Juddmonte Farms will hold the stud fee for its second-year sire and two-time Eclipse champion Elite Power steady at $50,000 for the 2025 breeding season, the farm announced Oct. 22.
Elite Power, a 6-year-old son of Curlin , bred 203 mares this year and attracted a book with the second-highest Comparable Index and Class Performance Index among the entering sires of 2024. Both indices are based on earnings such as the Average Earnings Index, but the CI indicates the collective quality of the mares as producers, while the CPI indicates how talented the mares were as runners. Elite Power's first book has a robust CI of 2.46 and 3.30 CPI. Only two other sires in the class have CIs above 2.00 and CPIs above 3.00, they are Forte and Cody's Wish .
Elite Power is a three-time grade 1 winner who won consecutive editions of the Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) in 2022-23 and was honored as champion male sprinter for both of those years. In 2023, he won four of five graded stakes starts and just missed a perfect record that year with a second in the Forego Stakes (G1). He earned the fastest Ragozin sheet figure for 2023 at 0". Elite Power retired with a 9-1-1 record from 13 starts and earned $3,775,711.
Alpha Delta Stables bred Elite Power out of the multiple graded stakes winner Broadway's Alibi, who was also second in the Kentucky Oaks (G1). The mare is out of stakes winner Broadway Gold (Seeking the Gold), who is a half sister to Florida Derby (G1) winner and successful sire Dialed In .
Juddmonte also announced it will set the fee for multiple grade 1 winner Mandaloun at $15,000 for next year. The 6-year-old son of multiple leading sire Into Mischief stood for $20,000 this year.
Mandaloun sired just over 100 foals in his first crop that arrived in 2024 and bred a solid book of 144 mares.
As a racehorse, Mandaloun won four graded stakes as a Juddmonte homebred with trainer Brad Cox. While disqualifications delivered his two grade 1 wins in the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Haskell Stakes (G1), he was only half a length behind Medina Spirit in the Derby and just missed by a nose at the wire to Hot Rod Charlie in the Haskell. He compiled a 7-0-1 record from 12 starts and earned $3,356,052.
Mandaloun is out of multiple group winner Brooch (Empire Maker), who is out of stakes winner and multiple stakes producer Daring Diva (Dansili).
"We were very pleased with Elite Power's first book of mares. They really are a stellar group," said Garrett O'Rourke, general manager of Juddmonte USA. "Mandaloun, who will have his first foals offered for sale next month, appears to have some standouts here on the farm."
