Berlais boosted as Haras d'Etreham reveals National Hunt stud fees and line-up for 2025

Haras d’Etreham has announced 2025 fees for the stud’s five National Hunt sires.

Masked Marvel has been responsible for 23 black-type performances in 2024 alone, including 11 successes and two at the highest level, while his stores sold for up to €200,000 in 2023.

Narvick International made a bid of €170,000, equivalent to 34 times his nomination fee, for one of his three-year-olds at Deauville this summer.

These are the results of his first crops, which were conceived for fees of €3,000-5,000. With more than 85 four-year-olds next season and his future generations represented by more than 80 individuals each year, the future certainly appears bright for Masked Marvel. His fee will remain unchanged at €12,500 in 2025.

After being leading first-season sire at the foal sales, then yearling sales, Goliath Du Berlais is now the leading first-season sire once again, with his first three-year-olds on the racecourse. 

He is in second place overall among sires of three-year-olds, just behind Doctor Dino, with 11 winners already and among them there are five French black-type performers. 

"A young jumps sire has never made such an impact with his first generation of three-year-olds," said the announcement from Etreham on Tuesday.

It continued: "His success is all the more remarkable as Goliath Du Berlais was crowned champion steeplechaser at four, after taking second place in the Prix Congress at three."

His two-year-old stores were sold for prices reaching more than eight times his covering fee this summer in Deauville, while two of his three-year-old stores raised bids of €120,000 and €110,000 at the Goffs Arkle Sale last June.

Goliath Du Berlais has covered a full book of mares every year since his debut at stud. He is following in the footsteps of his illustrious sire, the newly-retired Saint Des Saints, who left his mark on Auteuil’s recent 48h de l’Obstacle jumps weekend as sire of the winner of the Grade 1 Prix Maurice Gillois and broodmare sire of the winners of the Grade 1 Prix Cambacérès and Grade 2 Prix Congress. 

Masked Marvel: Grade 1 sire continues to stand for €12,500 for 2025Credit: Zuzanna LUPA

He will stand for a career-high €12,500 in 2025, up from €7,500 this year.

Latrobe, the first Grade 1-winning stallion son of Camelot and grandson of Montjeu, has been increasingly well supported during his first four seasons.

Etreham said: "Breeders are fully satisfied by his foals. They are all bay, and are quality, elegant individuals, with plenty of size, bone and strength."

In 2023, Latrobe's first yearlings were sold for up to €41,000 and an average of €26,000, six times his covering fee. This summer at Deauville, Noel George and Amanda Zetterholm purchased one of his two-year-old stores for €67,000.

Latrobe, whose first generation will be three in 2025, will continue to be available at a fee of €4,000.

Paradiso, the first and only son of Kapgarde at stud, welcomed his first foals this spring. He went unbeaten during the spring of his three-year-old season, winning the Grade 3 Prix Aguado ahead of the future runner-up in the Grade 1 Prix Ferdinand Dufaure.

Paradiso is said to have been very well received at stud, covering 94 mares last year and more than 80 this season. 

"His first foals are remarkable, with size inherited from Kapgarde, and excellent balance," said Etreham. "They are very good movers and breeders are delighted."

Paradiso remains at a fee of €5,000 for 2025.

As part of an association with the Haras de Cercy, Wonderful Moon has taken the place of Pretty Tiger at the Haras de la Tuilerie for the 2025 season. 

The first stallion son of Sea The Moon, he was one of the leaders of his generation at three in Germany. After scoring at Group level as a juvenile, he won on his seasonal debut at three in the Group 3 Cologne Classic, and again a month later in the Group 2 Sparkasse Kolnbonn Union Rennen at Cologne, and concluded his three-year-old campaign with another Group victory. 

His first yearlings in 2024 are said to have inherited their sire’s quality and class, and they have plenty of size, beautiful tissue and a very calm temperament. He is still offered at €2,500 for 2025.

Etreham's Nicolas de Chambure said: “We are delighted to offer varying profiles of stallions so that all breeders may find the best match for their broodmares. 

"The quality of the French jumps stallion ranks continues to develop and it is in this dynamic environment that we wish to position ourselves and continue to invest. I would also like to remind you of our strict stallion limitation policy, which protects and enhances breeders' investment. 

"Finally, it is very satisfying to witness the success of Goliath Du Berlais, who we launched in association with breeders via the operation of breeding rights.”

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