Ardad (Ire) will remain at a fee of £12,500 for the fourth consecutive season at Overbury Stud. The 10-year-old son of Kodiac (GB), whose first-crop son and treble Group 1 Perfect Power (Ire) is now on the Darley roster, has 153 two-year-olds to represent him in 2025.
“They're by far his biggest and best-bred bunch so far, conceived on the back of that sensational start,” said Simon Sweeting of Overbury Stud.
'Trainers and agents seem to really like them – they are such good-walking, good tempered horses – and Ardad had half a dozen six-figure sales in England, Ireland and France, led by the filly bought by Amo Racing [for 420,000gns]. They averaged almost seven times his fee.”
Ardad's fellow G2 Flying Childers winner Caturra (Ire) has his first foals for sale in the coming weeks and his fee is also unchanged at £5,000.
“Caturra's first foals are strong, well-grown and athletic and buyers will I hope be impressed when they inspect them at the sales,” Sweeting added.
The stud's versatile resident Golden Horn (GB), whose most recent group winner on the Flat came earlier in the week with the victory of Higher Leaves (GB) in the G3 Prix Fille de l'Air, will again cover at £10,000.
The fees for Frontiersman (GB) and Jack Hobbs (GB) will be set at a later date but the veteran National Hunt sire Schiaparelli will remain at £2,000.
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