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Quality Road \u2013 goes from $70,000 in 2018 to $150,000 in 2019.\u00a0 He\u2019s been sending out G1 winner after G1 winner for several years and was considered great value to breeders at $70,000.\u00a0 Not much of a secret now.<\/p>\n
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Kitten\u2019s Joy \u2013 a column was written about Kitten\u2019s Joy this year as he is somewhat of an enigma in the game but also in real life.\u00a0 He has stood for as high as $100,000 during his career but his owner also threatened to sell him to European interests because North American breeders have not always supported him well.\u00a0 He stood in 2018 for $60,000 and is going up to $75,000 for 2019.\u00a0 He is currently the leading sire in North America and has sired three grade\/group one winners so far this year.<\/p>\n
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Into Mischief \u2013 goes from $85,000\/100,000 in 2018 to $150,000 in 2019.\u00a0 He was initially priced at $85,000 for the 2018 season and most of the mares bred to him at that time paid that price but as shares sold out the price went up to $100,000 for the late comers.\u00a0 The late comers are already late for 2019 as he is being advertised as book full for 2019.<\/p>\n
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Goldencents \u2013 the leading first crop sire of 2018 will see his fee go from $12,500 up to $20,000.\u00a0 The son of Into Mischief has sired 22 individual winners as of this writing, 9 more than his nearest rival.\u00a0 He also has two black type stakes winners and two additional stakes horses.\u00a0 Goldencents was not expected to sire such precocious runners and many breeders are interested in seeing how his runners progress as three year olds.<\/p>\n
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Violence \u2013 the leading second crop sire in North America makes a big jump from $25,000 to $40,000.\u00a0 As of this writing he has sired eight black type winners this year, more than any other sire from his crop including G3 winner Talk Veuve to Me.\u00a0 He started at stud with a $15,000 fee and the son of Medaglia D\u2019oro has been hot since his first foals hit the ground.<\/p>\n
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Curlin \u2013 makes a modest jump from $150,000 to $175,000.\u00a0 This sire has been getting better with each crop and it is not surprising to see him move up a bit.\u00a0 He\u2019s sired 8 graded stakes winners this year (as of this writing) led by last year\u2019s 2yo champion Good Magic who won the Haskell G1 and was second to Justify in the Kentucky Derby.<\/p>\n
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Street Sense \u2013 spent a year in Japan and lost an American crop after a lukewarm beginning.\u00a0 His first crop post-Japan are three year olds this year and he has sired the talented colt McKinzie, a G1 winner and Avery Island who won a G2.\u00a0 He goes from $35,000 up to $50,000 which may look like a bargain if McKinzie goes on to win the Breeder\u2019s Cup Classic.<\/p>\n
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Notable Downgrades<\/p>\n
Tapit \u2013 goes from $300,000 to $225,000 for 2019.\u00a0 He spent three years at the higher price point and is still at top 10 leading sire in North America.\u00a0 Tapit\u2019s book has been limited to 125 mares a season for the last several years and will be again.<\/p>\n
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Medaglia D\u2019oro \u2013 another of the highest priced stallions in America takes a drop.\u00a0 Medaglia D\u2019oro goes from $250,000 in 2018 to a relative bargain at $200,000 for 2019.\u00a0 He\u2019s had a fantastic year at stud with runners like Bolt D\u2019oro and Wonder Gadot leading the way plus he had eight million dollar plus yearlings sell (a number not seen since Storm Cat).\u00a0 So why are two of the top three stallions seeing such precipitous downgrades?\u00a0 There is a lot of competition at the top end of the stallion market and both Tapit and Medaglia D\u2019oro are getting older causing some speculation that their fertility has dropped.<\/p>\n
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Animal Kingdom \u2013 he drops in half from $30,000 to $15,000 for 2019.\u00a0 He\u2019s done well with his Australian foals but has been cold in the USA.<\/p>\n
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Bernardini \u2013 drops to the lowest fee of his stud career, going down from $85,000 in 2018 to $50,000 for 2019.\u00a0 He previously dropped down to $60,000 and followed that up with one of his best seasons at stud ever.\u00a0 He hasn\u2019t had a terrible year as a sire with graded stakes winners like Berned and Lewis Bay but his lack of a G1 winner this year doesn\u2019t help him.<\/p>\n
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Orb \u2013 goes from $25,000 to $12,500.\u00a0 Even though the Kentucky Derby winner by Malibu Moon got his first G1 winner this season from his second crop that is his first graded winner of any type and he only has a handful of graded winners.<\/p>\n
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Speightstown \u2013 dropping 20% from $100,000 in 2018 to $80,000 for 2019.\u00a0 He has been at the $100,000 fee for the last several years but he has failed to make the top ten on the North American Sires List since 2015.<\/p>\n
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Bodemeister \u2013 goes from $40,000 in 2018 fresh off the success of his first crop Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming down to $25,000 for 2019.\u00a0 Aside from failing to produce another breakout star since Always Dreaming that son will also be taking up residence in the stallion barn at Winstar Farm so the competition is keen.<\/p>\n
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Other Movement<\/p>\n
Uptowncharliebrown \u2013 one of the leading sires in the Mid-Atlantic is young sire Uptowncharliebrown.\u00a0 He has three crops to race which includes a grade three stakes winner.\u00a0 His fee is going up to $4,500 from $1,500 \u2013 a pretty substantial change for a young sire in Pennsylvania.\u00a0 One to watch if you like racing on local circuits.<\/p>\n
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The Factor \u2013 the son of War Front is the leading third crop sire in North America but after a lukewarm start at stud he spent 2018 in Japan.\u00a0 The terms of the lease were for him to stand there for just one year but he is coming back to the US with a strong reputation and seems a good value at a $15,000 fee.<\/p>\n
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More Than Ready \u2013 the sire of 2018 star runner Catholic Boy sees his fee rise from $75,000 to $80,000.\u00a0 Not a huge move but worth noting that a stallion of his age and reputation is making a move up at all.\u00a0 He also has defending Breeders\u2019 Cup Sprint winner Roy H among his many graded winners in the Northern Hemisphere this year.<\/p>\n
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Declaration of War \u2013 this stallion started his career in Ireland, moved to the US and is now headed for Japan.\u00a0 He is the only member of the second crop sires to get a classic winner when his daughter Olmedo won the French 1000 Guineas earlier this season.\u00a0 All of his stakes winners to date have come on turf which may have precipitated this move.<\/p>\n
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Kantharos \u2013 son of Lion Heart\u2019s runners have been outrunning expectations since they first hit the track.\u00a0 In 2018 his six year old son X Y Jet leads the way for earnings.\u00a0 A G3 winner on the season he was just caught in the shadow of the wire by Mind Your Biscuits in the Golden Shaheen G1 in Dubai.\u00a0 Kantharos takes a small bump from $15,000 to $20,000.<\/p>\n
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A quick note \u2013 not all stallions have had their 2019 fees announced.\u00a0 Some farms are waiting until after the Breeder\u2019s Cup to make those decisions and other stallions may move up again if they have a remarkable two days.\u00a0 An update to this article will be published later in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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