Just weeks after his son Half Yours won the Melbourne and Caulfield Cup double, his sire St Jean has died after a paddock accident while on stud duty at home in Victoria.
The Brackley Park Stud resident whose service fee increased for $3300 to $11,000 on the back of Half Yours‘ heroics, was humanely euthanised after an incident earlier in the week.
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“After covering a mare, Memory Lane, on Monday the 24th of November, St Jean was returned to be fed in his paddock where he had lived happily and safely since the autumn of 2017,” Brackley park Stud manager Grant Dwyer said in a statement.
“On the morning of 25th of November it was discovered, that for reasons unknown, St Jean had run into a fence post overnight, breaking it off at ground level and shattering his near side front leg around the elbow region.
“His death was very untimely as breeders were only starting to recognise what an incredible pedigree this stallion had.
Thinking of Grant Dwyer and everyone at Brackley Park after the sad loss of St Jean, sire of 2025 Melbourne Cup winner Half Yours.
We caught up with Grant shortly after Half Yours’ Cup triumph. 💔pic.twitter.com/UcP5ac9kpg
— 7HorseRacing 🐎 (@7horseracing) November 27, 2025
“Bookings had started to pick up and he was due to cover a mare by Desert King that afternoon which would have given the same cross as Half Yours,” Dwyer wrote.
“He was due to cover five mares by Desert King this season and had bookings of 35 mares in total.
“I lament the fact that more breeders did not take the opportunity to breed to this stallion in the first few seasons at stud at an incredibly low price, when the opportunity was afforded to them.”