Service fee set for Your Song

Sunday 9 June 2013, 5:19pm

A service fee of $22,000 has been set for Your Song, the third high profile colt from this year's crop of three-year-olds heading to stud in the spring.

The winner of last month's BTC Cup, Your Song was unplaced in his final race in Saturday's Stradbroke Handicap and will stand at Widden Stud.

He is one of a stellar group of eight three-year-olds who have won 11 open age Group One races this season.

Pierro will be the most expensive with a service fee of $77,000 at Coolmore while Black Caviar's half brother All Too Hard is also among the higher-priced stallions at $66,000 for Vinery.

The day after his BTC Cup win, it was announced the Anthony Cummings-trained Your Song would be lost to racing next season.

The son of Fastnet Rock will be transported to the Hunter Valley this week to prepare for his new career.

"Your Song's performance to blow away a genuine weight-for-age field in the Group One BTC Cup will live in my mind for a long time and that combined with his pedigree and unbelievable good looks has him already proving popular amongst breeders," Widden's Antony Thompson said.

"He is the most magnificent type you are likely to see and I can't wait to show him to breeders."

Your Song, by Fastnet Rock out of Fuji Kiseki mare Zembu, was raced by Goree and joins another of Eduardo Cojuangco's homebreds, Northern Meteor, at Widden.

All Too Hard heads the three-year-old stars with three weight-for-age wins in the Orr Stakes, Futurity and All Aged Stakes.

Pierro, winner of the two-year-old Triple Crown last year, came back to win the Canterbury Stakes and the George Ryder.

Doncaster Mile winner Sacred Falls and Doomben 10,000 winner Epaulette are expected to be kept in training as four-year-olds along with geldings Super Cool (Australian Cup) and Fiveandahalfstar (BMW).

Newmarket Handicap winner Shamexpress will compete at Royal Ascot later this month and, all going well, will remain in England for one or two more races with no plans to send him to stud in the spring.

– AAP

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