Quality Road takes another price jump in 2020; will stand for $200,000

Quality Road, a rising star in the stallion ranks for Lane’s End Farm over the last several years, will again see his stud fee spike in 2020, with his advertised fee of $200,000 placing him among the most expensive sires in North America.

Quality Road, a multiple Grade 1 winner by Elusive Quality, stood for an advertised fee of $70,000 in 2018 – up from $35,000 the prior year – after a career season in which he was represented by champions Abel Tasman and Caledonia Road.

Abel Tasman was a multiple Grade 1 winner again in 2018, and was joined on the track by City of Light, who won the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, and Quality Road’s fee more than doubled to $150,000 for this season. City of Light won January’s Pegasus World Cup Invitational in his career finale, but Quality Road has still been represented by Grade 1 winners Bellafina, Dunbar Road, and Roadster this season to continue to boost his stock, and his fee.

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Quality Road, who currently is third on the general sires list by earnings, is just the fourth stallion in North America to have an announced advertised fee of $200,000 or more for 2020.

War Front continues to reign as the most expensive stallion on the continent, with an unchanged fee of $250,000 at Claiborne Farm. Darley’s Medaglia d’Oro and Gainesway’s Tapit will both stand for $200,000. Gainesway recently announced that the fee for perennial leading sire Tapit, currently second on the sire list, would drop to that level from $225,000.

Stalwart Lane's End sire Candy Ride is also in the six-figure club, standing for an advertised fee of $100,000, up from $80,000, in 2020. The Lane's End roster will also include Union Rags at $60,000; City of Light and Twirling Candy at $40,000; Liam's Map and West Coast at $35,000; Honor Code at $30,000; Accelerate, Connect, Lemon Drop Kid, Mineshaft, and Noble Mission at $20,000; The Factor at $17,500; Tonalist at $15,000; and Mr Speaker and Unified at $10,000.

A fee for incoming stallion Catalina Cruiser will be announced after the Breeders' Cup.