Sires With Winners - Wednesday January 17

The first foals of first season sires are always among the most popular on the Foal Gallery so with the 2024 foaling season pretty much complete we’ll recap some that came this year, starting with Jacquinot.

Twin Hills Stud’s Blue Diamond winner Daumier has left some stunning foals in his first crop this season and are certainly worth seeing.

Hunter Durrant has been rewarded for his commitment to leading Te Akau Racing’s Riccarton barn with promotion to assistant trainer for the trans-Tasman operation.

Here is the full list of 24 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Here is the full list of 26 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Just days after her sire All American passed away at Geisel Park in WA, his best ever offspring Yankee Rose produced a new winner in Japan to add further lustre to her burgeoning record as broodmare.

Spring is sprung, but with G1 racing in Perth and the Magic Millions extravaganza of sales and racing set to unfold in January there is plenty of excitement in our world to inspire new owners into the sport and a bargain priced filly with an x-ray issue was the biggest story on Breednet from last weekend.

With the rich Magic Millions 2YO Classic looming large on the horizon there has been a lot of trial activity through the month of November, so if you are looking for a catch up to see what first season sires have something coming in the pipeline read on.

This year’s publication features stories from respected industry personnel such as Ray Thomas, Andrew Rule, Bruce Clark, Trevor Marshallsea, Jess Owers, Tim Rowe, Glen Latham, Bren O’Brien, Michael Cox, Kristen Manning, Jill Williams, Tom Reilly and the Sydney Morning Herald’s senior sportswriter Iain Payten.

There was a busy set of trials at Canterbury on Tuesday morning with five heats over 900m for juveniles that featured a winning double for Trapeze Artist and an interesting Justify (USA) colt for Yulong that has been named Willingham, which is the name under which they have been buying at the recent Northern Hemisphere breeding stock sale.