Deep Impact to remain as world's most expensive advertised sire

Deep Impact will remain as the world's most expensive advertised sire after Shadai Stallion Station confirmed he will stand a second season at a fee of ¥40 million (£276,000/€312,000) next spring.

His son Real Steel - winner of the 2016 Dubai Turf - will stand alongside him in his first season at stud, and will be offered to breeders at a much more affordable ¥2m (£13,800/€15,500).

The same fee will be commanded by Mind Your Biscuits, a dual winner of the Dubai Golden Shaheen sprint who also retires to Shadai in 2019.

After Deep Impact, the next most expensive Shadai stallion is Lord Kanaloa, whose fee almost doubles from ¥8m to ¥15m (£104,000/€117,000) after his first-crop daughter Almond Eye landed the Japanese Fillies' Triple Crown this year.

His first-crop son Stelvio, meanwhile, won the Grade 1 Mile Championship at Kyoto on Sunday.

Lord Kanaloa's sire King Kamehameha remains as private. Among his leading performers are Let's Go Donki, Mikki Rocket and Rey De Oro.

Heart's Cry - who shares his sire Sunday Silence with Deep Impact - stays put at a fee of ¥8m (£55,300/€62,500). His four-year-old daughter Lys Gracieux won the Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Kyoto earlier this month, while his son of the same age Yoshida landed a pair of Grade 1s in the US this season.

Harbinger, who posted an astonishing Racing Post Rating of 135 when routing the field to win the 2010 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes, saw his stud career given a major boost when Deirdre, Mozu Katchan and Persian Knight all struck in elite company at the end of last season.

The price for the son of Dansili has subsequently risen from ¥3.5m to ¥6m (£41,500/€47,000).

Another of European interest is dual Arc runner-up Orfevre, who sired this year's Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2,000 Guineas) hero Epoca D'Oro, and he will serve mares at a fee of ¥4m (£27,700/€31,200).

Shadai Stallion Station 2019 fees

Name, sire, fee

Daiwa Major Sunday Silence ¥5m
Deep Impact Sunday Silence ¥40m
Duramente King Kamehameha ¥6m
Epiphaneia Symboli Kris S ¥2.5m
Harbinger Dansili ¥6m
Heart's Cry Sunday Silence ¥8m
Isla Bonita Fuji Kiseki ¥1.5m
Just A Way Heart's Cry ¥4m
King Kamehameha Kingmambo Private
Kitasan Black Black Tide ¥4m
Kizuna Deep Impact ¥3.5m
Kurofune French Deputy ¥2m
Lord Kanaloa King Kamehameha ¥15m
Maurice Screen Hero ¥4m
Mind Your Biscuits* Posse ¥2m
Orfevre Stay Gold ¥4m
Real Steel* Deep Impact ¥2m
Rulership King Kamehameha ¥4m

*new for 2019

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