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Breeders Move Away From Direct Danehill Line Sires

Tara Madgwick - Thursday March 4

The list of Australia’s busiest sires for 2020 highlights the trend away from Danehill line stallions with only five of the Top 20 being direct Danehill male line descendants and include none of the top six that covered 200 plus mares.

Click to read our previous story on Australia's busiest sires for 2020.

So You Think (High Chaparral (IRE), Toronado (IRE) (High Chaparral (IRE)and Deep Field (Northern Meteor) are completely free of Danehill, while Capitalist (Written Tycoon), Yes Yes Yes (Rubick) and Pride of Dubai (Street Cry (IRE) have one strain each.

Of the busiest  first season sires in 2020, a list headed by Rubick’s Everest winning sprinter Yes Yes Yes, the trend is even more apparent.

Yes Yes Yes was the busiest first season sire and has one strain of Danehill blood in his fourth remove.
 

Of the 19 first season stallions listed below that covered 100 plus mares only Dubious (Not a Single Doubt), Exceedance (Exceed and Excel), Alabama Express (Redoute’s Choice) and Microphone (Exceed and Excel) are direct male line Danehill descendants.

Busiest Australian First Season Sires 2020 (covered 100 or more mares)
 

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Stallion

 

Covers

 

2020 Fee

 

Stud

State

 

Yes Yes Yes (Rubick)

  

205

  

$38,500

  

Coolmore Australia

NSW

  

Zousain (Zoustar)

  

188

  

$19,800

  

Widden Stud Australia Pty Ltd

NSW

  

Brutal (NZ) (O'Reilly)

  

177

  

$27,500

  

Newgate Operations Pty Ltd

NSW

  

Pierata (Pierro)

  

168

  

$44,000

  

Aquis Farm

NSW

  

Dubious (Not a Single Doubt)

  

162

  

$13,200

  

Aquis Farm

QLD

  

D'Argento (So You Think)

  

152

  

$16,500

  

Bowness Stud

NSW

  

Cosmic Force (Deep Field)

  

146

  

$16,500

  

Newgate Operations Pty Ltd

NSW

  

Exceedance (Exceed and Excel)

  

142

  

$38,500

  

Vinery Stud (Australia) Pty Ltd

NSW

  

Castelvecchio (Dundeel)

  

141

  

$33,000

  

Arrowfield Group Pty Ltd

NSW

  

Alabama Express (Redoute's Choice)

  

141

  

$27,500

  

Yulong Investments Yulong Stud

VIC

  

Tassort (Brazen Beau)

  

137

  

$11,000

  

Newgate Operations Pty Ltd

NSW

  

Too DArn Hot (GB) (Dubawi)

  

130

  

$44,000

  

Godolphin Australia

NSW

  

Blue Point (IRE) (Shamardal)

  

128

  

$44,000

  

Godolphin Australia

VIC

  

Magna Grecia (IRE) (Invincible Spirit)

  

122

  

$22,000

  

Coolmore Australia

NSW

  

Microphone (Exceed and Excel)

  

117

  

$38,500

  

Godolphin Australia

NSW

  

II Am Immortal (I Am Invincible)

  

116

  

$13,750

  

Swettenham Stud

VIC

  

Strasbourg (I Am Invincible)

  

109

  

$11,000

  

Rosemont Stud

VIC

  

Omaha Beach (USA) (War Front)

  

104

  

$22,000

  

Spendthrift Australia Pty Ltd

VIC

  

Vino Rosso (USA) (Curlin)

  

103

  

$13,750

  

Spendthrift Australia Pty Ltd

VIC

  
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