Windsor Park have announced their 2025 stallion fees - Leading European 2YO and Champion 3YO AUGUSTE RODIN, the latest addition to their stallion roster, is oversubscribed at an introductory fee of $30,000+gst.
Auguste Rodin stands at $30,000 plus GST
A six-time Group One winner, including at two, AUGUSTE RODIN trained on to become a Champion 3YO, winning both the English and Irish Derby’s. His quadrella of Group One victories at three also included Weight-For-Age wins against older horses in the Irish Champion Stakes and Breeders’ Cup Turf to become the only 3YO in history to secure these four championship Group One races in his classic year.
Following his record-breaking classic season AUGUSTE RODIN added the Group One Royal Ascot Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at four to his spectacular CV.
Hailing from the final crop of 11-time Champion Sire and global influence DEEP IMPACT, AUGUSTE RODIN’s female line is no less esteemed with his first three dams all being Group One performers at less than a mile.
Like AUGUSTE RODIN, fellow Ballydoyle superstar PADDINGTON will shuttle to Windsor Park Stud again from Coolmore, Ireland for his second Southern Hemisphere season.
Paddington returns at a fee of $35,000 plus GST
PADDINGTON proved an instant hit with breeders in 2024 covering a full book with in excess 100 mares being tested in foal.
The brilliant miling son of SIYOUNI and four-times Gr.1 winner is again oversubscribed at an unchanged fee of $35,000+gst.
Shamexpress
Windsor Park’s highly successful sire SHAMEXPRESS has enjoyed a breakout season in 2025 with his Hong Kong-based son KA YING RISING, the world’s highest ranked sprinter leading the way.
The brilliant KA YING RISING has swept all before him in the dominion with a raft of world-class winning performances including three at the elite Group One level.
As well, SHAMEXPRESS’ tally of stakes winners this season has been bolstered by Group winning racemares Grinzinger Belle and Blue Sky At Night together with the success of leading Singaporean stakes winner Lims Saltoro. Accordingly, SHAMEXPRESS will stand in 2025 for a fee of $20,000+gst.
Profondo
Commencing his third season at Windsor Park is the very popular PROFONDO, a handsome, Gr.1 winning son of DEEP IMPACT and Redoute’s Choice’s precocious 2YO Group winning daughter Honesty Prevails.
A $1.9 million sales-topping yearling, PROFONDO has proved extremely popular with breeders serving in excess of 350 mares in his first two seasons at stud.
PROFONDO has an impressive first crop of foals to represent him and will stand again for a fee of $17,500+gst in 2025.
The same fee of $17,500+gst applies to Champion Miler CIRCUS MAXIMUS who will record his fifth season at Windsor Park in 2025.
With a 2YO Group One performer already in his first, 2024, European crop and with his first Australasian 2YO’s impressing at both the trials and on raceday, the signs are ominous for this dual Royal Ascot winning miler.
Heading his first 2YO’S to race in Australasia are unbeaten Australian filly Ha’penny Hatch who has bagged a brace of metropolitan wins and is slated to start in Listed company this weekend while his other performers include metro-placed Rufus, Towering Vision, Miss Parker and recent debut placegetter Engine of War who are all marching towards their 3YO season in progressive form.
Proven stallions VANBRUGH and TURN ME LOOSE round out Windsor Park’s 2025 stallion lineup.
ENCOSTA DE LAGO’s Gr.1 winning son VANBRUGH has fashioned a successful career with an excellent stakeswinners to runners strike rate of 5.6% from limited representation.
An outstanding physical individual who is dominant for producing great types VANBRUGH is set to be represented by his first sizeable crop, now rising 3YO’s, next season.
His top-class Group One performers, MUSTANG VALLEY and WILD NIGHT, trained on from two years to be performing at the top level as five and six-year-olds and with his yearlings selling to $130,000 at Karaka VANBRUGH will stand in 2025 for a fee of $7,500+gst which will be the same fee afforded his barnmate, fellow successful sire TURN ME LOOSE.
TURN ME LOOSE continually sires smart winners week in, week out and this season alone has sired 52 individual winners of 70 races and in excess of $2.6 million in prizemoney.
2025 leading southern 3YO filly LOOSE SALLY is the latest stakes winner for TURN ME LOOSE who has sired Australian stakes winners (SHE’S) LICKETYSPLIT, PRIX DE TURN and ANCIENT GIRL to go with his tally of New Zealand stakes winners.
TURN ME LOOSE, whose yearlings have sold to $230,000, will be available to breeders in 2025 for a fee of $7,500+gst.
