International sire sensation Zoustar tops Tweenhills 2022 roster at £25,000

Tweenhills has announced its roster for the 2022 breeding season, with dual hemisphere sensation Zoustar standing for an unchanged fee of £25,000, alongside 2,000 Guineas hero Kameko, proven sire Havana Gold and Sussex Stakes scorer Lightning Spear.

Zoustar, who stands for A$154,000 (approx £84,000/€98,000) in his native Australia and is responsible for 17 individual Group winners among 38 stakes performers, has had 16 yearlings sell for £100,000-plus in Europe.

Last year's 2,000 Guineas winner Kameko has had his fee trimmed to £20,000 from £25,000. The son of Kitten's Joy, who also won the Vertem Futurity Stakes at two, covered 120 mares in his first season, including the dams of top-level winners Defoe, Elm Park and Lucky Speed, as well as 40 stakes performers including dual Group 1 winner Con Te Partiro.

Having enjoyed an excellent year with his two-year-olds, Havana Gold has had his fee raised to £12,500 from £7,500.

The leading sire of two-year-olds in Britain this year and the sire of Group 1-winning sprinter and Whitsbury Manor Stud's promising Havana Grey, the son of Teofilo has sired 28 individual juvenile winners this term including Windsor Castle Stakes winner Chipotle – who recently sold for 210,000gns – and Listed winner Fearby.

The roster is completed by Lightning Spear, a champion older miler and Sussex Stakes winner whose first crop of yearlings have been well received at the sales.

Kameko: trimmed to £20,000 for 2022Credit: Pool (Getty Images)

Tweenhills’ owner David Redvers said: “We're extremely excited to welcome Zoustar back for his fourth northern hemisphere covering season. He continues to enhance his already heady reputation and it's a real coup for European breeders to have such an exceptional young sire standing here again in 2022.

"His first European yearlings received extremely high reviews and were bought by some of the very best trainers, breeze-up consignors and agents from around the world.

“Kameko covered an outstanding first book of mares and it was fantastic to see him supported by some of the very best breeders in Europe. He proved extremely fertile throughout the season and is by far the most fertile stallion we've had stand at Tweenhills."

He continued: “Havana Gold’s much anticipated 2019 crop certainly lived up to expectations, with 28 individual two-year-old winners; in fact, currently no sire in Britain has sired more two-year-old winners than him this year.

"Among those winners were Chipotle, who won the very first juvenile race of the year, the Brocklesby Stakes, the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot and was still winning stakes races in October.

“It was fantastic to see Lightning Spear’s first crop of yearlings so well received at the sales and, with his improved fertility, his fee of £5,000 offers tremendous value for those wanting to use this exceptionally talented, tough and durable son of the now-retired Pivotal.”

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