The Breednet Price Point stories have been super popular and are now archived on the site, so will remain a great source of information and reference as we move towards the breeding season and with 22 horses priced at $16,500 there is huge competition in this sector so we have split the group into PROVEN and UNPROVEN.
As we slide below the $22,000 point, let’s not forget that the three stallions topping the current Australian General Sires List by earnings all started their stud careers at fees below $20,000.
Front runner Written Tycoon went to stud as a Group II winner at a fee of $8,250, Not a Single Doubt was a Listed winner priced at $13,750 and I Am Invincible was a Group III winner starting off at $11,000.
That trio now feature in the top Price Point story, upwards of $110,000!
Previously we have looked at $66,000 - $99,000 sires, click here to read.
Previously we have looked at $49,500 to $55,000, click to read.
Previously we have looked at the $44,000 horses, click to read.
Previously we have looked at the $33,000 - $38,500 Proven, click to read.
Previously we have looked at the $33,000 - $38,500 Unproven, click to read.
Previously we have looked at the $24,750 to $27,500 sires, click to read.
Previously we have looked at $17,250 - $19,800 – click to read.
Click here to read the PROVEN sires story for this price point and the unproven ones are examined below.
First Season
Interesting mix here with New Zealand Champion 2YO Cool Aza Beel joined by four other Group winning Australian three year-olds and a serious older G1 weight-for-age horse in Fierce Impact (Jpn).
Sire / Born |
Sire / Sireline |
Best Wins |
2021 Fee |
Anders |
Not a Single Doubt by Redoute’s Choice |
G3 ATC San Domenico Stakes (1100m), Listed Rosebud Stakes (1100m) at three |
$16,500 |
Cool Aza Beel (NZ) |
Savabeel by Zabeel |
Champion NZ 2YO - G1 Sistema Stakes (1200m) at two. |
$16,500 |
Doubtland |
Not a Single Doubt by Redoute’s Choice |
G2 VRC Danehill Stakes (1200m) at three, G3 ATC Kindergarten Stakes (1100m) at two. |
$16,500 |
Fierce Impact (Jpn) |
Deep Impact, by Sunday Silence |
G1 MRC Toorak Handicap (1600m, VRC Cantala Stakes (1600m) at six. G1. G1 VRC Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) at seven. |
$16,500 |
Peltzer |
So You Think by High Chaparral (IRE) |
G2 ATC Stan Fox Stakes (1500m), Eskimo Prince Stakes (1200m) at three. |
$16,500 |
Prague |
Redoute’s Choice by Danehill (IRE) |
G3 ATC Pago Pago Stakes (1200m), Canonbury Stakes (1100m) at two and second G2 ATC Sires Produce Stakes. 4th G1 VRC Newmarket Handicap, ATC All Aged Stakes at three. |
$16,500 |
Second Season
Only two contenders here and both were very popular last spring at the same fee of $16,500.
Bowness Stud’s dashing grey So You Think stallion D’Argento was a two time winner at two and at three won the Group I ATC Rosehill Guineas (2000m). Also second in the Group I ATC Epsom Handicap at four, he covered 152 mares last spring.
Newgate Farm’s Cosmic Force won the Group III ATC Pago Pago Stakes at two (1200m) and the Group II ATC Roman Consul Stakes (1200m) at three. The first son of Deep Field to go to stud, Cosmic Force covered 146 mares last spring.
Third Season
Only two contenders and both are dual Group I winning sprinters in Brave Smash (Jpn) and Harry Angel (IRE), who come from very different sirelines. Brave Smash won his Group I sprints in Australia, while Harry Angel was rated the World Champion Sprinter as a three year-old.
Brave Smash is by Tosen Phantom, who is a grand-son of Sunday Silence, while Harry Angel is by Acclamation’s best son Dark Angel, who featured prominently at the recent Royal Ascot meeting.
Sire/ Born |
2021 Overall Weanling Average |
2019 Fee and Book |
2020 Fee and Book |
2021 Fee |
Brave Smash (Jpn) |
$69,038 |
$22,000 |
$19,250 |
$16,500 |
Harry Angel (IRE) |
$47,272 |
$22,000 |
$16,500 |
$16,500 |
Fourth Season
Two contenders here and they could not be more different with Pariah, a precocious Group III winning son of Redoute’s Choice that was second in a G2 Blue Diamond, while Highland Reel is a globe-trotting seven time Group I winning son of Galileo from a famous Australian female family tracing to Circles of Gold.
Sire/ Born |
2021 Yearling Average- MM, Inglis Sales |
2019 Fee and Book |
2020 Fee and Book |
2021 Fee |
Highland Reel (IRE) |
IP $90,000 |
$16,500 |
$16,500 |
$16,500 |
Pariah |
MM $136,667 |
$22,000 |
$16,500 |
$16,500 |