Coolmore Releases Fees for European Stallions

Coolmore unveiled 2020 covering fees for their all-conquering roster of stallions in Europe, including introductory prices for exciting newcomers Calyx, Magna Grecia, and Ten Sovereigns.

Calyx, the brilliant Coventry Stakes (G2)-winning son of Kingman, has been pitched at €22,500 (US$25,120), as has group 1-winning 2- and 3-year-old Magna Grecia, while top-class sprinter Ten Sovereigns will stand his first season alongside his own sire, No Nay Never, at €25,000 ($27,909).

"We're delighted to welcome three very exciting new horses for the coming season," said David O'Loughlin, Coolmore's director of sales. "They're all high-class racehorses, all by proper sires and all at affordable fees.

"Calyx is the fastest son of Kingman, Magna Grecia is the only British Classic winner by Kingman's sire Invincible Spirit, and Ten Sovereigns is the best son of our own young sire sensation No Nay Never.

"On the racecourse Calyx defeated Advertise in the Coventry, Magna Grecia bettered Phoenix of Spain in the group 1 Vertem Futurity at 2 and King of Change in the Two Thousand Guineas (G1) at 3, while Ten Sovereigns won the Middle Park (G1) at 2 and the July Cup (G1) at 3, defeating Advertise, both in very fast times.

"They're three very good-looking horses too so I think they'll prove extremely popular."

Ten Sovereigns' success in the Darley July Cup was the pinnacle of another big year for No Nay Never, who has again received a sizable fee increase, upped to €150,000 ($167,457) for 2020, just 12 months after his fee was quadrupled to €100,000.

The son of the much-missed Scat Daddy has sired 19 black-type winners, with Ten Sovereigns joined by the likes of Coventry Stakes winner Arizona, Bet365 Superlative Stakes (G2) scorer Mystery Power, and Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte (G2) victress Shadn.

His progeny have been in high demand at the latest round of yearling sales on both sides of the Atlantic, with M.V. Magnier going to 900,000 guineas ($1,193,728) for a colt out of Winning Sequence at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, while Big Red Farm purchased his daughter out of Arctic Freedom for $450,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

Four other members of the 23-strong roster are also receiving an increase in 2020. Caravaggio, whose first foals will hit the market this month, will stand his third season at Coolmore at €40,000 ($44,655), while the redoubtable Footstepsinthesand has been rewarded for a fruitful year, with horses like Threat and Mums Tipple, with an increase of €5,000, up to €15,000 ($16,745).

Leading first-crop sire Gleneagles—whose debut 2-year-olds include 24 winners, such as group 2 scorers Royal Dornoch and Royal Lytham and the Windsor Castle Stakes-winning Southern Hills—is up to €35,000 ($39,073), and Starspangledbanner, sire of another crack juvenile in Juddmonte Cheveley Park Stakes (G1) winner Millisle, has been promoted to €22,500 ($25,118).

Galileo, who will claim his 11th British and Irish champion sire crown this year, will again stand on a private basis, as has been the case since 2008.

The breed-shaping son of Sadler's Wells, who is just one group 1 winner away from equalling the world record of 84 top-flight scorers set by Danehill, has been represented by major talents such as Anthony Van Dyck, Circus Maximus, Japan, Love, Sovereign, and Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (G1) hero Waldgeist during 2019.