From ANZ Bloodstock: Grade 3-winning US sprinter-miler Officiating will stand at Aquis Farm in Queensland, providing Australian breeders with their first son of America’s influential sire Blame (Arch).
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From ANZ Bloodstock: Grade 3-winning US sprinter-miler Officiating will stand at Aquis Farm in Queensland, providing Australian breeders with their first son of America’s influential sire Blame (Arch).
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From TTR AusNZ: Aquis has announced the acquisition of Officiating (USA), a son of Blame (USA), who will stand his debut season for $12,500 (inc GST), as the proven source of precocity, Kobayashi, leads the eight-strong roster at a career high of $15,000 (inc GST).
From Breednet: Queensland’s leading stallion operation, Aquis Stallions, has revealed its roster for the 2024 season. Aquis Stallions who have launched the careers of some of Australia’s most promising stallions PIERATA, BRAVE SMASH and ROYAL MEETING now announces its new stallion development opportunity in the three-time US Group winner, Officiating (USA).
From Racing & Sports: Aquis will welcome a son of Blame for the 2024 breeding season. Aquis will become the first Australian farm to stand a son of superstar American stallion Blame after striking a deal to stand Officiating this breeding season.
From Breeding & Racing: Leading Queensland stallion operation, Aquis Stallions, has revealed its roster for the 2024 season. Having launched the careers of some of Australia’s most promising stallions Pierata, Brave Smash and now announces its new stallion development opportunity in the three-time US Group winner, Officiating.
Queensland’s leading stallion operation, Aquis Stallions, has revealed its roster for the 2024 season.
Aquis Stallions who have launched the careers of some of Australia’s most promising stallions PIERATA, BRAVE SMASH and ROYAL MEETING now announces its new stallion development opportunity in the three-time US Group winner, Officiating.
A complete outcross, deliberately selected by Aquis Stallions following a global headhunting mission to secure a stallion that will excel with the local Queensland broodmare population, with a particular focus on mares by Spirit of Boom, Better Than Ready and Spill The Beans amongst the wider pool of Danehill heavy Queensland mares.
Officiating is the first son of the North American super sire, Blame, to stand in Australia. An Eclipse Champion Racehorse, Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, and three-time Group 1 winner, Blame is an elite stallion who runs at 14% stakes horses to runners as both a sire and a broodmare sire.
Officiating was a racehorse for all seasons, excelling on fast and heavy surfaces with four of his five career victories at stakes level. Officiating would capture the Group 3 Cornhusker at his penultimate outing making it his third high class Group win before farewelling the track in the US$1million Group 2 Charles Town Classic, finishing a neck fourth behind Art Collector, the winner of the Group 1 Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes. This is proper, fast, tough form on the world stage.
“We got our man!” Aquis Stallions Director of Sales, Jonathan Davies enthused. “In a deal we spent most of 2023 putting together in the USA, Officiating is perfect for our local broodmare population, that’s why he’s here and we’ve already seen a glimpse of that through this season’s Group 2 Todman Stakes winner Switzerland being by Snitzel out of a Blame mare”.
“For us, launching stallions and developing value for our stallion shareholders is what it’s about and like Brave Smash and Royal Meeting, Officiating is that tough, sound, outcross stallion that will work and we have no doubt in four to five years’ time he will be sought by all the big studs in the Hunter Valley and Victoria.
Officiating will stand his first season at Aquis Stallions at a fee of $12,500 inc GST.
Officiating is part of an 8-strong Aquis roster in 2024, which is headed by one of Australia’s leading 2-year-old sires Kobayashi.
Please contact our sales team at Aquis Stallions for more information or to arrange a private viewing of our new stallion Officiating or any of the 2024 stallions.
Stallion Name | 2024 Fee (inc GST) |
Kobayashi | $15,000 |
Lean Mean Machine | $13,200 |
Jonker | $12,500 |
Officiating (USA) (NEW) | $12,500 |
Stronger | $9,900 |
Invader | $8,800 |
Glenfiddich | $5,500 |
The Mission | $4,400 |