2025 European Mating Plans: Peter Brant, Part II

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Earlier this week, Peter Brant shared mating plans his top American mares and a select few European mares with the TDN. But with the number of mares he's sending to European stallions, we thought it merited a part two. Here, Brant shares insights on more of top mares.

FIFTY FIVE, 11, Get Stormy-Soave, by Brahms; MORANDA (FR), 17, Indian Rocket (GB)-Spain, by Bering (GB) (dam of GIISW Speak of the Devil), QUIDURA (GB), 12, Dubawi (Ire)-Quetena (Ger), by Acatenango (Ger) (the GII Ballston Spa winner and GISP); THAIS (FR), 11, Rio de a Plata-Tianshan (Fr), by Lahint; AZAFATA (SPA), 16, Motivator (GB)-Anysheba, by Alysheba; SHELTER ISLAND (FR), 9, Le Havre (Ire)-Exit the Straight I(Ire), by Exit to Nowhere. All six will go to Paddington (GB).
By my analysis, he lost a month and a half at stud in his first year. He was given a vaccine required in Ireland when they go to stud. He was given the vaccine at the appropriate time, but somehow or another, it stayed with him. He wasn't allowed to go to stud until he cleared quarantine, and he didn't clear for a month and a half.  Once it was out of his system, he tested negative, but for the next 30 days his fertility was off, and then he came back and now he's normal. But in the very first group of mares he got, he got a small percentage into foal, and as the season went along, he started to stop his mares. He's at such a discount here at €25,000. He won four Group 1s at three in 63 days. He won some of the biggest races in Europe and he's super well-bred. He was supposed to go to stud at €55,000 and the word got out that he was not fertile. So in 2024, I sent mares to him that were a little later. I bred 10 mares to him to him and eight are in foal. I bred them late, and they shouldn't have all gotten in foal, so whatever was the problem early on had something to do with that shot. In New Zealand (this summer), he got 93 mares in foal, and he was only there for around two-and-a-half months. I thought that these mares suited him. Some of these will go to the States.

TOINETTE, 10, Scat Daddy-I Bet Toni Knows, by Sun River. To be bred to Siyouni (Fr)
Multiple graded stakes winner Toinette is going to Siyouni. I have a filly called Ultrafragola (Ire) out of Toinette who was a 'TDN Rising Star' in France. This mating is on that same cross, since she's by Sottsass (Fr), and he's by Siyouni.

UNAIDED (GB), 16, Dansili (GB)-Wosaita (GB), by Generous (Ire). To be bred to City of Troy.
Unaided, who is the dam of Uni (GB) (More Than Ready) (the 2019 U.S. Champion Turf Female),  is going to City of Troy. They're both grass horses, the nick is very good and they suit each other physically.

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