Breeding and Bloodstock

Gobi Desert’s Max Lees win was a timely result for Inglis with the well-bred 2024 Classic sales-topper’s victory coming a day before the auction house released an 805-lot catalogue for next year’s edition.

Thousand Guineas contender Benagil will provide a reminder of Philip and Patti Campbell’s influence on the Victorian thoroughbred industry when she contests the Group 1 race.

Ahead of The Pinnacles, where the best in Western Australia try to repel the eastern seaboard raiders, Jesse Dart examines the influence of the state’s leading sire Playing God.

Lindsay Park’s sprinting three-year-old stakes-winning filly Bold Bastille will be offered for sale via Inglis Digital next week.

Coolmore’s marquee young Australian stallion Home Affairs is set to make a major mark at Magic Millions, which has released its 1401-lot catalogue for its iconic January sale.

Private mare sales, like the one which delivered multiple Group 1 winner Magic Time to Yulong recently, are becoming rarer and rarer. Tim Rowe looks at the changing nature of the market and speaks to the agents at the heart of those deals.

Iconic Kiwi stud The Oaks has hit the market as owner Dick Karreman celebrates another Group 1 win, while Qatar Racing’s David Redvers talks up with another stallion investment and a former Singapore trainer embarks on a new era.