The number of two-year-olds racing in Australia might be on the decline but the importance of elite juvenile racing remains as strong as ever. Run The Numbers looks at who the most influential stallions are in this aspect of Australian racing.
With the calendar year about to come to its conclusion, Run The Numbers looks at which sires are the global leaders for overall winners, with a former shuttle sire to Australia leading the way.
As Romantic Warrior closes in on becoming the first horse to earn more than AU$50 million in prize money, Run The Numbers looks at world racing’s biggest earners.
A race named after one Western Australian Hall Of Fame inductee has been completely dominated by another, with Bob Peters winning his eighth edition of the Northerly Stakes as both an owner and breeder, this time with a horse by a shuttle stallion out of a female line which extends back over 200 years in Australia.
The comparisons between Russian Revolution and Snitzel were inevitable after son followed father as a winner of the Oakleigh Plate. It was always a hard act to follow at stud, but as Run The Numbers finds out, the Newgate resident is doing a good job of keeping pace.
For the third time in four years, the winner of Western Australia’s Railway Stakes was by a sire from within the state. But as Run the Numbers finds out, Group 1-producing stallions are a relative rarity in WA with only three elite races each year.
The volume of two-year-olds sold through the three Australasian breeze-up sales has reached its highest annual level since before the pandemic, as overall investment soared to record levels in 2025. Run The Numbers breaks down all the key statistics.
The four days at Flemington, which comprise the Melbourne Cup carnival, remain the most revered in Australian racing. The 2025 edition proved a testament to the diversity of the Australian industry, especially in the stallions represented, as Run The Numbers checks out.
For the first time in 14 years, siblings will contest the Melbourne Cup. But it is not just one but two sets of brothers who will look to continue the unusual, but successful history of horses with the same dam competing in Australia’s legendary race.
Just months after his death, Fastnet Rock continues to create history with a first sire quinella in the Cox Plate in 77 years. This week’s Run The Numbers looks at the recent record of sires with the first two home in Australian Group 1 races.
