Phoenix Of Spain heads the INS roster for 2026 at €12,500 following his breakthrough year in 2025. This season Phoenix Of Spain sired five individual Group winners, four individual G1 performers including the G1 winner Caballo De Mar. Making him the leading third season sire in Europe by Group winners. Good trainers produce good horses and following the recent yearling sales he is well positioned to kick on again in 2026 with his largest crops about to enter the market.
Lucky Vega, currently with 42% winners to runners following a very strong autumn and currently second on the “Leading First Season Sires” table with an admirable 4.4% of Stakes horses to runners, he stands at €12,500 with exciting Group performing prospects for 2026 including the talented Lam Yai (Karl Burke) and Senorita Vega.
Fresh to the roster for 2026 we are excited to join with AMO Racing in welcoming Arizona Blaze to INS, a high class two year old that excelled at three by winning the G1 Flying Five at the Curragh. A physically imposing colt with a remarkable step Arizona Blaze looks sure to be very appealing to breeders at €12,500. His track record of 17 runs and 14 wins or places at the top level speaks for itself, while his G2 Sapphire Stakes & G1 Flying Five wins were most recently achieved by the remarkable sire Havana Gray.
Nando Parrado gets a small increase in fee up to €7,000 due largely to the admirable third place (behind Starman & Lucky Vega) in the “Leading First Season Sires” table where he is at 38% winners to runners with the valuable Ballyhane Stakes winner Howd’yadoit and the Stakes winning Chairmanfourtimes giving plenty to be excited about in 2026.
Shouldvebeenaring covered just under 130 mares in his first season with 10% of those covered the dams of Stakes winners and a further 25% the dams of Stakes placed horses. This quality of mare gives the son of Havana Grey a great chance of matching his stablemates Lucky Vega and Nando Parrado with his first season runners. At a fee of €6,000 Shouldvebeenaring remains the only access in Ireland to the potent Havana Grey line. We look forward to seeing his first foals in the spring and following them to the sales.
We look forward to welcoming breeders to INS over the coming weeks and months to view the horses and help form plans for the spring. As ever our overriding ambition at INS is to provide high quality stallions at the best possible value.
Cathal Beale CEO
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