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TORONADO (IRE)
2010 – 9th season – Bay 16.1hh
By High Chaparral (IRE), out of Grand Slam (USA) mare Wana Doo (USA).
Service Fee – $88,000 incl GST
Toronado – Swettenham Stud

✓ Superior Outcross
✓ Sire of 33 Stakes Winners
✓ Biggest & best crops still to come
✓ Sales Ring Reputation

Toronado has done a phenomenal job at stud so far, but it is what’s to come that is most exciting.
In 2023, we will see his best crop to date hit the ground. Big numbers from outstanding mares have Toronado perfectly positioned to be the successor to Champions such as I Am Invincible, Written Tycoon and Snitzel.

Toronado’s ideal size, versatility, outstanding conformation, exceptional fertilty and outcross pedigree make him a suitable companion for the best Australian mares.

RUBICK
2011 – 9th season – Bay 15.3hh
By Encosta De Lago, out of Rock Of Gibraltar (IRE) mare Sliding Cube.
Service Fee – $27,500 incl GST
Rubick – Swettenham Stud

✓ Ability to produce a Superstar
✓ Serious Stallion Pedigree
✓ Massive Upside

Rubick has enjoyed a very prosperous 2022-23 season to date, siring 5 stakes winners of 8 stakes races, highlighted by Jacquinot’s pair of Group 1 wins. He remains a top-3 active sire in Australia under $30,000.
Champions I Am Invincible and Snitzel are the only sires at stud to have more 3yo earnings and stakes wins than him this season!

Rubick is a ball of muscle with a terrific nature and asserts himself as a significant source of speed for all breeders.

Lonhro, Danehill, Elusive Quality, Bel Esprit, More Than Ready, Red Ransom…Rubick has enjoyed success with a wide range of pedigrees.

WOODED (IRE)
2017 – 2nd Australian season – Bay or Brown 16.2hh
By Wootton Bassett (GB), out of Elusive City (USA) mare Frida La Blonde (FR).
Service Fee – $22,000 incl GST
Wooded – Swettenham Stud

✓ Outcross from booming young sireline
✓ Elite Fertility
✓ Two outstanding foal crops already in Europe (Pictured)
✓ Incredibly Good-looking

Wooded returns as one of the most exciting young sires in Victoria. A powerful Gr.1 winning sprinter, outcross Wooded is physical perfection for the Australian mare pool.

Wooded stands at 16.2hh and presents with more scope and leg than the typical speed sire, an ideal trait to partner with our colonial mares.

If you have a mare with poor fertility, Wooded is the man for the job. He boasts an impeccable breeding record.

PUISSANCE DE LUNE (IRE)
2008 – 9th season – Grey 16.2hh
By Shamardal (USA), out of Unbridled’s Song (USA) mare Princess Serena (USA).
Service Fee – $14,300 incl GST
Puissance De Lune – Swettenham Stud

✓ Proven Value
✓ Biggest and best crops will be running when you sell!
✓ Outcross son of a Blue Hen mare

Puissance De Lune continues to produce winners, week-in week-out.
A sire with an ability to produce quality middle distance and speed horses, Puissance De Lune boasted a better metropolitan than all top-10 sires last season.

Our grey stallion is perfect for any mare that is looking for a sire with scope and substance.

Puissance De Lune is a serious chance to kick with further success, just like we saw with Rubick – get in now, reap the rewards in the near future.

I AM IMMORTAL
2016 – 4th season – Bay 16.2hh
By I Am Invincible, out of Ad Valorem (USA) mare Meliora.
Service Fee – $13,750 incl GST
I Am Immortal – Swettenham Stud

✓ Vinnie Speed, Vobis Riches
✓ Value access to superior genetics
✓ Huge chance – Average book of over 100 mares

I Am Immortal’s first crop will hit Australian racetracks in 2023. They have already impressed breakers and we will be very surprised if he is the sire of winners before Christmas.

I Am Immortal is another outcross sire, very much in the mould of his Champion sire I Am Invincible. He is a beast of a horse and puts plenty of size and strength into his foals. Neat, speedy mares produce very nice types with him.

17 April, 2023
by James Tzaferis, Racing.com

Despite a phenomenal 12 months for his progeny on the racetrack, breeders sending a mare to star stallion Toronado this spring will pay the same price as his 2022 fee after Swettenham Stud announced a consolidated stallion roster.

Toronado, now the sire of 19 Stakes winners including four individual Group 1 winners, will stand for an unchanged fee of $88,000, having covered 150 mares at that mark in 2022.

The High Chaparral entire’s credentials were further franked at Sandown on Saturday when he sired his second VOBIS Sires 2YO Showdown (1200m) winner, in Simon Zahra’s brilliant filly Shesallshenanigans.

Swettenham’s General Manager – Operations and Nominations, Sam Matthews, said consideration was given to upping Toronado’s fee but ultimately stud principal Adam Sangster made the call to ensure more breeders can continue to access the stallion.

Matthews confirmed that Rubick, the sire of multiple G1 winner Jacquinot, was the only sire on the roster that was given a small fee increase for 2023.

“The market probably thought we would put Toronado up, and he probably did warrant an increase, but just because a horse can go up, we don’t believe he needs to go up,” Matthews said.

“He’s a great value proposition as $88,000 – there aren’t many in that league and the other ones that are in that top 10 are a fair bit more expensive than him, but we’re happy for everyone to get a lick of the ice cream.

“Rubick got a little increase from $20,000 to $25,000 and we kept Wooded, Puissance de Lune and I Am Immortal all at the same prices from last year.

“Highland Reel is in Japan at the moment and it’s very expensive to bring a horse back from Japan – we didn’t announce him on the roster and it doesn’t mean that he’s not coming back, we’re just going to see how it all plays out.”