3 minute read

Announce fees for Sweynesse and Staphanos remain unchanged.

Novara Park has announced that the 2020 fees for Sweynesse (Lonhro) and Staphanos (Deep Impact) remain unchanged this year. 

Currently leading the first season sires in New Zealand, Sweynesse has sired seven winners to date including the Group 3 winner Bonita Aurelia and he will stand again for a fee of NZ$6,000 (plus GST). The success of his first runners on the track would have, in normal circumstances, led to a fee increase for the son of Lonhro (Octagonal). 

"We believe that Sweynesse provides breeders with the best upside in New Zealand for this breeding season," said Novara Park principal Luigi Muollo.

"We are thrilled with what his progeny have done on the racetrack as two-year-olds and we are receiving very exciting feedback from the trainers. Sweynesse is on an upward trajectory and it looks like he is just what New Zealand breeding needs in these challenging times."

Sweynesse will stand alongside Staphanos who will stand his second season at the farm for a fee of  NZ$7,000 (plus GST). 

"The Group One races at the Melbourne Spring Carnival were dominated by the Japanese," Muollo said.

"Mer De Glace won the Caulfield Cup, Lys Gracieux won the Cox Plate and Fierce Impact, also by Deep Impact, pulled off a Group One double winning the Toorak Handicap and Cantala Stakes. 

"Japanese gallopers also dominated the Group One races at the Hong Kong International meeting in December.

"Glory Vase by Deep Impact won the Hong Kong Vase, and the Japanese also won the Hong Kong Cup and the Hong Kong Mile."

Staphanos was a multiple Group One performer in Japan and Hong Kong and his prize money earnings of NZ$6.2 million makes him the highest stake earner at stud in New Zealand.

"We were very fortunate to acquire Staphanos for New Zealand," Muollo said. "He was consistently ranked as one of the top Japanese racehorses over four consecutive seasons.

"Breeders recognised his value and he served 108 mares with outstanding fertility in his first season which was a very large book considering the horse was retained by Novara Park and not syndicated.

"Staphanos is very commercial as he is deeply respected in all our major sale markets."