New Stakes winner, CAPTIVANT 🤩 CADDINGTON'S LISTED CROCKETT STAKES VICTORY MAKES HER CAPTIVANT'S SECOND STAKES WINNER FROM JUST 20 RUNNERS 🙌🏼 Captivant × War Heroine (USA) 3F Trainer: @HowleyRacing Jockey: @TheBeeegan Breeder: @kiaorastud Owners: Mr R W Rose, Team Strang No 1, Team Strang No 2, Team Strang No 3, Team Strang No 4, Team Strang No 5 Captivant stands @VineryStud for $11,000 🔥

Ricky Surace Jr and B2B Thoroughbreds were still on the comedown of a high as of Sunday evening following a huge day at the races at Randwick the previous day. Surace Jr, who leads the B2B operation alongside his father Ricky Surace Sr, was on course to witness both Revolina (Russian Revolution) and Lazzura (Snitzel) land stakes contests on the card and set themselves up for even bigger targets further down the line. Read today's edition here: buff.ly/dy7Coeo

25% Stakes winners to runners when combined with daughters of Street Cry 🙌 And his best crops are still coming down the line 🤩 Alabama Express standing at @YulongInvest Segenhoe ✨️ buff.ly/W5LoZyo

SWITZERLAND 🤩 🗣️ : Mat Becker - Merricks Station: “We’ll definitely be supporting him again this season’’ 🗣️ : Mick Malone: "By Jeez they're like Snitzel's". Check some of his foals out 👇️ Stands at @CoolmoreAus | buff.ly/2jLBdt5

PAPER TRAIL 💫 The best undefeated juvenile colt from the Green Desert sire line of I Am Invincible 💪 From a superior Juddmonte female family and out of a half-sister to G1 speed sire Calyx. He’s a Champion – with a Champion’s pedigree 🏆️ Stands at @DarleyAus for $22,000 in 2026 | buff.ly/1hlOJMQ

.@mmsnippets Digital sale (23-28 Oct) sale 💪 90% of this week's catalogue is offered UNRESERVED 🙌 Bidding closes 12pm AEST - Wednesday 28 October | buff.ly/w7c0jZG

A LITTLE SHOWSTOPPER! 🤍 📸 This @YulongInvest Alabama Express x Utzon filly is turning heads with her strikingly unusual coat. What a little beauty! Don't forget to send us your foals - submit via the link into bio 🔗 ☝️

With breeders 💫 Covered over 360 mares in his first two seasons at Stud 🤩 🗣️ Stefan Pardi.- purchaser of the $600,000 Inglis Sale Topper: "I think he’s just a standout as a first season sire" 🗣️ Mel Copelin on the Shinzo colt out of Perissa: "He’s a lovely forward yearling, real quality, beautiful head, and I think he’s going to go to the early January sale. The guys are lucky enough to have the mare back in foal to Shinzo." 🗣️ Jock Mackay on Kim Harding’s filly out of My Lady Luck: "I’d love a paddock full of them... She ticks all the boxes for me and all the sales companies love her." SHINZO stands at @CoolmoreAus | buff.ly/gIw8iao

With Buyers 💪 LEADING FIRST-SEASON SIRE AT ALL THREE AUSTRALIAN WEANLING SALES 🤩 Weanlings sold for $600,000 $400,000 $325,000 $240,000 $190,000 $170,000 $160,000 🗣️ : @anz_news: "He was the most popular freshman at the @inglis_sales Weanling sale and that's been reflected in a quality selection of his youngsters by 11 different vendors." SHINZO stands at @CoolmoreAus | buff.ly/gIw8iao

On The Page Best bred son of six-time Champion 2YO Sire SNITZEL Out of Gr.1 Blue Diamond Stakes-winning 2YO and Gr.1 Moir Stakes-winning 3YO, SAMAREADY, by MORE THAN READY 🏆️ 🗣️ Sebastian Hutch: "I’d be very surprised if he wasn’t a stallion that made a big impression on the market in 2027." SHINZO stands @CoolmoreAus | buff.ly/gIw8iao

EVERY CREDENTIAL THAT MATTERS THE FASTEST GOLDEN SLIPPER- WINNING COLT THIS CENTURY 💨 🗣️ : @GaiWaterhouse1 : "I’m often asked what’s the most important race in Australia, and there is one: the Golden Slipper. Timeform-rated 120 at 2, the highest-rated of his generation 🙌 SHINZO stands @CoolmoreAus | buff.ly/Ot452Os

Congratulations to @NorthBloodstock, breeders of G1 Spring Champions Stakes winner PROXIMA DEA. #raisedonhorsepower #moreclientsuccess @Horsepower_ens | buff.ly/s90LnRA

Congratulations to @MakybeS, breeders of G2 @kiaorastud Mile winner SURFIN’ BIRD. #raisedonhorsepower #moreclientsuccess @Horsepower_ens | buff.ly/s90LnRA

Congratulations to @silverdale_farm where G2 Vase winner TRUE REBEL was born and raised 🏆️ #raisedonhorsepower #moreclientsuccess @Horsepower_ens | buff.ly/s90LnRA

💥 NEW stakes winner for @RichHillStud’s VADAMOS! SOVERATO 🇳🇿 (4m Vadamos x Princess Biscotte) gets the Group victory her talent deserves! Already Group 3-placed, the progressive mare steps back up in distance and delivers a valuable black-type breakthrough in the G3 TESIO STAKES (2040M) 🏆 Originally a NZ$10,000 yearling purchase for Kasa Bloodstock from the Rich Hill Stud draft at the 2024 @KarakaChat National Online Yearling Sale, she was subsequently sold privately to @OTIRacing following an impressive New Zealand trial. Some return on a modest beginning! 🔥

THE STARS ALIGN FOR A CRUSADER ✨ COSMIC CRUSADER 🚀 (6g Maurice x Cosmic Storm) has conquered Australia’s greatest race! Just seven days after contesting the Caulfield Cup, the remarkable galloper rises to the ultimate occasion, adding another crowning achievement to his outstanding spring campaign in the G1 COX PLATE (2040m) 🏆 Bred and raced by Bob and Sandra Peters, the son of @ArrowfieldStud’s Maurice is out of their G2-winning mare Cosmic Storm. A homebred star delivering the ultimate prize in Australian weight-for-age racing! 🩷🤍

AN INVITATION TO REMEMBER 💌 LAZZURA ✨ (5m Snitzel x Laguna Azzurra) continues her brilliant spring campaign! The Group 1-winning mare backs up her Golden Pendant success with another classy display, capturing the $2 million G2 THE INVITATION (1400m) 🏆 Bred by @ArrowfieldStud in partnership with @northernfarm_jp, she was a $500,000 purchase for @B2BThoroughbred from the Arrowfield Stud draft at the 2023 @mmsnippets Gold Coast Yearling Sale. Another outstanding result! 🇦🇺🇯🇵

NEXT STOP, THE MELBOURNE CUP! 🏆 JUJA KIBO 🇮🇪 (5g Belardo x Na Zdorovie) is building an impressive spring resume! Having already claimed the Metropolitan, the Irish-bred stayer makes it back to back Group 2 victories, securing his Melbourne Cup berth with a brilliant win in the G2 MOONEE VALLEY GOLD CUP (2500m) 🏆 @cmaherracing Originally a €9,500 foal purchase for @KellyBloodstock at the 2021 @Goffs1866 November Foal Sale, he was later sold privately to Australian connections. From an inexpensive Irish foal to a Melbourne Cup runner! 🇦🇺

ANOTHER GODDESS. ANOTHER GROUP 1 👑 PROXIMA DEA ✨ (3f Tarzino x Invisible Coin) simply doesn’t know how to lose! Five starts, five wins, and now Group 1 glory as the unbeaten filly continues her remarkable rise in the G1 SPRING CHAMPION STAKES (2000m) 🏆 @DPayneRacing Her name means Another Goddess in Latin, a fitting tribute to her full sister, G1 Queensland Oaks winner Gypsy Goddess - Bred and raced by Andy Giles, Hugh Docherty and Caroline Vincent, she is the product of a deliberate return to @WestburyStud’s Tarzino after her sister’s success. Lightning strikes twice for Transtasman Breeders! ⚡

RIDING THE CREST OF A WAVE! 🌊 SURFIN’ BIRD 🏄‍♀️ (5m The Autumn Sun x Summer Surf) is building serious momentum! Backing up her Group 3 Vase victory, the progressive mare makes it consecutive stakes wins with another impressive display in the G2 KIA ORA STUD MILE (1600m) 🏆 she was a $280,000 yearling purchase before changing hands for $120,000 at the 2023 Strawberry Hill Stud Dispersal, secured by @GaiWaterhouse1 & Adrian Bott / @bruceaslade / @FirstLight_FLR 💛💙