This time last week passionate owner breeder Kate Nivison was basking in the success of having bred and sold a $1.7million Extreme Choice colt at Inglis Easter and today she was enjoying a different sort of success as a winning owner at Kembla.

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

The juvenile maiden at Kembla on Tuesday was an intriguing affair featuring a number of well-bred and very expensive colts on debut, but the winner was a stylish first starter filly by Capitalist that broke 56 seconds for her debut win.

Dual Group One winner Belclare’s return home for a three-race campaign didn’t go to plan earlier this year, and now she is back on the other side of the Tasman to try and get her preparation back on track.

In the wake of his third Golden Slipper winner and his career-best yearling sale results, multiple Champion Sire Snitzel heads the 2025 Arrowfield stallion roster at an unchanged fee of $247,500, while Castelvecchio has earned a deserved fee increase.

In chatting with our guest Jim Clarke this week on our Tara Talks Racing podcast we discussed a topic that will no doubt spark plenty of interest from our audience, if you could have one three year-old filly to take forward and race next season at four, who would it be?

The Federation of Bloodstock Agents Australia’s third Continued Professional Development Day was again held at Randwick Racecourse on Tuesday 8th April 2025 and was hosted by MC Vin Cox.

Kiwi Group One-winning sprinter Crocetti has landed in Perth ahead of next week’s A$5 million The Quokka (1200m) at Ascot Racecourse.

It is full steam ahead for the connections of El Vencedor, as the star galloper jets off to Hong Kong on Thursday in preparation for the Gr.1 FWD QEII Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin on April 27.

Time was always going to benefit Mehzebeen and the Almanzor mare continues to emphasise that in her five-year-old season.

The modern world of big business horse training sees all the major players having trusted bloodstock agents as an integral part of their team and in the case of Bjorn Baker that person is Jim Clarke of Clarke Bloodstock.

Roma Cup Day at Ascot is a celebration of equine speed with the three feature races all run over 1100m and Street Boss (USA) provided the star of the show in The Boss Lady, who has been tonight announced to fill the $5million Quokka slot for Peters Investments.

Here is the full list of 20 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Yulong announced on Monday they have acquired unbeaten Group One winning two-year-old colt Vinrock, with the colt set to race on with trainer Matt Laurie.

Three heats for juveniles at the Randwick barrier trials on Monday produced a couple of interesting winners including an unraced I Am Invincible colt and the half-sister to Group I ATC Australian Oaks place-getter You Wahng.

International racing journalist Andrew Hawkins’ imagination was captured by two things as a child, thoroughbred racing and the Canberra Raiders, and on Saturday he was able to combine his two loves.

Multiple Group-winner Nereus is being set for a Queensland campaign after powering into second in Saturday’s Listed Hawke’s Bay Cup (2200m) at Trentham.

French Classic trials at Longchamp overnight produced a couple of exciting prospects by Churchill and Siyouni that are both bred and raced by Aga Khan Studs.

Arrowfield Stud’s handsome Japanese shuttle sire Admire Mars (Jpn) is on the board with his first Group I winner after classy three year-old filly Embroidery captured the Group I Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas( (160m) at Hanshin on Sunday.

Brave Smash (Jpn) has a very nice horse in Hong Kong in the shape of four year-old gelding Divano, who scored his fifth win on Sunday when stepping up to Class 1 company for the first time.

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

Superstar mare Amelia’s Jewel (Siyouni), a G1 winner of over $4.1m in prizemoney, will join what is already a stellar cast for the Inglis Chairman’s Sale to be held at Riverside Stables in Sydney on May 8.

The sudden passing in 2022 of Darling View stallion I'm All The Talk shocked the WA breeding industry, and his absence was highlighted once again yesterday at Ascot, when his two year old daughter Talkanco piloted by Brad Parnham won the G3 Gimcrack Stakes in an exciting finish to announce herself as a serious Karrakatta Plate contender and become the third stakes winner for her sire.

With his oldest progeny just three year-olds, Newgate Farm’s Doncaster Mile winning sire Brutal has been ticking along nicely, but it’s a couple of two year-olds from his second crop that have him in the news on Sunday with a debut winner at Sha Tin and a super talented colt that is now a clear favourite for next week’s $1million Group I ATC Champagne Stakes (1600m) at Randwick.

Safeguard gelding Castle Road created a big impression when he commenced his career at Ascot back in December with a pair of devastating victories over 1000m, winning both races by several lengths. 

Wandjina’s quality sprinting daughter Infancy produced a career best on day two of The Championships at Randwick when resuming off a break to win the Group II Sapphire Stakes (1200m).

Here is the full list of 128 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Rewarded for his consistency, four year-old Zoustar gelding Regal Zeus posted his first Black Type victory at Bendigo on Saturday when taking out the $200,000 Listed Golden Mile (1600m).

Cosmic Force has had some promising stakes class three year-olds this season and one of them is Wonder Boy, who improved off his last second in the Group II ATC Phar Lap Stakes at Rosehill to win the $200,000 Listed Bendigo Guineas (1400m) on Saturday.

Autumn carnival racing is coming to Adelaide and the Listed SAJC Redelva Stakes (1100m) at Morphettville on Saturday had several contenders from Victoria in the line up including short priced favourite Gallant Son, but he was not quite good enough to catch Capitalist colt Reserve Bank.

A last start Tasmanian Oaks winner, and a half-sister to a Golden Slipper winner, Cinch made it two stakes wins in a row when taking the Group III Sportsbet Auraria Stakes (1800m) at Morphettville on Saturday.

Flying Artie’s Royal Ascot heroine Asfoora returned to Australian tracks at Morphettville on Saturday and was straight to the winner’s circle, taking the Group III Sportsbet R N Irwin Stakes (1100m).

A homebred  for the Ingham family, foaled and raised at Coolmore, six year-old Sebring mare Fangirl has been in top form during the autumn and finished her carnival on a high with a dominant win in the $1million ATC Queen of the Turf Stakes (1600m) over an outstanding field of mares.

Everything about Via Sistina (IRE) is impressive – from her unique physique to her giant stride to her unshakeable serenity – and the daughter of Fastnet Rock produced another virtuoso performance at Randwick on Saturday to win the $5million Group I ATC Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) in race record time and very nearly course record time.

Saturday’s Listed City Of Napier Sprint (1200m) capped a remarkable four-win sequence at Trentham for Slipper Island, whose trainer Tony Pike now has his eye on an even bigger prize at the Wellington track.

Te Akau Racing ran rampant at both New Zealand venues on Saturday, culminating in a runaway by All Too Hard’s daughter Dream Of The Moon in the Listed NZB Airfreight Stakes (1600m) at Riccarton.

The remarkable eight-year-old, Arapaho (Fr) threw aside any two-mile doubts with a brilliant win in Saturday’s Group I Sydney Cup, taking his career earnings over $4million.

A small field and a slowly run race made the red hot favourite Treasurethe Moment vulnerable in the $1million Group I ATC Australian Oaks (2400m) at Randwick on Saturday, but the gifted daughter of Alabama Express called on her champion qualities to overcome difficulty to win.

The withdrawal of unbeaten filly Autumn Glow from the $1million Group II ATC Arrowfield Sprint (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday due to an elevated temperature left a very even field of colts to do battle with blue-blood I Am Invincible colt Enriched, from the family of the great champion Winx, taking the prize.

Godolphin’s top class Street Boss filly Tempted finalised her six start juvenile year with a powerful victory in the Group II The Star Percy Sykes Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday, her second at that level.

A brilliant rails hugging ride by apprentice Lily Sutherland combined with the never-say-die attitude of progressive stayer Mehzebeen proved the key to the finish of a thrilling running of the Listed Valley D’Vine Restaurant Hawke’s Bay Cup (2200m) at Trentham.

A Karaka pinhook winner sourced from the Widden Stud draft at the 2023 Magic Millions National Weanling Sale, Written By filly Bona Sforza made an auspicious stakes-winning debut in New Zealand on Saturday.

The Listed SAJC Without Fear Stakes (1050m) at Morphettville on Saturday had a short priced favourite in Tagaloa filly Meisho, but she proved no match for the Amy and Ash Yargi trained filly Petit Artiste, a bargain basement $15,000 Inglis Premier purchase for her trainers.

Former Kiwi Sergeant Major recorded a strong victory in the Listed South Pacific Classic (1400m) at Randwick on Saturday as the three-year-old son of Proisir made a deserved Australian breakthrough.

Astute country trainer Nick Olive saw an opportunity to get Black Type with talented Tagaloa filly Spicy Lu in the $200,000 Listed ATC Fernhill Mile (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday and she kept her unbeaten record intact when leading all the way to win.

If you have an interest in any of the first season sires such as Ole Kirk, Farnan, Wootton Bassett (GB) and their peers and are looking for insight into how the back section of the racing season will unfold for them, a look at the unraced first season trial report is a must read.

Here is the full list of 53 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Magic Millions is delighted to announce the appointment of Thomas Yeung as its new Hong Kong Representative.

The first race at Geelong on Friday produced a new winner for Cool Aza Beel with Gable improving at his second start to score a stylish win.

Barrier trials at Rosehill on Friday morning featured five heats for juveniles and winners included an unraced three-quarter sister-in-blood to Group I winner Mizzy and two unraced youngsters by Golden Slipper winning sire Farnan, who has already sired eight first crop winners this season.

New Zealand’s star filly Leica Lucy will test her talent against Australia’s best on Saturday when she heads to Randwick in a bid to double her Oaks tally.

The 2024-25 NZB Southern Filly of the Year Series contenders have everything to play for over the next couple of weeks, beginning with Saturday’s $80,000 Listed NZB Airfreight Stakes (1600m) at Riccarton.

This time last year Extreme Choice filly Extreme Diva was matching strides with the best two year-old fillies of her generation and it seems amazing it has taken her so long to win a maiden, but the job is done after a tenacious victory at Gosford on Thursday.

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

The $1million Group I ATC Australian Oaks (2400m) at Randwick on Saturday features a showdown between VRC Oaks winner Treasurethe Moment and New Zealand Oaks winner Leica Lucy and for the Yulong homebred Treasurethe Moment, a victory could put her in the picture with Lady Shenandoah to be crowned Champion Australian 3YO Filly.

Is it possible for a budget conscious breeder to make their mark in a super selective and super elite sale such as Inglis Easter? With the clearance now hitting 87% following five additional sales since Monday night it turns out the answer is yes.

There were official barrier trials on the Caulfield Heath track on Thursday including three for the youngsters and first season sires were prominent with another promising Farnan winner and placegetters by Peltzer and Doubtland.

There will be plenty of New Zealand interest in FWD Champions Day at Sha Tin on April 27, headlined by Kiwi raider El Vencedor.

Toronado added to his strong Hong Kong season at Happy Valley on Wednesday night, with new winners also for Redwood, Capitalist and Shamexpress, and Hugh Bowman rode a treble.

At a time when public perception of racing is more scrutinised than ever, National Thoroughbred Week offers a unique opportunity for the public to experience the realities of the industry up close.

Pam Gerard came close to picking up a three-year-old major across the Tasman this season with Savaglee, and the Matamata trainer is back with another rising star in pursuit of Saturday’s A$1 million Gr.1 Australian Oaks (2400m) at Randwick.

At this time of year in Europe lightly raced three year-olds with classic aspirations are well worth taking note of and a Juddmonte homebred Kingman colt that bolted in last night at Kempton Park has been priced as short as 6-1 for the Group I Newmarket 2000 Guineas.

A 10% share in dual G1 placed colt Coleman today became the highest-priced racehorse share in a colt or gelding ever sold on Inglis Digital, realising $405,000.

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

Just a few days after Chris Waller produced Castelvecchio filly Aeliana to score a spectacular win in the Group I ATC Australian Derby, the champion trainer unleashed another promising filly by the same sire to win at Hawkesbury in a $100,000 Super Maiden (1600m).

Success means different things to different people, but one thing is clear: Cressfield has had an exceptional few days, during the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale.

Kia Ora Stud’s Golden Slipper winning sire Farnan is making every post a winner and added an eighth winner to his tally at the metro meeting at Hawkesbury on Wednesday when Grand Eagle saluted at his third start.

With a super strong market at Inglis Easter this week it was no surprise to see some very successful pinhook results and the best of them was a handsome chestnut colt from the first crop of Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside that sold for $650,000.

Champagne Diblu won’t lack support when the trial-winning youngster opens his career on his home track at Riccarton on Saturday.

The 2025 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale was highlighted by 25 yearlings that sold for $1million or more which was seven more than last year when 18 were in the millionaires club following on from 26 in 2023.

Too Darn Hot (GB) is coming back to Australia having missed 2024, but there are 24 mares now in Australia according to Australian Studbook records with 2024 coverings to him southern hemisphere time including the dam of Traffic Warden and a relation to Switzerland and his $2.7million full brother sold at Inglis Easter this week.

Multiple Group One winner Atishu will bid to have a fairytale ending to her racing career when she heads to Randwick on Saturday to contest the Gr.1 Queen of the Turf Stakes (1600m).

Coolmore based Home Affairs has made some history this year in topping both the Magic Millions Yearling Sale and the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale and he’s done it with two youngsters that both sold for $3million or more.

One of 13 stakes-winning two year-olds last year in the Northern Hemisphere for Wootton Bassett (GB), exciting colt Maranoa Charlie made a winning return in France overnight taking out the Group III Prix Djebel (1400m) at Deauville as a short priced favourite.

The Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale has been a big distraction this week, but we have found time at last to have a closer look at our G1 winners from last Saturday and three of them are brand new and one is now the hottest unclaimed sire prospect in the country.

Great news for Aussie breeders with Darley Australia excited to announce the return of Too Darn Hot (GB) for the 2025 breeding season.

Here is the full list of 31 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Geraldton Turf Club hosted the 2025 rendition of its historic $125,000 Gold Cup 2100m on Sunday and while it doesn’t carry Black Type, it is a popular race in WA with a winner this year by a well-bred sire son of Redoute’s Choice that started life as an Inglis Easter yearling back in 2009.

A somewhat disappointing lineup of just four runners contested the Listed Old Comrade Stakes (1600m) over the Ascot mile on Saturday, but the field didn't lack for quality.

Trelawney Stud were quietly confident they had taken the right trio of yearlings across to the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney this week and that was reflected with some outstanding results. 

Te Akau Racing principal David Ellis was once again to the fore in the sales ring this week, but this time at Inglis’ Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney.

The stars in Sydney were all in alignment for Little Avondale Stud to celebrate a record auction result during the second session of the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

It's Derby season in Australia and with Randwick done and dusted and won by outstanding filly Aeliana, we can now look forward to Classics in Perth, South Australia and Queensland.

Arrowfield Stud finished Inglis Easter as the leading vendor by aggregate and underpinning their success was the insatiable demand for their champion sire Snitzel, who might be turning 23 this year but has just posted his best ever results at this sale.

An incredible Easter Yearling Sale today concluded in remarkable fashion, defying bloodstock pessimism and global financial trends to finish with notable upturn in almost all key fiscal metrics.

Extreme Choice enjoyed 100% clearance at Inglis Easter with 13 yearlings offered and all were sold at an average $598,077 with a pair of million dollar colts on Sunday and then his top selling filly arrived on Monday when Newgate Farm sold a filly from Ganda for $1,050,000 to Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock.

Here is the full list of 22 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Last year the Pierro filly from world champion Winx was the star of Inglis Easter when selling for $10million and this year Winx’s half-sister Covent Garden produced the highest priced yearling at this sale by I Am Invincible when her stunning bay colt sold for $1.8million to Tom Magnier.

Mitch Cunningham of Ridgmont is still on a high after winning last Saturday’s $4million Group I ATC Doncaster Mile with Stefi Magnetica and his week just got better when a Wootton Bassett (GB) colt from Egyptian Missile sold for $1.2million at Inglis Easter to give the Hunter Valley nursery it’s first million dollar yearling.

At the 2021 Inglis Chairman’s Sale, Tom Magnier paid $2.5million to secure Group I MRC Oakleigh Plate winner Celebrity Queen and while her first foal was retained to race as Group I placed colt State Visit, her second was offered at Inglis Easter on Monday and the Pierro colt fetched $1.1million.

Juvenile trials were at Warwick Farm and Kembla Grange on Monday with a half-brother to Santa Ana Lane showing up, an unraced Ole Kirk, another flyer for Graff and Ciaron Maher gave us the first look at a Snitzel colt.

Nick Bishara was left pinching himself on Saturday after he watched his filly Belle Detelle breakthrough for her maiden stakes victory in the Gr.3 Adrian Knox Stakes (2000m) at Randwick.

Rich Hill Stud principal John Thompson is no stranger to success on Australia’s biggest stage, but even he watched in awe as the filly he co-bred in Aeliana stormed away with Saturday’s $2 million Gr.1 Australian Derby (2400m).

New Zealand’s Little Avondale Stud sold their first ever million-dollar yearling when their Zoustar colt from a mare that has an 85 year history with the stud and family made $1.7million.

The last time Tom Magnier put his name to a million-dollar Wootton Bassett colt it was this year’s Golden Slipper runner-up Wodeton and he went to $1.4milllion to buy a colt from Yarraman Park on Day Two at Easter on Monday.

A three-quarter sister-in-blood to triple Group I winner Zougotcha, Widden Stud’s Zoustar filly from stakes-winner The Actuary was always tipped to star at Inglis Easter on Monday morning and did not disappoint when selling for $2.6million.

Widden Stud had an early highlight at Inglis Easter on Monday morning selling the full brother to Group I MVRC William Reid Stakes winner Schwarz for $1.4million.

Tom Magnier is a big fan of Arrowfield Stud and their champion sire Snitzel and a colt from the family of world champion sire Dubawi proved irresistible on Monday morning when selling for $1.5million to be the first million dollar offering on Day 2 of Inglis Easter.

New winners for Dissident and Maurice along with a treble for David Eustace and The Autumn Sun’s Sky Jewellery continuing his rise through the ranks were among the highlights of the meeting at Sha Tin on Sunday.

Classic trials at Longchamp overnight in France featured the seasonal return of the half-brother to The Autumn Sun and he started a short priced favourite and despite losing his unbeaten tag will have lost no admirers with his late charging second.