Rosemont Stud

In Australasian stallion news, Swettenham Stud and Waikato Stud revealed their 2025 rosters and fees on Wednesday, while Group 1 winner Schwarz (Aus) will stand at Rosemont Stud after his run in the upcoming G1 Doomben 10,000. Leading Swettenham's roster is former shuttle stallion and now permanent Southern Hemisphere resident Toronado (Ire), who will stand for an unchanged fee of A$88,000 this season. The leading active sire based in Victoria, the son of High Chaparral (Ire) was one of only two Australian stallions ranked among the world's top five sires...

By Dane McLeod/Kristen Manning/TTR AusNZ The 2025 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale saw fireworks on day one, with two standout colts reaching the coveted A$1 million mark, igniting excitement at Oaklands Junction as they become only the fourth and the fifth horses to reach that significant mark at this particular sale. Lot 201 - Frankel (GB) x Heavenly Curlin (Curlin) (colt) - A$1,000,000 American John Stewart, under his banner of Resolute Bloodstock, joined forces with the McEvoy Mitchell Racing and Belmont Bloodstock (FBAA) team to make a significant impact on day...

By Renee Geelen/TTR AusNZ With the decision by Godolphin to stop shuttling up-and-coming sire sensation Too Darn Hot (GB), Australian breeders will have an opportunity to breed to a stallion with a very similar profile in Henry Longfellow (Ire), who joins the Rosemont Stud roster for 2025 at a fee of A$22,000 inc. GST. After Too Darn Hot, Henry Longfellow is only the second Group 1-winning two-year-old son of Dubawi (Ire) to ever stand in Australia. Too Darn Hot won all his four starts at two, including the G1 Dewhurst...

Newly crowned Australian champion first-season sire Too Darn Hot (GB) may not be shuttling to Australia this year but he will still be covering a number of mares to southern hemisphere time in Newmarket. Those to be visiting the son of Dubawi (Ire) at Darley's Dalham Hall Stud include a sextet from Anthony Mithen and Ryan McEvoy's Rosemont Stud in Victoria. "We are actually sending more mares to him than we would've had he shuttled," said Mithen. Three of that group, who are all currently in foal to the Aga...

A weanling filly by Frankel (GB) (lot 7) topped the first day of the Inglis Great Southern Sale when selling to New Zealander Gary Harding for A$525,000 on Thursday. The only offspring by the Juddmonte star in the entire sale, the bay is out of GIII Chicago S. heroine Abby Hatcher (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}), who is a half-sister to a stakes winner in Purciaretta (Ire) (Cotai Glory {GB}). The third-most expensive weanling sold in Australia this year, she was consigned by Rosemont Stud. Harding bid over the phone to Inglis...

Juddmonte's dual listed-placed Maximal (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), out of their undefeated superstar Frankel (GB) (Galileo {Ire})'s half-sister Joyeuse (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), will continue his racing career in Australia, after a deal was reached between the late Prince Khalid's operation and Rosemont Stud, the Victorian-based stud announced on Tuesday. The deal marks the first time Juddmonte have ever entered into an Australian partnership on a stallion prospect. "Myself, John [O'Shea] and his assistant trainer Tom Charlton have a spent a great deal of time analysing Maximal, his form, profile and...