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Juddmonte release European fees for 2025
Juddmonte unveiled their European roster and fees for 2025 on Monday, with breed-shaper Frankel (Galileo) set to stand for an unchanged fee of £350,000 (approx. AU$688,170). The dual world champion racehorse and British and Irish champion sire is responsible for 23 individual black-type winners in the northern hemisphere so far this year, headed by Group... Read More
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US sprinting star Cogburn to shuttle to Widden in 2025
Grade 1-winning sprinter Cogburn (Not This Time), the fastest horse on the planet, will shuttle to Widden Stud in 2025. In a massive coup for the Australian breeding industry, Widden have struck a deal with the North American operation WinStar Farm to stand the talented son of Not This Time (Giant’s Causeway), who will shoot... Read More
City Of Troy to retire after Breeders’ Cup Classic
European champion two-year-old and Epsom Derby (Gr 1, 1m 4f) hero City Of Troy (Justify) will retire to Coolmore’s base in Ireland after the Breeders’ Cup Classic (Gr 1, 10f) at Del Mar in three weeks’ time. The news was revealed by Coolmore on Saturday and ends any speculation he would stand alongside his sire... Read More
Mustang Valley set for a date with Paddington
Multiple Group 1 winner Mustang Valley (Vanbrugh) has joined her mother in the Windsor Park broodmare band with both mother and daughter set to visit the operation’s exciting new shuttler Paddington (Siyouni). The top-quality mare carried 60 kilograms to victory in the open mile at Tauranga on Saturday in what was to have been her... Read More
Group 1-winning sire Al Maher dies
Emirates Park have announced the death of their 2005 Australian Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Al Maher (Danehill) at the age of 23. Bred by the stud’s founder Hussain Nasser Abdullah Lootah from a daughter of the ‘blue hen’ mare Dancing Show (Nijinksy), Al Maher would go on to become one of Emirates Park’s most... Read More
Grangewilliam Stud’s Zed dies from colic
Grangewilliam Stud announced on Sunday that the farm’s stalwart sire Zed (Zabeel) has died after suffering a bout of colic. “Zed was a massive part of our family. He was loved by all staff at Grangewilliam, past and present,” Mark Corcoran wrote on the farm’s Facebook page. “Zed has been such an easy horse and... Read More