Set to cover a galaxy of stars at Yulong this spring including 10 time Group I winner Imperatriz, Pierata posted a stylish debut winner at Wagga on Monday that started a short priced favourite.

While the Hunter Valley stallion parades are all about showing the best of the best stallions to broodmare owners and the racing fraternity, Newgate Farm are rightly protective of their superstar Extreme Choice and while he did not make an appearance in their high octane parades over the past weekend I was treated to a one on one visit with the reclusive champion in his paddock.

The aptly named Bonny Lass is ensuring her sizeable and enthusiastic support crew continue to celebrate the racing and social rewards of affordable thoroughbred ownership.

The annual Coolmore stallion parades on Sunday drew a large gathering with a sprinkling of rain failing to dampen spirits as this power packed roster of truly outstanding sires was presented to breeders, owners and the racing fraternity with several leading trainers in attendance including Chris Waller, the trainer of exciting newcomer Shinzo.

Starspangledbanner looked sensational at the annual Coolmore Australia stallion parade on Sunday and overnight he added a new Group winner to his tally with three yea-rold filly Shandy surprising punters to post a thrilling win in the Group III Ballyogan Stakes (6f) at Naas.

Australian jumps racing took centre stage at Ballarat on Sunday with the running of the $400,000 Grand National Steeplechase (4500m) and the $150,000 JJ Houlahan Hurdle (3250m) with both races won by NZ bred horses The Good Fight (NZ) and The Cunning Fox (NZ).

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

Buyers will be “spoilt for choice’’ at this year’s Inglis Ready2Race Sale, the catalogue for which is now available online

Dubawi's Hong Kong Derby and Hong Kong Cup hero Akeed Mofeed (GB) celebrated his arrival at his new home, Rosden Park, with a double at Morphettville on Saturday, including the day's feature, the Listed Sportsbet Leon Macdonald Stakes (1400m), with Second To Nun.

Exciting two year-old Wootton Bassett colt Henri Matisse went on his winning way overnight at the Curragh when he accelerated brilliantly to win the Group II Futurity Stakes (7f) as a short priced favourite.

A Group III winner on Epsom Derby day, four year-old Starspangledbanner mare Breege can mix her form, but she put in a career best performance  at York overnight to win the Group II City of York Stakes (7f).

The debate over the controversial new mounting yard at Caulfield Racecourse is certainly heating up. It is one of the lightning rod issues that has prompted the new Save Our MRC group, led by Committee member John Kanga, to bring an unprecedented board spill motion at the Melbourne Racing Club to remove 6 committee members.

A board spill led by a serving Committee member has been called at the Melbourne Racing Club, over concerns the club is in “disarray” following the costly failures of the new mounting yard and jockey rooms at Caulfield and the Committee’s proposal to build a “white elephant” new grandstand.

Here is the full list of 120 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Third in the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate in February, the 6-year-old Shalla (IRE) gelding Mornington Glory showed his love for the track and distance with a maiden stakes success in Saturday’s Paramount Liquor Carlyon Stakes (1000m) at Moonee Valley.

Following the victory of Yulong's Via Sistina in the Group 1 Winx Stakes, Kimochi sported the bottle green, white checked sleeves for the first time in Saturday's Group III James Squire Toy Show Quality (1100m) at Rosehill, where she made her first repayment on the $2,200,000 purchase price at the 2024 Inglis Chairman's Sale.

Yulong paid 2.7million guineas for top class Group I winning mare Via Sistina (IRE) at the Tattersalls Mares Sale last year and she was worth every penny with the glamour daughter of Fastnet Rock leading home a thrilling trifecta for the stable in the Group I ATC Winx Stakes (1400m) at Randwick when she outpointed established stable stars Zougotcha and Fangirl.

After winning six from eight for Jean-Claude Rouge in France carrying the colours of the Aga Khan, Eliyass (Fr) is now two for two in Australia for Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott.

Lightly raced four year-old Zoustar mare Joliestar won the Group I MRC Thousand Guineas over 1600m at the end of last spring, but the decision to program her for sprint races this season with the Everest in mind looks like paying big dividends.

Chris Waller is looking forward to stepping Medatsu up in distance after the emerging four-year-old collected his second successive victory in Saturday’s A$160,000 Jersey Day Andrew Wisemantel Handicap (1600m) at Randwick.

Previously a stakes winner at the ages of two, three, four and five, Bonny Lass kicked off her six-year-old season on a perfect note when she defeated a star-studded field in Saturday’s Gr.2 Waikato Stud Foxbridge Plate (1200m) at Te Rapa.

Emirates Park tackled the Group II Darley Silver Shadow Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill with two high-class homebred daughters of Tassort, and it was Ameena’s time to steal the limelight from Group 1 winner Manaal.

Promising colt Daggers earned a trip to Sydney for the Group II Run To The Rose at Rosehill on September 14 after keeping his record at a perfect two for two when going coast to coast in the Brooks Running AU Plate (1200m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

The Group I Nunthorpe Stakes (5f) at York overnight had a short priced favourite in Aussie mare Asfoora, who could not quite get the job done finishing a close up fourth to Bradsell, while last year’s Melbourne Cup favourite Vauban (FR) showed he was back to top form winning the Group II Lonsdale Cup Stakes (2m).

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

The New Zealand thoroughbred industry has lost one of its most influential figures of the last two decades with the passing of Kevin Hickman after a long illness.

Champion two-year-old Away Game did it on the track and is now doing it nicely at stud with Yulong Stud announcing the arrival of her second foal, a colt, today.

On Saturday, the $1,000,000 Winx Stakes (1400m) at Randwick kick-starts the 74 Group 1 races in Australia this season, with Chris Waller sending out half of the 12-runner field.

An outstanding line up of 48 select lots has been finalised for Tuesday's Magic Millions August Virtual Sale from the Gold Coast.

Wexford Stables may be without their defending champion in Saturday’s Gr.2 Waikato Stud Foxbridge Plate (1200m), but a returning Group One winner in Waitak will be out to retain the title for Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott.

The first Group I race of a new season will be run at Randwick on Saturday and while all eyes will be on the Group I ATC Winx Stakes marking the return of glamour mares Fangirl, Via Sistina (IRE), Zougotcha and Atishu, the Group II ATC Silver Shadow Stakes for the three year-old fillies will also be a ripper.

When Australian broodmare owners headed to the Hunter Valley stallion parades in 2002 they had the privilege of seeing Epsom Derby winner Galileo at Coolmore in his first Australian season at stud and the champion son of Sadler’s Wells clocked up his 100th Group I winner at York overnight when three year-old filly Content won the Yorkshire Oaks.

We are only days away from the 2024 Vinery Open Days and can't wait to welcome clients and guests to our beautiful farm.

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

Go Racing’s multiple Group One winner Atishu will kick-off what they are hoping will be a lucrative spring preparation at Randwick on Saturday in the Gr.1 Winx Stakes (1400m).

New Victorian stallion farm Lovatsville have formed a strategic partnership with the Australian Trainer’s Association (ATA) designed to support trainer’s through a series of stallion nominations aligned to upcoming races in regional Victoria this Spring.

OTI Racing's wonderful old warhorse Cepheus (GB) lumped top-weight of 60kgs to victory in Thursday's $200,000 Pioneer Services Rowley Mile (1600m) at Hawkesbury.

A luckless second when on debut at Sandown on July 31, the striking black Brazen Beau filly Blackberry Bomb earned a massive payday for connections in the Ladbrokes Yard Comments Maiden Plate (1200m) at Sale on Thursday.

Regarded highly enough to take on stakes company at two without striking a blow, Agenda Setter was gelded while on a 20-week break and paid an immediate dividend.

It was all about City of Troy in the city of York overnight when the glamour three year-old Justify colt posted another exciting victory over a competitive field of 12 in the Juddmonte International Stakes (1m 2 ½ f) on a day when Coolmore owned colts dominated with Los Angeles and The Lion in Winter also winning Group races.

Here is the full list of 51 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Quality Stakes-winning mare Mirra View has topped today’s Inglis Digital August (Late) Online Sale, selling for $600,000.

Given time off after a troubled last of seven behind Switzerland in the Pierro Plate at Randwick in February, the regally-bred I Am Invincible colt Enriched served notice he could be a player in the 3-year-old features in the spring when he opened his account in the Tab Maiden Hcp (1100m) at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

The late scratching of the odds-on favourite Athanatos paved the way for the 3-year-old Alabama Express gelding Kalkallo to make a winning debut in Wednesday's Sportsbet Photo Finish Refund Maiden Plate (1300m) at Sandown-Lakeside.

Astute trainer David Payne knows what to do with a good horse when he gets one and has high hopes for  Supido filly Shohisha, who made a winning debut at Warwick Farm on Wednesday in a very competitive three year-old maiden over 1300m.

Ken and Bev Kelso’s stable star Legarto may be on the quiet list at the moment after straining a muscle earlier this month, but the Matamata couple still have plenty to look forward to this spring with exciting filly Alabama Lass.

Group Three winner Savaglee made the perfect start to his three-year-old season at Taupo on Wednesday when taking out the Poverty Bay Turf Club 3YO Colts/Geldings (1100m).

Roger James gave his seal of approval to glamour mare Orchestral following her hit-out at Taupo on Wednesday.

Aquis in Queensland is home to eight stallions and one of them is Group I winning Not a Single Doubt son Stronger, whose first foals are arriving this spring.

Winning the Cox Plate has been a passport to stud success for outstanding sires such as Savabeel, So You Think, Ocean Park and Shamus Award with the 2021 winner State of Rest (IRE) seeking to emulate their success for Newgate Farm and his first foals are arriving this spring.

Following on from the August Yearling Sale, the v.2 Yearling Sale took place at Deauville overnight with nearly 80% of the 170 lots offered being sold and the top priced yearling of the session was sired by Starspangledbanner.

Luke Koumi has been involved in the thoroughbred industry for quite some time now. Forty plus years in fact.

Having just been crowned Champion Australian Sire for the third year running, Yarraman Park’s I Am Invincible is a stallion whose legacy is assured and for his many fans that can no longer afford his service fee he does have two young gun sons starting out in the Hunter Valley this spring and choosing between the two is going to give breeders some sleepless nights.

Here is the full list of 32 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Add one more to the rapidly growing list of Shamus Award's promising 3-year-olds, with the filly Fluent making a statement on debut in the Whitford Liquid Waste Maiden Plate (1000m) at Ballarat on Tuesday.

Lightly raced speed sensation and expectant first time mother Marabi is a star addition to the upcoming Magic Millions Virtual Sale on August 27.

Serious spring business will begin early for trainer Stephen Marsh at Taupo where two of his young stable stars will make their seasonal debuts on Wednesday.

Imported mare Terra Mitica impressed during her first New Zealand campaign and she firmly indicated there was more improvement to come this time around with an eye-catching trial on Tuesday.

It’s a new season and a fresh slate for our young second crop sires whose oldest progeny have just turned three and while there is a long way to go, Widden Stud will be happy if the second crop sire table remains looking just like this.

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

Cosmic Force sired a new stakes horse last Saturday with Wonder Boy placing in the Group III MRC Vain Stakes and he added a new winner to his tally at Pakenham on Monday when Cosmic Coco scored a stylish win at his second start.

It was all about the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained three year-olds at the Randwick trials on Monday morning with last season’s superstars Lady of Camelot and Storm Boy both winning their heats and at the very end of the morning the stable produced a couple of unraced very expensive colts that both won their heats.

The last foal from Black Caviar has sadly died just days after the passing of his world famous mother..

The Oaks Stud is hoping Ruakaka’s feature three-year-old event can again provide a springboard to elite level success.

Unlike her sister Primo Scene (JPN), Mosheen’s first foal, Calico (JPN), failed to distinguish herself on the racetrack, but she got one up on her sister at Niigata on Sunday.

Mark Twain, New Zealand’s leading hope for this year’s Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m), has been ruled out of spring racing with a tendon strain.

Telemon Thoroughbreds is home to promising young Zoustar stallion Sun City, who was recently crowned Champion Queensland based First Season Sire for 2023/2024.

After three days of inspections, racing and sales, the August Sale has concluded in Deauville. A total of 292 yearlings went through the sales ring with 77% changing hands for an average of €217,058, over €200,000 for the third consecutive year. The overall turnover came to €50,237,000, a figure that is just below last year’s excellent renewal.

They were saving the best for last at the Arqana Deauville August Yearling Sale this year with the third and final session producing three individual yearlings that sold for  €1million plus and leading the way was a sensational filly by 2021 European Horse of the Year St Mark’s Basilica (Fr), who is enjoying the winter sunshine at Coolmore in preparation for his third stud season i

He won the first two year-old stakes race of the year in Ireland back in May and the Aidan O’Brien colt with the famous name is now a Group I winner with Whistlejacket capturing the Group I Prix Morny (1200m) at Deauville in France overnight.

Australian spring racing is a smorgasbord of interest for pedigree watchers and a trio of up and coming three year-olds from Saturday highlight the role of imported mares in Australia and exposed an emerging nick probably better known in North America.

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

The Waratah Showjumping World Cup event in Sydney over the past four days concluded on Sunday at Sydney International Equestrian Centre with the Equimillion New Stars warm up class producing some encouraging efforts and two time Australian Horse of the Year Nature Strip finished in the placings for his new owner and rider Kathy O’Hara.

Justify (USA) had a couple of very promising second place-getters on Saturday in exciting colts Clear Proof in the Listed ATC Rosebud and Dawn Service, who chased boom filly Autumn Glow and then at Wyong on Sunday he had a filly salute that also looks to have stakes potential.

Debut three year-old winners by Rosemont Stud’s Cox Plate winning sire Shamus Award are always interesting and particularly at the start of spring when they are bred on one of his most successful nicks that enjoys 100% success.

At this time of year promising debut winners are gold for second season sires looking for traction in a competitive stallion market and Brutal got just such a horse on Sunday when his three year-old filly Savagery Vibe cantered in at Bendigo.

At the Widden Stud Victoria open day last Friday a quality roster of nine stallions were on show and breeders were also given the good news that Widden have now purchased what was Sun Stud and the Thompson family are very much committed to the Victorian breeding industry going forward.

Currently back in Australia at Coolmore preparing for his third Southern Hemisphere season at stud, 2021 European Horse of the Year St Mark’s Basilica made a splash during the second session of the Arqana Deauville August Yearling Sale when Al Shaqab Racing bought one of his fillies for €550,000.

Following an afternoon at Deauville races that saw the running of the Group II Prix de Pomone and Prix du Calvados,  buyers returned to the sales ring for the second session of the August Yearling Sale.

Aidan O’Brien has plenty of entries for feature Australian spring races and among them is Galileo three year-old Grosvenor Square, who scored a resounding 20 length win in the Group III Irish St Leger Trial Stakes (1m6f) at the Curragh overnight.

Fresh from siring a 1.4million colt at the Arqana Deauville August Yearling Sale on Friday, Wootton Bassett was again making waves in France overnight with his two year-old colt Apples and Bananas winning the Listed Criterium du Fonds Europeen de l’Elevage (1600m) at Deauville.

He might play second fiddle to his champion sire I Am Invincible at Yarraman Park, but Hellbent has started this new season on a mission and with five winners on Saturday is now sharing the lead at the top of the Australian Sires List by winners.

Here is the full list of 108 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

He might be an old warrior in the Lindsay Park Racing team, but Gentleman Roy has plenty of life in his eight year-old legs and was tenacious all the way to the line to win the Group II MRC PB Lawrence Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

Harry Angel (IRE) colt Tarpaulin may fear for his manhood after blotting his copybook in the Rosebud before the freshly gelded Tom Kitten and Arkansaw Kid brightened the day for the Darley stallion.

When Band Of Brothers broke his maiden at Bendigo, we noted the success his owner/breeder, David Moodie, has enjoyed with North American stallions. Right on cue, the son of Omaha Beach (USA) credited his sire with his first Australian stakes-winner in Saturday’s Group III Ive > Vain Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield.

The $200,000 Group III MRC Quezette Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield on Saturday drew a competitive field of up and coming fillies, but the cream rose to the top when Zousain filly Drifting carried top weight of 58kg to victory.

Back from a twenty-two-week break, Aramco Racing's Snitzel colt Gatsby's blew past the favourite Tarpaulin at the 300m to earn a maiden stakes success in Saturday’s Listed Sydney Markets Rosebud (1100m) at Rosehill.

Tragic news on Saturday with the ownership group of undefeated world champion sprinter Black Caviar announcing her passing just one day short of her 18th birthday.

In-form galloper Rise At Dawn is likely to be set for a black-type assignment after notching a comfortable victory at Caulfield on Saturday in the Catanach's Jewellers Handicap (1600m).

The Bruce Wallace and Grant Cooksley training partnership had plenty to celebrate on Saturday when they produced a superb quinella in the feature event at Ruakaka, the Gr.3 Cambridge Stud Northland Breeders’ Stakes (1200m), with stable runners So Naive and Toruk Makto.

The wraps were on the mark - the $1,800,000 The Autumn Sun filly Autumn Glow made a stunning career debut when treating a quality field with contempt in the Schweppes (Bm72) over 1300m at Rosehill on Saturday.

Opening the yearling sales season in Europe, the August Sale began this afternoon with 133 lots going under the hammer during the first session. Of these, 72% were sold for an average price of €226,167, showing very solid results when compared with the average for the same day at the 2023 record edition (-2%), organised in a similar format. Total sales for the session amounted to €21,712

The Arqana Deauville August Yearling Sale kicked off on Friday with US investor John Stewart and his Resolute Racing securing the top lot when bidding €1.4million for a colt by Wootton Bassett that is closely related to his champion son and Group I sire Almanzor.

Here is the full list of 30 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Well-bred Stakes winner Mirra View (More Than Ready) is one of several standout entries in the Inglis Digital August (Late) Online Sale, which is now open for bidding.

Appearing for the first time since finishing third on debut at Cranbourne in April, the 3-year-old Zousain gelding Viasain gave his elders a hiding in the Global Turf Maiden Plate (1100m) on the Ballarat Synthetic on Friday.

Swettenham Stud’s I Am Immortal has a promising 3-year-old in Immortal Shield, who bounced back from a fast-finishing third on debut to space his rivals in the Brandt Maiden Plate (1200m) on the Ballarat Synthetic on Friday.

The 3-year-old action hots up on Saturday with the running of the Group III Vain Stakes and Group III Quezette Stakes at Caulfield and the Listed Rosebud Hcp at Rosehill where the opening race, the Schweppes (Bm72), will see Sunlight’s $1,400,000 Justify colt Dawn Service and the $1,600,000 Snitzel colt Imperial Force striving to shave $82,500 of their purchase price.

Young Victorian farm Lovatsville has enjoyed a brilliant first year in operation and their stallions were in fine shape when parading for a big crowd on Thursday.