Airdrie Stud's 2025 stallion roster will be headlined by four young stallions all being offered for a fee of $25,000.
Breakout freshman sire Complexity , already with three stakes winners—including two graded winners—and five stakes horses from his first crop of 2-year-olds, joins 2023 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mage and popular emerging stallions Girvin and Upstart atop Airdrie's advertised fees.
Coming off of an initial season at stud in which he bred a full book of 171 mares, Mage enters his second season with a pedigree further bolstered by the exploits of his Belmont Stakes (G1)-winning full brother, Dornoch , who became the second classic winner in as many years for their leading young sire Good Magic and Broodmare of the Year-elect Puca.
Grade 1 sires Upstart and Girvin, both with a history of dramatically improving their mares and registering lifetime stakes winners to named foals of more than 8%, are well positioned for further success as their best-bred crops reach the track in 2025 and 2026, respectively.
Rounding out Airdrie's list of proven stallions are Cairo Prince , already the sire of 10 individual stakes winners in 2024, and Collected , whose 15 stakes winners from his first three crops to race trails only Justify and Good Magic from their banner third-crop stallion class. Collected stands to be represented by two graded stakes-winning juveniles at the upcoming Breeders' Cup World Championships in Thought Process and Iron Man Cal.
From those stallions yet to have runners, Beau Liam made a splash with his first crop of yearlings this sales season, achieving the highest return on investment of any first-year sire. Highly Motivated , a two-time track record setter who now boasts one of the hottest female families in America through his grade 1-winning siblings Ways and Means and Surge Capacity, and Happy Saver , winner of the 2020 Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes (G1) as an undefeated 3-year-old, look poised to impress with their first weanlings to auction this November.
"Our stallion roster is a tremendous point of pride for our team at Airdrie," said the farm's Bret Jones. "We've been fortunate to have had a very strong year on the track in 2024 and we really believe we've laid the foundation for some very special seasons ahead. It is a young roster that, in our opinion, has a very high ceiling.
"We also take great pride in our ability to give our breeders a genuine opportunity to be profitable with their matings, as our stallions punch well above their stud fees in their abilities to produce stakes winners and return value in the sales ring. As always, we will be breeding the overwhelming majority of our own mares to our stallions as we will never ask a breeder to support a stallion that we're unwilling to support ourselves.
"We will also limit our book sizes so as to give our fellow commercial breeders what we believe is their best opportunity to sell and sell well. We look forward to continuing the momentum we've been able to build with our stallions and to working with the wonderful and loyal breeders that have paved the way for their success."
| Airdrie Stud’s 2025 Stud Fees | ||
| Stallion | 2025 fee | 2024 fee |
| Complexity | $25,000 | $12,500 |
| Girvin | $25,000 | $30,000 |
| Mage | $25,000 | $25,000 |
| Upstart | $25,000 | $30,000 |
| Cairo Prince | $15,000 | $15,000 |
| Collected | $10,000 | $10,000 |
| Happy Saver | $7,500 | $10,000 |
| Highly Motivated | $7,500 | $7,500 |
| Beau Liam | $6,000 | $6,000 |
| Divisidero | $5,000 | $5,000 |
