American Pharoah headed back to Australia for breeding season

Triple Crown winner American Pharoah will again shuttle to stand the Southern Hemisphere breeding season at Coolmore’s Australia farm, the international operation confirmed as it released the stud fees for that roster on Thursday night.

American Pharoah is in his third Northern Hemisphere season at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky and will be standing his second Australian season after not shuttling in his first year. He will stand for an advertised fee of 66,000 Australian dollars ($51,245), the same amount as last year, when he had a full book in Australia, Coolmore said.

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Two other young Ashford stallions, Air Force Blue (16,500 Australian dollars) and Vancouver (49,500), will shuttle with American Pharoah. The three will enter mandatory pre-export quarantine at Ashford’s on-site facility in late June before making the trip for the Southern Hemisphere season, which begins in September. They will return to Kentucky in December.

Coolmore’s Australian roster is anchored by perennial leading sire Fastnet Rock (private fee) and young champion and classic sire Pierro (88,000).

The Coolmore Australia roster, with Australian fees, is rounded out by Merchant Navy, a son of Fastnet Rock, at 55,000; Pride of Dubai and So You Think at 44,000; newcomers Caravaggio at 33,000 and Churchill at 27,500; Choisir at 29,700; No Nay Never at 19,250; Rubick at 17,600; and Adelaide and Starspangledbanner at 11,000.