Service Fee 2025 $20,000.00 +GST
By Redoute’s Choice, from Miss Argyle (by Iglesia)
16.1 hh | 2014 | Bay
At Waikato Stud we are very excited about the introduction of one of the Stud’s newest acquisitions because of the diversity, balance, and class he brings to the stallion roster. Ardrossan represents a precocious element both in performance and through a strong paternal and maternal pedigree and brings an opportunity to breed to the most successful sire of sires’ line in decades in Australasia via Redoute’s Choice.
2025 Service Fee: $20,000 +GST
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- Description
Description
ARDROSSAN (AUS) (Bay 2014-Stud 2019). 4 wins-2 at 2, ARC Concorde H., Gr.3. Sire of 41 rnrs, 18 wnrs, inc. SW Codigo (WRC Wellesley S., L), Beau Dazzler, Loch Katrine, Saltcoats, SP Yaldi, Renovations, Rezeki and of Sindee, Sky Heart, Nikaia, Cannon Hill, Pure Alpha, Sako, Maracatu, Jazzclub, Ardee Boy, China Pearl, Pacifico, Touchofclass and of the placegetters Rhythm ‘n’ Spice, Carajillo, Saluto, etc.
Ardrossan expressed his high level of ability only fleetingly during an abbreviated nine-start career, but good judges rated him a potential Group 1 performer of the very highest order. Unbeaten in two New Zealand starts at two years, and winning by 3.5 lengths at his second start in a Listed 1100 metre event; he was sent to Melbourne where he defeated Group 1 winner Shoals in a trial before suffering a heart strain.
Fully recovered six months hence, he easily won first-up at home before the ARC G3 Concorde in which he defeated the G1 2000 Guineas-placed Ever Loyal. Next start he was only a head and nose behind the ten-time Group 1 winner Melody Belle and triple Group 1 winner Bostonian in the G1 BCD Group Sprint (1400m) at Te Rapa.
Ardrossan raced only once more. It was on an unsuitable heavy track at Rosehill in which he finished a close third in the G3 Star Kingdom Stakes – he sustained an injury which brought on early retirement.
The strength of the Danehill blood through Redoute’s Choice remains supremely dominant with 10 of his sons at stud, led by Champion Sire Snitzel having sired 13 Group 1 winners. Others include Not a Single Doubt and Stratum II.
As well as an acclaimed sire of sires, Redoute’s Choice internationally has 60 Group 1 wins and 366 Group and Listed events to his credit. In Australia, he has sired 38 individual Group 1 winners and 144 stakes winners. His second crop son Snitzel emulated his own sire when he took out his third consecutive Champion Sire of Australia title in 2018/19.
Breeders looking for early speed will also be encouraged by Ardrossan’s dam Miss Argyle, by Iglesia, who was second in the Gimcrack Stakes (1000m) at Randwick – the first fillies’ stakes race of the two-year-old season.
Ardrossan was purchased as a yearling in Melbourne by outstanding judge Bruce Perry who describes him as, ‘a beautifully balanced and athletic individual; a very good mover with good bone and exuding quality and presence.’
Ardrossan’s first crop of two-year-olds stepped out with immediate impact in the 2022-23 season. The first was Codigo, with a speedy and precocious turn of foot, who was a winner on debut and then took out the Listed Wellesley Stakes. Loch Katrine followed suit with a courageous win in the Listed Champagne Stakes on just her third start. Ardrossan’s third stakes winner came as Saltcoats bolted home in the Listed Futurity Stakes at Pukekohe. His fourth individual stakes winner from his first two crops came when Beau Dazzler scored the Listed Phelan Ready Stakes on his second start as a pre-Christmas two-year-old at Eagle Farm, capping a promising start for our young sire.
Ardrossan’s second crop of yearlings went down incredibly well at the sales, averaging over 33 times his 2020 service fee, with his top colt making A$260,000 at the Inglis Classic Sale.
