Highview Stud Announce 2025 Fees

Media Release - Thursday May 29

With a host of quality performers from its proven lineup – Divine Prophet, Santos and Wrote – over the past 12 months, along with plenty of excitement about the pending arrival of Mr Mozart’s first foals, New Zealand’s Highview Stud has announced stallion fees for 2025.

Wrote (IRE) has a fee increase to $12,000 plus GST, click for more info.

Headlining the roster is the classy High Chaparral horse, Wrote, who will stand at $12,000 plus GST this spring on the back of some tremendous recent results, including last Saturday’s Group 3 Magic Millions Mile winner, Pulchritudinous (also winner of last year’s Group 1 NZ Oaks) and autumn’s Flemington Group winner, Wrote To Arataki.

“He (Wrote) is a massive upgrader of his mares and who knows where he will end up with the far better-quality mares that he covered in 2024 and what he is likely to cover in 2025,” Highview’s Brent Gillovic points out.

“While he has enjoyed an excellent season to date it could have been even better. Read About It was the early favourite for the NZ Derby on the back of two stakes wins, but he went amiss with a throat infection. Midnight Edition won the G2 Auckland Guineas only to lose in an enquiry and Imprevu was beaten by the proverbial whisker in the Group 2 Westbury Stakes.

“All the while, his small number of progeny racing in Hong Kong have performed in outstanding fashion. Chill Chibi followed on from his HK Derby placing in 2024 to win at Class 2 Level and Fast Network looks to be a genuine chance to test Ka Ying Rising in the 2025/26 season. Wrote had seven individual winners from 10 runners in Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong appetite for his progeny is increasing all the time.”

Divine Prophet stands for $9,000, click for more info.

Similarly, Divine Prophet comes into spring on the back of a successful season, and his fee remains unchanged at $9,000 plus GST.

Divine Prophet is currently the third NZ-based sire on the Australian Sires’ List (by prizemoney) and has produced 76 winners of 107 races including two stakes winners this season in See You In Heaven (6 stakes wins overall and sold this week to Yulong for $1 million) plus Generosity.

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Santos stands for $8,000, click for more info.

Santos too remains unchanged at a fee of $8,000 plus GST which is incredible value given that, despite two very small crops to race, he has a Group One winner (Ulanova) and two stakes winners (Moorlands Miss and West of Dalby) to his name. Ulanova was sold at the Magic Millions Broodmare Sale on Tuesday for $1.25million!

“In the current season Santos has had an Australian stakes winner and in NZ the unlucky black type placed Platinum Attack,” Gillovic adds. “He is by the champion Australian sire I Am Invincible, and his first crop of NZ born foals are consistently good types, which is what you would expect from such an imposing individual.”

Mr Mozart stands for $6,000, click for more info.

Rounding out the quartet is the exciting second season sire, Mr Mozart, who again stands at $6,000 plus GST.

“Mr Mozart has let down into a really imposing individual built in the mould of a real Australian sprinter/miler,” Gillovic enthuses. “Of course, he is by the incomparable Snitzel, with an outstanding female pedigree behind him.

“He covered 89 mares in his first season last year and his fertility was exceptional. The quality of mares covered was very good, in particular the support he received from our fellow owner James Chapman of Jamieson Park, who of course raced him. We are eagerly awaiting his first foals.”

For further information about Highview Stud’s 2025 lineup, phone Brent Gillovic on +6421921467 or visit Highview Stud.

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