Still the One

Tara Madgwick - Monday April 30
With three new stakes-winners in the past week and a rising star in The Autumn Sun, Arrowfield Stud's legendary sire Redoute's Choice is hot form, which made us think it was worth a look at overall stakes statistics for the most expensive sires in Australia this spring.

Turning 22 this year, Redoute's Choice will stand at a fee of $137,500 and his overall stakes results would back up his standing as one of the all time greats in Australian breeding.



Most Expensive Sires in Australia 2018 (inc. Fastnet Rock Private)

Sire

Overall SW's

SWs to runners

Stud / fee

Snitzel (2002)

83

10%

Arrowfield $220,000

I Am Invincible (2004)

31

8%

Yarraman Park $192,500

Redoutes Choice (1996)

157

12.2%

Arrowfield $137,500

Written Tycoon (2002)

24

4.7%

Woodside Park $110,000

Not a Single Doubt (2001)

55

7.3%

Arrowfield $99,000

Fastnet Rock (2001)

136

8.9%

Coolmore Private

Pierro (2009)

8

6.6%

Coolmore $88,000

Exceed and Excel (2000)

142

8%

Darley $82,500

More Than Ready (USA) (1997)

183

8.1%

Vinery $66,000

Sebring (2005)

40

6.5%

Widden $66,000


The above results need to be taken in context with a horse like Pierro at the very start of his stud career and horses like I Am Invincible and Written Tycoon both starting their stud careers at a comparatively low fee.

Fastnet Rock, Exceed and Excel and More Than Ready have been highly successful in both hemispheres, while Redoute's Choice shuttled for just two seasons to France and has left several stakes-winners, but no Group I winners yet.




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