2025 roster and fees

Lemon Pop, who recently became the first dual winner of the G1 Champions Cup for over a decade, has been introduced at a fee of ¥5 million (€30,615) for 2025, identifying him as the most expensive stallion on the Darley Japan roster. The six-year-old son of Lemon Drop Kid, who was crowned the JRA Best Dirt Horse in 2023, will embark on his first season in Hokkaido following his Chukyo swansong which saw him retire as the winner of 13 of his 18 career starts. Trained by Hiroyasu Tanaka, he...

Byerley Turk-line stallion Pearl Secret (GB) has been sold to stand at Arrow Stud in Japan beginning next year. The 2025 Arrow Stud roster and fees were released by JS Company on Friday. The son of Compton Place (GB) will stand for ¥500,000 (€3,155). With his eldest foals 6-year-olds, the chestnut has sired 35 winners from small crops, with the stakes horse Tears Of A Clown (GB) the best of the bunch. The 2015 G2 Temple Stakes hero and G1 King's Stand Stakes third stood for £2,000 at Norton Grove...

Classic sire and Group 1 winner Aclaim (Ire) has moved to Batsford Stud where he will stand for £3,000, the stud posted on X. The sire of G1 1000 Guineas heroine Cachet (Ire) retired to The National Stud in 2018, and spent 2023-2024 at Manton Park. The son of Acclamation (GB) is joined by fellow new resident and Classic winner Kew Gardens (Ire), whose first foals will be 3-year-olds next year, at that price. He was previously under the Coolmore banner at Castle Hyde Stud from 2021-2024. Also at £3,000...

Aesop's Fables (Ire) (No Nay Never) will stand at Starfield Stud next season, Compass Stallions announced on Monday. The G2 Futurity Stakes winner will command a fee of €6,500, with limited breeding rights available. Trained by Aidan O'Brien, Aesop's Fables retires as the winner of three of his 17 career starts. He also won this year's Listed Sole Power Sprint Stakes at Naas in May, having produced two of his best efforts at the end of last season when finishing third in both the G1 Prix de l'Abbaye at Longchamp...

Globetrotting wunderkind Equinox (Jpn), his sire Kitasan Black (Jpn) and Kizuna (Jpn) co-lead the Shadai Stallion Station roster at ¥20,000,000 (€123,497) apiece next year. Equinox, who has his first foals arriving next year, and Kitasan Black (11 stakes winners) have had their fees remain at their 2024 levels, while Kizuna has had his fee increased from €12,000,000. The last-named horse has fired in 14 stakes winners in 2024 alone, among them G1 Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas) hero Justin Milano (Jpn). Right under the leading trio is Japanese Triple Crown...

Motivator (GB)'s son Jigme (Ire) will anchor the Haras du Hoguenet roster in 2025, Jour de Galop reported on Wednesday. His fee will remain €8,000, and he covered 126 mares this term. Roster veteran Motivator, rising 23, will stand for €5,000. He has sired 82 black-type Flat horses and 8.8% stakes winners per starter over jumps. He is joined by Penny's Picnic (Ire) at €3,000. The sire of G3 Prix du Petit Couvert heroine Pradaro (Fr) on the Flat, the son of Kheleyf has also sired a pair of NH...

   Masked Marvel (GB) anchors the Haras d'Etreham National Hunt roster for 2025, the stud announced on Tuesday. The sire of several Grade 1 winners and 23 black-type performers will stand at an unchanged fee of €12,500. Young sire Goliath Du Berlais (Fr) is now leading first-season sire once again, with his first 3-year-olds on the racecourse. He is in second place overall among sires of 3-year-olds, just behind Doctor Dino (Fr), with 11 winners already and among them, five French black-type performers. Goliath du Berlais's fee is €12,500 in...

Nietzsche Has (Fr), runner-up in Sunday's G1 Prix Cambacérès at Auteuil, will stand for a fee of €7,000 when he retires to Haras de Montaigu as a National Hunt stallion in 2025, the stud announced on Monday. Bred by Scea Hamel Stud, the son of Zarak (Fr) carried the colours of Edward James and his Highbourne Stud, having been bought by bloodstock agent Guy Petit for €240,000 at last year's Arqana Deauville Summer Mixed Sale. In six starts over hurdles at Auteuil, he also won the G3 Prix Aguado in...

This year's Prix du Jockey Club winner Look de Vega (Fr) will join his sire Lope de Vega (Ire) on the stallion roster at Ballylinch Stud next season, the operation announced on Monday. He has been introduced at a fee of €20,000. Look de Vega was bred by Joelle Mestrallet of Haras De La Morsangliere and Lucien Urano of Ecurie des Charmes, who raced him in partnership with his trainers Carlos and Yann Lerner, as well as Patrick Madar, before it was announced in July that Ballylinch--in association with Al...

Rathasker Stud has announced its fees for next season, with Bungle Inthejungle (GB), the sire of this year's G3 Phoenix Sprint Stakes winner Givemethebeatboys (Ire), leading the three-strong roster of stallions at €7,500. It will be the second consecutive year that Bungle Inthejungle has stood for €7,500, having covered 103 mares this season at his base in County Kildare. Perhaps best known as the sire of the G1 Nunthorpe Stakes heroine Winter Power (Ire), he enjoyed another notable result on the Knavesmire recently when his two-year-old Jungle Drums (Ire) won...

Newsells Park Stud has released its stud fees for next season, with Classic sire Nathaniel (Ire) receiving an increase to £20,000 and last year's Poule d'Essai des Poulains runner-up Isaac Shelby (GB) being introduced at £7,000. Perhaps best known as the sire of the dual Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and triple King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Enable (GB), in addition to the Derby hero Desert Crown (GB), Nathaniel has enjoyed another successful year on the racecourse in 2024, headed by the exploits of his Irish Oaks...

Group 1 winner Bradsell (GB) (Tasleet {GB}) has arrived at The National Stud and will stand for £10,000 in 2025, the stud announced on Friday. A winner of the King's Stand Stakes, Nunthorpe Stakes and Flying Five Stakes at the highest level, the bay, who raced for Shaikh Nasser's Victorious Racing, will stand alongside charismatic stayer Stradivarius (Ire). The son of Sea The Stars (Ire) is also set to stand for £10,000, unchanged from this year. He covered 100 mares this term. General manager Joe Bradley said, "Bradsell has settled...