Haras de Beaumont reveals 2025 fees and roster led by Ace Impact

Undefeated Prix du Jockey Club and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe hero Ace Impact will remain at a stud fee of €40,000 for 2025, Haras de Beaumont reported on Thursday.

Ace Impact was retired to stand at Beaumont for a French-record opening fee of €40,000 and with a Racing Post Rating of 129, having been crowned Cartier European Horse of the Year and finishing behind only Japanese sensation Equinox in the Longines World's Best Racehorse Rankings for 2023. 

Two of the first mares scanned in foal to him earlier this year were 2023 Prix Imprudence winner Showay and stakes winner Mixed Intention, dam of Prix du Jockey Club-placed Millebosc.

Breeders, both local and international, were said to be strongly supporting the four-year-old son of Cracksman.

Ace Impact is out of the Anabaa Blue mare Absolutly Me, whose own career highlight on the track was finishing second in a fillies' Listed race at Baden-Baden but who has already proved a fine broodmare for breeders Karl and Waltraut Spanner. 

Before Ace Impact – who was shrewdly purchased by Jean-Claude Rouget and Serge Stempniak at the Arqana August Sale of 2021 for €75,000 – Absolutly Me had already produced two black-type horses in Rock Of Gibraltar's Apollo Flight and Alessandro, an €80,000 son of Australia trained by Rouget. 

Ace Impact’s three-year-old Gleneagles half-brother Arrow Eagle won his first two starts this year and was most recently third in a Listed race at Marseille Borely.

Haras de Beaumont’s new boy for 2025 is Puchkine, who as previously announced begins off a fee of €8,500.

Puchkine: new to Haras de Beaumont in 2025Credit: Zuzanna LUPA

This year’s Group 1 Prix Jean Prat winner, who was also trained by Rouget, is a son of Starspangledbanner and the fourth foal out of the unraced So You Think mare Vadyska, a half-sister to German Listed winner Romina Power.

It is the further family of Group 1 Fillies' Mile and May Hill Stakes winner Lyric Of Light, and he is descended from one of Meon Valley Stud's foundation mares, Reprocolor. 

Puchkine is a half-brother to Slevka, who was third in the Listed Prix Amandine.

Haras de Beaumont's manager Mathieu Alex said: “After a successful 2024 season, notably with the arrival of undefeated world champion Ace Impact, we are very pleased to welcome Puchkine in 2025. 

“A top-class sprinter by leading sire Starspangledbanner, Puchkine was unbeaten at two and won the Prix Jean Prat in impressive style, just 0.20 seconds off the race record.”

Dual Group 1 winner Sealiway will stand his third season at Beaumont in 2025 for an unchanged €12,000.

Alex said: “Sealiway’s first foals born in 2024 are very popular with breeders. A Group 1 winner at two and three, Sealiway covered more than 150 mares in his first two seasons at stud.”

Intello, like Ace Impact a Prix du Jockey Club winner, and who has three Group/Grade 1 winners as a sire in Junko, Adhamo and intelligent, also remains steady, in his case at €8,000.

Alex said: “Proven sire Intello was popular again in 2024, with more than 100 mares covered. With nine per cent stakes horses to runners, he remains an important asset to the French stallion roster.”

Group 3 winner Stunning Spirit completes the roster at an unchanged €3,000.

Alex added: “Stunning Spirit’s first two-year-olds have made promising debuts, with 60 per cent of his runners having won or been placed.

"Haras de Beaumont would like to thank all breeders for their support and look forward to welcoming them soon.”

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