Super stats that will turn heads

With three Group 1 winners across his first two crops – ranging from La Dorada’s (ex Gold Fever) explosive 1200m win as a two-year-old, to Feroce in the Australian Guineas and Linebacker in the Randwick Guineas over 1600m, and all within the space of a month – Super Seth is shaping up to ignite the breeding world.

With the yearling sales well and truly complete and mating plans and breeding stock sales in full swing, we took a closer look at key metrics.

The numbers tell a compelling story of a young sire on a sharp upward trajectory, already competing alongside some of the world’s best. Astute breeders won’t need convincing – Super Seth’s results are speaking loudly.

Extreme Choice will stand this season at A$300,000 (ex GST), equivalent to NZ$359,065. Meanwhile, northern hemisphere heavyweights Frankel and Dubawi each command £350,000 (A$725,130). Why have we highlighted this? Because Super Seth stands at much less, converted to Australian dollars his $75,000 (ex GST) fee comes in at A$68,970, yet his Group 1 winners-to-runners is the highest of them all – great value.

While we’re dissecting the numbers, a look into the New Zealand and Australian Second-Season Sires’ Premiership too brought up some interesting observations.

In New Zealand, Super Seth leads the NZ Second Season Sires’ Premiership with progeny earnings of $1,798,570 – the only second-season sire to have surpassed the million-dollar mark this season. He was crowned NZ Champion First Season Sire last season too.

In Australia, Super Seth has remained in fifth position on the Australian Second Season Sires’ Premiership with $3,564,970 in earnings accumulated from 25 individual winners and the smallest number of runners (46) to those above him, a story told by the winners to runners’ metric of each second-season sire.

Source: Breednet 16/05/2025

“An unbelievable stallion. I don’t feel as though we have had a stallion start like this in New Zealand for a long time. Three Group 1 winners across two countries in a month is freakish, and he keeps backing up with Trans-Tasman winners every single week,” said Mark Chittick upon the Waikato Stud fee announcement.

Super Seth: a Group 1-winning, multiple Group 1-producing sire with a shareholder group backing him and everything ahead of him.

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