The Foxes joins Novara Park Stud at NZ$10,000 fee

Novara Park Stud has turned The Foxes into more than a stallion signing. By placing the Churchill horse on its roster at an introductory fee of NZ$10,000 plus GST, the Cambridge farm is aiming at breeders who want proven class, international form and a price that still sits within reach.

The Foxes arrives in New Zealand with a record that stretches well beyond the usual one-country résumé. He was bred by Barronstown Stud, trained by Andrew Balding and raced for King Power Racing Co Ltd. His career finished with 17 starts, five wins, three seconds and one third, plus earnings of $1,523,409. He won at two, three, four and five, and did it over trips from 1400m to 2100m, a range that gives him a profile few first-season sires can match.

At two, he won twice over seven furlongs and a mile, including the Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes, where he beat the eventual Group 1 winner Dubai Mile. He added the Group 2 Dante Stakes at three, then kept going at the highest level of international travel, finishing second in the Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes at Belmont Park on July 8, 2023, and later running second to Rebel’s Romance in the Amir Trophy in Doha on February 16, 2025. He also won the Huxley Stakes at Chester on May 9, 2025, and finished fifth in the Epsom Derby, a line that reinforces both quality and durability.

That spread of form is what makes the move commercially interesting. The Foxes is not being sold as a specialist, but as a horse with precocity, tactical speed and enough stamina to stay relevant across a broader mare base. His background should help too. He is out of Tanaghum, a blue hen mare whose family has already produced stakes winners Matterhorn, Bangkok, Tactic, Perotan and Yaazy. Breednet also links him closely to Group 1-producing sire Ribchester, adding another layer of appeal for breeders weighing bloodline depth.

Luigi Muollo and Novara Park are clearly using the horse as a roster positioner as much as a stallion. With the stud based in Cambridge, Waikato, the addition strengthens a shed that has already pitched itself as a source of quality breeding options for the local market. The Foxes enters stud in 2026 as a first-season sire, and with some coverage also describing the offer as carrying a live foal guarantee, Novara Park has given breeders a measurable entry point on a horse whose race record already speaks in black type on both sides of the Atlantic.