Darley in Australia announces fees for the 2013 breeding season

Darley has announced the stud fees for their 23 stallions that will stand in Australia for the 2013 breeding season.

Street Cry, a leading sire in both hemispheres and sire of 13 individual G1 winners to date, will head the roster at an unchanged fee of $110,000 (inc. GST). Street Cry’s current juvenile crop has made an immediate impact on the track with two-year-old fillies Metastasio and Za Moulin Rouge both claiming Stakes races this season.

Exceed And Excel, Australia’s leading stallion, has enjoyed a stupendous 2012/13 racing season, producing 15 Stakes winners of 22 Stakes races, matched by no other stallion in the country. He has sired an incredible seven individual two-year-old Group winners this season including G1 Golden Slipper heroine Overreach and G1 Sires’ Produce Stakes winner Guelph. Exceed And Excel will stand at a fee of $88,000 (inc. GST).

Europe’s Champion first season sire of 2012 New Approach is one of the most exciting young stallions in the world and returns to Northwood Park this season. At Royal Ascot in 2012 New Approach sired three juvenile Stakes winners, the only stallion in history to achieve that feat and his dual G1-winning son and Champion two-year-old Dawn Approach remains unbeaten. In Australia, among his first-crop winners is smart two-year-old filly Montsegur who won the G3 Breeders Stakes having finished second two starts earlier at G3 level to recent G1 winner Guelph. New Approach will stand at a fee of $55,000 (inc. GST).

Lonhro, sire of five-time G1-winning Champion Pierro, will stand the forthcoming season at a fee of $88,000 inc. GST.

Alastair Pulford, Darley’s Head of Sales in Australia said, “The Darley stallions have had an extraordinary year. Three are ranked in the top four on the leading sires’ table including Australia’s number one stallion Exceed And Excel who has surpassed all of our dreams this autumn.”

Pulford continued, “We are also excited about our young stallions. Teofilo ($22,000 inc. GST), who missed the southern hemisphere season in 2012, is returning. He had a superb year in Europe last year and he has now sired G1 winners in each of his first two crops in Europe. Medaglia d'Oro ($55,000 inc. GST) has been the leading first season sire at both Easter and the Magic Millions yearling sales and Denman’s ($27,500 inc. GST) first crop of yearlings has also been particularly well received. We appreciate the continued support of our clients and we look forward to sitting down with breeders and discussing their plans for the forthcoming season in the months ahead.”

For a full list of fees, please click here.

For further information please visit www.darley.com.au, or to view Issue One of the Darley Magazine, search for Darley in iTunes and download the Darley Coffee Table app. Alternatively, contact Alastair Pulford on +61 410 683 461 or apulford@darley.com.au.