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Baaeed To Command 80k For Shadwell In First Season

The highest-rated turf horse in a decade, Baaeed (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}–Aghareed, by Kingmambo), will stand for £80,000 in his first season at Shadwell's Nunnery Stud in 2023. The winner of 10 of his 11 starts, including six consecutive Group 1s, he is joined under the Shadwell banner by G1 Sprint Cup hero Minzaal (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire})–Pardoven {Ire}, by Clodovil {Ire}), who will also be standing his first season next year, at €15,000.

Stephen Collins, European bloodstock manager for Shadwell, said, “Baaeed's fee reflects his current status as the champion turf horse in the world for 2022 and also his impeccable race record and superb pedigree, being a direct descendant of Height Of Fashion (Fr), the dam of top-class performers Nashwan, Nayef and Unfuwain.

“The 135-rated Baaeed is a wonderful addition to the Shadwell stallion roster and we have been inundated with enquiries for nominations. We have been overwhelmed with the response from breeders from all over Europe and further a-field.”

Rated 121, Minzaal will stand at Shadwell's Irish base, Derrinstown Stud in Co Kildare.

Collins said, “At a fee of €15,000, we have no doubt that Minzaal will prove very popular with breeders. He's a strong, good-looking individual who was a very high-class 2-year-old and developed into an exceptional older sprinter, winning the Sprint Cup in devastating style. His immense talent combined with his superb attitude will stand him in very good stead for what we firmly believe will be an equally successful stallion career.”

The Nunnery Stud roster also contains crack miler Mohaather (GB), whose fee remains unchanged at £15,000 while first-season sire Tasleet (GB)'s fee has risen to £6,000 (Jan. 1, special live foal) from £5,000 in 2022. Bradsell (GB) (Tasleet {GB}) captured the G2 Coventry S. at Royal Ascot. Eqtidaar (Ire)'s fee remains at £5,000.

Collins added, “The forthcoming sales will see Mohaather's first foals sell at public auction, which will be exciting for us all. We have a number of very nice foals by him on the farm and very much look forward to seeing how his other progeny are received in the sales ring over the coming weeks.

“Tasleet's yearlings sold well at public auctions throughout the autumn, which is no surprise given Bradsell's success in the Coventry Stakes and other eye-catching performances from the sire's progeny in 2022. Eqtidaar's first yearlings through the ring have also been making their mark with his progeny realising up to 12 times his stud fee.”

Also based at Derrinstown Stud is Awtaad (Ire), whose fee has been kept unchanged at €5,000. Former Derrinstown stalwart Tamayuz (GB) has been pensioned, and former Derrinstown Stud resident King Of Change (GB) has been moved to Micheal Orlandi's Starfield Stud in Co Westmeath for the 2023 breeding season.

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Sea The Stars Heads Aga Khan Studs Roster as Fees Rise

The Aga Khan Studs' stallions Sea The Stars (Ire), Siyouni (Fr) and Zarak (Fr) are all set to stand for increased fees in 2023.

Heading a powerful roster, Sea The Stars, sire of the brilliant Baaeed (GB) and Stradivarius (Ire), will cover at an all-time high of €180,000 at Gilltown Stud. Currently third in the sires' table behind Dubawi (Ire) and Frankel (GB), Sea The Stars is the sire of 19 Group 1 winners among his 101 stakes winners. His rising number of sons at stud include the aforementioned duo, who join the British ranks next season. Now 16, Sea the Stars started his stud career at €85,000 and his fee has risen gradually through his 13 seasons. For the last three years he has stood at €150,000.

Also on the rise is the current champion sire in France, Siyouni (Fr), whose fee will be increased from €140,000 to €150,000, having spent his first four years at stud standing for €7,000. The son of Pivotal (GB) has been represented by more than 30 stakes horses in 2022, including the Aga Khan's smart juvenile filly Tahiyra (Ire), who is unbeaten for Dermot Weld and won the G1 Moyglare Stud S. on her second start.

The roster at Haras de Bonneval is also enhanced by the rising young stallion Zarak (Fr). The son of Dubawi (Ire) and the champion racemare Zarkava (Fr) (Zamindar) has been represented by five group winners from his first two crops with a strike-rate of 11% stakes winners to runners. His fee, which started at €12,000 and rose to €25,000 last year, has been set at €60,000.

The trio of French stallions is completed by Group 1 winner Dariyan (Fr), a son of Shamardal out of the G1 Hong Kong Vase winner Daryakana (Fr) (Selkirk), whose fee has been maintained at €5,000.

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Cheers To Alcohol Free As Tattersalls Beckons

It's a rare Jeff Smith colour-bearer that has not been bred at his successful Hampshire nursery of Littleton Stud, but shopping around for new blood can pay dividends for breeders, and in the case of Alcohol Free (Ire), there have been handsome dividends indeed.

Four years ago, the weanling daughter of No Nay Never caught the eye of Littleton Stud manager David Bowe at the Goffs November Sale, where she was bought from her breeder Churchtown Stud for €40,000. By the time the four-time Group 1 winner exits from her second turn in the sales ring, this time at the Tattersalls December Sale, it is easy to predict that she will have made many times that figure.

While other yearlings were meeting their own sales engagements, the young Alcohol Free had only to appear in the Littleton Stud yearling parade, where one of Smith's trainers was quick to put his hand up in hope of training her. Recalling the day he first set eyes on his subsequent stable star, Andrew Balding says, “You don't know quite what you're going to get [sent], but you get an opportunity to have a whisper in David Bowe's ear and say, look, I really like the No Nay Never filly. And thankfully I did and she ended up coming our way. She was actually one of the later ones of Jeff's yearlings, but as soon as she came in, it took about two pieces of work and she was ready to run.”

By August, Alcohol Free was off to Balding's local course, Newbury, to make her debut.

He continues, “She was hugely impressive, having shown some good ability at home. But we'd only really scratched the surface with her homework.”

Stepping straight into group company, Alcohol Free ran a close second to Happy Romance (Ire) in the G3 Dick Poole Fillies' S. on her next start, before delivering what her trainer describes as “a perfect end to her two-year-old career” by winning the G1 Cheveley Park S.

That transpired to be just the first of Alcohol Free's four Group 1 victories, with a further two coming her way as a three-year-old, in the Coronation S. and later in a particularly strong renewal of the Sussex S. at Goodwood, where she beat 2,000 Guineas winner Poetic Flare (Ire) and G1 Falmouth S. victrix Snow Lantern (GB).

Many owners might well have taken the view that a treble Group 1 winner at two and three was more than enough for a filly to have shown her merits to be a coveted addition to any broodmare band but, sportingly, Smith decided to roll the dice and keep Alcohol Free in training at four. It was an inspired decision, because not only did she win again at the top level, but in so doing, she displayed great versatility and a killer turn of foot when dropping back from a mile to win the July Cup. In behind her were Godolphin's Naval Crown (GB) and Creative Force (Ire), and Australian raider Artorius (Aus), who had filled the first three places in the G1 Platinum Jubilee S. a month earlier, giving the form a rock-solid feel.

“I think for Alcohol Free to have won Group 1s at two, three and four is unusual, but to have won four majorly significant ones, and not just obviously the Cheveley Park and the Coronation Stakes for fillies only, but then add to that a Sussex Stakes and a July Cup–I mean, that's a rare group of races,” says Balding. “And I don't think there's another horse who has achieved the four of those. It's an extraordinary achievement.”

Looking ahead to the next stage of her career, he adds, “I think what makes Alcohol Free a particularly attractive broodmare proposition is the fact that she's obviously been incredibly sound throughout her training career. Her race record shows that. She's just the most beautifully athletic horse, with that deep girth and wonderful shoulder to her, and a great walker. And she's she's got real presence, so with all those things combined, I think you couldn't wish for a more exciting prospect as a as a broodmare.”

He continues, “She's the daughter of probably one of the most exciting young sires in in the world, whose progeny statistics just get better and better each year, as well as being out of a Hard Spun mare. She's a half-sister to a very good group-class horse in France, and it's a good family going back. All of those things make it a very attractive page to look at in the catalogue.”

There will no doubt be plenty of potential buyers who agree with Balding's sentiment when going through the catalogue, and her appearance in the ring as lot 1904 during the Sceptre Sessions of the Tattersalls December Mares' Sale, provides one last opportunity for Alcohol Free to shine for Balding, as she is consigned by his Park House Stables on behalf of Littleton Stud.

“It's been just a pleasure to have anything to do with her,” he says. “And she's just a brilliant workhorse. I mean, seeing her work in the morning was demoralising for whoever had to work with her. But it is always so rewarding to watch really good horses work well, and she very rarely put in a bad piece of work. She was always showing her natural ability in her work and doing it so easily. So we'll miss that, and we'll have a job to replace her.”

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Havana Grey’s Fee Trebled for 2023

Havana Grey (GB), Whitsbury Manor Stud's champion-elect first-season sire of 2022, will stand for a fee of £18,500 next year. The 7-year-old son of Havana Gold (Ire) started his stud career at £8,000 and has covered the last two seasons at a fee of £6,000.

“After such a phenomenal year it's taken a lot of thought as we're trying to keep him within reach of the breeders that have supported him thus far,” said stud director Ed Harper. “It's already clear that demand will far outweigh supply, and I just hope people understand the difficult decisions we're going to have to make.”

Heading the roster at the Hampshire-based stud is Showcasing (GB), whose top runners this year include G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner Belbek (Fr) and the G2 Queen Mary S. winner and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint runner-up Dramatised (Ire). Now 15, Showcasing's fee remains at £45,000, having previously covered at a high of £55,000 in 2019 and 2020 from an original starting price of £5,000.

The Whitsbury Manor Stud line-up is completed by Sergei Prokofiev, whose first foals will be hitting the sales rings from next week and who will remain at a fee of £6,000, and Due Diligence, whose fee is also unchanged at £5,000.

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