Justify, the Triple Crown winner and Horse of the Year in 2018, will once again shuttle to Coolmore Australia for the 2023 Southern Hemisphere breeding season after a successful freshman year on the continent, Racing Post reports.
The 8-year-old son of Scat Daddy is in the midst of the North American breeding season at Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., where he stands for an advertised fee of $100,000. His oldest Northern Hemisphere foals are 3-year-olds of 2023, including Kentucky Derby contender Verifying, who finished second in the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes.
Justify is Australia's leading freshman sire, with combined progeny earnings on the continent of $1,618,175. His best Australian runner to date is Learning to Fly, a filly whose group stakes conquests include the Group 2 Reisling Stakes.
“We welcome Justify back to Australia with open arms, on the back of a remarkable start to his stud career,” Coolmore Australia's Tom Moore told Racing Post. “While it is only early days for him in Australia, he has already produced arguably the best two-year-old filly in Australia in Learning To Fly and is the leading first-season sire by a significant margin.
“The feedback we are getting from trainers throughout Australia suggests that this is only the tip of the iceberg for him in this part of the world,” Moore continued.
Justify last shuttled to Australia in 2021, marking the third consecutive season he had done so. In that time, he covered 373 mares on Southern Hemisphere time.
A Southern Hemisphere fee will be announced for Justify at a later time.
Read more at Racing Post.
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