Kameko Back to £20,000 After Success With First Runners

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Kameko has had his fee raised to £20,000 for the 2025 season following a promising season for his first two-year-old runners.

The Qipco 2,000 Guineas winner stands alone among this year's first-season sires in being the only member of that class to date to have sired a Group/Grade 1 winner. Kameko's breakthrough came with the win of New Century (GB) in the GI Summer Stakes at Woodbine. The Qatar Racing colt went on to finish fourth in Friday's G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf for Andrew Balding.

Kameko is also the sire of the G2 Royal Lodge Stakes winner Wimbledon Hawkeye (GB), who, with a mark of 114 is the highest-rated juvenile among the offspring of the freshman sires. He has also been placed in the G1 Futurity Trophy, G2 Superlative and G3 Acomb Stakes.

A son of the late leading American turf sire Kitten's Joy, Kameko started his stud career at Tweenhills at a fee of £25,000, which was reduced to £20,000 then £15,000 in subsequent seasons.

His stud-mate and fellow Group 1 winner at Tweenhills, Lightning Spear (GB), remains at a fee of £5,000.

Tweenhills is set to continue its 'Your Success = Our Success' scheme in 2025, whereby any breeder who produces a stakes winner by a Qatar Racing-owned stallion at the stud will be offered a credit for use with any Qatar Racing-owned stallion in the following year to the value of the nomination paid.

 

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