'Breeders will enjoy a good range of fees and bloodlines from which to choose' - Darley America unveil 2025 line-up

Darley America has announced stud fees for 2025.

“The 2024 breeding season was one of our busiest ever at Jonabell,” said Darley sales manager Darren Fox. 

“Nyquist continues to go from strength to strength and was very much in demand, while Cody’s Wish continued his immense popularity in his new career. 

"We certainly expect much of the same from those two in 2025, but if you look at the entire roster of 12 stallions, breeders will enjoy a good range of stud fees and bloodlines from which to choose.”

Nyquist is the sire of four Grade 1 winners this year, with only Into Mischief having more. He is also the leader by percentage of Grade 1 winners to starters. 

His son Johannes was first up for a Grade 1 win by taking the Shoemaker Mile in impressive fashion, one of four Graded wins in as many starts this year. He is slated to run next in the Breeders’ Cup Mile. 

Daughter Randomized scored next by defeating champion Idiomatic in the Ogden Phipps.

Then came freshman daughters Immersive and Tenma, who posted wins in the Spinaway and Del Mar Debutante respectively. Immersive then stamped herself as the probable favourite for next month’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies with a win in the Grade 1 Darley Alcibiades on opening day at Keeneland. Tenma looks to make her next start in the Juvenile Fillies as well.

Nyquist’s fee will be announced following the Breeders’ Cup. It was $85,000 this year.

Medaglia D’Oro is coming off a very impressive 2024 and may have four entries on the upcoming Breeders’ Cup weekend, including East Avenue, the impressive winner of the recent Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland. Future Darley stallion East Avenue is out of a half-sister to Horse of the Year and current Darley stallion Cody’s Wish. 

Medaglia D’Oro will stand for an unchanged fee of $75,000 in 2025.

Cody’s Wish, a son of Curlin out of Grade 1 winner Dance Card (by Tapit), has completed his first season at stud and was reportedly overwhelmingly popular with breeders, with a full and impressive first book of mares. 

Cody's Wish: multiple Grade 1 winner went down well with breeders in his first season

Cody’s Wish completed his career by capturing his second Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile in 2023 en route to Eclipse Horse of the Year and Older Dirt Male honours. A winner in 11 of his 16 starts, Cody's Wish never finished out of the first three. In addition to his two Breeders’ Cup wins, he also scored at the highest level in the Met Mile, the Churchill Downs and the Forego. 

His fee will be $65,000, down from $75,000 this year.

Multiple Eclipse champion Essential Quality and Grade 1 winner Maxfield have been said by Darley to have covered excellent books of mares in their first three years and will stand at fees of $50,000 ($65,000 in 2024) and $40,000 ($35,000) respectively next year, when their first crops hit the racetrack. 

The Street Sense sire line is showing strength with son McKinzie off the mark with two Grade 1 winners this year, along with Maxfield becoming the first freshman sire to have both a million-dollar colt and a million-dollar filly in their first crop since 2000. 

Street Sense’s fee will be $50,000 for 2025, down from $60,000.

The ever-consistent Hard Spun will see a fee of $25,000 ($35,000), while Frosted, Midshipman and Proxy will be set at $15,000 each. Their fees in 2024 were $10,000, $15,000 and $25,000 respectively.

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