COOLMORE STUD announce JUSTIFY will stand in Australia for $77,000 in 2023

04 May 23

It was announced last week by Coolmore Stud that JUSTIFY will return to Australia for the 2023 season and today it was confirmed he will stand for $77,000 including GST in the Hunter Valley this season.

JUSTIFY - He was happy to here he is coming back to Australia in 2023.

It’s a backflip for Coolmore Stud, who chose not to shuttle him to Australia last season, sighting that he was “considered too valuable” in the Northern Hemisphere off the success of his first crop there to be risked shuttling back to Australia.

JUSTIFY at Stud

Justify stood his first season in 2019 at Coolmore at a fee listed as Private ($77,000), his 2020 second season at $66,000 and his 2021 third season at $55,000. He didn’t travel here last season and jumps back up to $77,000 for 2023.

Thoughts quickly changed about JUSTIFY returning when the sire proved himself as the Best First Crop Sire in Australia this season.

Australia’s current leading first crop sire by Earnings and Winners:Runners Strike Rate produced his fourth winner from only ten starters with a smart debut victory from the Ciaron Maher & David Eustace-trained Scentify at Warrnambool on Wednesday.

In addition, he has sired another two Saturday metropolitan runner’s-up, plus a provincial runner-up. He also has an unplaced runner who was fourth at Warwick Farm. That’s 8 of his 10 starters have weighted-in.

His two who haven’t yet troubled the record keeper, both have started once when unplaced in Stakes Races.

Whilst 6 of his 10 runners to date have competed in black-type races.

Unlike some of the high-profile peer group sires with big foal crops. JUSTIFY only had 96 live foals from his first crop and so far, only 10 have graced the racetrack. So, there are will be a flood of well-bred 2yo’s to hit the racetrack over the coming months.

Justify’s exploits this season are highlighted by Annabel Neasham’s Group 2 winner Learning To Fly, one of the most talented 2YOs in the country, as well as Peter Moody’s unbeaten stakes-winning filly Legacies who indicated Group 1 ability when winning the Anzac Day Stakes by almost 5 lengths.

Coolmore Australia’s Colm Santry stated that: “due to popular demand we look forward to welcoming Justify back to Australia this season at a fee that we believe represents great value for breeders. All the leading breeders throughout the country want to use him and he will cover a select book of mares. He currently sits on top of the first season sires table by a significant margin and he looks set to be the first shuttle stallion to be crowned Champion First Crop Sire, since More Than Ready (2004-2005 in 19 years).”

Santry continued, “High-class, Danehill-free stallions are few and far between in Australia and it is particularly encouraging that Justify has already proven to be extremely effective with Danehill blood. The indication from trainers is that everything that they are doing as 2YOs is a bonus, so we expect that this is only the tip of the iceberg for him which is very exciting.”

Breeders that use Justify this season look set to capitalise on the unbelievable quality of mares that he has covered.

Santry observed, “His second crop yearlings sold for $1,400,000, $750,000, $700,000, $700,000 etc. and they were out of Sunlight, Invincibella, Nakeeta Jane and Champagne Cuddles, so there is no shortage of quality stock coming through.”

Dynamic Syndications have a magnificent JUSTIFY x ORONTES (Redoute's Choice) Chestnut Colt being trained by CIARON MAHER & DAVID EUSTACE.

Our Yearling

Our Colt is one of only 21 Yearlings by the Sire to be sold at the yearling sales this year.

To find out more about our Colt, visit his webpages at:
https://www.dynamicsyndications.com/horse-syndication/JUSTIFY-ex-ORONTES-Yearling-Colt-with-CIARON-MAHER-RACING.aspx