A daring last to first move before the turn by Billy Egan paved the way for Cherry Tortoni to get back on track with a courageous win in Saturday’s Group II Moonee Valley Drummond Golf Vase (2040m), which lost a major player when Young Werther was scratched earlier in the day due to the deteriorating track.

The spectacular rise of Shamus Award took another step forward when his first crop daughter Sovereign Award made it three wins in succession following an the way in Saturday’s Group III Powerflo Solutions (Tesio) Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley.

Today’s $500,000 Listed Inglis Banner winner Sneaky Five was named the moment Rosemont’s Anthony Mithen and Nigel Austin bought her at this year’s Premier Yearling Sale.

The champagne corks will be popping at Newgate Farm as one after another of their resident stallions hit the board on Saturday, the latest being the Dissident filly Yes Baby Yes who could not be caught in Saturday’s Group II $300,000 Lexus Fillies Classic (1600m) at Moonee Valley.

A wonderful day for Newgate Farm’s first season stallion Extreme Choice, who shortly after a milestone first winner with Palamos at Te Rapa, struck again with the debutant Tiger Of Malay in the Kirkham Plate (1000m) at Randwick.

The striking Deep Field colt Portland Sky jumped straight to the front and made every post a winner in Saturday’s $200,000 Group III PFD Food Services Red Anchor Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley.

Newgate Farm’s Extreme Choice is off the mark after the heavily backed Palamos made a winning career debut over 1000 metres at Te Rapa on Saturday.

Here is the full list of 60 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Friday with winners and result details.

Coolmore have announced their US fees for 2021 with reductions for many stallions including Triple Crown heroes American Pharoah and Justify, who are both covering mares in Australia this spring.

Three years after winning the $1 million Group 1 Manikato Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley, the Tony and Calvin McEvoy trained Hey Doc turned back the clock to win the feature again at Moonee Valley on Friday night.

It’s always painful to geld a well bred colt, particularly one that topped the 2018 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale when selling for $2.3million, but in the case of Fastnet Rock four year-old Groundswell it might prove a masterstroke.

A Group III winner at Moonee Valley last spring, talented Brazen Beau four year-old Sartorial Splendor lost all form in the autumn and was subsequently gelded, but returned with a sizzling performance at Moonee Valley on Friday night.

The New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series has been expanded to 11 legs this season with the addition of the $70,000 Group Three Waikato Stud Soliloquy Stakes (1400m), which will be run at Te Rapa on Saturday. 

There was just one heat for two year-olds at Warwick Farm on Friday morning and it was won by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott with a son of their Golden Slipper winner Vancouver.

The Bloodstockauction.com catalogue for October 22 – 27 is now online featuring a strong selection of racehorses, yearlings and broodmares.

NSW Racehorse Owners Association delayed the awarding of their 2019/20 NSW Racing Industry winners this year, in the hope that it could be held as a ‘live’ event, rather than online.

There is a very long list of first season runners for this weekend with the Inglis Banner at Moonee Valley on Saturday featuring eight juveniles by first crop sires.

Group I racing starts tonight at Moonee Valley with the MVRC Manikato Stakes (1200m) and for the two stallions engaged to run the race could well be a game changer.

Spirit of Boom has been crowned Champion Sire of Queensland for a second consecutive year in the 2019/20 racing season. His achievement included an impressive 96 individual winners (inc 5 stakes winners) earning $6,120,720 in Australia for the season. He also received the award for Champion 2YO Stallion of Queensland producing 15 individual 2yo winners earning $1,050,441.

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

A smorgasbord of the world’s best bloodlines awaits on Saturday for the WS Cox Plate, but it’s Friday nights Group 1 Manikato Stakes (1200m) where we hope to build a bank

The top flight of Australian racing is among the highest echelons of the sport anywhere in the world. Although, stallions sourced from the other side of the Tasman are more than holding their own.

Every second sprint race is acclaimed as a ‘sire making race’, but current evidence would suggest the Cox Plate is in fact a great yardstick for sire success with four past winners of the race currently placed in the Top 20 Australian Sires by earnings.

Champion North American sire Tapit has had his fee reduced for 2021.

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

Woodside Park’s Foxwedge has a habit for producing talented fillies and we saw one at Geelong on Wednesday when progressive four year-old mare Wild Vixen resumed from a spell to win the Listed Black Pearl Stakes (1200m).

There was a Group III at Leopardstown look about Wednesday's $400,000 Group III Bet365 Geelong Cup (2400m) however the winner Steel Prince (IRE) is just about a naturalised citizen having taken his earnings to over $1 million in two years in his adopted homeland.

Connections of Confrontational face a decision before Friday whether to stump up a $110,000 late entry fee in Victoria Derby for Confrontational after the son of Redoute’s Choice scored a decisive win in Wednesday’s Listed Roderick Insurance Geelong Classic (2200m).

As the Thoroughbred industry becomes increasingly global, Australian buyers are expanding their horizons in search of the world’s best breeding stock. For any Australian breeder, the Keeneland November Sale is a can’t-miss opportunity to obtain high-quality bloodstock that will excel in Australia.

For many years the Moruya Jockey Club has played a significant role at equestrian shows around the South Coast.

The facts, figures and Group One graduates that have come out of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale paint a picture of a sale that is one of a kind.

Prince Lancealot was a winner at Saint Clopud and Group III placed going into this race and scored a dominant two and a half length win, his second from four starts.

Darley have announced their US fees for 2021 with all bar one stallion having their fee reduced including Medaglia D’Oro, who tops the list at $US150,000.

This debut winner at Grafton on Tuesday was an eye-catcher for three reasons - her obvious talent, her unique nature in being the first winner for a sire nobody has heard of and the fact her name is that of myself and my daughter, so of course we were on her!

Records were broken and tears were flowing as a day of boisterous trade ensured the 2020 Inglis Ready2Race Sale was the most successful ever held.

Lot 162 was the most expensive pinhook offered in the Inglis Ready2Race this year and the Deep Field colt from Wind Shift proved well worth the gamble when he sold for $610,000 setting a new record price for this sale.

After Savabeel three year-old Albarado put himself into Victoria Derby contention when winning the Group II MRC Caulfield Classic (2000m) last Saturday, his co-trainer Trent Busuttin declared he was in the market for more stock by his sire and he duly found something to his liking at the Inglis Ready2Race.

Everyone knows the sad story of the tragic loss of promising two year old Hot ‘n’ Hazy following a race fall back in July at Rosehill leaving his trainer Danny Williams devastated.

Fresh from winning The Everest last Saturday with his superstar sprinter Classique Legend, Hong Kong based owner Bon Ho was quick to reinvest some of his winnings at the Inglis Ready2Race securing Lot 35, a fleet  footed gelding by Capitalist.

It’s been a sticky start to the Inglis Ready2Race Sale this morning but Lot 21, a Pride of Dubai colt from Impressive Eagle certainly found favour with the market.

Star Kiwi mare Melody Belle will be making a hit-and-run raid to Melbourne for the Gr.1 $A2 million Mackinnon Stakes (2000m) at Flemington on November 7.

High class three-year-old colt ENGLISH KING, who went to post as 100/30 second favourite for the Derby, is to be offered for sale as a ‘Wildcard’ at next week’s Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale. He will be catalogued as lot 1153A and will be offered on Wednesday 28th October.

Combining the blood of champion sires Dubawi and Galileo, Ghaiyyath put up not one, not two, but three of the four best performances of any racehorse in the world this year and has been officially retired from racing to stand at Kildangan Stud next year.

The Mornington meeting on Monday provided Melbourne Cup winning jockey Michelle Payne with her first training treble and one of those winners may never win a Melbourne Cup, but he’s certainly bred to be there.

Here is the full list of 16 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Telemon Thoroughbreds Sidestep is nothing if not versatile - his 3yo son Theleme was a four-length winner of a €110,000 Group II hurdle over 3600m at Auteuilin, France overnight followed by the first two winners at Muswellbrook on Monday over 900m and 1000m.

The performance of dainty New Zealand-bred mare Verry Elleegant fending off Epsom Derby-winning blueblood Anthony Van Dyck in Saturday’s Gr.1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) is a triumph for all who dare to dream in the sport of thoroughbred racing and breeding.

The 2020 Inglis Ready2Race Sale gets underway on Tuesday morning at 10 am and for those looking for some quick information on their past sale history our pinhook report has all the answers.

Classy Nostradamus filly Tinker McPhee has been sold to the Chris Waller stable, but Kiwi race fans will see a little bit more of the 3yo in coming weeks. 

At Sha Tin on Sunday exciting Deep Field gelding Winning Dreamer kept his record at a perfect four for four when scoring a stylish win over 1200m.

2020 has been a testing year for most of us, but it hasn’t been all bad for Not a Single Doubt, who was retired from stud duty back in February.

Champion sire I Am Invincible sired his first stakes-winner in Hong Kong on Sunday when talented sprinter Wishful Thinker captured the Group II Premier Bowl (1200m) at Sha Tin.

Aussie bred HK superstar Golden Sixty took another step on his path toward the 2020 LONGINES Hong Kong International Races with an impressive win in the Group II Sha tin Trophy (1600m) at Sha Tin on Sunday.

The Listed Michaelmas Handicap (1900m) at Greyville in South Africa on Sunday was won by Australian bred Camelot (IRE) gelding Crown Towers, the second Mill Park sold stakes-winner on Sunday joining All Too Huiying, winner of the Listed Seymour Cup.

Preparations for Tuesday’s Inglis Ready2Race Sale continued at Riverside today with the annual Veuve Clicquot Champagne Brunch and catalogue parade.

This nick involving two champion New Zealand sires produced a new stakes-winner on Saturday in Albarado and another on Sunday in Cornflower Blue.

That mighty warrior Happy Trails would have been proud of the determination showed by his half-brother All Too Huiying in Sundays $200,000 Listed Bet365 Seymour Cup (1600m) at Kilmore.

The Chris Munce-trained Berdini's Girl was friendless in the betting at her career debut in Sundays $50,000 Haymans Electrical Caloundra Hcp (1000m) at the Sunshine Coast, but that did not stop her winning like a filly with a future.

On the eve of the Inglis Ready2Race Sale there is no better advertisement than a top class sales graduate and we saw one on Saturday with the Kim Waugh trained Trumbull taking out the Group III ATC  Sydney Stakes (1200m).

There were tears at Randwick and tears at Tyreel Stud as superstar grey Classique Legend (Not A Single Doubt) raced his way into equine stardom with a barnstorming victory in the $15m The Everest.

There was a familiar team in action at British Champions Day at Ascot overnight with the William Haggas trained Pivotal gelding Addeybb taking out the featured Group I Champion Stakes (1m2f) under Tom Marquand.

Following his win in the Group II Theo Marks Stakes at Rosehill on August 12, Wild Planet did not have much luck when midfield in the Group 1 Epsom Handicap at Randwick as he most recent start.

Widden Stud’s champion sire Zoustar enjoyed a two state stakes double on Saturday with Madam Rouge successful at Caufield and Indian Pacific claiming his first Black Type win in Perth.

Here is the full list of 144 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A homebred for Bylong Park, progressive So You Think gelding Think It Over upped the ante at Randwick on Saturday to post his first Black Type victory taking out the Group III ATC Craven Plate (2000m).

A blue-collar mare by a sire that won nothing more than a maiden at Hawkes Bay, repelling the challenge of an Epsom Derby-winning toff by the great Galileo, Saturdays $5 million Group 1 Stella Artois Caulfield Cup (2400m) was a race to savour.

It’s been a long time between drinks for five year-old Star Witness stallion Graff, who returned from the wilderness to win the Group II MRC Caulfield Sprint (1000m) on Saturday.

Run at breakneck speed, The Everest (1200m) set up perfectly for a backmarker, and there are few better at that caper than Classique Legend who turned the $15 million feature at Randwick into a walk in the park.

There was plenty against the favourite It’s Me in Saturday’s $1,300,000 The Kosciuszko (1200m) at Randwick. However, this undefeated daughter of Shamus Award is a class apart.

Superstar racemare Melody Belle celebrated being named New Zealand Horse of the Year last Sunday evening when she stormed home to take out her twelfth individual Group One title at Hastings on Saturday.

Cambridge visitor Hypnos gained his second victory at stakes level the hard way when he held out the late charge of race favourite Rock On Wood to win the Group III Red Badge Spring Sprint (1400m) at Hastings.

With a memorable win over subsequent dual Group I winner Loving Gaby in Melbourne last spring, I Am Invincible mare California Zimbol has always had some impressive talent and she showed it again at Caulfield on Saturday winning the Listed MRC Alinghi Stakes (1100m).

The three-year-old all Too Hard filly Forbidden Love needed to dig deep under her topweight in Saturday's Listed Tresemme Reginald Allen Quality (1400m) at Randwick, and she did not let anyone down.

Bred and sold by Rosemont Stud, three year-old Hinchinbrook filly Chica Fuerte earned some valuable Black Type on Saturday when taking out he Group III MRC Ethereal Stakes (2000m).

Sangster was the first serious horse to put trainer Trent Busuttin on the map when winning the 2011 Victoria Derby and Busuttin hopes he can win the race again this year with another son of Savabeel in Albarado, winner of the Group III MRC Caulfield Classic (2000m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

A runaway winner at Cranbourne when on debut, Endanger had little luck when beaten into third at Moonee Valley at his most recent start. That caught the eye of punters who sent the son of Medaglia d’Oro off as favourite for Saturday’s Listed Polytrack Gothic Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.

Out of the winner’s circle for over a year, the four-year-old Fiorente gelding Power Scheme justified the faith of punters with a fighting win in the opener over 1700 metres on Caulfield Cup day.

It only seemed fitting that Peter and Paul Snowden, who trained Golden Slipper winner Capitalist to Champion 2YO honours, should also put the polish on his very first winner with exciting colt Captivant saluting on debut at Randwick on Saturday.

Kentucky based Claiborne Farm have announced stud fees for 2021 with reductions for a number of their sires including War Front.

Here is the full list of 56 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A last start winner of the Listed Balaklava Cup, the Tony and Calvin McEvoy trained Dawn Approach (IRE) gelding Winning Partner made it back to back stakes wins when taking out the Listed Murray Bridge Gold Cup (1600m) on Friday.

Breeze ups have been finalised and inspections are underway at Riverside as preparations for the Inglis Ready2Race Sale head into overdrive.

Zhongli Thoroughbreds will offer a diverse draft of two year-olds at the upcoming Inglis Ready2Race Sale prepared and presented by various vendors, the draft featuring outstanding colts by boom first season sires  Shalaa (IRE) and Capitalist, who sired his first winner at Randwick on Saturday. .

Two heats for juveniles at the Rosehill trials on Friday morning produced a pair of interesting winners in the most expensive Australian yearling sired by American Pharoah (USA) and a Godolphin homebred by I Am Invincible.

The Bloodstockauction.com catalogue for October 15 – 20 is now online featuring a strong selection of racehorses, yearlings and broodmares.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s annual Ready to Run Sale Breeze Ups saw 255 two-year-olds gallop down the home straight of Te Rapa Racecourse earlier this week. 

Otaki trainers Johno Benner and Hollie Wynyard have plenty to look forward to this season with a trio of promising three-year-old fillies.

First season sires will have runners in races on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, so let’s take a look and see who is in the running to post an all important winner.

Here is the full list of 38 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A delighted Daniel Nakhle and Darren Brady are reaching for the stallion register tonight before popping corks, having managed to ward off strong international competition to buy out shareholders in Spanish Whisper (Lope De Vega) for an online record-setting AU$1,202,500.

With six stakes-winners already this season, headed by the Group 1 winners Ole Kirk, Pippie and Odeum, Written Tycoon has a near $2 million gap to his closest pursuer for the sire title. Yet come Sunday morning there will be a new name atop the champion sire leader board.

Inspections begin tomorrow (Friday October 16) at Riverside Stables for Inglis’ Ready2Race Sale.

Superstar stallions have lit up racetracks on both sides of the Tasman this season, and now their two-year-olds are set to impress at the 2020 Ready to Run Sale, held on 18 and 19 November at the iconic Karaka Sales centre.

The use of stallions in their second season has led to the conception of some outstanding racetrack performers including Champion 2YO’s, Champion 3YO’s, Champion Stayers, Champion Sprinters and Champion Sires of the future.

The last of the Ebbett VW New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association National Breeding Awards have been announced.

Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.

Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale came to a close with a further five lots selling for 300,000 guineas or more as demand for quality yearlings continued unabated. In total there were nineteen lots that sold for 300,000 guineas or more and 48 that sold for 200,000 guineas or more, both records for this fixture. 

Zhongli Thoroughbreds will offer a diverse draft of two year-olds at the upcoming Inglis Ready2Race Sale prepared and presented by various vendors, the draft featuring a cracking Deep Field colt that has Hong Kong written all over him and a Charge Forward colt the mirror image of his sire.

Oakland Park Stud’s handsome son of Lonhro, Sessions, is posting some outstanding figures and his progeny have only just turned 4.

12 upcoming shows with Thoroughbred Sport Horse Association classes including six shows in nine days across three states!