A limited number of Lifetime Breeding Rights are available to buy now at €10,000, entitling the breeder to send one mare every year from the 2017 season onwards.
Sam Bullard, Director of Stallions, said: “Fast Company is a stallion on the up. He could be a very valuable sire in the future, in the manner of an Iffraaj or Kodiac. We are selling Lifetime Breeding Rights – so popular with our CLUB stallions – because we want to give breeders the chance to join in the opportunity of helping to raise him to the next level. The price ensures that breeders will benefit - and we will too.”
Even before last weekend's racing, Fast Company had enjoyed a burgeoning reputation. His first-crop yearlings included a £210,000 colt at Doncaster and the €100,000 sales topper at the Goffs Sportsman’s sale. Those two horses – Baitha Alga and Devonshire – have both struck at G2 level: Baitha Alga won the G2 Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot while Devonshire was placed in last season's G1 Irish 1,000 Guineas behind Pleascach before winning her G2; she now has G1 targets in her four-year-old campaign.
Fast Company's second crop is continuing the good work. His highest price of 2014 was the £140,000 given by Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum for Taqdeer, now rated 112p by Timeform and Royal Ascot-bound. Fast Company's exceptional ratio of juvenile winners to runners in 2014-15 is continuing with his third crop in 2016 as he has already had four two-year-old winners, the latest being this week's Chantilly scorer Red Onion.
Fast Company, a son of Danehill Dancer, was himself a top-class two-year-old, and, with a Timeform rating of 126, he is rated the best ever juvenile at stud from the Danehill sire line. He won his first two starts, including the G3 Acomb Stakes, before running a close second to New Approach in an all-star running of the G1 Dewhurst Stakes: fellow Darley stallions Raven's Pass and Rio de la Plata were third and fourth, while Dark Angel was further back.
Fast Company's 2017 stud fee will be set later in the year.
For further information, please contact the Nominations team on +353 (0)45 527600 or +44 (0)1638 730070.
