Press Statement was a Group 1 star for Chris Waller so it was appropriate the champion trainer should prepare the Vinery sire’s first winner at Canterbury on Friday night.

The serving barn is one of the most stressful places on a stud farm and things can go wrong very quickly if an excitable 600kg stallion isn’t in good hands.

Free Of Debt returns to action after being sidelined for 10 months in the G3 Manfred Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield this Saturday.

Buyers gave Vinery their stamp of approval at the 2019 Inglis Classic Sale and among its graduates is promising colt Much Much Better.

War Chant (USA) reached a career landmark when Dance Music won the Australia Day Trophy (1500m) at Ascot on the Australia Day long-weekend.

Mungrup Stud freshman I’m All The Talk sired his first winner when Watch Me Dance launched a last-to-first burst in the TABtouch Maiden (1016m) at Bunbury on Monday.

More Than Ready mare Uni (GB) was honoured as Champion Turf Female at the 2019 USA Eclipse Awards in Florida on Thursday.

Rejuvenated sprinter Gingerella can go some way to off-setting the loss of a much-loved Gingerbread Man stakes winner last week by winning the G3 Fortune Bowl (1400m) in Singapore this Sunday.

Weaponson continued the successful run for Serpentine trainer David Harrison with a three-length romp in the Budget Rental Hcp (1000m) at Ascot on Wednesday.

Co-trainer Ciaron Maher believes Bam’s On Fire is closing in on black-type after claiming the first-leg of an interstate double for Universal Ruler on Wednesday.

Cambridge Stud owners Brendan & Jo Lindsay and Vinery combined to win their second juvenile race in a week at Werribee on Tuesday.

John Andrew has been a fixture at Perth yearling sales since 1974 and he’s back with another consignment of 15 quality lots for next month’s Magic Millions in the Swan Valley.

Baraki Beats turned back the clock with an all-the-way victory in the $100,000 Mungrup Stud Sprint at Albany on Sunday.

Grey flyer Chix Pic completed a winning afternoon for Patronize on Saturday with a characteristic victory in the Seacorp Hcp (1000m) at Ascot.

Yarradale Stud has opened its black-type account this year after breeding more stakes winners than anyone else in WA bar Peters Investments in 2019.

It’s taken a while, but for Laurie McCarthy’s Greta West Stud the timing of Victorian stallion Master Of Design’s first Group One success as a sire couldn’t be any better.

All Too Hard continued a New Year surge at Flemington on Saturday with his ‘frequent flyer’ Reflectivity.

Jimmy Choux galloper Ironside sprang a $16 surprise at Kranji on Friday for trainer Donna Logan and jockey Ruan Maia.

Headwater sired another brilliant first-crop winner with black-type aspirations when Mileva demoralised her rivals at Murray Bridge on Saturday.

Bradbury’s Luck has his first crop from Yarradale Stud timed to make an impact going forward to the Perth Magic Millions Yearling Sale.

Master Of Design 3yo Megamea showed a massive will-to-win when racing first-up at Sale last Sunday.

Neven Botica is an ardent supporter of War Chant (USA) and that patronage has paid off again with a running double at Pinjarra.

Playing God is laying the platform for a storied stud career that commences another chapter at Ascot this Saturday.

WA-based Scenic Lodge owners David and Jeremy Smith bid farewell to Champion sire Blackfriars when Magic Millions knocks down his final yearlings at the Swan Valley sale complex on February 17 & 18.

Rangeview Stud has acquired Fastnet Rock stakes winner Long Leaf to stand at its Burekup property in the south-west of WA.

Awesome Rock’s first-crop yearling colt from Sigaro made everyone sit up and take notice at the Gold Coast Magic Millions Sale on Sunday.

Vinery shuttler More Than Ready (USA) sired his second juvenile winner this season when exciting filly Vernazza extended to claim the NZB Pearl Series (1200m) on Sunday.

Headwater 2yo Wisdom Of Water lost no admirers with an unlucky fourth in the $2 million Magic Millions Classic RL at the Gold Coast on Saturday.

Vinery Stud and its clients were well-rewarded during Book 1 of the Magic Millions Yearling Sale that concluded on Saturday evening at the Gold Coast.

Alligator Blood dominated the Magic Millions Guineas RL at the Gold Coast on Saturday and he can stamp that authority over the rest of his generation in Melbourne next month.

The colt by Vinery sire Star Turn from Dukemore (Encosta de Lago) was the centre of spirited competition before Team Hawkes won out with a final bid of $550,000 on Day 1 at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale.