Talented sprinter Ancestry has a great winning strike rate and found his best form at Moonee Valley on Saturday to lead all the way and win the Listed MVRC Abell Stakes (1200m) with a bold front running performance.

Godolphin's lovely Street Boss (USA) filly Arcaded bounced back from a sub-par performance in the Blue Diamond Stakes to dominate in the Group III Magic Night Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill Gardens.

The Listed MVRC Valley Pearl Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday was selected as a winnable race for million dollar colts Dio and Wizard of Oz, but they both came up short when overpowered by likable Nicconi filly Scorched Earth.

Plenty of first season sire action right around the country, but most interest will centre on the Golden Slipper lead ups at Rosehill with some high profile young gun sires looking to be a part of the action.

Here is the full list of 44 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Friday with winners and result details.

A huge Inglis Digital catalogue of 360 lots has launched for bidding this afternoon, with highlights including an Aquis Farm racehorse reduction (35 lots) and 13 broodmares offered by Corumbene Stud.

For all but the final 150 metres of Friday's $200,000 Group III Carlton Draught Kembla Grange Classic (1600m), Miravalle did little to raise the hopes of her supporters.

Actions always speak louder than words, this is absolutely true for NSW Bred horses. It's no surprise that once again we are leading the charge in this years soaring sales records. You can imagine vendors are eagerly awaiting this years Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

Chatswood Stud's sire Reward For Effort has continued his usual form with an array of winners in recent times. In the last month he has sired the following city winners:

Racing Australia (working with the Principal Racing Authorities nationally), Godolphin Australia and Thoroughbred Industry Careers (TIC) have partnered to form a national Australian Thoroughbred Workforce Development Forum.

Regular Breednet users will have noticed international data is being incorporated into the site and that data has made possible a new section of reports that provide some interesting information highlighting Australasian bred racehorses and dams of winners and stakes horses overseas as well as highlighting Northern Hemisphere winners by sires that we are all familiar with.

Premier Victorian operation Rosemont Stud has won the battle to secure last season’s outstanding, multiple stakes winning 2yo HANSEATIC who will be retired to stand at the iconic Gnarwarre stud.

Here is the full list of 49 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Any horse that can win a maiden, a class 1 then a class 2, by a combined total of seven lengths at her first three starts is a horse we want to know more about.

One Group 1 among the eleven stakes races on Saturday seems relatively sedate compared to four Group 1s and almost double the number of stakes races seven days previous; however, few would argue that the race of the day is not a stakes race.

Bookmakers may be favouring defending champ Avantage in Saturday's Gr.1 Bonecrusher New Zealand Stakes (2000m) at Ellerslie but her trainer Jamie Richards is backing Melody Belle as the pick of his pair.

Valachi Downs is set to return to a boutique breeding and racing operation following a number of years of growth and business diversification.

There were four heats for juveniles at Randwick on Thursday with all eyes on Blue Diamond winner Artorius, who finished off like an express train at his first try at galloping in the clockwise direction, while a $1million filly also caught the eye later in the morning.

Aquis Farm President, Justin Fung, is pleased to announce that $5.8 million prizemoney earner Pierata, together with the Aquis full 2020 New South Wales stallion roster, will call Queensland home this year and their fees have also been announced.

Basil Nolan and his team at Raheen Stud are excited for the Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale (March 15,16) where they will present a big draft of 30 featuring 21 from the first crop of their exciting young sire Heroic Valour as well as a colt that will command huge interest as he is the only entry in the sale by red hot sire Zoustar.

Chris Waller has sent out a few runners of late resuming from a spell with no barrier trials and he did it again at Randwick on Wednesday when Easifar ran her rivals into the ground to win as she pleased.

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

A colt by Capitalist was the star on Day Two as the 2021 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale was declared a runaway success.

After finishing second on debut at Ipswich, the Robert Heathcote-trained Startantes made no mistake at her second start over 1200m at Eagle Farm on Wednesday to make it three winners for Vinery Stud’s first season stallion Star Turn.

With a name that sadly gives me flashbacks to a childhood where the Muppet Show has left subconscious memories that are apparently embedded deep (Kermit, anybody?), exciting three year-old Rainbow Connection announced himself as a serious horse to follow from the Randwick meeting on Wednesday with a sparkling debut win.

Emirates Park bred horses have been racing up a storm in the past week with stakes-winners Lightsaber, Marboosha and Liwa all carrying the Emirates Park brand as does impressive two year-old filly Najmaty, who made a winning debut at Randwick on Wednesday

Strong trade has continued at the Adelaide Magic Millions on Wednesday with a colt by red hot young sire Capitalist selling for $425,000.

The list of top-class broodmares and breeding prospects to be offered at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale has grown further with confirmation multiple G1 winner In Her Time – in foal to I Am Invincible – will be offered at the auction.

Lyndhurst Stud’s Better Than Ready is a clear leader on the Australian 2YO Sires by winners list with nearly double the number of winners over the next best sire and yearling buyers will have an unprecedented opportunity to secure his stock next week with some 80 of his yearlings entered for Magic Millions Gold Coast March.

Plenty of first season sire action on Wednesday with metro juvenile races in Sydney and Brisbane featuring runners by key first season sires.

Following what was an excellent effort in the Group I Randwick Guineas on Saturday, the decision has been made to retire dual Group I-winning 2YO King’s Legacy to Coolmore Stud.

A colt by star sire Fastnet Rock led the way as records tumbled across the board on a stunning Day One of the 2021 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale at Morphettville today.

A super strong 2021 Adelaide Magic Millions Yearling Sale produced great results on Tuesday with a filly by Merchant Navy selling for $360,000 to be the third highest priced yearling of the session, her grey colouring tracing back to the family of 1972 Golden Slipper winner John's Hope.

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

Recent G1 Oakleigh Plate winner Celebrity Queen (Redoute’s Choice) is among the latest headline entries confirmed for the Inglis Chairman’s Sale.

Arrowfield Stud shuttler Maurice (Jpn) had a very impressive debut winner at Canterbury last month in Mazu and the horse he defeated that day was another son of the same sire and he saluted at Wyong on Tuesday as a hot favourite.

The unreserved auction of recently retired, multiple stakes winner Miss Federer has launched on Gavelhouse Plus today and will run through until 7pm (NZ) on Monday 15 March.

The big results keep coming at the Adelaide Magic Millions Yearling Sale on Tuesday with a Lot 79, a Palentino filly out of the winning Testa Rossa mare Wings of Alice selling for $370,000, a record price for a filly at the South Australian sale.

Despite limited support from breeders, the royally-bred Redoute's Choice stallion Barbados has carved out a niche in the South Australian market.

The 2021 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale is underway and there were some serious fireworks early in the sale when Lot 22, a Fastnet Rock colt from Group I winner Small Minds was sold for $525,000.

Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week including a second win for a $500k American Pharoah youngster, so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.

Here is the full list of 36 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Australia’s busiest sire in 2020., So You Think has been riding the crest of a winning wave and posted his 100th and 101st Australian winners this season on Monday in the shape of two stakes-winners with Good Idea capturing the Group II SAJC Adelaide Cup (3200m) and Mr Marathon Man (GB) scoring a surprise win in the Listed Canberra Cup (2000m).

Given a peach of a ride by Tommy Berry, Equation rang up a first stakes win for his trainer Annabel Neasham and sire Press Statement in Monday’s Listed Canberra Guineas (1400m).

There would be few better-bred horses in Australia than the Australian Bloodstock import Ironclad (GB), who kept his record in his adopted homeland at a perfect three for three in Monday’s Listed CS Hayes Memorial (1600m) at Morphettville.

A stakes-winner at Moonee Valley back in the spring, talented Vancouver filly Night Raid looked well placed in the Listed SAJC Matrice Sakes (1200m) at Morphettville on Monday and duly saluted with Jamie Kah in the saddle.

Sent off at $51 when making a winning debut at Bendigo, the Mark Kavanagh-trained Seradess came from last to blow away the opposition in Monday’s Listed Cinderella Stakes (1050m) at Morphettville to honour Darley Stud’s Astern with his first stakes-winner.

Weekend stakes racing delivered some interesting catalogue updates for upcoming yearling sales with yesterday’s Group III Black Opal winner Kalashnikov delivering a very important update for his Inglis Easter bound half-sister, while the half-sister to Wild Ruler may well be worth even more by the time sale day comes around.

The stellar run of success being enjoyed by Inglis graduates continued in New Zealand on Sunday with Inglis Easter Yearling Sale colt Rocket Spade a determined winner of the G1 New Zealand Derby in testing conditions at Ellerslie.

Kevin Gray didn’t train the winner of the Gr.3 King’s Plate (1200m) at Ellerslie on Sunday, but he still took some comfort from the result, having bred race victor Entriviere.

With a last-gasp victory over a worthy foe in Sunday’s $70,000 Group Three McKee Family Sunline Vase (2100m) at Ellerslie, this season’s standout three-year-old filly Amarelinha (NZ) (Savabeel) has extended her lead in the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series. 

One of seven live foals from the final Australian crop of Sepoy’s Group II winning half-brother Mulaazem, two-year-old filly Liwa broke her maiden in Sunday’s $100,000 Listed Supremacy Stakes (1000m) at Ascot to credit her sire with his first stakes-winner.

Here is the full list of 68 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Golden Slipper winning Champion 2YO Capitalist is making every post a winner as an exciting young sire and added a third stakes-winner to his tally in Canberra on Sunday when promising colt Kalashnikov won the Group III Black Opal Stakes (1200m) for a syndicate of James Harron Bloodstock owners.

For the second year in a row Fastnet Rock has sired the winner of the Group I New Zealand Derby (2400m) with Sherwood Forest winning in 2020 and Rocket Spade carrying the Hermitage Thoroughbreds colours to victory at Ellerslie on Sunday.

Already a $1million earner coming into the $150,000 Listed National Sprint (1400m) at Canberra on Sunday having won the 2019 $1million ATC Kosciuszko and finished fourth in the race last year, Handle the Truth is also now a stakes-winner after snaring his first Black Type victory.

Punters who thought the result of the Group III McKee Family Sunline Vase (2100m) was a foregone conclusion when installing glamour filly Amarelinha a red-hot $1.30 favourite for the race were left hanging on the result of the photo-finish to a thrilling contest in the fillies feature.

A heavy downpour during the running of Sunday’s Group III Haunui Farm King’s Plate (1200m) proved no hindrance to exciting mare Entriviere as she produced a flashing burst of speed to capture her second successive Group Three victory.

Within the space of just four days, a huge black-type double for three-year-old progeny of Contributer has rewarded years of hard work for Simms Davison and the Mapperley Stud team.

Adelaide is a long way from Wingham on the New South Wales mid north coast, but the 2021 Adelaide Magic Millions Yearling Sale has been selected by Ian Smith as the best destination for these three yearlings from respected farm Edinburgh Park and on that basis you can’t afford not to take a closer look.

A very significant black-type race-to-race double on Flemington’s Group 1 program provided another example of Emirates Park’s proven record as a successful breeder and seller of stakes winning gallopers.

Zoutori won a deserved G1 in the Newmarket Handicap as the Easter Yearling Sale again showed why it’s globally considered the best auction in the southern hemisphere, producing four Stakes winners on a hallmark day for Inglis graduates.

Veteran gelding So Si Bon won the Listed VRC March Stakes (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday to keep the stakes-winners coming for So You Think, who was Australia's busiest sire last spring covering 261 mares.

From a four-year-old gelding making his track debut at Moe to a triple Group II winning seven-year-old starring down the reigning Horse Of The Year in course record time in the Challenge Stakes (1000m) at Randwick, that is the evolution of blue-collar hero Eduardo.

On the go since last November, the four-year-old Snitzel mare Vulpine made a telling statement at her ninth run of the preparation in Saturday’s Group III Wenona Girl Quality (1200m) at Randwick.

Winless in seven starts, the Danny O'Brien-trained Starelle chose the perfect spot to break her maiden in Saturday's $200,000Group II Kewney Stakes (1600m) at Flemington.

Here is the full list of 121 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

They say ‘some days are diamonds’ and for Zoustar today was one of those days with two new Group II winning 2YO’s Glistening and Lightsaber, a Group I quinella in the VRC Newmarket with Zoutori and Indian Pacific fighting out the finish and then in Sydney, Mizzy missed by a whisker to finish second in the Group I ATC Canterbury Stakes.

Godolphin had some unfinished business with the six-year-old Street Cry (Ire) mare Savatiano – put a Group 1 on the resume, which she achieved in Saturday’s $500,000 Canterbury Stakes (1300m) at Randwick.

The seven-year-old War Front (USA) gelding Homesman (USA) earned a second win at the highest level with a typically gritty performance in Saturday’s $1,500,000 Group 1 Australian Cup (2000m) at Flemington.

When Lion's Roar broke his maiden at his career debut over 1600m at Kembla Grange in September, he became the first winner for his sire Contributer – four runs later, he becomes his first Group 1 winner.  

Flashy Zoustar colt Lightsaber has been impressive at the midweek meetings in Melbourne at his past two runs and took the quantum leap into Black Type company at Flemington on Saturday when scoring a dominant win in the Group II VRC Sires Produce Stakes (1400m).

The three-year-old Dream Ahead (USA) filly Marboosha showed she will be competitive at the highest level this autumn following a barnstorming win in Saturday’s Listed Incognitus Stakes (1100m) at Flemington.

Talented three-year-old The Gift proved too tough for her age group rivals at Wingatui on Saturday as she collected her first black-type success in the Listed NZB Insurance Stakes (1400m).

Richard and Michael Freedman did not have long to reflect on the luckless fourth of Stay Inside in the Todman Stakes before the mood brightened considerably when the Zoustar filly Glistening held off a hard-charging Swift Witness in the Group II Yarraman Park Reisling Stakes (1200m) at Randwick.

Golden Slipper betting opened up after the first three favourites in the betting met defeat for the first time in Saturday’s Group II Todman Stakes (1200m) at Randwick.

Hollywood-handsome Snitzel colt wild Ruler has been burning up the training tracks, and at his first start since finishing third to September Run in the Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington last October, proved a class above in the Listed Fireball Stakes at Randwick.

After opening the programme with a stakes-winning two-year-old last week with the Capitalist filly Tycoon Humma, John McArdle kick-started Super Saturday at Flemington with the unbeaten two-year-old La Rocque in the Group III TBV Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes (1200m).

The former Toby Edmonds-trained flyer Houtzen had her first foal, a colt by Curlin, at Stonestreet Farm, Kentucky.

The first season sires division have been making news every Saturday and will have every opportunity to keep the ball rolling again today with loads of interesting runners around Australia.

Making his second trip to the races, the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained He's Xceptional created a huge impression in a 1000m 2yo maiden at Cranbourne of Friday to claim the honour as the first winner for Newhaven Park Stud's Xtravagant.

The rejuvenated Your Song gelding Gem Song made it three consecutive wins for trainer Kris Lees and owners Australian Bloodstock with a heart-stopping win in Friday’s $160,000 Group III Newcastle Newmarket.

In a race that kick-started the career of Montefilia, the even money favourite Tea Leaves opened his winning account in Friday’s Beaumont Handicap (1400m) at Newcastle.

The Gr.1 Vodafone New Zealand Derby (2400m) meeting will take place at Ellerslie on Sunday after New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden announced Auckland would drop to COVID-19 Alert Level 2 at 6am on Sunday.

The Hermitage Thoroughbreds colours enjoyed phenomenal success when carried by glamour Redoute’s Choice colt The Autumn Sun and while Green Flash has a way to go to live up to that standard, the expensive son of Redoute’s Choice did make a winning debut at Newcastle on Friday.

Standout filly Amarelinha (NZ) (Savabeel) tops the 2020-21 New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series table, and a trip to Ellerslie for Sunday’s $70,000 Group Three McKee Family Sunline Vase (2100m) gives her the chance to add to her advantage. 

WA breeders Bob Peters and Robert Anderson will renew their Group 1 rivalry in the Newmarket Hcp (1200m) at Flemington this Saturday.

Bradbury Park principals Casey and Michelle Dando are fizzing ahead of the Gr.1 Vodafone New Zealand Derby (2400m) at Ellerslie on Sunday.

Here is the full list of 35 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Thursday with winners and result details.

Popular Port Macquarie trainer Neil Godbolt can’t believe his luck in having an American Pharoah (USA) in his stable with leggy gelding Buck Pharoah opening his account at his home track on Thursday.

A rare opportunity to participate in the world’s richest race on turf has arisen, with a slot in The Everest up for sale.

Four Group 1s evenly divided between Flemington and Randwick on Saturday with a massive twenty stakes races, including four intriguing events for the two-year-olds, but wait, there’s more.

The list of Australia’s busiest sires for 2020 highlights the trend away from Danehill line stallions with only five of the Top 20 being direct Danehill male line descendants and include none of the top six that covered 200 plus mares.

Talented three-year-old The Irishman made a winning start for new trainer Mark Newnham when successful over 1400m at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

Cambridge trainer Andrew Forsman will have a rare afternoon off on Saturday, but his eyes will be firmly fixed on high-class three-year-old Aegon, who will start a warm favourite in the Gr.1 Randwick Guineas (1600m) in Sydney.

There were six heats for two year-olds at Rosehill on Thursday morning featuring winners for first season sires Capitalist and Tivaci with the fastest heat taken out by a well bred filly by Not a Single Doubt.

Currently leading the first season sires list and the overall two year-old sires list, Newgate Farm’s Capitalist added a seventh winner – six in Australia and on in NZ – to his tally at Launceston on Wednesday evening.

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

Fresh from achieving 100% clearance at Inglis Premier, the Mill Park team are ready for more sales action at the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale (March 9, 10) where they will present a top class draft of 12.

The Rich Enuff gelding Orbisyn looks to have a very bright future after making a winning career debut in very testing ground over 1100m at Doomben on Wednesday.