Doomben Barrier Trials

The quality on offer in the 404-lot strong catalogue of NZB’s 2024 Ready to Run Sale due to kick off next week, is further boosted by the eligibility of 28 Karaka Millions nominated lots on offer. 

There were just two heats for juveniles at Rosehill on Friday morning, but they held plenty of interest with colts by Wootton Bassett (GB) and Farnan catching the eye.

The flat season is officially over in the UK and Ireland barring a handful of all weather track meetings and while the champion sire for GB/ Ireland by prizemoney is not declared until the end of the year and often produces a predictable victor a long way from the finish line, this year has been different and the champion sire elect has a name that will make plenty of Queensland breeders very happ

A pair of fillies moved into prominent positions on the order of entry for the $1m TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m) with impressive winning performances over the weekend.

The release of the 2025 Magic Millions catalogue on Tuesday has kept the IT team at Breednet busy integrating the data into our system and one of the most popular innovations around that is Family Search, which allows the user to search for any named horses to find all yearlings to be offered from that female family.

Emerging filly Costae has taken the rarest of avenues to the Gr.1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton, where she will bid to deliver a dream result for a new ownership group.

Worth $1.5million, the Group I MRC Thousand Guineas (1600m) at Caulfield on Saturday is the last G1 of the spring for three year-olds and has drawn an intriguing field of 13 fillies and only one of them was a stakes-winner last season at two.

Keeneland’s 81st November Breeding Stock Sale closed Wednesday following nine days of vibrant trade from a global buying bench that yielded healthy across-the-board gains, led by gross sales through the ring of $187.5 million and a record median of $40,000 to signal continued buyer confidence and market stability.

Shamardal’s Group I winning son Lope de Vega started his stud career shuttling to Patinack Farm in Hunter Valley from 2011 to 2014 at fees of $27,500 and then $22,000, but has shot to fame in the years since then with Ballylinch Stud in Ireland announcing his 2025 fee at €175,000.

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