Talented sprinter Platinum Attack finally got the track conditions and racing luck he deserved when taking out the Listed CareVets NZ Lightning Handicap (1200m) at Trentham.

A last start victory on her home track at Wingatui less than a week ago provided the springboard for underrated mare Inflamed to capture an all-important black type victory in the Gr.3 Donaldson Brown South Island Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m) at Riccarton.

A brilliant front-running ride from leading jockey Craig Grylls paved the way for gutsy filly Origin Of Love to bolt away with the Gr.2 Taylor Property Plus Wellington Guineas (1600m) at Trentham for the Te Akau Racing team.

Danny O’Brien is fast becoming head of the So You Think fan club given he trains not one but two outstanding three year-old fillies by the much missed Coolmore stalwart sire in Sass Appeal and Getta Good Feeling, who won the Group III MRC Alexandra Stakes (1600m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

Already the winner of three black type races in Western Australia highlighted by the G2 WA Derby-G3 WA Oaks double, 4yo Maschino mare Machine Gun Gracie was having just her second start for new trainers Ben, Will & JD Hayes, recording success in the $250,000 G3 ATC Epona Stakes (1900m) at Rosehill.

This time last year the Anthony and Sam Freedman trained Beskar was showing immense promise with a debut win and a third in the Group III ATC Kindergarten Stakes, but it’s taken him a year to turn talent into stakes success.

Ciaron Maher’s progressive stayer Mr Monaco (GB) looks a live contender for the upcoming $2m G1 ATC Sydney Cup (3200m) after his tough victory on Saturday in the $250,000 G3 ATC N E Manion (2400m) at Rosehill.

The Lindsay Park team have had plenty of 2YO winners this season including speedy Capitalist gelding Rich on Bubbles, who made it three wins in a row when landing the $175,000 Listed MRC Valley Pearl (1200m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

Some of the best stables in the country had runners in the $200,000 Listed Albury Gold Cup (2000m) on Friday that offered Big Dance eligibility to the winner, but they all came up short behind the local entry Bianco Vilano.

Young Widden Stud based sire Russian Camelot (IRE) has had plenty of promising 3YO winners over the summer months and one of them is Beyond Question, who scored a facile win in the $80,000 Albury Guineas (1400m) on Friday.

Here is the full list of 47 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A colt by Tassort led the way on Day Two of the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale when realising $120,000 at the Morphettville auction on Friday afternoon.

Strong drafts from Godolphin and Halo Racing – which provided last year’s G1 Caulfield and Melbourne Cup winner Half Yours in its most recent significant Inglis Digital reduction – headline an exciting catalogue for the March (Late) Online Sale.

Four heats at the Warwick Farm trials on Friday were won by juveniles that included a smart filly down from Queensland that has entries for both the G1 Sires’ Produce Stakes and G2 Percy Sykes.

Widden Stud young gun Jacquinot had a great result during the first session of the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale when a colt from Behaviourism sold for $130,000 to astute purchasers John Foote Bloodstock (FBAA)/Merrick Staunton acting for HK based clients.

A return to Trentham on Saturday is expected to bring out the best in Waimea Bay when she lines up in Saturday’s Gr.2 Taylor Property Plus Wellington Guineas (1600m).

It's here - it's Slippertime! After the obligatory weeks and months of speculation, the form reversals, forlorn pre-post betting hunches gone wrong and a few sudden revelations of brilliance - the 2026 Golden Slipper field is assembled and we are all set to go.

The foaling and covering season is well underway at the Aga Khan Studs in both Ireland and France, with the stallions set to have another busy spring and one of the mares in this stellar broodmare band that holds plenty of interest for Australia is the dam of leading sire The Autumn Sun, who may well have a G1 double at Rosehill this Saturday.

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

A lovely filly by Australia's reigning champion sire Zoustar topped Day One of the 2026 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale at Morphettville on Thursday.

Longwood Thoroughbred Farm is excited to announce the appointment of Kelly Jackson as its new Farm Manager, bringing more than 20 years of international experience in managing Thoroughbred breeding farms to one of Australia’s most progressive farms.

The Inglis Digital April (Late) and May (Early) Sales will both be extended by a day to facilitate dedicated Inglis Digital Australian Broodmare Sale Sessions.

The G1 mare Arabian Summer (Too Darn Hot) will be one of the standout offerings in this year’s Inglis Chairman’s Sale, for which entries must close tomorrow.

Emerging three-year-old Flashback has progressed well during his fledgling career and higher honours beckon the son of Darci Brahma at Trentham on Saturday.

Rosehill is set to host one of the great days of Australian racing on Saturday with a 10 race card featuring nine stakes races and five of them are G1 races worth a collective $8.75million, so if you have a good horse in work in Sydney, chances are it’s running this Saturday!

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

Best known as the sire of Champion Sprinter Nature Strip, Nicconi is one of those evergreen sires that always has a handy horse out running for him and he has a very promising three year-old that landed his third win at Caulfield on Wednesday.

Lightly raced three-year-old Good Show was the top seller of the Magic Millions (13-18 March) Digital Sale which concluded today.

Godolphin bought only one yearling from the 2024 Magic Millions Yearling Sale paying $250,000 for a filly by Extreme Choice and she made a winning debut at Wyong on Wednesday.

Promising Zoustar filly Rachini has been a filly showing potential from the time she was broken in and scored her first win at Wyong on Wednesday in a metro juvenile contest prompting connections to aim a lot higher.

A busy time on-farm and a lack of suitable races has prompted Waverley trainer Joanne Moss to send her stable star Doctor Askar across the Tasman to join champion trainer Chris Waller.

Promising filly Summer Schemer will have the opportunity at Pukekohe to press her claims for a crack at an upcoming elite level prize.

The Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale next week features the crème de la crème of Australian pedigrees, but you also need a horse with the right physical from a farm with a proven track record to tip the scales in your favour.

A big part of the Golden Slipper is the wheeling and dealing surrounding the colts and the ownership they are in right now, may not be the same this time next week.

There are Slipper winners and there are SLIPPER WINNERS, but only one has ever been crowned Australian Horse of the Year based on what they did in their juvenile season.

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

New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) has confirmed that it will recognise and support the enforcement of key traceability provisions within the Australian Rules of Racing relating to broodmare returns and foal ownership declarations.

We've been following all the trials and tribulations leading up to this year's Golden Slipper and after this morning's barrier draw the picture has become somewhat more clear - will it be a Slipper for the stallion syndicates or can a star filly rise to conquer or can the lone gelding spring a surprise?

The $5million 2026 Golden Slipper field and barrier draw has been declared with many of the race favourites faring poorly including the Bjorn Baker pair of Paradoxium and Warwoven.

Entries for NZB’s 2026 National Weanling Sale are now open, with the Sale set to be held at the Karaka Sales Centre on Thursday 25 June.

Back in 2020, Farnan was the dominant colt going into the Golden Slipper and he came out of it the winner and six years on he is still dominant!

Connections of talented juvenile Eternal Warrior will always wonder what might have been had he made it to the Golden Slipper this Saturday, but what we do know is that he has elite ability and that makes his half-sister a watch horse for Magic Millions Adelaide this week.

Turning bloodlines into headlines is synonymous with Kia Ora Stud, and the Hunter Valley nursery reinforced that reputation at Rosehill on Saturday when homebred juveniles Warwoven and Pembrey both produced stakes-winning performances to propel themselves into contention for this weekend’s G1 Golden Slipper.

Here is the full list of 9 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

When Richard Anderson of Quilly Park in Victoria decided last year to send a couple of yearlings across for the Magic Millions Yearling Sale in Adelaide he could not foresee that one of them would be getting a significant pedigree update.

Stakes-winning 2YO Kiki Express, in foal to world-class stallion Extreme Choice, is the latest star addition to what is building to be another stellar catalogue for the Inglis Chairman’s Sale.

There was only one race run at Nowra on Monday after a mechanical issue with the barriers put paid to the remainder of the meeting, but that was enough for champion trainer Chris Waller to send out a winner for his 2018 Group I ATC Australian Oaks winner Unforgotten.

Attention turns to Caulfield on Tuesday morning as a quality group of elite performers are put through their paces ahead of the Moonee Valley Racing Club’s William Reid Stakes meeting on Saturday.

There were four heats won by juveniles at the Randwick trials on Monday with winners including the unraced half-sister to Tentyris and a flashy son of Extreme Choice that will be a head-turner when he steps into the mounting yard on race day.

Girl Talk’s hot run of form has earned her an early crack at a black-type feature at the scene of her latest triumph.

Racehorses competing into their double-digit years are common in jumping ranks, but those in the mould of weekend winner Butterfield are by far the exception.

Workforce development remains central to the long-term sustainability of Australia’s thoroughbred breeding industry.

Much missed champion sire Snitzel has sired three of the past eight Golden Slipper winners and is set to play a part in this year’s Golden Slipper with five of the top seven qualifiers exempt from ballot featuring the Arrowfield icon in their pedigree.

Here is the full list of 67 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The opportunity to acquire a yearling by one of the world’s best stallions will ensure maximum eyes are on this year’s Inglis HTBA Yearling Sale, for which the catalogue is now available online.

The Listed JC Roberts Stakes 1800m produced a new stakes-winner for the beautifully bred Astern, who was exported to Turkey last year - a sad loss, in my humble opinion but the 2016 G1 Golden Rose hero held his spot on the Darley roster for a good length of time.

A $3,000 bargain filly has the Group III WATC WA Oaks in her sights .

It may have taken a little longer than trainers Kevin and Stephen Gray had hoped, but well-related gelding So We Go finally broke through for his maiden victory at Wanganui on Saturday.

Awapuni visitor Platinum Pantheon enhanced his reputation as a horse going places when he ran down pacemaker Lucy In The Sky to win the J Swap Contractors 3YO (1200m) at Tauranga on Saturday.

Another Victorian Owners and Breeders Race Day at Caulfield has wrapped up, and what an exciting day it was! Showcasing the best of Victorian-bred talent and with over $3.7m in prizemoney and bonuses up for grabs, it was a lucrative and electric day for all owners. The event also featured an Equine Welfare Hub, featuring ex-racehorses from Living Legends.

Three-time G1 winner Provence (Savabeel) is the latest star attraction confirmed for the Inglis Chairman’s Sale.

After the final round of Golden Slipper lead up races at Rosehill on Saturday the order of entry for the world’s richest 2YO race now looks like this with Pembrey and Warwoven securing their place.

Here is the full list of 96 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Bryce Heys was the trainer of ill-fated stallion Spieth, a brilliant stakes-winning sprinter who died after just four seasons at stud, and he is also putting the polish on his best runner to date Flying for Fun.

Horses carrying the Vinery V brand have been racing up a storm in recent weeks and they delivered a stakes double at Rosehill on Saturday with Sixties winning the Group II ATC Phar Lap Stakes (1500m) and then Cristal Clear snared his first Black Type win in the $300,000 Group II Ajax Stakes (1500m).

Trainer Chris Waller continued his outstanding run of success in the $1m G1 ATC Coolmore Classic (1500m), winning the Rosehill feature for the fourth consecutive year, as B2B Thoroughbreds' 4yo Snitzel mare Lazzura recorded her first elite level victory.

There are none better at identifying a bargain yearling and turning it into a sales incentive race winner than Liam Birchley and fresh from his Karaka Million success with Dream Roca, he was at it again at the Gold Coast on Saturday with Swift Dragon.

Off the back of his last start win in the G2 VRC Blamey Stakes (1600m), Chris Waller’s 5yo Free Eagle gelding Birdman (IRE) further enhanced his G1 VRC Australian Cup (2000m) prospects with dominant victory in Saturday’s $500,000 G2 MRC Peter Young Stakes (1800m) at Caulfield.

Champion trainer Chris Waller had won eight of the previous 11 runnings of the $300,000 Group II ATC Phar Lap Stakes (1500m) going into Saturday and kept up the great strike rate when Sixties saluted as a short priced favourite.

Two weeks after the sad news of the passing of Champion mare Makybe Diva, the well-known Tony Santic silks were worn to success by the Phillip Stokes trained Big Wigs (Gold Standard) in the $1m The TBV VOBIS Platinum Showdown (1200m) at Caulfield.

Adding a second consecutive victory in the $350,000 G3 ATC Sky High Stakes (2000m) to his record, it’s interesting to note that if his current owners hadn’t stepped in and purchased Vauban (Fr) from his international connections, we may well have seen him contesting races at this year’s Cheltenham Jumps Festival.

Awapuni visitors enjoyed back-to-back success at Tauranga when Omega Boy claimed the feature race on the card, the Gr.2 Ultimate Mazda Japan Trophy (1600m), just one race after Platinum Pantheon defeated a handy field of three-year-olds over 1200m.

The rollercoaster ride of racing has been playing out for popular trainer Bjorn Baker this year with his top class colts Paradoxium and Warwoven both ruled out of the Magic Millions 2YO Classic, but now he’s back cooking with gas and ‘touch wood’ both are set to take their place in the Golden Slipper next Saturday.

Kia Ora Stud were unable to sell Pembrey when she was offered at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale Book 2 last year with a modest $20,000 reserve, but the decision to keep her has proven a good one with the filly leading all the way to win the $250,000 Group III ATC Magic Night Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill on Saturday.

Stylish Secret’s victory in the A$80,000 DCE Handicap (2000m) at Caulfield on Saturday lifted his career earnings to A$398,525 – an outstanding return on the New Zealand-bred gelding’s purchase price of just $2,300 on Gavelhouse.com.

Exciting two-year-old Ronaldo showed maturity beyond his years when winning the Palamountains Nutrition 2YO (1200m) at Wanganui on Saturday, and trainer Robbie Patterson is excited about the future with the progressive son of Ribchester as he eyes the Gr.1 Courtesy Ford Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) at Trentham in a fortnight.

Here is the full list of 61 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A much admired colt by popular sire Zousain topped the 2026 Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale when selling for $250,000 this afternoon.

Bidding is now open for the Magic Millions Digital (13-18 March) Sale with bidding to close next Wednesday on a quality line-up. 

Less than a week after the colours of Ron and Judi Wanless featured aboard Group I New Zealand Derby winner Road to Paris, they were back in the winner’s circle again on Friday when Feminino took out the $250,000 Group III Kembla Grange Classic (1600m).

The first ever G1 race in Australia exclusively for fillies and older mares, the ATC Coolmore Classic (1500m) has stood the test of time and invariably the winner earns a passport to a lucrative commercial stud career and three past winners have yearlings entered for the 2026 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

Popular grey Chattahoochee made a pleasing return to the races at Matamata last month for part-owner Lisa Anderson, and the Cambridge horsewoman is looking forward to giving him his first stakes test under her care in the Gr.2 Ultimate Mazda Japan Trophy (1600m) at Tauranga on Saturday.

Sorghaghtani will get a well-deserved tilt at black-type at Tauranga on Saturday but only if her trainers can find a suitable jockey.

New Plymouth trainer Robbie Patterson looks to have an exciting juvenile on his hands in Ronaldo, and he is hoping the son of Ribchester can score again at Wanganui on Saturday.

There's always been a lot of fanfare around “sire making” races - and happily, these days  “broodmare- making” races are also held in far greater esteem by the general punting public than they were in years gone by. 

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

Champion local trainer Tony Gollan made his presence felt on Day One of the 2026 Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale securing a number of classy youngsters including the top seller of the day.

Group One Classic winner SAVAGLEE, the best credentialed stallion prospect of exceptional sire SAVABEEL has been confirmed to stand at Mapperley Stud.

I’m a bit late to the party with the pedigree story this week, but sometimes life and horses get in the way of work, although with seven G1 races in Australasia last Saturday and four of them won by brand new G1 winners,  further investigation is required!

An elite-level test looms for promising I Am Invincible juvenile Seize The Day following his comfortable maiden victory in the AKW Farrier LTD 2YO (1200m) at Matamata on Wednesday.

Widden Stud’s Zousain hit 60 Australian winners for the season on Wednesday and is the leading third crop sire by winners with progeny earnings topping $3million and 13 yearlings to be offered at Magic Millions Gold Coast March.

Here is the full list of 45 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Australian race goers are set to see many more horses by top class sire Super Seth in years to come since his acquisition by Coolmore Australia and he featured at Sandown on Wednesday with a very promising new winner.

A pair of progressive Ciaron Maher-trained 3YOs headed today’s Inglis Digital March (Early) Online Sale.

Castelvecchio is locked and loaded for G1 success in the next 10 days with star mares Aeliana and Verona Rose set to contest Group I features and at Warwick Farm on Wednesday Joe Pride produced a debut winner for the sire in the $100,000 Super Maiden (1100m).

The equal most expensive yearling by champion sire Snitzel ever sold, $2.8million Magic Millions purchase The Next Episode opened his account at Warwick Farm on Wednesday with a stylish win as a short priced favourite.

The shortlist has been announced for the 2026 Australian Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards (ATIEA), recognising the outstanding people who work across Australia’s thoroughbred breeding and racing sectors.

The juvenile fillies maiden over 1000m at Warwick Farm on Wednesday featured some very expensive fillies, but it was a Kiwi bred that took the prize with Satono Aladdin (Jpn) filly Satono Glow creating a fine impression with a debut win.

Further to our announcement on 17 December 2025 in which we confirmed our desire to appoint a Black Type Advisory Group (BTAG), Racing Australia is pleased to advise that its Board has unanimously approved the formation of the BTAG with the following industry representation:

Even with the ultimate NZB Kiwi victory signed and delivered by Well Written on Champions Day, there’s been no let-up for the unbeaten filly’s trainer Stephen Marsh.