Tassort - New Winner

An outstanding few days for Sword Of State’s first-crop yearlings at Karaka culminated in a $540,000 purchase price towards the end of the Book 1 session on Tuesday afternoon.

Here is the full list of 38 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Roger James and Robert Wellwood experienced a whirlwind of highs across the Karaka Millions and Yearling Sales series this week, a trend they hope to continue back at Ellerslie on Saturday.

Tassort added a fourth winner to his tally at Bendigo on Saturday when the Anthony and Sam Freedman trained filly Ameena bolted clear to win as she pleased on debut.

Off the back of a lucrative result at Karaka, Mark and Jane Corcoran’s Grangewilliam Stud will be chasing another top outcome on the track this weekend.

The $2million Inglis Millennium (1100m) will be run at Randwick on February 8 and while top contenders North England and Within the Law have been tuning up at the trials it was impressive debut winner Open Secret that was a big mover from last weekend’s racing with her connections immediately announcing their intention to target the race.

Tassort has another star juvenile on the radar with exciting Anthony and Sam Freedman trained filly Ameena winning as she pleased at Caulfield Heath on Wednesday to make it two easy wins in as many starts.

After being an underbidder on the two highest-priced yearlings of the sale, Dean Hawthorne had to wait until the last hour of the Book 1 session on Tuesday afternoon to finally secure one of the fillies on his Karaka wish list.

Day Three of NZB’s 2025 National Yearling Sales Series rounded out Book 1 on Tuesday, with a solid day of trade on par with last year’s results.

This week we’re having a quick look at all the action from Karaka race day and sales, making sense of the 2YO's and we have a special guest trainer who sheds light on a blue hen, a champion sire and has a tip for us on Wednesday.