Aga Khan to stand Stars

After much speculation, champion colt Sea The Stars, will enter stud in 2010 at HH The Aga Khan’s Gilltown Stud in Co. Kildare, Ireland.

Sea The Stars’ first-season fee has been announced at 85,000 euro, and his book will be restricted to 120 mares.

The son of Cape Cross and Urban Sea will remain in the ownership of Christopher Tsui.

One of the first mares to be served by the champion will be the Aga Khan’s unbeaten 2008 Prix de l’arc de Triomphe winner Zarkava ( b m Zamindar (USA)–Zarkarsha (IRE), by Kahyasi (IRE))

The resultant foal will have three Arc winners in her first two removes – sire, dam and sire’s dam.