I Am Invincible was expected to have the winner in the $1million Group III MRC Thoroughbred Club Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on Saturday with race favourite My Gladiola coming out of a second placing in the Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes, but it was another daughter of the champion sire that got the cash.

A $10,000 Inglis Digital bargain buy that started her racing career with wins at Rockhampton and Townsville, three year-old filly Sheza Alibi came to the attention of racegoers at Flemington on Derby Day and put the seal on her meteoric rise with a scintillating win in the $400,000 Group II Sandown Guineas at Caulfield don Saturday.

The only thing certain as horses slogged their way to the winning post in Saturday’s Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) was that Matamata trainer Pam Gerard would produce the quinella in the Riccarton classic.

Respected Wanganui trainer Kevin Myers captured his fourth Gr.3 Martin Collins New Zealand Cup (3200m) at Riccarton on Saturday courtesy of a supreme staying performance by Bozo.

Former Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) winner Asterix returned to top form and scored his first Australian victory in the A$300,000 NZB The Beauford (2300m) at Newcastle on Saturday.

Brilliant New Zealand-bred gelding Jimmysstar lifted his Group One tally to three with another scintillating performance in Saturday’s A$1 million CF Orr Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield, in which progeny of Little Avondale Stud stallion Per Incanto finished first and third.

Having just his third start since transferring into the Bjorn Baker stable, Street Boss colt Green Spaces continued the outstanding stakes winning run of Godolphin bred and raced runners, winning the $250,000 Group 3 NJC Spring Stakes (1600m) at Newcastle by three lengths.

A bargain buy from Windsor Park Stud’s Rugby, Racing and Beer yearling sale has now won six of her seven starts including a first black-type success in Saturday’s A$200,000 Gr.3 How Now Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.

Three months after starting the season as a two-win horse with a rating of 70, Agera stepped on to the big stage at Tauranga on Saturday and became a weight-for-age winner in the Gr.2 Gartshore Construction Tauranga Stakes (1530m).

While it may be just shy of 12 months since her last victory, connections would surely be over-joyed to see the Michael Trotter trained 8yo Night Of Thunder (IRE) mare Rumbled Again win the $200,000 Group 3 MRC Summoned Stakes (1600m) for the second straight year.

A progressive five year-old gelding by Hellbent, Boston Rocks has been working quietly through his grades for Goulburn trainer Matt Dale, who saw an opportunity at Caulfield on Saturday in the $175,000 Listed MRC Village Stakes (1100m).

Southern mare Inflamed used every inch of a sodden Riccarton racetrack to storm to victory in Saturday’s Listed Lindauer Stewards Stakes (1200m).

Fresh from siring exciting 2YO colt Revengeance to win the $1million ATC Golden Gift last week in Sydney, Hellbent produced another promising juvenile winner at Doomben on Saturday in Zip Lock.

The standalone Newcastle meeting on Saturday kicked off with the $160,000 Max Lees Classic (900m) for the juveniles and it had a short priced favourite in Russian Revolution colt Seeiaye, who got the job done in style.

Owner-trainers Tim and Margaret Carter appear to have chosen an appropriate name for a filly they bought for just $700 on Gavelhouse.com.

Here is the full list of 62 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

John Stewart’s Resolute Racing has been active at yearling sales all over the world in recent years and a high profile acquisition in Australia was $3million Inglis Easter purchase Ernaux, who opened her account at Canterbury on Friday night.

A record-breaking renewal of the NZB Ready to Run Sale this week produced plenty of pinhook winners for astute investors and they included the highest priced horse sold at the sale this year.

A 12-strong Godolphin draft headlined by G2 winner Corniche and an enticing three-in-one package featuring the half sister to four-time G1 winner Hartnell are among the standout entries for the Inglis Digital November (Late) Online Sale, which is now open for bidding.

Magic Millions Digital is excited to announce the appointment of well known industry member Charlotte Geoghegan as the platform's Digital Sales Co-ordinator.

The snowballing success of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale has been built on the internationally renowned skills of its vendors, whose efforts were rewarded with outstanding results at Karaka on Wednesday and Thursday.

November breeding reminders, here’s the truth… some of the best are born late.

Cambridge Stud's rising stallion star Sword Of State had buyers’ hearts racing in the early stages of New Zealand Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale with a top class colt selling for $500,000.

A small but select field of seven runners will line up in the $1million MRC CF Orr Stakes (1400m) on Saturday at Caulfield and a fascinating contest awaits for the first running of this great race in it's new slot on the calendar.

Flemington is done and dusted for another year, but Melbourne’s Spring carnival rocks on and programming changes continue, with the relocation of the MRC's time honoured G1 CF Orr Stakes from its traditional February slot.

The $160,000 Max Lees Classic (900m) is a spring scamper for juveniles at the standalone Newcastle meeting on Saturday that invariably produces a good contest and with 12 runners that are all unraced the Sale Mail and trial form will be the guide.

Here is the full list of 33 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Monumental results were witnessed across two days of selling at NZB’S 2025 Ready to Run Sale, confirming the demand for proven racetrack results and quality New Zealand-prepared horses.

Buyers from Hong Kong and mainland China were an unstoppable force on the second day of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale at Karaka on Thursday.

Pre-post favourite Affirmative Action will have to overcome a wide gate and a lighter than intended preparation in his shared bid to defend the stable’s title in Saturday’s Gr.1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m).

Back-to-back lots through the Karaka sale ring on Thursday’s second day of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale produced unprecedented results for a pair of Kiwi sires.

There were only two juvenile heats at the Warwick Farm trials on Thursday with one winner from a family that has brought his trainer great joy, and the other heat giving us a first look at an I Am Invincible filly with obvious promise.

Shaune Ritchie hopes his decision to bypass the fillies’ feature at Riccarton with Tajana will pay off on Saturday when she takes on the boys in the Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m).

Capitalist is a sire on fire with 10 winners in the past seven days and 31 in the past 30 and adding her name to the list at Caulfield on Wednesday was promising three year-old filly Espana.

Here is the full list of 52 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

As a three-quarter sister to world champion Winx, four year-old Pride of Dubai mare Wings of Desire has always had the spotlight on her and she got back into the winner’s circle at Caulfield on Wednesday at her first run for new trainer Grahame Begg.

Talented mare Coeur Volante (Proisir) will visit reigning Champion Sire Zoustar after selling for $500,000 in today’s Spring Boutique Sale on Inglis Digital.

Having just his fourth career start, progressive 3yo Doubtland gelding Blaze Away recorded consecutive wins, pulling clear to win the fourth race of the day at Caulfield on Wednesday, MRC The Big Screen Company Handicap (1100m), giving his trainer Claire Patterson her first city winner.

Day One of NZB’s 2025 Ready to Run Sale delivered strong results across the board with the aggregate reaching $19,232,000 for 119 lots sold, and the median climbing 33% to an impressive $120,000.

Riccarton galloper Mystic Park prevailed in a thrilling tussle between the locals in the Gr.3 TAB Mile (1600m) on his home track on Wednesday.

The highest priced yearling by champion sire Zoustar sold in 2024 when fetching $2.2million at Inglis Easter, Plaintiff made her debut in a fillies maiden at Rosehill on Wednesday and came away with a stylish victory.

One of the cheapest yearlings from the 2024 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, Big Tiger is shaping as a saleyard gift after opening his account at his second start at Rosehill on Wednesday when taking out the $100,000 Inglis Xtra Bonus maiden.

Colts by proven New Zealand stallions Per Incanto and Satono Aladdin provided the highlights on Day One of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale with the top two lots set to join the Lindsay Park operation of the Hayes family.

Stakes targets are in the offing for promising gelding Sunset Boulevard after he secured a winning double at Riccarton Park during New Zealand Cup Week.

Northern targets await promising I Am Invincible filly I Am Belle following her debut victory in the Elmwood Trading Co. Two-Year-Old Premier (1000m) at Riccarton on Wednesday.

Manawatu dairy farmers Mark and Tania Stratford had a result to savour on the opening day of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale when their homebred colt by Harry Angel out of Ocean Spray fetched $425,000 to the bid of Hong Kong trainer Mark Newnham and Sweetbriar Equine.

The NZB Ready to Run Sale starts today with a catalogue of 480 to be offered on Wednesday and Thursday and past evidence would suggest G1 winners will be coming out of this sale.

Flying Capitalist filly Lazzago started life at Widden Stud and returned to the ‘Valley of Champions’ earlier this year to continue her stud career after selling at the Magic Millions National Sale for $1.4million.

Service fee announcements in Europe have been making news in the past week with Ballylinch Stud announcing an increase for Lope de Vega, a stallion that has always made his presence felt in Australia.

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

A bright future is being tipped for Sibling Rivalry after she broke through for her maiden win in the Harcourts Monarch (1150m) at Te Aroha on Tuesday.

By champion sire I Am Invincible from a Group I winning sprinter, this talented filly cast off maiden status at Gosford on Tuesday in the manner of a filly that will be winning better races.

The results of showpiece races throughout the spring have delivered notable pedigree updates to the catalogue for this week’s NZB Ready to Run Sale at Karaka.

Bloodstock agent Tina Rau has joined the Aga Khan Studs as international nominations representative; a newly created role aimed at strengthening the team’s presence at the major European sales.

Declining potency in terms of racetrack results in their offspring occurs frequently with even the best stallions as they move into the twilight years and the lessening of opportunity through declining fertility often exacerbates the issue, but in the case of Written Tycoon he’s not going quietly.

Here is the full list of 21 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Massive week of stakes racing behind us and we’re all a bit carnival weary, but we can take heart from the fact the Aussie bred stayer has not yet joined the Tasmanian Tiger on the path to extinction.

The winners keep coming this spring for Yes Yes Yes with a Kiwi trained three year-old primed for his G1 target race, a promising 2YO on the rise and a stylish winner at Rosehill on Saturday for the powerful Ciaron Maher stable.

There were 26 stakes run at Flemington during the Melbourne Cup Carnival last week and they were all won by different horses with no horse successful more than once which is somewhat unusual, although we shall always wonder could have been for Tentyris.

Reflecting on a brilliant Melbourne Cup Carnival that featured three G1 winning stayers all sired by stallions standing in Victoria it’s the perfect time to think outside the box and plan to breed a high-class stayer of your own.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2025 Ready to Run Sale is just days away, set to take place on 12 & 13 November at the iconic Karaka Sales Centre.

Karaka graduate Captain Pluto (NZ) (Savabeel) collected the second black-type success of his career with a big finish to take out the A$125,000 Listed Luckygray Stakes (1800m) at Ascot on Saturday. 

Waikato Stud was a dominant force at Pukekohe with a hat-trick of winners, and the premier nursery is hoping their celebrations continue this week during New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale.

With his first Australian bred two year-olds running this season, Darley shuttler Pinatubo (IRE) was in the frame overnight in France with a new two year-old stakes winner Quiescent taking out the Listed Prix Herod (1400m) at Deauville in the Wathnan Racing colours.

One of the best innovations at Breednet is our Family Search allowing you to look for all yearlings in a sale from the family of a particular horse, so for fun we’ve taken a look for any relations to stakes-winners at Flemington during the Melbourne Cup Carnival

Here is the full list of 52 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The release of the 2026 Magic Millions Yearling catalogue has highlighted the rise of Yulong as a major force in the Australian breeding industry with the Victorian based farm the leading vendor with 69 entries up from 40 last year.

The Magic Millions Yearling Sale in January features 1221 entries (down from 1401 last year) and the break up of stallions is always interesting as it reflects the thinking of the sales company back at the start of spring when inspections were undertaken and entries being judged and finalized.

Newgate Farm’s Golden Slipper winning sire Stay Inside posted his third winner on Sunday with a debut victory for Lassified in New Zealand.

The 2025 LR Fairetha Stakes for WA Guineas hopefuls was run at Ascot yesterday, boasting one of the best fields of three-year olds assembled in recent seasons - and the much anticipated contest lived right up to expectations!

An incredible line up of racing's next generation of superstars has been unveiled with today's online release of the 2026 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale catalogue.

Popular Perth trainer Dan Morton was already having a great day out at Ascot after his undefeated gelding King Of Light produced an extraordinary finish to win the Listed Fairetha Stakes and half an hour later his day got even more fabulous.

Manhattan Rain used to call Victoria home, but these days he’s based at Geisel Park in WA and the blueblood son of Encosta de Lago has been in rare form over the past week with six winners and two were at Flemington including a new stakes-winner in New York Lustre.

Second in the Group I ATC Flight Stakes last season and fourth in both the Group I VRC Oaks and ATC Spring Champion Stakes, four year-old Brutal mare Harlem Queen has always promised to win a stakes race and got the job done in the Listed Ladies Day Cup (1500m) at Hawkesbury on Saturday.

Calamari Ring (Street Boss) provided another delicious endorsement for Inglis weanling sales when she stormed to a debut victory in Saturday’s rich Inglis Banner (1000m) for two-year-olds at Flemington.

Frosted (USA) mare Arctic Glamour added a second black type victory to her record when the Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou trained 5yo mare surprised many on Saturday at Rosehill, winning the $500,000 Group 2 ATC Hot Danish Stakes (1400m) when resuming from a spell.

Yarraman Park’s Hellbent had a red-letter day on Saturday surging into the Top 10 on the Australian General Sires List by earnings with a flurry of stakes horses including his super tough mare Vivy Air, who took out the $2million ATC Five Diamonds (1800m) at Rosehill.

Here is the full list of 101 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Fastnet Rock’s champion daughter Via Sistina (IRE) is the best racehorse in the country and she showed us exactly why at Flemington Saturday when overcoming a heavy track and testing conditions to win the $3million Group I VRC Champions Stakes (200m) for the second year in a row.

A showdown race featuring a galaxy of stars, the $3million Group I VRC Champions Mile (1600m) delivered a battle for the ages at Flemington on Saturday and  with the NZB Ready to Run Sale next week there is no greater ambassador for that sale than the mighty Kiwi bred gelding Ceolwulf.

Surprisingly having never won an elite level race in his home state before, Clayton Douglas’ star sprinter Giga Kick added the $3m Group 1 VRC Champions Sprint (1200m) to his two previous Group 1 victories.

An Aussie bred filly by Written Tycoon purchasd originally for just $32,500 from the Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale is the toast of New Zealand after keeping her unbeaten record intact with an explosive win in the Gr.1 Barneswood Farm New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m).   

Recording his second black type victory from his last four starts, Glen Thompson’s Whisky On The Hill recorded the biggest win of his career to date, taking out the $300,000 Group 3 VRC Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2600m) at Flemington on Saturday.

Talented Hellbent colt Revengeance has secured his spot for next year’s $5million Group I ATC Golden Slipper with a stylish victory at Rosehill on Saturday in the $1million ATC Golden Gift (1100m).

A perfectly judged front-running victory on Just Charlie in the Listed Nautical Boat Insurance Metropolitan Trophy (2600m) capped a memorable New Zealand riding debut at Riccarton on Saturday for apprentice jockey Logan Bates.

What do you name a horse from a mare called Hot Pants - Progressive stayer Thebudgiesmugla showed his versatility when winning his second race at Rosehill in the space of a couple of weeks for trainer Bjorn Baker.

Off the back of a last start third in the Group 3 MVRC Tesio Stakes (2040m) when slightly unlucky, the Brad Widdup trained Sunset Park (GB) enjoyed the expansive Flemington circuit to find the lead and prove impossible to run down, winning the $300,000 Group 2 VRC Matriarch Stakes (2000m).

Progressive galloper Force Of Nature returned to racing with a vengeance as he took out the feature event at Pukekohe, the Listed Legacy Lodge Sprint (1200m), courtesy of a rails-hugging ride from Triston Moodley.

World renowned Aussie DJ Fisher is at Flemington on Saturday to perform after the last race on Champions Day, but he was also on course earlier to watch the race named in his honour with victory in the Listed VRC Fisher Stakes (1200m) going to blueblood gelding Need Some Luck.

Group One winner Captured By Love returned to the scene of her biggest win and was right back at the peak of her powers in the Gr.3 Windsor Park Stud Canterbury Breeders’ Stakes (1400m) at Riccarton on Saturday.

Progressive sprinter Platinum Attack finally got the firm track conditions he thrives on at Riccarton on Saturday to serve up a stunning performance when winning the Listed Donaldson Brown Pegasus Stakes (1000m).

Under showery conditions, the opening race on the final day of the 2025 Melbourne Cup carnival, the $400,000 Restricted Listed VRC Inglis Banner (1000m), has been run and won, with Ciaron Maher’s Street Boss filly Calamari Ring impressing on debut.

Cambridge-based horseman Nick Kneebone tasted his first success in the training ranks when two-year-old gelding Speed Demon caused a minor upset in the Hallmark Stud 2YO (1100m) at Pukekohe.

Juddmonte Farms and Aga Khan Studs are home to a couple of the best stallions in Europe in Frankel and Sea the Stars, both of whom have enjoyed considerable G1 success in Australia.

Here is the full list of 37 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Worth $1million, the ATC Golden Gift (1100m) run at Rosehill this Saturday is billed as a Group III race, but due to the ongoing ridiculous debacle of Black Type racing in Australia, the winner won’t be officially recognized as a stakes-winner.

Leading Queensland nursery Raheen Stud announced on Friday the sad passing of their exciting young sire Top Ranked (IRE), who was euthanized on Thursday following a brief illness.

The Flemington Spring Carnival comes to a close with a flourish on VRC Champions Day - Is it really over already? Only 350- odd sleeps to go until we're back again!

The three-time Group winner Coeur Volante (Proisir) will be offered in a special Inglis Digital Spring Boutique Sale next week.

A successful defence of his title in Tuesday’s A$3m The Big Dance (1600m) at Randwick took Ready to Run Sale flagbearer Gringotts (NZ) (Per Incanto) past A$5.5m in stakes, with A$4.6m of that amount coming in the last 12 months alone.