Returning from a 15-week break, the 4-year-old Shalaa (IRE) gelding Recommendation turned a competitive Listed Sportsbet Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield into a 7-length walk-in-the-park.

The second most expensive yearling by her sire Grunt, Manolo Bling made the perfect start to her career in Saturday’s Sportsbet Jockey Watch Hcp (1100m) for 2-year-old fillies at Caulfield.

The Justify (USA) x Fastnet Rock nick has been lethal and produced an eye-catching debut juvenile winner at Newcastle on Saturday for the powerful Kris Lees stable.

A $220,000 buy for Proven Thoroughbreds at the Adelaide Magic Millions, In Flight was the second most expensive filly from her sire Flying Artie's first five crops, and she is shaping up to be an inspired selection.

A homebred for Woppitt Bloodstock, Riff Rocket has won three Group I races this season to put himself right in the picture for Champion 3YO honours and for his two year-old half-sister Codetta it’s all just beginning.

The promising 2-year-old Snitzel colt Wanaruah took his record to two for two when leading at every call in over 1400m at Randwick.

The Group I Falmouth Stakes (1m) for fillies and mares was the highlight race overnight at Newmarket, while the Group II Duchess of Cambridge Stakes (6f) was won by the most expensive filly sold at this year’s Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale.

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

Fourteen 2-year-old fillies, evenly divided between the raced and unraced brigade, are set to contest Saturday's Sportsbet Jockey Watch Hcp (1000m) for fillies at Caulfield.

Not many juveniles are sent out on debut over 1400m, but the Lindsay Park trainers knew exactly what they had on their hands with this talented son of Pierro and he trotted up by more than five lengths.

There was plenty of trial action at Rosehill on Friday morning with seven heats won by juveniles including the three-quarter sister to legendary champion Winx.

Mitre Peak made it two wins from her last three starts on Riccarton’s Synthetic track on Friday when powering home late to capture the Speight’s Summit Ultra On Tap 3YO (1400m).

An online purchase of $4700 has turned into more than $63,000 in stakes with synthetic specialist Doubtful Sound, who played another starring role in Friday’s $32,000 Red Nose Raceday 26 July Rating 65 (1600m) at Riccarton.

An extraordinary performance by Sister Ping at Cambridge on Wednesday has Chad Ormsby excited about the filly’s prospects for her three-year-old season.

Magic Millions boss Gerry Harvey has bred a lot of good horses that have achieved greatness on the track, but there must be a place on the honour roll at Baramul Stud for 15 year-old Mossman gelding Double Impact, who won the Queensland Qualifier for the 2025 Magic Millions Off-The-Track Cup.

The Listed Sir Henry Cecil Stakes (1m) at Newmarket overnight produced a good result for the Mick Price and Michael Kent Jr trained filly Kitty Rose, who ran a good second to Night of Thunder colt Al Musmak.

Sustained international demand continued on the third and final day of the Tattersalls July Sale with JUBILEE WALK topping proceedings at 220,000 guineas ahead of SOLDIER’S EMPIRE on 180,000 guineas, with both horses set to target major prizes in Bahrain. 

If you are anything like me, you come inside after finishing outside horse work, grab a drink and scroll through the day’s race and trial results on Breednet, just to see what’s what and catch anything you might have missed and sometimes your eye will be drawn to the unexpected.

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

Rich Enuff has had an outstanding season with his 3-year-olds, but his 2-year-old son, The Heir, stepped up to the plate at Bendigo on Thursday.

Patience might be going to pay off for the connections of this beautiful three year-old Lonhro filly that sold for $1,050,000 at Magic Millions in 2022 and opened her account at Bendigo on Thursday.

While many breeders take a standoffish approach to American-performed stallions, David Moodie has no such problem.

Larneuk Stud’s blueblood Snitzel stallion Wandjina has had a good season with nearly 50 Australian winners including new stakes-winner Infancy and has made his presence felt in Hong Kong with a winning double at Happy Valley on Wednesday.

The countdown to the annual highlight on the thoroughbred calendar, Karaka 2025, kicks off again when yearling inspections get underway next month ahead of NZB’s 2024/25 sales season.

As part of an effort to encourage the importation of quality young horses into Malaysia and to boost the horse population, NZB is proud to partner with the Selangor Turf Club for the running of Saturday’s RM100,000 NZB 3YO Trophy (1400m) eligible for graduates of NZB sales only.

Australian trainers and owners have high regard for leading European sire Kingman, who earlier this week clocked up his 100th winner this year worldwide and has made his presence felt keenly in Australia with Group I winners Zardozi and King Colorado, who stands his first season at Widden Victoria this spring.

A pair of beautifully bred Juddmonte fillies were the star turns on the second day of the Tattersalls July Sale with both realising 300,000 guineas on a day that saw continued strong international demand and a clearance rate of 92% with the highest priced colt going to the Price Kent stable in Austalia.  

High-class 2YO filly Summer Loving topped today’s Inglis Digital July (Early) Online Sale, realising $370,000 to the bid of Matt Scown Bloodstock, acting on behalf of Yarraman Park.

Here is the full list of 49 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Russian Revolution will finish the season as a clear leader by winners and stakes-winners in the third crop sires division and his 110 winners include a pair of progressive three year-olds prepared by champion trainer Chris Waller that scored at Warwick Farm and Eagle Farm on Wednesday.

After signing the cheque for $250,000 to secure Freak Of Nature at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale, Jason Warren needed just $18,000 to return the son of Snitzel to his stable when offered on Inglis Digital in February.

A half-brother to three stakes-winners, the Harry Angel (IRE) colt Tarpaulin has a bit to live up to and showed he is better than Wednesday class when breaking his maiden in the Schweppes Hcp (1200m) at Warwick Farm.

One of the country's most electrifying sprinters will present an incredible opportunity for breeding farms around the world when she is offered at a special standalone virtual sale later this month.

The 2-year-old Encryption filly Data Scramble came with a barnstorming finish to make a winning career debut in the Teddy Bears Picnic 3 August Maiden Plate (1200m) at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.

The 3-year-old Ocean Park gelding Fabrice earned his purchase price back when making a winning debut in the Sportsbet Fast Form Maiden Plate (1200m) at Sandown-Lakeside on Wednesday.

The Godolphin draft was the highlight on the opening day of the Tattersalls July Sale with three of the session’s highest priced offerings including the top lot WHISPERING WORDS who realised 280,000 guineas. Ten lots realised 100,000 guineas or more to a markedly international buying bench which included purchasers from Australia, Germany, Indonesia, Kuwait, Japan and New Zealand as well as

Just as he was in the yearling session, Kitasan Black (JPN) was in demand with the top-priced colt and filly in the foal session on Tuesday. This session proved tougher going but the sale recorded a new record aggregate over two days. 

Our analysis of Australian Group I winners for this season continues with a look at the dams of all 54 horses that won at the highest level – were they winners, how old were they when their G1 winner was born and what is the common denominator that produced 88% of the G1 winners this season?

Here is the full list of 15 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The fifth foal of the Golden Slipper and Moir Stakes winner She Will Reign (Manhattan Rain), a colt foal by the leading stallion Kizuna, was a ¥210m (A$1,940,000) purchase for Hirosaki Toshihiro at the foal session of JRHA Select Sale on Tuesday.

South Australian bred horses are renowned for punching well above their weight and the incredibly tough and versatile, DALASAN, is a shining example.

Riccarton horsewoman Anna Furlong will take sole charge of the successful Champagne Racing Stables operation from the beginning of the new term.

The racing industry is rallying behind Amanda Higgins, with the Ashburton trainer currently undergoing treatment for terminal cancer.

We might be in the depths of winter battling relentless mud and limited daylight, but for owners and riders of off the track thoroughbreds there is light at the end of the tunnel with Racing NSW announcing their program for this year’s Equimillion (October 4 – 7) presenting an opportunity for the racing and breeding world to offer their support.

Japanese Horse Of The Year Kitasan Black, the sire of world champion Equinox, had the honour of siring the top-priced colt and filly at the yearling session of the JRHA Select Sale, and both were records for the sale.

Kia Ora has bolstered its dynamic team with the appointment of seasoned industry expert Allison Sedgwick as Head of Sales.

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

Mapperley Stud’s Simms Davison has enjoyed a memorable season with results to savour on and off the track.

A colt from the family of Saturday’s Listed Belmont Oaks heroine Petrouchka made the early running as the yearling session of the JRHA Select Sale got underway at Northern Horse Park, Hokkaido on Monday.

The Group I German Derby (2400m) was run at Hamburg on Sunday with victory going to Gleneagles colt Palladium, who runs for Liberty Racing 2022 and has a pedigree that has a significant Australian offshoot.

Little Avondale Stud is offering five mares in the National Online Breeding Stock Sale on Gavelhouse Plus, including a pair of well-credentialled mares carrying foals by the stud’s high-flying sire Per Incanto.

Ilovethiscity, winner of the Group 1 Randwick Guineas, and producer of Group 1 two-year-old El Dorado Dreaming will stand the 2024 breeding season at Noor Elaine Farm and is in hot form with a winning double on Monday.

The Group I Prix Jean Prat (1400m) at Deauville for three year-olds has been won in the past by the likes of Too Darn Hot, Pinatubo and Laws of Indices, who found his way to Australia, and this year’s winner Puchkine combines the blood of two stallions on the Coolmore Australia roster this spring.

Returning to Darley Victoria this spring, Blue Point (IRE) sired his first two year-old stakes-winner this year in the Northern Hemisphere when Tiego the First took out the Listed Prix Roland de Chambure (1400m) at Chantilly.

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

Royally bred three-year-old Twain couldn’t have been more impressive on debut at Tauranga on Sunday, winning the Saddlery Warehouse Cambridge & Tauranga (1200m) for John Bell.

Whether you are a commercial breeder or hobbyist with a handful of mares the dream to breed a Group I winner is something everyone shares, so we’ve gone through all the Australian Group I winners this season that were conceived in Australia to see what it cost in terms of fee to produce these stars of the turf.

The Japan Racing Horse Association will stage its Select Sale at Northern Horse Park, Hokkaido, on July 8 and 9, featuring 243 yearlings catalogued for Monday and 253 foals on Tuesday.

Only six sires have produced 10 or more two year-old winners this season and Vinery Stud’s bargain priced Headwater is matching strides with the big guns in terms of ‘King of the Kids’.

Last year’s Champion European 2YO Colt and this year’s Epsom Derby winner, City of Troy is a horse that carries a lot of hype wherever he goes and the show rolled into Sandown overnight for the Group I Coral Eclipse Stakes (1m2f) and he duly took the prize although a son of Wootton Bassett made him earn it.

Here is the full list of 104 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

From the 19th and final Australian crop of Vinery Stud’s More Than Ready (USA), Petrouchka went two better than her half-sister I’m Feeling Lucky when opening her stakes account in Saturday’s Listed Belmont Oaks (2000m).

It’s been a big week for Widden Stud’s champion sire Zoustar, who clocked up his 200th winner of the season on Friday and he put the icing on the cake with a new stakes-winner when talented filly Right to Party powered home to win the $175,000 Listed VRC Creswick Series Final (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday.

Relocated to Larneuk Stud this spring, Lonhro’s dual Group I winning son Impending sired a new stakes-winner on Saturday when progressive three year-old Cool Memory led all the way to win the Listed WATC Aquanita Stakes (2000m) at Belmont.

Written By featured at Belmont in Perth on Saturday with brilliant juvenile debut winner Wind and The Lion demolishing his opposition with a resounding victory.

Munhamek (GB) made it three wins on the bounce when he gave his rivals weight, travelled three-wide, and still proved a class above in Saturday’s $200,000 Listed VRC-CRV Winter Championship Series Final (1600m) at Flemington.

Back to the scene that earned career highlights in the Group III VRC Aurie's Star Handicap and Listed The Straight Six, It'sourtime returned to the winner's circle for the first time in nearly a year with a dominant win in Saturday's Listed Santa Ana Lane Sprint Series Final (1200m) at Flemington.

The Lindsay Park Racing team had high hopes coming into the $175,000 Listed VRC Taj Rossi Series Final (1600m) at Flemington on Saturday with two promising fillies engaged in Jenni’s Meadow and Sneaky Sunrise and they duly came away with the quinella.

Talented New Zealand mare Cindy Falls opened her Australian account in style with a brilliant last-to-first performance in Saturday’s A$150,000 Leilani Series Final (1400m) at Flemington.

The topweight Tamerlane went off an unloved $21 chance in Saturday’s Listed James Squire Winter Stakes (1400m) at Randwick but toughed it out to ring up the fourth winner on the day for Zac Lloyd.

First-season sire Ferrando was credited with his first winner when Grove Street led all the way for an upset victory in Saturday’s Sign Central 2YO (1100m) at Hastings.

A few days after the loss of legendary Hawke’s Bay studmaster and administrator Tom Lowry, his nephew Guy played a starring role on Saturday with Wewillrock’s scintillating victory in the Group One Turf Bar Sprint (1200m) at Te Rapa.

It was looking dire for the odds-on favourite Clear Thinking (GB) when strung up behind a wall of horses halfway down the straight before finding clear air to charge home to capture the Tab Highway Hcp (1200m) at Randwick and keep her record at a perfect three for three.

The $150,000 VRC Next Generation Sprinter Series (1200m) for juveniles at Flemington on Saturday had a short priced favourite in blueblood I Am Invincible filly I Found You, but she came up short in an exciting finish with Fastnet Rock gelding Aldofito making a winning debut.

The striking Exceedance colt Brave One made an exciting debut in the Petaluma Hcp (1000m) at Randwick when turning over boom colt Mayfair.

The Listed Dragon Stakes (5f) at Sandown in the UK overnight for two year-olds had an interesting winner that made big money at the Goffs UK Breeze Up Sale this year selling for £380,000 and also credited Australian sire Hallowed Crown with his first stakes-winner as a broodmare sire.

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

Widden Stud’s champion sire Zoustar was the world’s leading sire of winners in 2023 and passed a milestone on Friday when racking up his 200th Australian winner of the season and shortly after his 201st!

A mare with one of the hottest current pedigrees in the Australian Stud Book – in foal to sire sensation Proisir – headlines a quality catalogue for the Inglis Digital July (Early) Online Sale.

Partly thanks to the meteoric rise of Rich Hill Stud stallions Proisir and Satono Aladdin, the three well-credentialled broodmare prospects being offered by the stud on Gavelhouse Plus this week are among the highest-profile entries in the 2024 National Online Breeding Stock Sale.

A few weeks ago we made mention of the promising trial performance from Winx’s two year-old three-quarter sister Wings of Desire, who surged home for second in a heat at Randwick won by three year-old filly Are Ee Que, who franked that form when bolting in at Goulburn on Friday.

Despite being a stakes-placed daughter of Redoute's Choice from a family chockful of stakes-winners, Pleiades had worn out her welcome after eight seasons at Darley Stud and found herself in the Godolphin consignment heading to the 2023 Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale.

Innovative new Victorian enterprise Lovatsville will open the gates in August for a series of stallion parades showcasing four exciting young sires in Royal Meeting (IRE), Gold Trip (Fr), Generation and Fierce Impact (Jpn), who will have his first runners next season.

Entries for NZB’s 2024 Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds are now open, with the Sale set to be held at the Karaka Sales Centre on 20 and 21 November.  

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

Bred to be an Oaks filly, this Kiwi bred two year-old filly made a winning debut at Sale on Thursday carrying the famous Pride of Jenni colours.

These stories are invariably popular and often shed light on why a stallion is doing what he is doing or what he might be expected to do in the future.

The prestigious 2023/24 Australian Racehorse of the Year awards will be celebrated this year on Thursday, 10 October at the new $20 million state of the art Wolf Blass ‘The Man’ Event Centre at Morphettville Racecourse, South Australia.

Famed Southern nursery White Robe Lodge has announced the service fees for their roster of four stallions, which features emerging young stallion Ancient Spirit ($7,000+GST) along with the proven trio of Ghibellines ($7,000+GST), Raise The Flag ($4,000+GST) and Gallant Guru ($2,000+GST).

Tom Lowry, an immensely influential figure in the New Zealand thoroughbred industry, passed away on Monday aged 88.

Much missed Golden Slipper winning sire Sebring has several sons at stud and one of the quiet achievers is Glenthorne Park Stud’s Sebring Sun, whose 60% winner to runner strike rate has made him a great option for owner breeders chasing the dream on a budget.

Exciting times are coming for Kia Ora Stallions later this year with the first runners by foundation sires Golden Slipper winner Farnan and blue-blood Redoute’s Choice son Prague.

The standalone Inglis Digital Sale for three quality mares owned by Trilogy Racing and partners has concluded with two purchased by Trilogy Racing and a third by International Bloodstock Investments.

Six of the European Darley roster will be available to cover southern hemisphere time this year, including Champion Australian First Season Sire elect Too Darn Hot (GB), who would have covered a full book in Australia this spring at a fee of $110,000.

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

The future looked bright for the valuable Spirit Of Boom filly Mighty when making a winning career debut at the Gold Coast in November 2022, but let connections down in five subsequent starts.

Leon and Troy Corstens thought enough of their Written Tycoon filly Supercilious to make her career in the Group II Blue Diamond Prelude in February.

After six consecutive placings, talented Zoustar filly Khaznah was well overdue to break the ice and the three year-old did it in style at Canterbury on Wednesday when landing the $100,000 Super Maiden over 1200m.

Entries are now open for the country's leading breeze up style auction, the Gold Coast Horses in Training Sale, with a new section announced for vendors in 2024.

There will be better races ahead for exciting Extremely Hardys after the 2-year-old daughter of Extreme Choice introduced herself with a six-length romp over 1200m at Canterbury on Wednesday.