Hawke's Bay breeder Mick Ormond is to send his broodmare Gussy Godiva, dam of this month's Australian Derby winner Roman Emperor, to New South Wales to be mated with champion sire Redoute's Choice.
Ormond told The Dominion Post arrangements for the spring mating had almost been finalised.
The 2009 service fee for Redoute's Choice is $A180,000, ($NZ231,200) a 40 percent drop on last year's $A300,000.
Gussy Godiva has left four foals so far, and the first three have all won this month, with two-year-old Volgus successful at Hastings on April 18 and Rios taking the listed Anzac 1600 at Awapuni on Saturday.
The fourth foal is a yearling No Excuse Needed colt, who is recovering from an infected hock.
Gussy Godiva is carrying a filly foal by the A P Indy horse Bernardini, who served his first southern hemisphere season last year.
Ormond said he would keep that filly and the colt.
He bred Rios and Roman Emperor in partnership with his cousin, Arthur Ormond, Tracy Anderson and Gavin Chaplow, but he now owns Gussy Godiva outright.
Black Mamba, a half-sister to Gussy Godiva, finished second in a group two race at Santa Anita, California, on April 19, in her first start for four months.
