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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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Almanzor and Persian King Head Etreham Roster

Almanzor (Fr), who was recently represented by his first Group 1 winner in Australia, will stand at the reduced fee of €25,000 for 2023. Among his potential top-class 3-year-olds for next season are the Aga Khan's unbeaten Rajapour (Fr), winner of the Listed Prix Isonomy at Deauville last month, and Ecurie Billon's Around Midnight (Fr), who was beaten a short-head for second in the G3 Prix des Reservoirs.

Also commanding a fee of €25,000 for next season is the G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains winner Persian King (Ire), who has his first foals on the ground this year. Like Almanzor, his fee has been clipped from €30,000. The son of Kingman (GB) remained in training at four to take the G1 Prix d'Ispahan and G1 Prix du Moulin, and also finished third in the Arc.

His fellow Etreham resident Hello Youmzain (Fr) has also been represented by his first crop of foals this year from a debut book of 128 mares, and the dual Group 1-winning sprinter will stand next season at €22,500, trimmed slightly from €25,000.

Completing the stud's Flat roster is City Light (Fr), a son of French champion sire Siyouni (Fr) who will have his first runners on the track next year. His fee has remained at €7,000.

“I would like to take the opportunity of this announcement to thank breeders once again for their loyalty and continuing support in 2022,” said Haras d'Etreham's Nicolas de Chambure.

“With the aim of optimising the value of the investment of breeders who place their trust in us and support our stallions, we reaffirm our conviction to limit each of our sires to 140 mares per year. This limit ensures a certain rarity appeal and guarantees value for their progeny.”

The fees for Haras d'Etreham's National Hunt stallions will be announced soon.

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Ito, Brother to In Swoop, Joins Yorton Stud

David Futter's Yorton Stud has announced the arrival of Ito (Ger), a Group 1-winning son of the late German champion sire Adlerflug (Ger) and full-brother to German Derby winner In Swoop (Ire).

Bred by Gestut Schlenderhan, Ito was himself the champion older horse in Germany in 2015, the year in which he won the G1 Grosser Preis von Bayern. His dam is also a Classic winner, the Preis der Diana victrix Iota (Ger) (Tiger Hill {Ire}).

“We are very excited to have acquired Ito, whose profile speaks for itself,” said Futter.

“He is a gorgeous-looking horse, standing 16.2hh and getting very good-looking stock, and his temperament is exactly what we look for in a stallion – to us that is as important as their race record. He won as a three-year-old, excelled at four and held his form at five.

“The sad death of Adlerflug last year was a blow to breeders, but Ito provides a wonderful opportunity to get into that sire's precious bloodline.”

Along with his Group 1 win, Ito as also runner-up in the G1 Grosser Preis Von Berlin and won two Group 2 races, earning a Timeform rating of 125.

Having initially retired to stud in Germany, Ito's first crop of runners are now four-year-olds. His fee will be announced at a later date.

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Baaeed and Alpinista Vie for Cartier HOTY Honours

Kirsten Rausing's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe heroine Alpinista (GB) (Frankel {GB}) and Shadwell's outstanding colt Baaeed (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) head the nominations for the 32nd Cartier Racing Awards, which will be held at London's Dorchester Hotel on Wednesday, November 9.

Both trained in Newmarket throughout their careers, Alpinista and Baaeed have won 11 Group 1 races between them. They are joined on the short list for Cartier Horse of the Year by John Fairley's treble Group 1-winning sprinter Highfield Princess (Fr) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}) and Moyglare Stud and Coolmore's leading stayer Kyprios (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}).

Along with Kyprios, four other horses nominated are trained by Aidan O'Brien, including three of the four in the juvenile colts' category: Auguste Rodin (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) and the No Nay Never 2-year-olds Blackbeard (Ire) and Little Big Bear (Ire).

Eight equine awards will be presented during the evening, along with one special non-equine presentation. The Cartier/Daily Telegraph Award of Merit is given to the person or persons who, in the opinion of the 16-strong Cartier jury, has done the most for European racing and/or breeding either over their lifetime or within the past 12 months.

The full list of nominees for the 2022 Cartier Racing Awards is as follows:

Cartier Horse of the Year
Alpinista
Baaeed
Highfield Princess
Kyprios

Cartier Older Horse
Alpinista
Baaeed
Bay Bridge
Kinross

Cartier Three-Year-Old Colt
Coroebus
Desert Crown
Modern Games
Vadeni

Cartier Three-Year-Old Filly
Emily Upjohn
Inspiral
Nashwa
Tuesday

Cartier Sprinter
Highfield Princess
Kinross
Minzaal
Nature Strip

Cartier Stayer
Eldar Eldarov
Kyprios
Stradivarius
Trueshan

Cartier Two-Year-Old Colt
Auguste Rodin
Blackbeard
Chaldean
Little Big Bear

Cartier Two-Year-Old Filly
Commissioning
Lezoo
Tahiyra
The Platinum Queen

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