Wonderful Moon (Ger)

   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...

The 2024 roster of Haras de Cercy will be led by Cokoriko (Fr) and Karaktar (Ire), who will each stand for €12,000, Jour de Galop reported on Wednesday. Cokoriko's offspring have shone over jumps this year, including Grade 3 winner La Spezia (Fr) and several other listed winners. Progressive stallion Karaktar sired a brace of Grade 3 winners this year, as well. He was the most popular stallion in France, covering 263 mares. Other stallions on the roster include Australasian Group 1 winner Ivanhowe (Ger) at €4,000, David Du Berlais...

Multiple group winner Pretty Tiger (Ire) (Sea The Moon {Ger}--Fast And Pretty {Ire}, by Zamindar) will stand as part of a partnership between Haras d'Etreham and Haras de Cercy next year at the former's NH branch, Haras de la Tuilerie, the studs announced on Tuesday. A fee for the G1 Prix Ganay second and G1 Prix d'Ispahan third will be announced later. There are also breeding rights available in the G2 Prix Eugene Adam hero, who was bred by Haras de Chevotel. Also a winner of the G3 Prix Exbury...

   Stall Wasserfreunde's triumvirate of Lars-Wilhelm Baumgarten, Uwe Aisch and Peter Vogt resisted a deluge of offers for Wonderful Moon (Ger) (Sea The Moon {Ger}) after the chesnut's 12-length demolition of Krefeld's G3 Herzog von Ratibor-Rennen last term. Their resolve to maintain hold of Germany's champion juvenile hardened when welcoming Cologne racetrack supremo Ecki Sauren into the fold and the restructured Wasserfreunde reaped an immediate dividend with the chestnut's mightily impressive display in Friday's G3 pferedwetten.de Cologne Classic at the Weidenpescher venue. Making his eagerly awaited seasonal return over 10...