SAXON Warrior (Deep Impact) has sired just his second Group 1 winner since retiring to stud in 2019, and it can be argued that his record to date has not lived up to the huge expectations breeders had for him when he joined the stallion ranks at Coolmore. This explains why he is standing the 2026 season for €10,000, a third of what he went to stud at, and below his high of €35,000 in 2023.

That high came about thanks to the appearance of Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Victoria Road among his first crop winners, and those first runners also included Gan Teorainn who was runner-up on Arc weekend in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac. Though she was five lengths adrift of the winner, Gan Teorainn was beaten by the exceptional Blue Rose Cen who then went on to gain three further top-level successes.