Wootton Bassett
Bay200816.0½ hh (1.63 m)
Iffraaj - Balladonia
Distance won over: 6f. to 7f.
Fee for 2022: €150,000
Stands at Coolmore
Unbeaten French Champion 2YO & one of Europe's most exciting sires!
- His first crop numbering only 23 foals and conceived at a fee of just €6,000 included Champion 3YO ALMANZOR
- His current 5YO crop (also conceived at a fee of just €6,000) has yielded 12 Stakes winners
- His current 4YO crop includes Gr.1 winner INCARVILLE & Gr.2 winner CHINDIT
- His current 3YO crop includes Gr.1 winner ZELLIE, Gr.2 winners ATOMIC JONES & ROYAL PATRONAGE etc.
"It's safe to say that Wootton Bassett's best days as a sire are ahead of him" John Boyce, Thoroughbred Stallion Guide
Yearlings in 2021 sold for ¥52,000,000, €500,000, €220,000, €210,000, $200,000, 200,000gns etc.
His top performers include…
- Almanzor - winner of the Gr.1 Irish Champion Stakes, Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club, Gr.1 Champion Stakes, Gr.2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano, Gr.3 Prix de Guiche & the Listed Grand Criterium de Bordeaux
- Wooded - winner of the Gr.1 Prix de l'Abbaye & Gr.3 Prix de Tour en Bessin
- Audarya - winner of the Gr.1 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf & Gr.1 Prix Jean Romanet for James Fanshawe. Runner-up in the Gr.1 Prince Of Wales's Stakes & Gr.1 Prix Jean Romanet
- Zellie - winner of the Gr.1 Prix Marcel Boussac for Andre Fabre
- Incarville - winner of the Gr.1 Prix Saint-Alary for David Smaga
- Chindit - winner of the Gr.2 Champagne Stakes, Gr.3 Greenham Stakes, Listed Doncaster Mile & Listed Pat Eddery Stakes. Third in the Gr.1 Lockinge Stakes
- Atomic Jones - winner of the Gr.2 Champions Juvenile Stakes for Ger Lyons
- Royal Patronage - winner of the Gr.2 Royal Lodge Stakes & Gr.3 Acomb Stakes for Mark Johnston. Runner-up in the Gr.2 Dante Stakes at York
- Speak Of The Devil - multiple Stakes winner in France & winner of the Gr.2 Distaff Turf Mile Stakes at Churchill Downs
- Tamahere - winner of the Gr.2 Sands Point Stakes & Violet Stakes for Chad Brown
- The Black Album - winner of the Gr.3 Prix la Rochette, Jonathan B Schuster Memorial Stakes & Charlie Barley Stakes
- Wootton - winner of the Gr.3 Prix de Fontainebleau & Listed Prix Isonomy. Runner-up in the Gr.1 Jebel Hatta Stakes & third in the Gr.1 St James’s Palace Stakes
- The Summit - winner of the Gr.3 Prix de Fontainebleau, runner-up in the Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club & Gr.1 2,000 French Guineas
- Ilaraab - winner of the Gr.3 St Simon Stakes & Gr.3 Aston Park Stakes for William Haggas
- Topgear - winner of the Gr.3 Prix Eclipse for Fabrice Chappet
- Guildsman - winner of the Gr.3 Franklin-Simpson Stakes & Tom Ridge Stakes. Runner-up in the Gr.3 Round Tower Stakes & third in the Gr.2 Coventry Stakes
- Wootton Asset - winner of the Gr.3 Virginia Derby for Graham Motion
- Texas - winner of the Listed Grand Criterium du Languedoc, runner-up in the Gr.1 French 2,000 Guineas
Other stakes winners include Do Re Mi Fa Sol, Amilcar, Helter Skelter, Wootton’s Colt, Waltham, Dream Works, Hellenistique, Packing Waltham, Attagirl, Victoria Placa etc.