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Dundeel: 6 Fillies Facts August 5, 2025

You've seen what his colts can do and now his fillies are stepping up - 2025 is your opportunity to ride the next wave of Dundeel...

Arrowfield tops 2024/25 Vendors Premiership August 4, 2025

56 stakes performances, including 5 G1 wins, by 35 sale graduates have put Arrowfield in the #1 spot on the 2024/25 Australian Black Type Vendors Premiership...

Accolades a-plenty for Arrowfield stallions in 2024/25 August 1, 2025

The highs and lows of breeding & racing were extreme for Arrowfield’s stallion roster in 2024/25, but at season-end it’s not difficult to focus on the highs...

Snitzel ends the season with a flourish July 26, 2025

For the third season in his illustrious career, Snitzel ends 2024/25 with more than 30 stakes wins to his credit, thanks to his 3YO daughter Bridal Waltz...

7th 2YO stakeswinner for Maurice July 20, 2025

Maurice is building a powerful team of 3YOs for next season and his daughter Ethereum Girl stepped up to lead it after victory in the SA Sires' Produce S. G3...

Family Bonding finds his calling July 14, 2025

Family Bonding didn't make it as a racehorse, but in his new life as Bentley the show jumper in the care of Eden Evans, he's proving very successful...

Snitzel filly waltzes to Listed victory July 5, 2025

Pope Racing's 3YO filly Bridal Waltz is the Champion Sire's 161st stakeswinner and the 11th stakeswinner from his 2021 crop...

Autumn Boy dominant in Listed win June 28, 2025

2YO colt Autumn Boy became The Autumn Sun's 9th stakeswinner with a sparkling victory for Chris Waller & owner Glenn Ritchie in the Tattersall's S. LR...

Vandeek’s half-brother wins G2 Royal Ascot Coventry Stakes June 18, 2025

The most prestigious of the six 2YO races at Royal Ascot 2025 has produced a most impressive victory by Gstaad, half-brother of Arrowfield's new sire Vandeek...

Arrowfield mourns Champion Sire Snitzel June 11, 2025

Multiple Champion Sire Snitzel died this morning at Arrowfield Stud, near the end of one of the finest seasons of his spectacular, record-setting career...

Maurice: 8 Fast Facts June 11, 2025

A proven Group 1 sire whose rapid rise in Australia was interrupted by the pandemic, so no 3YOs this season. But since his return to Arrowfield....

Snitzel hits 20 Stakeswinners this season June 7, 2025

Transatlantic's Listed victory at Eagle Farm brings up Champion Sire Snitzel's 20th SW this season and the 160th stakeswinner of his incredible career...

Hitotsu: Five Fast Facts June 5, 2025

Hitotsu made Australian turf history on the racetrack. Now he's on the way to making his own history as a sire...

National Pony Racing Series Finals take centre stage June 4, 2025

Isabella Swain & her pony Just Jenny will represent Tasmania & Arrowfield in Saturday's 2025 National Pony Racing Finals at the Gold Coast...

Dundeel: Nine Fast Facts May 26, 2025

Dundeel is now a current season top 10 sire in Australia by Prizemoney, Winners, Stakeswinners & Stakes Wins...

Beadman hits fresh marks for Snitzel May 11, 2025

A mere fortnight after Snitzel's last new stakeswinner, the 2YO colt named for Hall of Fame jockey Darren Beadman brings up a fresh set of statistics...

Dundeel adds his 37th stakeswinner May 11, 2025

Dundeel's Group-winning daughter Litzdeel puts him in a select group of 6 stallions that have sired 10 or more Australian stakeswinners so far this season...

The Autumn Sun shines everywhere! May 11, 2025

A new stakeswinner at Morphettville, a new millionaire at Gosford and a $1.2 million broodmare daughter - it's all in a week's work for The Autumn Sun!

First Hitotsu weanlings well-received May 8, 2025

Eight lots offered, 7 sold for an average price of 3 times service fee and a six-figure top price - that summarises Hitotsu's first weanling sale results...

Dundeel filly wins G1 South Australian Derby May 3, 2025

Dundeel notched up his 9th Group 1 winner when 3YO filly Femminile swept to victory in Saturday's $1 million South Australian Derby G1...

Snitzel’s stellar season continues April 27, 2025

Queen of the South S. G2 winner Zloties is the 18th individual stakeswinner this season for her Champion Sire Snitzel and No. 158 of his extraordinary career...

Japanese stakes win for Arrowfield graduate April 24, 2025

Invincible Papa rounded out a terrific Easter weekend for Arrowfield graduates following stakes wins by Shangri La Spring, Matusalem & Little Black Dress...

Mazu repeats G3 Hall Mark Stakes win April 21, 2025

Maurice's high-class son Mazu took his earnings past $9 million with his 7th stakes victory, taking out Saturday's Hall Mark S. 1200m G3 for the second time...

Sixth stakeswinner for Castelvecchio April 20, 2025

Castelvecchio's rise since El Castello's Gloaming S. G3 victory on 12 October has been nothing short of spectacular and he's not slowing down...

The essential sire of stakes-winning 2YOs April 19, 2025

Just as every woman serious about fashion needs a little black dress, so every stable serious about 2YO racing needs a Snitzel...

The Autumn Sun’s 7th stakeswinner April 19, 2025

Matusalem fulfilled his early promise to take out Thursday's Albury Gold Cup LR and become The Autumn Sun's 7th stakeswinner...

Arrowfield announces 2025 Stallion Roster April 15, 2025

In the wake of his third Golden Slipper winner and career-best yearling sale results, multiple Champion Sire Snitzel heads the 2025 Arrowfield stallion roster...

Oaks-bound Cinch wins G3 Auraria Stakes April 14, 2025

Dundeel's 3YO daughter has the $1 million Australasian Oaks G1 in her sights after an authoritative Auraria S. G3 win at Morphettville...

Championships double for Maurice & The Autumn Sun April 13, 2025

Matcha Latte & Know Thyself have compiled a memorable double for Arrowfield stallions & graduates, winning both the Provincial & Country Championships...

Dundeel to join NZ Racing Hall of Fame April 11, 2025

Ahead of the anniversary of his imperious racetrack finale in the 2014 Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Dundeel is announced as a NZ Racing Hall of Fame inductee...

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