Frankel: Equine Frankel’s $200K stud fee---Unbeaten Frankel, the highest rated racehorse in the world, will command a fee of 125,000 pounds ($198,600) for his stallion services at stud. Frankel, trained in England by Henry Cecil, was retired lastmonth after accumulating almost 3 million pounds ($4.77million) in earnings from14 victories.
The four-year-old, named Cartier Racehorse of the Year for the second successive year on Tuesday, will stand at owner Khalid Abdulla’s Banstead Manor stud, part of his Juddmonte Farms operation.
“The fee for Frankel reflects his merits as being perhaps the greatest racehorsewe have ever witnessed,” said Juddmonte Farms’s generalmanager Philip Mitchell. “He is by Galileo,who is nowrecognised as the best sire in the world, and out of Kind, a winner of six races (from five to seven furlongs) and herself a daughter of one of the most influential stallions in the history of thoroughbred breeding, Danehill.” Frankel, named after American trainer Bobby Frankelwho died three years ago, ended his career in perfect style at Ascot last month by winning the Champion Stakes.
The stud fee for Frankel is by no means the highest for a thoroughbred, American stallion Storm Cat commanding a $500,000 fee at the peak of his stud career a decade ago.-Reuters
The four-year-old, named Cartier Racehorse of the Year for the second successive year on Tuesday, will stand at owner Khalid Abdulla’s Banstead Manor stud, part of his Juddmonte Farms operation.
“The fee for Frankel reflects his merits as being perhaps the greatest racehorsewe have ever witnessed,” said Juddmonte Farms’s generalmanager Philip Mitchell. “He is by Galileo,who is nowrecognised as the best sire in the world, and out of Kind, a winner of six races (from five to seven furlongs) and herself a daughter of one of the most influential stallions in the history of thoroughbred breeding, Danehill.” Frankel, named after American trainer Bobby Frankelwho died three years ago, ended his career in perfect style at Ascot last month by winning the Champion Stakes.
The stud fee for Frankel is by no means the highest for a thoroughbred, American stallion Storm Cat commanding a $500,000 fee at the peak of his stud career a decade ago.-Reuters
