BEAUTIFULLY-bred Group 1 winner Lead Artist has been introduced to the Juddmonte roster at a fee of £12,500. The 2025 Lockinge Stakes victor aims to continue the success of Dubawi’s stallion sons Night Of Thunder, New Bay and Too Darn Hot, to name a few.

Fellow Banstead Manor Stud residents Frankel and Oasis Dream appear as the sires of Lead Artist’s second and third dams, while his fourth dam is none other than bluehen Hasili, dam of Dansili, Cacique and Champs Elysees.

Trained by John and Thady Gosden, Lead Artist won two Group 3s over a mile as a three-year-old and progressed to land the Lockinge Stakes the following year, recording the second-fastest time in the race previously won by the likes of Brigadier Gerard, Frankel, Kris, Medicean, Night Of Thunder and Selkirk.

Lead Artist’s beaten rivals at Newbury included Guineas winners Rosallion, Notable Speech and Fallen Angel.

On Banstead’s latest recruit, General Manager of Juddmonte UK, Simon Mockridge, commented: “Lead Artist combines pedigree and performance with an outstanding physical, possessing great balance, strength, and movement, all attributes which will appeal to the commercial breeder.”

Dewhurst Stakes and 2000 Guineas victor Chaldean drops to £20,000 for his third covering season, down from £25,000. He covered 323 mares in his first two books, including more group winners, stakes winners, and blacktype performers than any other first-season sire in Britain or Ireland in his debut year.

His sire Frankel will remain at a career-high fee of £350,000 after siring a further 24 individual stakes winners in 2025, 13 of them at group level. Diego Velazquez, Lake Victoria and Minnie Hauk are among the most recent of Frankel’s 40 individual Group 1 winners.

Field Of Gold became Kingman’s 14th individual top-flight winner and fifth individual classic winner when capturing the Irish 2000 Guineas and went on to win the St James’s Palace Stakes in style. Responsible for over 20 individual stakes winners in 2025, Kingman will command £125,000 once again in 2025.

Oasis Dream will continue to offer excellent value to breeders in 2025, remaining at a fee of £15,000. The Banstead Manor Stud stalwart saw his progeny sell for up to 320,000gns at the 2025 yearling sales and €200,000 at the breeze-up sales.

The now 25-year-old boasted an impressive 82% fertility rate in 2025, when his best performers included five group winners, two Group 1 performers and four blacktype juveniles.

Group 2 Richmond Stakes and Group 1-placed Coppull led a fine season for Bated Breath, who operated at 62% winners-to-runners rate and 9% blacktype horses-to-runners in 2025.

Grade 2 winner Breath Away, who sold for $625,000 at Keeneland this week, was another highlight. The consistent son of Dansili will stand at a reduced fee of £5,000 next year.