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Outstanding Epsom Oaks winner Alexandrova heads a strong book of mares booked to be covered by Fastnet Rock when the Australian sire visits Coolmore's Irish headquarters this year.
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Fastnet Rock will stand his first Irish season at a fee of €35,000
Alexandrova , a daughter of Sadler's Wells, was also successful in the Irish and Yorkshire Oaks, is one of 21 Group-winning or stakes-producing mares confirmed to visit the Australian-bred son of Danehill.
Other high-profile bookings include All Too Beautiful, an Oaks-placed daughter of Urban Sea, Phoenix Stakes winner Damson and Irish Oaks heroine Moonstone.
His book also includes the dams of Araafa, Clodovil, Johannesburg, King Charlemagne, Peeping Fawn, Rumplestiltskin, Thewayyouare and Westphalia.
Fastnet Rock has made an impact in Australia, siring 11 stakes winners including Group 1 Thousand Guineas winner Irish Lights from his first two crops of racing age.
Among mares booked to Fastnet Rock in 2010 are:
Alexandrova (Epsom Oaks, Irish Oaks & Yorkshire Oaks)
All Too Beautiful (G3 winning sister to Galileo and half-sister to Sea The Stars)
Chenchikova (Sister to High Chaparral)
Clodora (G2 winning dam of Poules d'Essai des Poulains winner Clodovil)
Damson (won G1 Phoenix Stakes)
Delphinium (dam of G3 winner Hebridean)
Imperial Beauty (won G1 Prix de l'Abbaye)
Maryinsky (dam of G1 winners Peeping Fawn and Thewayyouare)
Moonstone (won G1 Irish Oaks )
Myth (dam of four times G1 winner Johannesburg)
Race the Wild Wind (G1 winner and dam of G1 winner and sire King Charlemagne)
Strawberry Roan (Stakeswinning sister to Epsom Oaks winner Imagine and half-sister to Derby winner Generous).
