The breeding fee of Sea The Moon will be reduced for the coming year. We received a corresponding message from the Görlsdorf stud farm.
“While the owners of Sea The Stars are adding heavily to the breeding fee for 2025, they are paying Sea The Moonby far his most successful son as a breeding stallion, went the other way. Next year, the highly superior German Derby winner from 2014 will also cover the English mecca of Newmarket, at Kirsten Rausing’s Lanwades Stud.
Sea The Moon’s breeder Heike Bischoff-Lafrentz from Gestüt Görlsdorf: “We will offer him for a reduced breeding fee of 22,500 pounds.” She explains: “Last year too Sea The Moon many mares from Germany. For local breeders, however, the costs of transport, stay, papers and veterinarians have increased enormously due to Brexit. We want to compensate for this next season with the breeding fee.”
In fact: More than a third of his expected foals in 2025, namely 35, will be German “Moonies”. Heike Bischoff-Lafrentz: “We are grateful to Kirsten Rausing and the other co-owners for taking this path with us.”
And husband Niko Lafrentz adds: “And that against the background that 2024 is for Sea The Moon will be another record year. As of today he has 83 winners in Europe who have earned over 2.6 million euros with their 125 victories. In each case more than in all previous years. And then there are the eleven two-year-old winners, with the four Blacktype horses led by the unbeaten Instant Fragile from France.”
And in Germany: If his son and audience favorite Assistant performs well in the Grand Allianz Prize of Bavaria, Gr.I, defending his title as champion stud stallion is within reach. Not to mention Fantastic Moon im Japan Cup…“
