B. Wayne Hughes' Spendthrift Farm announced the 2019 fees for its 25-stallion roster that will stand at the Lexington-based farm this upcoming breeding season. Among the roster are three new stallions for 2019, again spearheaded by leading sire Into Mischief , whose fee has moved to $150,000 and is booked full.
All three new stallions are grade 1 winners, including the recently retired Mor Spirit , Free Drop Billy , and Bolt d'Oro , who remains in training through the end of the season.
Bolt d'Oro was the only 2-year-old colt of 2017 to win multiple top-level races, including dominant back-to-back wins in the Del Mar Futurity (G1) and FrontRunner Stakes (G1). In the latter, the son of Medaglia d'Oro earned a 103 Beyer—the fastest earned by a 2-year-old colt since 2014. Bolt d'Oro's initial fee has been set at $25,000 but is subject to change pending race results.
Goldencents , North America's leading first-crop sire, will see his fee move to $20,000. The popular son of Into Mischief currently has a crop-high 19 2-year-old winners—seven more than any other first-crop sire—including four black-type performers and two black-type winners to date. Jimmy Creed , North America's No. 2 second-crop sire, will also see his stud fee move to $20,000 for 2019 after siring 11 black-type performers and five black-type winners, led by grade 2-winning 3-year-old colt Kanthaka.
Perennial leading sire Malibu Moon will remain at $75,000 in 2019 after another banner year that included siring two grade 1 winners—the most of any from the A. P. Indy sire line so far in 2018. Malibu Moon is led by Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) contender Ransom the Moon , repeat winner of the Bing Crosby Stakes (G1) this summer at Del Mar, and Arkansas Derby (G1) winner Magnum Moon.
Spendthrift is also bringing home promising young stallion Normandy Invasion , a record-holding son of Tapit who had been standing in New York as property of Spendthrift. Normandy Invasion, whose first crop of yearlings have sold for up to $170,000 so far this year, remains Gulfstream Park's track-record holder at a mile on dirt at 1:33.13.
Spendthrift is introducing a new breeding program for 2019 called the "Safe Bet Program," which is designed to substantially minimize risk for breeders who support any of Spendthrift's fourth-year stallions that have first-crop 2-year-olds set to hit the track in 2019. The program was designed to assure breeders a significant level of success from a stallion's first crop of 2-year-old runners, or the breeder will pay a significantly discounted stud fee.
Spendthrift will host an open house before and during Fasig-Tipton's The October Sale, from Oct. 20-25 at 1-3 p.m. ET daily.
| Stallions |
2019 Fee
|
2018 Fee
|
| Into Mischief |
$150,000 (Book Full)
|
$100,000
|
| Malibu Moon |
$75,000
|
$75,000
|
| Bolt d’Oro - NEW |
$25,000
|
|
| Lord Nelson |
$25,000
|
$25,000
|
| Goldencents |
$20,000
|
$12,500
|
| Jimmy Creed |
$20,000
|
$15,000
|
| Cross Traffic |
$10,000
|
$7,500
|
| Gormley |
$10,000
|
$10,000
|
| Mor Spirit - NEW |
$10,000
|
|
| Temple City |
$10,000
|
$15,000
|
| Brody’s Cause |
$7,500
|
$12,500
|
| Wicked Strong |
$7,500
|
$10,000
|
| Palace |
$6,000
|
$6,000
|
| Race Day |
$6,000
|
$6,000
|
| Cinco Charlie |
$5,000
|
$5,000
|
| Dominus |
$5,000
|
$10,000
|
| Flat Out |
$5,000
|
$7,000
|
| Hit It a Bomb |
$5,000
|
$7,000
|
| Shakin It Up |
$5,000
|
$5,000
|
| Can the Man |
$3,500
|
$3,500
|
| Danza |
$3,500
|
$4,000
|
| Itsmyluckyday |
$3,500
|
$5,000
|
| Medal Count |
$3,500
|
$3,500
|
| Normandy Invasion |
$3,500
|
$3,500
|
| Free Drop Billy - NEW |
TBA
|
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