Our next chapter in the Price Point series of stories looks at a big group of 16 stallions that includes the sire of the world’s best sprinter.
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Click here to see sires priced between $24,200 and $27,500.
Proven Sires
Nicconi is the proven benchmark in this group and is undoubtedly great value at this fee given his consistency in producing winners week in and week out, Nature Strip aside.
He’s also far from a one trick pony as Nature Strip is one of two Group I winners for Nicconi this season joining the Bob and Sandra Peters bred G1 winning sprinter Graceful Girl.
Rubick is another proven sire in the group that gets plenty of winners and in Everest winner Yes Yes Yes showed he too is capable of getting an exceptional sprinter.
Flying Artie is another young Group I producing sire, who covered 201 mares last spring on the back of siring Blue Diamond winner Artorius, so breeders following on this spring may reap the benefit of that bumper crop.
Churchill has a Group I winner in the Northern Hemisphere from his first crop in French Derby winner Vadeni and you would expect his progeny here to hit their straps at three.
Stakes-winners in the table below are worldwide from August 1, 2021.
Sire/ Born |
SW 2021/2022 |
2022 Yearling Average- MM Inglis Easter Inglis Premier Inglis Classic |
2020 Fee and Book |
2021 Fee and Book |
2022 Fee |
Churchill (IRE) 2014 |
Oldest Aus bred 2YO’s 3 winners (Aus) 4 SW’s inc. G1 Vadeni (NH) |
MM $180,000 1 sold IE $180,000 1 sold IP $215,000 IC $115,000 |
$19,250 119 |
$22,000 160 |
$22,000 |
Flying Artie 2013 |
Oldest 3YO’s 2 SW’s |
MM $146,000 IE $280,000 1 sold IP $75,000 IC $63,333 |
$16,500 113 |
$33,000 201 |
$22,000 |
Hellbent 20132 |
Oldest 2YO’s 4 winners 3 stakes-placed |
MM $232,222 IE $234,750 IP $150,714 IC $103,913 |
$22,000 154 |
$22,000 148 |
$22,000 |
Impending 2013 |
Oldest 2YO’s 5 winners 2 stakes-placed |
MM $120,556 IP $112,500 IC $50,000 |
$19,800 146 |
$22,000 141 |
$22,000 |
Invader 2014 |
Oldest 2YO’s 7 winners |
MM $135,000 IE $320,000 1 sold IP $61,667 IC $94,063 |
$22,000 117 |
$22,000 116 |
$22,000 |
Nicconi 2005 |
2 SW’s |
MM $153,571 IP $243,333 IC $96,000 |
$27,500 146
|
$27,500 118 |
$22,000 |
Rubick 2011 |
1 SW |
MM $178,333 IP $210,000 IC $85,714 |
$33,000 104 |
$27,500 42 |
$22,000 |
The remaining sires in this price bracket are all unproven and include the first season sire Wooded (IRE), a Group I winning sprinter by Wootton Bassett and the fourth season Japanese bred Group I winning sprinter Brave Smash (Jpn), whose first yearlings sold for up to $260,000 this year.
There are seven second and third crop sires and they represent a broad spectrum of sirelines-
Sire (grand-sire) |
Best Win Level |
2021 Fee and Book |
Admire Mars (Jpn) (Daiwa Major) |
G1 |
$22,000 103 |
Alabama Express (Redoute’s Choice) |
G1 |
$24,750 99 |
Brutal (NZ) (O’Reilly) |
G1 |
$27,500 154 |
Earthlight (IRE) (Shamardal |
G1 |
$22,000 109 |
North Pacific (Brazen Beau) |
G3 |
$22,000 202 |
Russian Camelot (IRE) (Camelot) |
G1 |
$22,000 136 |
Zousain (Zoustar) |
G2 |
$19,800 214 |