'By far the best of his generation' - Coolmore unveil fees for City Of Troy and Auguste Rodin plus a big rise for Wootton Bassett

City Of Troy has been given an opening fee of €75,000 when he begins stallion life at Coolmore Stud in 2025.

The gifted Justify colt retires the winner of four Group 1s headed by this year's Derby at Epsom. He also claimed an impressive victory in last year's Dewhurst Stakes and added the International Stakes at York and the Eclipse during the summer. He was unable to race to equine immortality in last weekend's Breeders' Cup Classic but is regarded as a golden prospect for the leading global breeding operation.

“Coolmore are delighted to welcome three outstanding new prospects for 2025," said Coolmore's director of sales, David O' Loughlin.

"City Of Troy has long been the apple of Aidan O’Brien’s eye and he couldn’t be more positive on his sire Justify. He was an outstanding two-year-old and again proved by far the best of his generation this year."

While Auguste Rodin is expected to take in this month's Japan Cup, he already has an equally impressive CV with top-tier triumphs in the Futurity Trophy at Doncaster followed by the Derby and Irish Derby, Irish Champion Stakes and Breeders’ Cup Turf last year. He has added the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot during 2024.

"Auguste Rodin must be the best-value horse in Europe at €30,000 and is a fantastic-looking individual," said O'Loughlin. "Six Group 1 successes at two, three and four years, he’s by a sensational stallion in Deep Impact, while his first three dams all performed at the highest level over a mile or less."

It was only on Monday that Coolmore announced that National Stakes winner Henry Longfellow would be retiring to the Irish headquarters in Tipperary. 

O'Loughlin added: "Henry Longfellow also offers tremendous value at just €15,000. Like his sire Dubawi, he went unbeaten in three starts at two including the Group 1 Vincent O’Brien National Stakes, and he’s arguably his best-looking son ever to retire to stud. 

"He showed top class form over a mile this season, most notably when going down by just a neck to Rosallion in the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes. And to cap it all, he’s out of one of the best Galileo mares of all time and bred on the same cross as Night Of Thunder."

The biggest news among the established guard was with Wootton Bassett, who has carried all before him this season with his first crop of Irish-bred two-year-olds.

His rise continues ever further and he will be available at a career high €300,000. This is not only a big rise from the €200,000 fee of this year but comes in an extraordinary contrast to his opening fee back in France in 2012, when he was covering at €6,000 at Haras d’Etreham.

No Nay Never, Coolmore’s other six-figure stallion in Ireland, had his price trimmed slightly to €125,000 from €150,000. Camelot, who was €50,000, has had a fine year with the likes of Arc queen Bluestocking and the Irish Derby Los Angeles. He climbs back to €75,000, a fee he last stood at in 2022.

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