Arqana Deauville August Yearling Sale when selling to Amo Racing for€3million and the two year-old filly made a winning debut overnight in the UK.

The stage is set for Saturday's $6 million Group I Ladbrokes Cox Plate at Flemington Racecourse, with a field of 12 confirmed to contest Australia's Best Race over 2040 metres.

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

A Group I winner in Hong Kong and a three-quarter brother to four time G1 winning $5million earner Lady Shenandoah, young Aquis sire Stronger is one of the best credentialed sires in Queensland and has made his presence felt at the recent Australian 2YOs in training sales.