Wootton Bassett (GB) has had his fee increased to €300,000 as he prepares to embark on his fifth season at Coolmore Stud in 2025, while European champion two-year-old and Derby winner City Of Troy has been introduced at €75,000.
This year Wootton Bassett's first crop of Irish-bred two-year-olds have swept all before them, featuring four individual top-level winners in Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner Camille Pissarro (Ire), Criterium de Saint-Cloud scorer Tennessee Stud (Ire), Criterium International hero Twain (Ire) and Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Henry Matisse (Ire). This season Wootton Bassett covered 223 mares at his base in Fethard at a fee of €200,000.
City Of Troy, who also counted the Coral-Eclipse and Juddmonte International among his four Group 1 victories for Aidan O'Brien, is one of three new additions to the Coolmore ranks along with Auguste Rodin (Ire) and Henry Longfellow (Ire), who have been introduced at €30,000 and €15,000, respectively.
A six-time winner at the top level, notably winning the Derby and Breeders' Cup Turf as a three-year-old in 2023, Auguste Rodin is due to make his final racecourse appearance in the G1 Japan Cup at Tokyo on Sunday, November 24. The son of Deep Impact (Jpn) is out of the high-class Galileo (Ire) mare Rhododendron (Ire), a Group 1 winner at two, three and four.
Henry Longfellow is blessed with a similarly blue-blooded pedigree as a son of Dubawi (Ire) and the seven-time Group 1 winner Minding (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). Unbeaten in three starts as a two-year-old, culminating with an impressive victory in the G1 National Stakes, Henry Longfellow produced his best effort this season when filling the runner-up spot behind Rosallion (Ire) (Blue Point {Ire}) in the G1 St James's Palace Stakes.
“Coolmore are delighted to welcome three outstanding new prospects for 2025,” said David O'Loughlin, Coolmore's director of sales. “City Of Troy has long been the apple of Aidan O'Brien's eye who couldn't be more positive on his sire Justify. He was an outstanding two-year-old and again proved by far the best of his generation this year.
“Auguste Rodin must be the best value horse in Europe at €30,000 and is a fantastic-looking individual. Six Group 1 successes at two, three and four years, he's by a sensational stallion in Deep Impact while his first three dams all performed at the highest level over a mile or less.
“Henry Longfellow also offers tremendous value at just €15,000. Like his sire Dubawi, he went unbeaten in three starts at two including the Group 1 Vincent O'Brien National Stakes, and he's arguably his best-looking son ever to retire to stud. He showed top class form over a mile this season most notably when going down by just a neck to Rosallion in the Group 1 St James's Palace Stakes. And to cap it all, he's out of one of the best Galileo mares of all time and bred on the same cross as Night Of Thunder.”
Like Wootton Bassett, Camelot (GB) has received a 50 per cent increase in his fee after he produced three individual Group 1 winners in 2024, headed by the Pretty Polly Stakes, Prix Vermeille and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Bluestocking (GB), as well as the Irish Derby hero Los Angeles (Ire) and Coronation Cup winner Luxembourg (Ire). Camelot, who covered 172 mares when standing for €50,000 this season, has returned to his career-high fee of €75,000.
Gleneagles (Ire) will stand for a fee of €20,000 (from €17,500) after a successful year on the racecourse in which he was responsible for two individual Group 1 winners in July Cup scorer Mill Stream (Ire) and Deutsches Derby hero Palladium (Ger), as well as the Juddmonte International and Champion Stakes runner-up Calandagan (Ire). Likewise, Sioux Nation has received a small increase to €30,000 after he covered a bumper book of 246 mares at a fee of €27,500 in 2024.
Paddington (GB), on the other hand, has had his fee reduced to €25,000 ahead of his second season at Coolmore–down considerably from the €55,000 he stood for when receiving 145 mares in his first book–while No Nay Never will a command a fee of €125,000 (from €150,000) and St Mark's Basilica (Fr) has been priced at €40,000 (from €50,000) ahead of his first yearlings hitting the racecourse in 2025.
Coolmore's full list of European fees:
- Auguste Rodin (Ire) €30,000
- Australia (GB) €10,000
- Blackbeard (Ire) €17,500
- Calyx (GB) €12,500
- Camelot (GB) €75,000
- Churchill (Ire) €25,000
- City Of Troy €75,000
- Footstepsinthesand (GB) €8,000
- Gleneagles (Ire) €20,000
- Henry Longfellow (Ire) €15,000
- Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) €8,000
- Little Big Bear (Ire) €20,000
- No Nay Never €125,000
- Paddington (GB) €25,000
- Saxon Warrior (Jpn) €15,000
- Sioux Nation €30,000
- St Mark's Basilica (Fr) €40,000
- Starspangledbanner (Aus) €45,000
- The Antarctic (Ire) €5,000
- Wootton Bassett (GB) €300,000
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