Frankel's fee rockets to £275,000 after another stunning year
Former world champion sired nine individual Group 1 winners this year and stood for £200,000
Frankel is now the highest-priced stallion in Europe, with the brilliant sire's fee being raised to £275,000 after Juddmonte released its star-packed roster for 2023.
The son of Galileo, who stood for £200,000 this year, was a dual world champion on the track and has transferred his brilliance to stud, being crowned British and Irish champion sire and European champion sire last term.
He looks set to successfully defend his European sire title for 2022 after triumphs in France that have included Alpinista in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, and Nashwa in the Prix de Diane.
Frankel has sired nine individual Group 1 winners this year and 12 over the last two years, five of whom were Classic winners.
Other top-notch performers this term include runaway Irish Derby hero Westover, Coronation Stakes and Prix Jacques le Marois winner Inspiral, Dewhurst Stakes victor Chaldean, Irish 1,000 Guineas heroine Homeless Songs and Grand Prix de Paris winner Onesto.
The 14-year-old was also in huge demand in the sales ring as the sire of the four highest-priced yearlings at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, including the world’s highest-priced yearling sold in 2022 at 2,800,000gns.
The Juddmonte roster also features Kingman, responsible this year for the unbeaten Fillies' Mile winner Commissioning and Prix de la Foret and British Champions Sprint Stakes winner Kinross, as well as as the unbeaten Gimcrack Stakes winner Noble Style and Group 1-placed juveniles Nostrum and Epictetus.
His fee has been clipped to £125,000 from £150,000 in 2022.
Oasis Dream will continue to stand for £20,000 after another excellent season that saw his European champion two-year-old of 2021 Native Trail land the Irish 2,000 Guineas after a close second in the English equivalent.
As Europe’s leading sire of Group 1 speed, he has sired more than 220 stakes horses, including the winners of 30 Group 1 races.
As a broodmare sire Oasis Dream is responsible for 150-plus black-type performers, with 45 of his daughters having produced Group winners.
Bated Breath is another whose fee is unchanged, this time at £15,000. The son of former Banstead Manor Stud stalwart Dansili is marketed as the best value sire in Britain by black-type performers over the last three years among stallions standing for less than £25,000.
His Dick Poole Stakes winner Juliet Sierra was one of nine black-type performers for her sire in 2022 and is pencilled in for a tilt at the 1,000 Guineas in May.
His yearlings and foals of 2022 are among his strongest books of mares and this was reflected in their sales ring, where the headline act was a filly out of Always A Dream who made 600,000gns to Godolphin at Tattersalls Book 1.
Another six sold for six figures, producing an average of £65,043 and at more than six times their covering fee.
The Banstead Manor roster is completed by the promising first-season sire Expert Eye, who has been trimmed to £7,500 from £10,000 this term.
The son of Acclamation has sired 21 individual winners from his first crop, with a strike-rate of 64 per cent of his runners winning or being placed.
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