Airdrie Stud's 2025 stallion roster will be headlined by four young stallions all being offered for a fee of $25,000, according to a press release from Airdrie Friday. The quartet includes breakout freshman sire Complexity.
Currently ranked fourth in earnings according to TDN's Sire List, Complexity has three stakes winners–including two graded winners–and five stakes horses from his first crop of 2-year-olds. The 8-year-old stallion joins GI Kentucky Derby winner Mage (Good Magic), as well as Girvin (Tale of Ekati) and Upstart (Flatter), who all come in at the price tag of $25,000.
Coming off of an initial season at stud in which he bred a full book of 171 mares, Mage enters his second season with a pedigree further bolstered by his GI Belmont Stakes-winning full brother, Dornoch, who became the second Classic winner in as many years for Good Magic and dam Puca, a favorite to be named Broodmare of the Year.
Grade I sires Upstart and Girvin, who each register lifetime stakes winners to named foals of more than 8%, will see their best-bred crops reach the racetrack in 2025 and 2026, respectively.
Rounding out Airdrie's list of proven stallions is Cairo Prince (Pioneerof the Nile), already the sire of 10 individual stakes winners in 2024, and Collected (City Zip), who has 15 stakes winners from his first three crops, trailing just Justify and Good Magic from their intake year. The latter stands to be represented by a pair of juveniles at the upcoming Breeders' Cup in Thought Process and Iron Man Cal.
From those stallions yet to have runners, at the sales this season Beau Liam (Liam's Map) achieved the highest return-on-investment of any first-year yearling sire. Highly Motivated (Into Mischief), is a two-time track record setter and claims GISWs like Ways and Means and Surge Capacity. Finally, GISW Happy Saver (Super Saver) has his first weanlings headed to auction this November.
“Our stallion roster is a tremendous point of pride for our team at Airdrie,” said the farm's Bret Jones. “We've been fortunate to have had a very strong year on the track in 2024 and we really believe we've laid the foundation for some very special seasons ahead. It is a young roster that, in our opinion, has a very high ceiling. We also take great pride in our ability to give our breeders a genuine opportunity to be profitable with their matings, as our stallions punch well above their stud fees in their abilities to produce stakes winners and return value in the sales ring.
“As always, we will be breeding the overwhelming majority of our own mares to our stallions as we will never ask a breeder to support a stallion that we're unwilling to support ourselves,” said Jones. “We will also limit our book sizes so as to give our fellow commercial breeders what we believe is their best opportunity to sell and sell well. We look forward to continuing the momentum we've been able to build with our stallions and to working with the wonderful and loyal breeders that have paved the way for their success.”
Airdrie's 2025 Stud Fees:
Complexity-$25,000
Girvin-$25,000
Mage-$25,000
Upstart-$25,000
Cairo Prince-$15,000
Collected-$10,000
Happy Saver-$7,500
Highly Motivated-$7,500
Beau Liam-$6,000
Divisidero-$5,000
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