With farms in Ireland, Kentucky and Australia, Coolmore is a worldwide source of elite stallion talent and with 14 stallions – 11 of them G1 winners - on the roster this year, it really is a case of something for everyone, whatever your budget may be.
Coolmore has been the home of iconic Australian bred champion sires such as Encosta de Lago and Fastnet Rock with their heir apparent Home Affairs topping the roster this year at $176,000.
It’s still very early days for Home Affairs, whose oldest progeny have just turned three, but the champion son of I am Invincible has delivered on every level to date and the team at Coolmore are already looking to the future having secured his Golden Slipper winning son Guest House.
New to the roster this year is already established Group I winning and Group I producing sire Super Seth, who makes his Australian stud debut after starting off at Waikato Stud in New Zealand.
He stands at a fee of $137,500 and physically is a great mix of his sire Dundeel and dam sire Redoute’s Choice.
The late five time champion Australian sire Snitzel is a stallion held in the highest regard which is why Coolmore stand two of his best sprinting sons in Shinzo and Switzerland.
Shinzo was bred at Coolmore, retained to race and came out to win the Golden Slipper, while Switzerland was purchased at Inglis Easter for $1.5million and won the Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes.
Both colts were trained by Chris Waller, whose peerless training regime has already produced Champion Australian Sire Zoustar and of course Home Affairs.
Coolmore is also home to a pair of Cartier European Horse of the Year winners with City of Troy (USA) (Justify) and St Mark’s Basilica (Fr) (Siyouni) offering breeders the opportunity to breed to colts that were rated the best in the world against their peers and elder rivals.
In a similar vein is Delacroix (IRE), who is the only first season horse on the roster this year and is by red hot sire of sires Dubawi from Tepin, who was the Champion US Turf Mare in 2015 and 2016 with 13 wins - six of them in G1 races including the Breeders’ Cup Mile and Royal Ascot Queen Anne Stakes.
Tepin was bought off the track by MV Magnier from the Fasig Tipton November Sale for US$8million which tells you all you need to know about her quality and what sets Delacroix apart from other sire sons of Dubawi.
What might surprise some people is that half of this roster – seven stallions – all stand for $22,000 or less making some of the best bloodlines in the world accessible to astute breeders operating on a budget AND the breed to race owner, whose end goal is the winning post rather than the sale ring.
They follow below in alpha order and include Storm Boy, who was the equal busiest sire in Australia in 2025 covering 227 mares:
All images by Sarah Ebbett.
