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mrspock
23 Sep 25 10:09
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Seems like a there's always a new one to take over from the previous top stallion.
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Report Ramruma September 23, 2025 10:32 AM BST
Coolmore bought Wootton Basset as an established sire in 2020. No great insight was required, just lots of money.

https://coolmore.com/farms/ireland/stallions/wootton-bassett

Bay2008 16.0½ hh (1.63 m)
Iffraaj - Balladonia
Distance won over: 6f. to 7f.
2008 - 2025

European Champion 2YO Sire of 2024!

Unbeaten French Champion 2YO

Sire of the highest priced colt in European Sales History at 4,300,000gns!

His leading progeny included Gr.1 winners Almanzor (Irish Champion Stakes, Prix du Jockey Club, Champion Stakes), King Of Steel (Champion Stakes), Unquestionable (Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf), Wooded (Prix de l'Abbaye), Audarya (Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf & Prix Jean Romanet), Bucanero Fuerte (Phoenix Stakes), Al Riffa (National Stakes, Irish St Leger & Grosser Preis Von Berlin), Zellie (Prix Marcel Boussac), Incarville (Prix Saint-Alary), Henri Matisse (Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf & Poule d'Essai des Pouliches), Camille Pissarro (Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere & Prix du Jockey Club), Tennessee Stud (Criterium de Saint-Cloud), Twain (Criterium International), Royal Patronage (Canterbury Stakes), Whirl (Pretty Polly Stakes & Nassau Stakes), Sahlan (Prix du Moulin)
Report impossible123 September 23, 2025 11:38 AM BST
Let's hope AMO is blessed with the same good fortune with King Of Steel, at least.
Report mrspock September 23, 2025 5:58 PM BST
There's a lot of stallions who produce  a lot of stakes winners. No doubt some are better than others.
Question is,when they join coolmore they seem to always outperform.
Usual answer: very good trainer.
But its a free market and anyone can buy whatever they want;but they rarely achieve what AO'B does with the progeny.
Report GEORGE.B September 23, 2025 6:02 PM BST
Galileo - Sir Henry Cecil trained his best son - Frankel

Danehill - Sir Michael Stoute trained his best (and only Wink) Derby winner North Light.

Mischief
Report GEORGE.B September 23, 2025 6:11 PM BST
He didn't train the best son of Sadler's Wells either - that was John Hammond.
Report Ramruma September 23, 2025 6:36 PM BST
Also Coolmore can send very good mares to their stallions.

Their own mares, especially for new sires, and by rejecting other people's poorer mares for established sires.
Report GEORGE.B September 23, 2025 6:56 PM BST
But its a free market and anyone can buy whatever they want;but they rarely achieve what AO'B does with the progeny.

Danehill was champion sire nine times in Australia.
Report elisjohn September 23, 2025 7:20 PM BST
and yet for all their good winners they still to get a True great racehorse
Report impossible123 September 23, 2025 8:42 PM BST
No Frankel, no Dancing Brave, no Almanzor, no Treve, no Enable. It's somewhat disappointing really.
Report trevor007 September 24, 2025 11:15 AM BST
Suspect the best is still to come from Wotton Bassett looking at the quality of mares he covered this season

"While Wootton Bassett stood the latest breeding season at a career-high fee of €300,000, and Weatherbys records show he covered 206 mares, including 113 (55 per cent) black-type names.

These include celebrities such as Chicquita, Jannah Rose, Lady Bowthorpe, Magic Wand, Ramatuelle, Search For A Song, Sistercharlie and Treve. There were also the dams of Group 1 winners Al Riffa, Almanzor, Blackbeard, Camille Pissarro, Capri, Churchill, Palace Pier, Precise, Scandinavia and Vandeek. Interestingly, his latest book also contained National Hunt starlets Annie Power and Quevega".

The sales will be interesting when these yearlings come up for saleCool
Report GEORGE.B September 30, 2025 11:54 PM BST
I don't know what Coolmore had eligible for the Goffs Million the other day but probably not a coincidence that their two big guns for the race are by WB, presumably with an eye on making him champion sire posthumously (and perhaps more relevantly preventing a Darley sire from having the title!).

However, even with the chunk of cash pocketed there, still leaves him currently around £440,000 behind the new kid on the block, Night Of Thunder.

Iirc, in the year of Sea The Stars, his sire Cape Cross probably should have been crowned champion, just the £27,000 in it at the end of the year, but the difference was Coolmore / Ballydoyle targeting the valuable sales races with Danehill Dancer progeny, which enabled Coolmore to maintain their run of standing the champion sire. However, this looks like being the fifth year running that they won't have the champion sire in their care, having dominated previously with Sadler's Wells, Danehill and Galileo.
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