Puissance De Lune (Ire), a multiple Group-winning son of Shamardal (USA), will stand for a doubled fee of $19,800 inc GST off the back of the strong start he has made to his stud career.
Toronado (Ire), the Group 1-winning son of High Chaparral (Ire), produced 13 winners through March and 10 so far for this month. He will again stand at $27,500 inc GST.
Service fees for associate stallions Akeed Mofeed (GB) ($16,500), Highland Reel (Ire) ($16,500) and Trust In A Gust ($6600) will also remain unaltered, with all fees including GST, while newcomer I Am Immortal, a dual stakes-winning son of I Am Invincible, will stand at $13,750 inc GST.
Newcomer I Am Immortal, a dual stakes-winning son of I Am Invincible, will stand at $13,750
Puissance on rise
A son of the late Shamardal, Puissance De Lune’s statistics make impressive reading and his first crop includes the G2 Edward Manifold S. winner Moonlight Maid.
“To have 50 per cent winners to runners from very limited numbers at the moment is incredible. His pedigree is one of the best in the global stud book and he will keep producing,” Swettenham Stud principal Adam Sangster said. “He’s getting better quality mares and had a big book last year.
Puissance De Lune (Ire) will stand for $19,800 inc GST
“There are some very nice horses in the pipeline for him and his fee deserved to go up. We were told it could have gone higher.”
Akeed Mofeed has been represented by the two-time stakes-winner Assertive Approach from his first crop and by this season’s Listed Gold Sovereign S. winner Jyoti and the G2 Angus Armanasco placegetter Lunar Light.
Swettenham has received positive feedback on the first weanlings of Highland Reel, the globe-trotting winner of seven Group 1 titles while two-time Group 1 winner Trust In A Gust has had just three 2-year-old runners to date.
Toronado’s oldest Australian crop includes the multiple Tasmanian stakes-winner Still A Star while another promising galloper is the Team Hawkes-trained Masked Crusader. He has won two of his three starts, the latest at Bendigo this week.
The son of High Chaparral has sired four European stakes winners and is drawing attention from abroad with his Australian produce.
“There are a lot of good colts and geldings sold to Hong Kong," Sangster said.
"Last year, the top five Toronados sold at Inglis Premier were bought by Hong Kong interests and this year four more colts were bought by Hong Kong interests. That’s on top of the ones already sold up there."
Toronado (Ire) will again stand at $27,500 inc GST
“Toronado hasn’t had a runner up there yet, but (Showdown winner) Prince Of Sussex is due to start very soon. I’m expecting him to be produced at Sha Tin in the near future and he’s coming to hand really nicely.
“The High Chaparral line here in the Southern Hemisphere is really doing the job across some great stallions and we’re very lucky to have Toronado.
“He’s a strong, good-looking horse and his progeny are versatile and excellent sales horses.”
Invincible belief
Sangster is also understandably excited by I Am Immortal, who is expected to prove a high-class source of class and speed.
“We needed a colonial sprinting son of I Am Invincible and it’s the line that Australian breeders want,” he said.
“We needed a colonial sprinting son of I Am Invincible and it’s the line that Australian breeders want." - Adam Sangster
“It’s a really balanced roster and this year already we’re finding we’re getting good support from New South Wales breeders.”
In the current times, Swettenham has assured they will do all it can to assist and support breeders.
“Our objective is to keep the breeders in the game and they can all talk to us, as the owner I will always lend a sympathetic ear,” Sangster said.
Adam Sangster (left)
