Breeding and Bloodstock

Prominent owner Gary Harding’s secured the top lot of New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling Sale with a $170,000 purchase of a Satono Aladdin filly.

Flying Artie now has the distinction of siring the winner of a Blue Diamond Stakes and a King Charles III Stakes from his first crop following Asfoora’s Royal Ascot triumph.

The JJ Atkins Stakes has unearthed some future stars of the track and Broadsiding’s win on Saturday, by the biggest margin in 24 years and the fastest time in 20 years, puts him right there among the best. This week’s Run the Numbers looks at just how rare a gem he really is.

Broadsiding made it a Group 1 double in his juvenile year with a dominant win in the J.J. Atkins, while Stefi Magnetica fulfilled a familial prophecy in the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap.

The two-day Inglis Great Southern Sale in Melbourne has ended with a Snitzel colt selling for $575,000.

Foals by leading sires Frankel and I Am Invincible topped the opening day of the Inglis Great Southern Sale in Melbourne.

A 1.6 per cent share offered by Qatar Bloodstock in Widden Stud’s champion sire Zoustar was purchased for $1.3 million by Julia Ritchie’s Bangaloe Stud during an Inglis online auction.