Lope de Vega will stand for a career-high charge of €175,000 (US$185,646, €1=US$1.07) as Ballylinch Stud introduced its roster for 2025, with Waldgeist set to be transferred to Gestut Lunzen.
The son of Shamardal loved a banner 12 months this time period with two traditional winners in Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (G1) heroine Rouhiya and Prix du Jockey Membership (G1) victor Look de Vega , along with Dewhurst Stakes (G1) and Center Park Stakes (G1) winner Shadow of Gentle .
Different top-level winners in 2024 embody American grade 1 scorers Program Buying and selling and Carl Spackler , whereas the previous Dermot Weld-trained Duke de Sessa captured the Caulfield Cup (G1) final month. Lope de Vega was priced at €125,000 this 12 months.
Managing director John O’Connor stated: “At Ballylinch Stud our stallion roster has a mixture of confirmed excessive achievers and younger expertise with large potential. We look ahead to working with our purchasers to assist them obtain continued success each on the racetrack and within the gross sales ring.
“Lope de Vega continues to show himself as a world sire sensation. He has once more confirmed his effectiveness on the very highest degree with probably the most group 1 winners, European traditional winners, and black-type horses of any stallion worldwide this season. His ongoing success is underscored by his worldwide enchantment within the gross sales ring and the constant outcomes his progeny obtain on the worldwide stage. His charge improve will coincide with a decreased guide measurement for 2025.”
Waldgeist, having sired stakes winners Forest Fairy, Could It Be, and Waldora from his first crop, returns to his feminine household’s residence roots in Germany.
“Waldgeist has sired three stakes winners from his first crop this 12 months, the extremely regarded fillies Could It Be, Waldora, and Forest Fairy. Together with his switch to Gestut Lunzen in Germany below the administration of Nikolas Schenke, Waldgeist returns to his roots, the place his illustrious feminine household has thrived. We anticipate a shiny future for Waldgeist as he continues to make an affect from his new residence base.”
High-class sire New Bay , answerable for group 1 winners Saffron Seashore , Bay Bridge , and fellow Ballylinch resident Bayside Boy , will retain his 2024 charge of €75,000.
The Prix du Jockey Membership hero by Dubawi is answerable for unbeaten Champagne Stakes (G2) winner Bay Metropolis Curler , German Two Thousand Guineas hero (G2) Satan’s Level , and group 3 winner Alcantor this time period. The last-named was additionally a half-length third within the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1).
O’Connor added: “New Bay’s newest crop of 2-year-olds has reaffirmed his standing as one in all Europe’s best sires, producing a plethora of extremely rated and unbeaten juveniles.
“His success on the monitor has resonated strongly within the gross sales ring, with yearlings promoting for as much as €620,000 and averaging €140,000 in 2024—nearly 4 occasions their protecting charge. With ever-improving books of mares, his future as a number one sire is assured and we anticipate an enormous 12 months for New Bay in 2025.”
The aforementioned Bayside Boy, a winner of the 2022 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1) and 2021 Champagne Stakes, will stand for a trimmed €12,500, down from €15,000 in his first two seasons.
O’Connor stated of the 5-year-old: “Bayside Boy is New Bay’s most precocious and quickest son to this point. He is been given an ideal probability at stud with glorious books of mares in his first two seasons, in truth with these books he coated the very best proportion of each winners and black-type mares of any second-season sire in Eire.
“His foals look robust, properly muscled, and really athletic, and now could possibly be a really shrewd time to put money into him.”
Make Consider , a confirmed group 1 sire courtesy of sensible globetrotter Mishriff , has additionally been trimmed. His new charge is €8,000, down from €10,000 this 12 months. His main progeny this time period embody Italian group 2 scorers Lazio and Klaynn in addition to Prix Penelope (G3) scorer Making Goals and Prix Sigy (G3) winner Sajir .
“Make Consider’s black-type success charges are distinctive for a stallion at his charge, and his statistics rival among the prime sires in Europe, in truth his proportion of group winners to runners is identical as Siyouni, Havana Gray, Too Darn Sizzling, and Mehmas.
“With seven stakes winners, together with 4 group winners in 2024 alone, he presents breeders an unparalleled alternative to breed top-class performers at a extremely accessible charge. Trainers constantly reward his progeny for his or her angle and can to win.”
