Dundeel – Looking Ahead
The 2024/25 season produced plenty of highlights for Dundeel as a sire, sire of sires and broodmare sire. And there's plenty more excitement to come! (PHOTO: Joan Faras)
During the 2024/25 season Dundeel boosted his career record to 66 stakes performers, 37 stakeswinners & 9 Group 1 winners; and he finished among Australia’s top 10 active sires of the season by prizemoney, stakeswinners, winners & Group-winning fillies.
Here’s what’s happening next:
Major talent returns
- Group 1 winner Femminile stays in training for new owner Yulong and new trainer Chris Waller. So do Group winners Red Aces (Nick Ryan), Litzdeel (Danny O’Brien) & Jasmin Rouge (Clinton McDonald); Group 1-placed Polymnia (John O’Shea & Tom Charlton); and promising Sydney & Melbourne winners Idle Flyer (Matthew Smith), Ella Hazel (Richard Litt), and Deal N’ Dash & Stardeel (Bjorn Baker).
Emerging talent
- One to watch this season is the Anthony & Sam Freedman-trained Sirius Legend, the half-brother to Hong Kong Derby winner Cap Ferrat.
- Joining him in the same stable is Is It Spectacular, an impressive Warwick Farm maiden winner before stepping into the Champagne Stakes. He might be a Spring Champion colt.
- We’re also looking forward to the return of Epimeles, a stakeswinner at two for the Busuttin & Young team.
Superbly-bred fresh talent arrives
- Dundeel has more than 280 foals in his 2022, 2023 & 2024 crops – that is, his just-turned 3YOs, 2YOs & yearlings. Conceived on fees of $66,000 & $82,500, they come from books comprising 61% elite mares – giving Dundeel abundant firepower for the seasons ahead.
- His current 2YOs include the presciently named Great Times Ahead (ex Winx’s half-sister Courchevel, by Snitzel), Titan Punch (full brother of Super Seth), Putcee (full brother of multiple GW Hope In Your Heart), Barossa (ex multiple GW White Moss) & Formaggio (ex dual GW Asiago), plus siblings of triple G1 winner Militarize, G1 winner Linebacker, GW Amalfi Prince, She’s Ideel & The Elanora and Listed winners Bend The Knee, Dashing Legend & Wayupinthesky.
Major yearling buyers will see plenty of his progeny
Dundeel will maintain his presence at Australasia’s leading 2026 yearling sales with a quality 2024 crop that includes:
- Fillies out of G1 winners Gust Of Wind, Secret Admirer & Stay With Me; multiple GW Arabian Gold, Don’t Doubt Mamma, Four Moves Ahead; GW Miravalle, Miss Admiration & Princess Of Queens.
- Colts out of dual G1 winner English, multiple GW Fiesta, Irithea & Super Cash; GW Noire; SW Debonairly, Mamounia & Rhapsody Rose.
- Siblings of G1 winners Celestial Legend, Super Seth, Magicool & Truly Great; GW Belle Detelle, Count De Rupee, Live To Tell & The Fortune Teller; SW Certain Rise, Enticing Star & La Danseuse Rouge.
