Coulsty €5,000 at Rathasker Stud
NEW stallion Coulsty will stand at a fee of €5,000 at Rathasker Stud outside Naas.
The grey son of Kodiac raced 25 times for trainer Richard Hannon, winning in each of his four seasons in training, including at Group 3 level.
Rathasker have held the fees of Anjaal (€5,000), Bungle Inthejungle (€5,000) and Es Que Love (€5,000) at this year’s prices, while the veteran Clodovil comes down from €10,000 to €8,000. Rathasker also stand Gregorian (£4,500) at the English National Stud.
INS publishes
stallion fees
THE Irish National Stud’s flagship stallion Invincible Spirit stays at a fee of €120,000 next year. There will be eight stallions on the INS roster, the others being Free Eagle (€20,000), Dragon Pulse (€8,000), Gale Force Ten (€5,000), Worthadd (€5,000), Famous Name (€4,000), Elusive Pimpernel (€1,000) and Palavicini (on application).
John Osborne, the stud’s CEO, said: “Following another year of great successes we are pleased to be able to hold our 2017 fees at 2016 levels with the exception of Dragon Pulse whose great performance by his first crop justifies a fee of €8,000.”
Dragon Pulse stood at €5,000 this year and he is currently in fourth place in the European first season sires table behind Sir Prancealot, Helmet and Frankel.
Rathbarry
freshmen stand
at €10,000
RATHBARRY Stud has put in new recruits Ajaya and Kodi Bear at a covering fee of €10,000. Both horses are Group 2 winners.
Ajaya, by Invincible Spirit, won the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes last year, finished second to Gutaifan in the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin and was fourth to Shalaa in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes.
Kodi Bear, by Kodiac, was a Group 2 winner of four stakes races from seven to eight furlongs at two and three years. He finished second in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes as a juvenile.
Rathbarry’s flagbearer Acclamation remains at €30,000 next season and there is no change either for Moohaajim (€4,000), Tagula (€4,000) and Xtension (€4,000). All stallions are subject to October 1st terms, no foal, no fee.
Fees set for
Mehmas and
Vadamos
THIS year’s star two-year-old Mehmas will stand at €12,500 for his first season at Tally-Ho Stud in Mullingar, Co Westmeath.
By Acclamation, Mehmas finished second to Caravaggio in the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot before winning the Group 2 July Stakes at Newmarket and the Group 2 Richmond Stakes at Goodwood. Tony and Anne O’Callaghan purchased a 50% share in the horse from Al Shaqab after he finished second to Churchill in the Group 1 Vincent O’Brien National Stakes at the Curragh.
Leading first season sire Sir Prancealot has earned a fee hike from €5,000 to €8,000 as he follows in the hoofprints of Tally-Ho’s prolific sire Kodiac, now standing at €50,000 from €45,000.
Vadamos, a Group 1 winning son of Monsun, is another new recruit for the Tally-Ho team in 2017. He has been put in at €10,000. Morpheus stays at €5,000, Zebedee comes down €500 to €7,500 and Baltic King remains at €1,500.
New stallion for Whytemount
WHYTEMOUNT Stud welcomes a new stallion for 2017 and he will be the first son of Sea The Stars to go to a National Hunt Stud.
Affinisea was the top-priced foal sold in Europe in 2011 when, as a member of his sire’s first crop, he realised €850,000 at Goffs. He was sold by his breeder Jim Bolger to Sunderland Holdings.
In training with John Oxx he started just twice, winning on his debut by five lengths and beaten by a short-head on his only other start.
Affinisea is a half-brother to two sires, Soldier Of Fortune and Heliostatic, both by Galileo. Soldier Of Fortune won the Irish Derby and Coronation Cup and was placed in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. He is sire of three Grade 1 winners on the flat, while his National Hunt winners include Carlita Du Berlais and Slowmotion. Heliostatic has sired one flat Grade 1 winner.
A fee has yet to be set for Affinsea.