Several of the largest players in Victorian standardbred breeding shone brightly on the big stage at the $1.5 million Vicbred Super Series finals at Melton on Saturday night.

With a total of $1.5million up for grabs across 12 races, Saturday night’s meeting at Melton will showcase the best Victorian-bred two, three and four-year-old pacers and trotters in commission.

Muckleford breeder-owner Graham Old is hoping talented trotting mare Lady Adelia can give him his first Group 1 success in a more than 50-year involvement in the sport when she lines up in the $100,000 Vicbred Super Series final at Melton on September 16.

Champion Ballarat breeder-owner-studmaster Pat Driscoll chalked up yet another milestone in his storied career when he bred five trotting winners at the Vicbred Super Series meeting at Maryborough on Monday afternoon.

Twenty heats of the Alabar Farms Vicbred Super Series are in the books after the pacers chased semi-finals berths and next the $2 million series spotlight turns to the country's best young squaregaiters, with the Haras des Trotteurs heats at Maryborough on Monday afternoon.

After launching with the two-year-olds at Kilmore on Tuesday, the pacing series became the plaything of Captaintreacherous' offspring on night two when the three-year-olds kicked off at Ballarat.

Sons and daughters of several leading racemares from yesteryear prevailed at the opening of the Vicbred Super Series for two-year-olds at Kilmore on Tuesday night.

A new timeslot and a new wave of up-and-coming stars will mark a significant new chapter for the Vicbred Super Series in 2023.

The $2million series for two, three and four-year-olds of both sexes and gaits gets underway at Kilmore tomorrow night with $10,000 heats for two-year-old pacing colts and geldings and two-year-old fillies.

The burgeoning ranks of trotting stallions in Australia were given another significant boost with the acquisition of the Muscle Hill horse E L Titan (1:51.4), winner of $702,473, by prominent western Victorian breeder Pat Driscoll, the principal of the Haras des Trotteurs stud, Ballarat.

Unbeaten two-year-old filly Lux Aeterna and brilliant three-year-old trotter Tradie Lady, who won their respective finals of the Nutrien Equine Classic at Bendigo, were the top priced fillies at their yearling sales.

King Of The North, the first son of the leading American trotting sire Walner to be imported Down Under, is to join the stallion strength at Llowalong Farms, Kyabram, conducted by Dr Kath McIntosh.

When breeding guru John Coffey begins his new role as pedigree consultant at Alabar Bloodstock next week, it will be a case of déjà vu for the Western Australian-born studmaster and breeder.

Reigning Inter Dominion champion and international trotting star Just Believe's bold escape into a fillies' paddock has left a valuable legacy unbeknownst to lucky horse owners.

Gelded at age two before he had raced, a standing career was never on the cards but his breeder, Yabby Dam Farms' Pat Driscoll, has revealed the plucky Swedish Group 1 placegetter has left a surprise family tree.

is the end result of a meticulous breeding program and excellent horse management.

The Just Believe story began when Pat Driscoll, principal of Cardigan's Yabby Dam Farms, bought his dam, the American-bred mare Heavens Above, for a modest $10,000 at a dispersal sale of prominent breeder-owner Kevin Riseley in 2009.

The leading standardbred sales company Australian Pacing Gold will be conducting yearling sales in NSW, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia in 2024.

APG chose not to run sales in Melbourne and Sydney in 2023 while the company reassessed its role in the marketplace and its future direction.

The Australian Standardbred Breeders Association (ASBA) has thrown its support behind an idea floated by the Western Australian Standardbred Breeders Association (WASBA) to return the iconic Inter Dominion Championship back to its old format of rotating between the states.

Unprecedented support from Australia’s leading breeders and vendors has resulted in the one of the biggest ever offerings of all aged stock at the 2023 Nutrien Equine Winter Woolies online sale.

Three-year-old Flying Sparks, who made an impressive winning debut at Kilmore last Thursday, is a member of a line Melbourne bookmaker turned breeder/owner John Dorrington founded almost 40 years ago.

“I bought a filly called Rineen as an unraced two-year-old for $15,000 in the mid 1980s,” Dorrington said.

International trotting star Ecurie D (1:49.2, $1,516,807), who beat the best trotters in commission in Europe and North America, will be available to Australian and New Zealand breeders this season.

Generally Speaking Se, the first issue of Australasia’s fastest ever trotting mare Maori Time (1:51.5) and by the dual Swedish Horse of the Year Readly Express Se, is set to embark on a North American career.