Study Of Man's fine run reflected in 2025 fee at Lanwades Stud

Study Of Man’s excellent year has been reflected in his 2025 fee, released by Lanwades Stud on Thursday.

The nine-year-old, winner of the Prix du Jockey Club in his racing pomp, has been well represented in 2024, particularly by his daughter Kalpana, winner of the Group 1 British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes at Ascot last month.

The emergence of the three-year-old was presumably a factor in Juddmonte’s decision to retire their Arc heroine Bluestocking, with Europe’s most prestigious race likely in the crosshairs of Kalpana next year.

There has been much more to Study Of Man’s doubling in fee for 2025 to £25,000, however, than Kalpana.

Birthe provided a taste of what was to come by winning the Prix Saint-Alary in May, a race previously run as a Group 1 but a Group 2 this year.

Francophone – a homebred of Lanwades Stud’s Kirsten Rausing – won the Listed Height of Fashion Stakes the same month, while another Lanwades through-and-through filly, Lingua Franca, scored at the same level at Hanover.

Study Of Man, a son of the legendary Deep Impact, is the leading second-crop sire in the northern hemisphere for 2024 with ten per cent Group horses to runners.

His 2025 fee is a career-high, the Niarchos family homebred having started out at £15,000 at Lanwades in 2020.

Sea The Moon will stand for a little less than his studmate in 2025, being trimmed to £22,500 from £32,500.

That is not to say, however, that the 13-year-old has not been among the big winners this year as son Fantastic Moon added the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Baden to his many laurels in September.

The four-year-old could yet add to his top-level prizes as he has at least one more race in him in the Far East – definitely the Japan Cup a fortnight on Sunday and perhaps the Hong Kong International Races after that – before retiring to Gestut Ebbesloh for 2025.

Sea The Moon’s five-year-old daughter, Term Of Endearment, has been a Flat star for Henry de Bromhead, the highlight being her win in August in the Group 2 Lillie Langtry Stakes at Glorious Goodwood. 

Sea The Boss was another good performer for Sea The Moon trained in Ireland, the filly winning the Group 3 Jannah Rose Stakes in May, while the sire has been showcased by 11 individual two-year-old winners this year to boot.

Bobby’s Kitten remains at £5,000 for 2025, a bargain given he has sired British- and Irish-bred European stakes-winning two-year-olds in 2023 and 2024.

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