Dual Group I winner Stefi Magnetica won over $7.3 million, but she did not break her maiden until her fifth race start at Wellington and at Orange on Friday we saw her three year-old half-sister break the ice.

One of Western Australia's most talented and toughest racemares will offer a rare opportunity at the Magic Millions Digital (17-22 April) Sale which is now open for bidding.

It was a memorable day for Andrew Scott on Friday, firstly hearing the news his daughter was awarded the NZTR McKenzie Future Leaders Scholarship before he went to Te Rapa where he and training partner Lance O’Sullivan recorded a winning treble.

There were four heats at Rosehill on Friday that were won by juveniles and they included unraced youngsters by Stay Inside, Exceedance and Zoustar.

The Federation of Bloodstock Agents Australia (FBAA) is proud to announce the selection of three mentees for its third annual Mentorship Program, commencing 11 May 2026. Now in its third year, the program continues to serve as the industry’s leading formal pathway for aspiring bloodstock agents, providing structured professional development through face-to-face engagement and hands-on agent

Since 1865, the All Aged Stakes has been a treasured highlight of Sydney's autumn racing carnival and is now one of two G1s which bring it to a close.

The Group I Newmarket 2000 Guineas is just two weeks away on May 2 and a colt that is closely related to star Aussie import Sir Delius (GB) has put himself in the picture with a stylish victory in the Group III Craven Stakes (1m) at Newmarket overnight.

Here is the full list of 43 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Nick Hodges and his team at Riversdale Farm are going to be kept busy at Riverside Stables with a big draft of 19 to be offered at the Inglis HTBA Yearling Sale on Sunday and they will offer the only yearling in this sale from the first crop of Australian Horse of the Year Anamoe, so he is an obvious pedigree standout.

There were a couple of lightly raced maiden winners at Wyong on Thursday that jumped out as horses to follow, a flashy gelding by Star Turn and a Written Tycoon filly that has had plenty happening in her pedigree since she was purchased from Inglis Easter.

Windsor Park Stud are looking forward to a strong turnout for their annual Rugby, Racing and Beer Sale set for next Thursday 23rd April at Riccarton Park in Christchurch.

To Bravery Born will continue his racing career in Hong Kong following his recent sale.

The Inglis HTBA Yearling Sale this Sunday is the last yearling sale of the year at Riverside Stables and represents a great opportunity to secure a quality youngster in a more affordable price range and the Vinery Stud consignment will be a must inspect.

The strong demand from the 100th National Yearling Sale continued onto NZB’s 2026 National Online Yearling Sale on Gavelhouse Plus, which saw 104 lots catalogued and over $800,000 in receipts in a quick-fire digital session on Wednesday evening.

The Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale concluded on a high note, headlined by a filly from Egmont Stud topping proceedings at 900,000 guineas. The sale saw a record-equalling 11 lots realise 300,000 guineas or more and a turnover surpassed only by last year’s edition.

Flying Fizz (Street Boss) – tonight’s Inglis Digital April (Early) sale topper – will be retired by purchaser Corumbene and sent straight to stud after selling for $175,000, while the dam of last Saturday's stakes-winner Gin Twist looked very good buying at $90,000.

Here is the full list of 42 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

With flag ship sire Extreme Choice coming out of a record breaking Inglis Easter where his nine yearlings sold averaged $1.5million it’s no surprise to see his service has been increased for 2026.

Progressive three year-old Jett Smash is building a tidy record and the Danny O’Brien trained son of Brave Smash (Jpn) took his hot form into metro company at Sandown on Wednesday.

It would have to be an Inglis HTBA Yearling Sale first … a half-brother being offered to the Group 1 ATC Australian Oaks runner-up just eight days earlier. And not just by any sire, but by an Australian Horse of the Year.

The progeny of Extreme Choice proved a market sensation at the recent Inglis Easter Yearling Sale and buyers will be afforded a significant opportunity to access his progeny with a pair of well-credentialled mares in foal to him the latest additions to The Inglis Chairman’s Sale.

David Payne thought enough of Bangkok Hottie to pitch the daughter of Too Darn Hot (GB) into the Group III ATC Kindergarten Stakes on debut and while she did not win on that occasion, she quickly made amends when dropped back to maiden grade at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

The full brother to Group I winner and now promising young Coolmore stallion Switzerland, powerful Snitzel colt St Gotthard made a winning debut at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

Following Tuesday night’s unforeseen cyber attack, NZB’s 2026 National Online Yearling Sale on Gavelhouse Plus was postponed, and is set to take place this evening, Wednesday 15 April from 6pm (NZT).

The Andrew Forsman-trained Single Red will be targeted at the Gr.1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Eagle Farm on June 6.

The Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale got off to a solid start, with a colt offered by Tally-Ho Stud from Australian bred G1 winning Redoute's Choice mare Majmu topping proceedings at 450,000 guineas. The opening day saw 11 lots sell for 200,000 guineas or more and a median up 6% from the equivalent session in 2025.

Woodside Park Stud has released service fees for 2026, offering Victorian and interstate breeders a quality roster of six stallions headed by dual Group I winner Celestial Legend, whose sire Dundeel is proving highly influential.

We've had plenty of drama and excitement at The Championships and the G1 action in Sydney ain't over yet, but this Saturday the eyes of the racing world will also turn to the west, where Ascot will host a monster meeting highlighted by WA's richest race, $5millionThe Quokka!

We are only four months in to 2026 and Clocker and I think we’ve already seen the best race of the year setting the stage for some epic battles come spring – great time to be a racing fan!

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

Due to an unforeseen cyber attack on the website, the National Online Yearling Sale held on Gavelhouse Plus that got underway on Tuesday night, will be postponed and will restart tomorrow, Wednesday 15 April from 6pm (NZT).

Geisel Park Stud has announced its intention to sell Myalup Farm, one of Western Australia’s most historic pastoral properties. Established in 1846 by Sir William Bunbury, the 100-hectare (248-acre) property near Bunbury represents one of the longest continuously farmed holdings in the State.

Saturday's brilliant Group Three RN Irwin Stakes winner Super Smink will headline a quality packed draft from Vinery Stud for May's Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale at the Gold Coast.

Greg Hickman has trained plenty of good horses over the years with the highest earner of them all being his Group I winning sprinter Pierata, who banked over $4.5million and the stallion delivered a lucrative winner for the trainer at Hawkesbury on Thursday.

Group One winning four-year-old mare She’s A Dealer is in rude health ahead of Saturday’s Gr.3 Japan Racing Association Plate (2000m) at Randwick, bouncing through her trip across the Tasman on Monday.

One of Australia’s favourite racehorses of the modern era, Falvelon, has succumbed to the rigors of old age and was humanely euthanised at Queensland’s Glenlogan Park at the age of 29 late last week.   

The Inglis HTBA Yearling Sale is on this Sunday at Riverside Stables and a filly by Portland Sky bought from this sale last year for $20,000 made a stylish winning debut at Hawkesbury on Tuesday for the Richard and Will Freedman stable.

The richest race in Australia this Saturday is not at Randwick with Ascot in Perth to stage the $5million The Quokka (1200m) which has attracted five challengers from the Eastern States this year.

Bidding closes tonight from 6pm (NZT) for NZB's 2026 National Online Yearling Sale on Gavelhouse Plus, with the quality 104-lot catalogue available to bid on here. 

Generosity was entered for the upcoming Inglis Chairman’s Sale, but in exciting news the B2B Thoroughbreds owned mare will now be headed to Royal Ascot with her Chris Waller trained stablemate Joliestar.

We could be wrong, but we’re pretty sure we’re right!

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

When Idle Flyer won the $1million Group I ATC Queen of the Turf Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday she became the latest Group I winner for arguably the best female family in the country and she is also the tenth G1 winner for Dundeel and for both of those reasons we’re going to investigate further.

A couple of unraced juveniles by champion sires Zoustar and Too Darn Hot (GB) won trials at Warwick Farm on Monday morning for the Bjorn Baker stable.

The astute purchase of a broodmare prospect five years ago has been further underlined by the weekend win of Enchantment in the Listed Welcome Stakes (1000m) at Riccarton Park.

The Zame family’s colours have been prominent over the last few years through the deeds of Group One winners Jon Snow and Aegon, and they are hoping they can be to the fore once more through a burgeoning young talent by Too Darn Hot (GB).

Go Racing came just shy of taking out last Saturday’s Gr.1 Sydney Cup (3200m), and the New Zealand syndicator is already looking for redemption as they eye the biggest two-mile prize in world racing – the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington in November.

The very first stakes-winner for his sire St Mark’s Basilica (Fr) when winning a Listed race in Ireland last year, progressive colt Thesecretadversary resumed overnight with a big win in the Group III Ballylinch Stud Red Rocks Stakes (7f) at Leopardstown.

Here is the full list of 71 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Triple Crown Syndications are enjoying the ride with talented Hellbent filly Hellenic Belle, who scored a stylish victory in the $200,000 Wellington Boot (1100m) on Sunday.

Swettenham Stud came early to the potential of Wootton Bassett as a sire of sires with his Group I winning son Wooded (IRE) shuttling to Victoria for the past four seasons and he produced his first Australian bred winner on Sunday.

Liam Birchley has had a hot run with his juveniles this season and it got a little better at Rockhampton on Sunday when his speedy Dracarys  gelding Swift Dragon won the $150,000 Magic Millions Capricornia 2YO Classic (1200m).

Blueblood filly Avantaggia has earned herself a tilt at black-type following her victory in the Porirua Club Punters Handicap (1200m) at Otaki on Saturday.

Brazen Beau featured with a stakes double on Saturday and for a sire noted for his sprinters it was interesting that both of his new stakes-winners won over a trip and Mating Call, who won the Group III SAJC Auraria Stakes (1800m) is headed next to the Group I SAJC Australasian Oaks (2000m).

Exciting gelding Sentimental Legend gave Newgate Farm stallion Brutal (O'Reilly) his first Classic winner when he produced a dominant staying performance to emerge as a comfortable winner of the $400,000 G2 WATC Derby(2400m) at Ascot.

Progressive 4YO Idle Flyer (Dundeel) elevated herself into the upper echelon of Australia’s best race mares when winning her first career G1 in the Queen of the Turf Stakes at Randwick today.

Blue Gum Farm’s Flying Artie is never without a good horse and progressive sprinter In Flight claimed her biggest win to date when taking out the $300,000 Group II ATC Sapphire Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.

Written By filly Bona Sforza won the Listed Welcome Stakes last year at Riccarton on debut and 12 months later was back at the same venue on Saturday to take out the Listed NZB Insurance Stakes (1600m).

Alabama Express three-year-old McWoody endured the toughest run in the Listed Port Adelaide Guineas (1800m) at Morphettville on Saturday but it didn’t stop him winning to become his sire’s latest stakes winner.

An $80,000 NZB Ready to Run purchase for Cumani Racing last year, Anders gelding Single Choice is a three year-old on the improve and took another step towards the Group I SA Derby at Caulfield on Saturday when winning the $200,000 Listed MRC Galilee Series Final (2400m).

Here is the full list of 116 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The Listed SAJC Redelva Stakes (1100m) at Morphettville on Saturday featured a big field of promising three year-old sprinters with victory going to progressive King’s Legacy gelding Regeneration.

Robbed of the opportunity to win the Group I MVRC Cox Plate last spring when ruled out of the Melbourne Spring Carnival on veterinary scans, the mighty Frankel stallion Sir Delius (GB) made amends in the best way possible at Randwick on Saturday.

The $1million Group I ATC Queen of the Turf Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday featured three bona fide ‘queens of the turf’ in Pride of Jenni, Lady Shenandoah and Treasurethe Moment, but it was an up and coming queen that claimed her first G1 victory.

They said the $2million Group I ATC Sydney Cup (3200m) was as open as the Sydney Heads and so it proved to be with veteran Kris Lees trained import Changingoftheguard (IRE) leading all the way to win at 50-1.

Second to world champion sprinter Ka Ying Rising in the $20million The Everest last spring, quality filly Tempted again showed her liking for the Randwick 1200m when scoring a dazzling win in the $1million Group II ATC Arrowfield Sprint on Saturday.

An exclusive club has a new member after Ohope Wins powered to victory in the A$1 million Gr.1 Asahi Super Dry Australian Oaks (2400m) at Randwick on Saturday.

Rugged stayer Crouch may well have earned the right to put an Australian stamp in his passport with a typically dogged effort to claim the headline event on the Otaki card on Saturday, the Listed NZ Punter Of The Year @ HB Spring Carnival Hawke’s Bay Cup (2200m).

A devastating home stretch sprint carried class galloper Platinum Attack to an easy victory in the Listed City Of Napier Sprint (1200m) at Otaki.

Talented Zousain filly Verzain found the best way possible to break her maiden when producing a tenacious effort to win the Listed SAJC Without Fear Stakes (1050m) at Morphettville on Saturday.

Home Affairs filly Gin Twist is fast and professional and showed those qualities again at Caulfield on Saturday when scoring her second takes victory in the $175,000 Listed MRC Redoute’s Choice Stakes (1200m).

The $1million Group II ATC Percy Sykes Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday is a race won previously by Annabel Neasham with Kristilli in 2023 and she was back in the winner’s circle again on Saturday with husband and training partner Rob Archibald after Cherry Bomshell got the cash.

Snitzel colt Beskar was a long shot when winning the Listed ATC Darby Munro Stakes last month at Rosehill, but was better found by punters at Randwick on Saturday when he scored a bold front running win in the Listed ATC South Pacific Classic (1400m).

Te Akau Racing continued their dominance of New Zealand’s juvenile ranks when taking out the quinella in the Listed Property Brokers Welcome Stakes (1000m).

The powerful Chris Waller stable kicked off Day 2 at The Championships with a winner in the first race on the card at Randwick, the $200,000 Listed ATC Fernhill Mile (1600m) for juveniles.

We had Henry Field as our guest this week on Tara Talks Racing and a part of the conversation regarded Extreme Choice who breeds to a mare a day all year round, which means foals arriving in Australia bred to Northern Hemisphere time and two of those fillies have gone into training in France and one of them is closely related to Australian Oaks contender Profoundly.

Here is the full list of 63 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A ‘capacity’ Inglis Digital April (Early) Online Sale catalogue is now open for bidding and features a plethora of racing and breeding opportunities to satisfy every industry enthusiast.

Next month's Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale will feature some amazing opportunities for buyers with the latest news of two unreserved reduction sales confirmed in the catalogue.

Bidding is now open for NZB's 2026 National Online Yearling Sale on Gavelhouse Plus, with the quality 104-lot catalogue available to bid on here. 

There were eight barrier trials won at Canterbury on Friday morning by juveniles and they included some unraced youngsters showing nice ability including a So You Think colt bred to sprint.

A last start million dollar race winner is among the highlights of a quality draft from one of the country's power stables for the upcoming 2026 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast.

A mammoth set of barrier trials at Canterbury on Friday featured some interesting winners that have designs on G1 target sprint races that include Royal Ascot.

Men fight wars. Women win them - Queen Elizabeth I - Day Two of The Championships at Royal Randwick has a decidedly regal flavour!

Here is the full list of 39 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

An Ole Kirk filly from a full sister to a Golden Slipper winner is a juvenile winner that was always going to prick the ears.

Home to three G1-producing sires, Yarraman Park Stud has announced its 2026 fees and is led once again by I Am Invincible and complemented by his emerging sire son Hellbent and Brave Smash (Jpn), whose exciting next chapter is just beginning.

In our Tara Talks Racing podcast this week we chatted to Henry Field of Newgate Farm, who has an exciting late addition to his consignment for the Inglis Chairman’s Sale in Chayan.

Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock was the leading buyer at Inglis Easter this year signing for 15 yearlings for a grand total of $8,775,000 and a Zoustar filly they purchased at the sale last year for $950,000 cast off maiden status at Gosford on Thursday.

Finalists have been announced for the 2026 Australian Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards, recognising the outstanding people working across Australia’s thoroughbred breeding and racing industry.

Saturday’s Gr.1 Australian Oaks (2400m) at Randwick carries some well-timed significance for the NZB National Online Yearling Sale, which concludes on Tuesday from 6pm.

Emerging staying talent Dux is in the right order to give a strong account of herself at Riccarton on Saturday, but it will be her following southern start that connections have the highest hopes for.

The $1million Group I ATC Australian Oaks (2400m) will be run at Randwick on Saturday and is a race with a very long tail given so few horses are bred in this country to run well at a classic trip which is why the race favourite is Group I New Zealand Oaks winner Ohope Wins.

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

Night Agent is the name of a pretty good TV show on Netflix and also a promising racehorse with the three year-old gelding by Brutal scoring his first metro victory at Hawkesbury on Wednesday.

From proven producers to exciting young sires on the rise, Waikato Stud’s 2026 roster offers breeders proven performance, emerging momentum and genuine depth across the board through Savabeel, his sire son Noverre, Ardrossan, Ocean Park, Banquo and the exciting new recruit in the unbeaten Group 1-winning juvenile, Return To Conquer.

Three outstanding Group winners from the all conquering Te Akau Racing operation will be star acts at May's Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale at the Gold Coast.

Appreciating the step up to the 1600m at just his third start, Hawkes Racing’s 3yo D’Argento gelding Lontrice started the short-priced favourite in the third at Hawkesbury, showing plenty of promise to take out the $100,000 Super Maiden.

The juvenile event at the midweek metro meeting at Hawkesbury on Wednesday over 1100m featured all first starters and some very well-bred youngsters with the flashy chestnut Extreme Choice colt Extremely Tempted getting the cash.

The Pierro filly from world champion racehorse Winx lit up the bid board at Inglis Easter in 2024 when setting an Australian record price for a yearling sold at auction when fetching $10million and today it was announced she will retire unraced.