Frankel will once again lead the Juddmonte roster at £350,000 while new addition Lead Artist, a Group 1 winner in the Lockinge Stakes, will stand for £12,500 in 2026. Frankel added 24 individual stakes winners to his record in 2025, 13 of them at Group level. He has now sired an extraordinary 40 individual Group 1 winners and stands as the most successful active sire of Northern Hemisphere Classic winners, with 12 to his name, including 2025 Irish 1,000 Guineas heroine Lake Victoria and dual-Classic winner Minnie Hauk. His success also continues in the sales ring, where for the third year in a row he topped the Tattersalls October Book 1 sires list both by aggregate and by average. Meanwhile, Lead Artist is by a world-class stallion in Dubawi and hails from one of Juddmonte's most storied families, the dynasty of the iconic blue hen mare Hasili. Hasili herself produced five individual Group 1 winners as well as the influential sire Dansili, and her descendants have now accounted for no fewer than 59 Group 1 performances. Speaking about Juddmonte's new addition to the roster at Banstead Manor Stud, Simon Mockridge commented, “Lead Artist represents a fantastic opportunity to further strengthen our stallion roster. He combines pedigree and performance with an outstanding physical, possessing great balance, strength, and movement, all attributes which will appeal to the commercial breeder.” Chaldean covered 323 mares in his first two books, covering more Group winners, stakes winners, and black-type performers than any other first-season sire in Britain or Ireland in his debut year. He maintained that momentum in 2025 with another exceptional book, including 14 Group winners, 28 stakes winners, and 52 black-type performers. Chaldean will stand his third season at a fee of £20,000. Kingman continued to assert his status among the elite, siring 20 individual stakes winners in 2025, including nine Group winners. He became the second-fastest stallion ever to reach 100 individual Northern Hemisphere-bred stakes winners, behind only Frankel, and ahead of Deep Impact, Dubawi and Galileo. His son Field Of Gold reigned supreme in the Irish 2,000 Guineas and St James's Palace Stakes, taking Kingman's tally to 14 Group 1 winners, and five individual Classic winners. Kingman's fee is unchanged at £125,000. Oasis Dream, a stalwart of the Juddmonte roster, will stand for £15,000 while Bated Breath's fee has been reduced to £5,000. The post Frankel Heads Juddmonte Roster At 350k – New Addition Lead Artist To Stand For 12.5k appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

yep. I always enjoy international competition (in any sport really) and we just get a few chances to enjoy it with harness racing as too far away America and Europe.    Blair still looks a chance. trotter 'Sand Fly' was disappointing and the other trotting one 'Switch On' of Jones in race 5 could barely trot. it looked terrible in it's action and gave him a poor drive.  NevertheLess Blair still in 4th spot . with 5 races to run. an outside chance he could still win  POINTS UPDATE   J MacDonald (Canada) 130 pts ,  Gary Hall Jnr (Aus) 121,  Mats Djuse (Sweden) 111  and Blair 4th on 107.   The other 6 drivers are all still under 100 points and seemingly out of contention.

i see at auckland the reason d butcher sacrificed his own drive to assist his stablemate was because  his stablemate got a penalty free win if it won.

the final heat another ripper of a race.Some of the most competitive race driving we have seen in nz for quite a while. mats djuse seems to have been the dark horse and has slipped into 3rd and pushed orange back a place. he has a couple of handy drives coming up so you just never know. Hall keeps nipping at the heels of mcdonald. so iit will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

i'm really enjoying watching these drivers champs as each driver does whats best to get the best possible placing. Punters certainly can't say they haven't got a run for their money with any of them. perhaps one or two have driven beyond the recent form of their horses,but then again some of the drivers have gotten more out of their drives than we normally see by driving them to win. actually as i type this i watched the auckland race and it looked pretty obvious d butcher sacrificed any chance he had to assist his stablemate to get the win.. Good to see that his stablemate didn't win. It defintely was not a good look when you have driving like that. But thats what happens up there more than it ever should and why people like myself say the north island product simply is not as appealing for punters.

had a 2nd placing at Kaikoura in this Championship already , so hope Gary can get the old boy home this time.  He's 20-1 odd too. so well worth a run in a Quinella or trifecta as well. Blair Orange is on the favoured 'Sand Fly Bay' so lets go for a Down-Under Quinella 👍💰

that is amazing achievement by Blair. wins Heat 11 and the commentator said that was 3000 career wins . excellent stuff indeed. he drives all over the place in Big fields sometimes. congrats to him on a fine innings so far !  🏆 my fav Aus driver , who might be at Addington tuesday with Gus in the Dominion, has about 3400 winners and is only 34 years old , so will end up with a huge total ultimately. Pete Mcmullen drives fast Metro class winners that he trains nearly every week but are standard one mile and 2100m races  so a bit 'formulaic' . should of popped him on Don't Stop Dreaming and he would of really 'Livened Up' the Cup on Tuesday  🤣  (hope SamO does ok though )

There’s no bigger race day in this country than IRT New Zealand Trotting Cup day at Addington. And to provide you with all the information you need, including previews, selections and backgrounders, we have produced a special Cup day Liftout To see the Liftout click here  View the full article

The fields are now complete for the two $500,000 slot races at Addington Raceway on Show Day (November 14). Always Dreaming, a seven-race winner for Nathan Williamson, will fill the slot taken by Arna Donnelly Racing in the Hill, Lee and Scott THE VELOCITY. He is the 10th and final horse to be confirmed. The two emergencies for the races will be : Berrettini (THE VELOCITY) and Illicit Love (THE ASCENT).             View the full article