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US Triple Crown winner to stand for $77,000 this season
A day after Scentify provided Justify with his fourth individual winner from his first Australian crop, Coolmore announced the US Triple Crown's fee for his return Southern Hemisphere season.
The son of Scat Daddy will stand for $77,000, including GST.
Justify did not shuttle to Australia last year, having stood at Coolmore's Jerry's Plains property from 2019-21, but the deeds of his two-year-olds this season had Coolmore excited to bring him back.
Learning To Fly has been his banner juvenile, winning the Group 2 Reisling Stakes, Group 3 Widden Stakes and $2 million Inglis Millennium, while Legacies last Saturday cruised home by 4-1/2 lengths in the Listed Anzac Day Stakes.
Scentify got his career off the perfect start with a nose victory in the two-year-old handicap that kicked off Wednesday's Warrnambool program.
"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," Coolmore's sales and nominations manager Colm Santry said.
"All the leading breeders throughout the country want to use him and he will cover a select book of mares.
"Coolmore's confidence in Justify has been well documented and it hasn't taken long for his progeny in Australia to hit the ground running, just like they did in the Northern Hemisphere.
"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."
Justify is a runaway leader in the race for Champion First Season Sire honours with his progeny having amassed $1,765,625, which affords him a lead of more than $800,000 over Dark Angel.
