Bated Breath

Bated Breath

The best value sire of blacktype performers in Britain 

  • 2007 b h Dansili - Tantina (Distant View)
  • 16.0½ hh (1.63m) To stud 2013
  • 2024 fee: £10,000 1st Oct SLF

Summary

  • The best value sire in Britain by blacktype performers since the start of 2019 - no stallion standing for £30,000 or less in Britain has sired more Northern Hemisphere-born blacktype horses (47)
  • Consistently good sales prices - 2023 yearlings have sold for 260,000gns, €240,000, 160,000gns, 150,000gns, 98,000gns, 90,000gns, €92,000, 80,000gns etc., conceived at a £12,500 fee
  • His 2023 yearling average is £48,301 for 60 sold
  • 88% of all his winners have won at 8½f or less. Of Bated Breath's 58 blacktype performers: 57 have achieved blacktype at a mile or less (98%)
  • Reliable sire of Group winners and performers including Viadera, Space Traveller, Daahyeh, Juliet Sierra, Sacred Bridge, Makaloun, Worth Waiting, Beckford etc.
  • His best-bred crop to date debuts in 2024 numbering 113 two-year-olds
  • 60% winners to runners, 10% blacktype horses to runners

Key metrics

Last updated 04/03/2024

Group 1 Performers

5

Group Winners

15

Blacktype Winners

26

Blacktype Performers

58

Winners To Runners

60%