If your goal this spring is to choose a stallion that can breed you a nice winner with upside it might not be as expensive as you think.
Vinery and Kia Ora have amalgamated resulting in a diverse roster of nine stallions which includes a couple of the hottest young stallions in the land in Ole Kirk ($110,000) and Farnan ($77,000).
Falling into a more affordable bracket is the evergreen All Too Hard, who was a sparring partner on the track and in the breeding barn for Pierro, a stallion we featured last week in this series of stories.
Priced this year at $27,500, All Too Hard runs at 67% winners to runners and 4% SW to runner with his 35 stakes-winners highlighted by five G1 winners.
All of them are multiple G1 winners – Alligator Blood, Stefi Magnetica, Behemoth, the Hong Kong trained champion sprinter Wellington and Forbidden Love, who sold as a broodmare prospect to Yulong at MM National in 2023 for $4.1million.
When All Too Hard gets a good one, they are frequently very good!
All Too Hard has maintained a good level of success throughout his career with strong fertility and 100 plus books of mares in every year he has been at stud.
His current 2YO’s already include seven winners headed by G3 winning Golden Slipper place-getter Music Time and Hard Kick, who won the Listed VRC Talindert Stakes on debut, a race won by his sire.
They are both geldings and that is a pretty common path to success for an All Too Hard colts as they can be quite big horses and gelding early makes plenty of sense if you want to get the best out of them on the track.
Breednet Value Sires – Part 1- Zousain
Breednet Value Sires – Part 2- Brutal
Breednet Value Sires – Part 3 – Better Than Ready
