With 2170 days between his first Group 1 win and his second, Rothfire reset all sorts of history when he won the Doomben 10,000, including the first two-year-old Australian Group 1 winner this century to have gone on and won an elite race at eight.
While the number of stallions in Australia is in decline, the genetic make-up of stakes winners remains diverse, with 360 different nicks of sires and broodmare sires represented among black-type winners this season, including the formula behind Desert Lightning’s success in The Goodwood.
In Classic races either side of the Atlantic at the weekend, descendants of a trio of true blue hens further enhanced the influence of their families, while South Australian Derby winner Wigmore put his globetrotting grand dam’s name back up in lights.
After Wordsmith became the eighth non-Group 1 winning racehorse to sire a Group 1 winner in Australia this season, Run The Numbers looks at how commonplace this pattern has been over the years.
While one famous equine winning streak came to an end earlier this month, at the weekend, another rolled on as Jigsaw extended his run to seven straight victories. We look at Australian racing’s best current streaks.
Idle Flyer’s victory in the Queen of the Turf Stakes provided her late damsire Street Cry with his fifth Australian Group 1 winner in that role this season, well clear of any other stallion as the remarkable record of the produce of his daughters continues to build.
The victories of Joliestar and Sheza Alibi at Randwick on Saturday mean that 14 times this season, a filly or mare has upstaged the colts and geldings in an open-age Group 1 in Australia. Is this dominance becoming more common? Run The Numbers investigates.
Australia’s yearling market has grown in almost every key indicator to this point in 2026, despite the two major sales taking a step back. Run The Numbers takes the temperature after the Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
Australian breeders’ desire for international pedigrees has arguably never been stronger, with a historically high number of progeny of non-Australasian-bred mares represented at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale. Run The Numbers examines long-term trends.
With James McDonald poised to surpass Damien Oliver’s Australasian record of 129 Group 1 wins as a jockey, Run The Numbers has had a look at all the numbers that add up to this incredible achievement.
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