jonquil

Named Best Two-Year-Old Colt for 2018 at the Cartier Racing Awards!

Will stand at Banstead Manor Stud with a fee of £20,000 for 2019.

Oh, sorry I misunderstood. I do agree - overall his book was surprisingly underwhelming for his first year at stud. It's nice to see him do so well regardless of that. :)

It has been a great start for him indeed and I imagine all the breeders that got in when he was €25,000 are pleased they chose him! However, I think calling his mares average at best isn't fair. Some of his top winners are the first runners for their dams and what matters most for a broodmare is the quality of her progeny rather than her own racing ability. For example Kind, the dam of Frankel, Noble Mission, Bullet Train, and Joyeuse, was only a dual-Listed winner herself. Theann, Land Force's dam, is also the dam of Photo Call - Theann herself is a half-sister to Halfway To Heaven, the dam of Magical and Rhododendron. There's also Muravka, dam of The Wow Signal and Miss Infinity, who has a 2016 colt and 2017 filly by No Nay Never. So he has covered some mares that could potentially produce exciting offspring. That said, I'm surprised Coolmore didn't use at least a few of their quality broodmares to support him. They keep doing the same crosses when they could have easily given No Nay Never a go. I suspect they might be overly cautious as they specialize more in classic distance horses instead of sprinters and somehow feel they can't breed the likes of Hveger, Red Evie, or Lillie Langtry to a faster stallion (although, tbh, they only breed any of those mares to Galileo year after year).

Has been retired to stand at Tally-Ho Stud for 2019.

His fee has shot up from €25,000 in 2018 to €100,000 in 2019.

Haras d'Etreham have doubled his fees for 2019. His new fee is set to €40,000.

Has been transferred to Elevage du Fruitier for 2019. His fee has been set at €2,500.

Has been transferred to Haras de Jalogny in Saône-et-Loire for 2019. His fee has been lowered to € 4,500 - a surprisingly low price for a successful sire.

His 2019 fee has been set at €7,500.