The dual Breeders Crown champion and multiple Group 1 winner will stand for an introductory service fee of $3,500 plus GST.

Skyvalley is unquestionably one of the best bred and best performed trotters ever to stand at stud in this country. From 47 starts he won 24 and was 13 times placed for $322,675 in stakes. He won six races at Group level and was placed a further three times and established three national records.

A dual winner as a two-year-old, Skyvalley announced himself as the next ‘big thing' in Australian trotting when he trounced his rivals by 15 metres in the final of the $102,000 Breeders Crown for three-year-olds at Bendigo, rating a brilliant 1:59 for the 2150 metres -- an all age Australian record.

Skyvalley really came into his own as a four-year-old winning 14 races, the most by any standardbred in Australia that season. His wins included the 4YO Breeders Crown (by 32 metres), demolishing his opposition with Dan Mielicki describing it as the best win by any horse that season, drawing comparisons to the great Maori's Idol by many who witnessed his thrashing of his rivals that day.

He won the Melton Trotters Cup on Tabcorp Park opening day beating the best open age free-for-all horses over the 2760 metre journey, running his last mile in 2:01. He also won the Cobram Trotters Cup and several metropolitan free-for-alls.

One of his memorable wins as a five-year-old was the Bill Collins Sprint over 1720 metres at Grand Cicuit level in a track record 1:56.4, beating Sundons Gift, and wearing no shoes, such was his impeccable gait and manners. At the same age he won the Scotch Notch Memorial at Tabcorp Park and the Freestone Trotters Cup at Moonee Valley. He also finished third in the Inter Dominion Grand Final after an injury interrupted campaign.

Skyvalley is a rare individual who took your breath away with some of his feats on the racetrack.

Champion horseman Chris Lang, who trained him throughout his career, said: "Having the privilege of training some of the best trotters of our generation, there is no doubt he was the one who could leave you breathless. To sit behind him was like sitting in a sled, such was the fluency of his gait. His stride was like no other horse I have ever seen. He never needed shoes and only ever wore aluminiums when he did."

"He was ahead of his time and I believe represents the future of breeding in this part of the world," Lang stated.

Skyvalley is a son of the world's No.1 sire in Muscles Yankee 1:52.4, leading living sire of juvenile and all aged trotters in North America. Muscles Yankee has sired the winners of over $60million in stakes and at this stage is credited with 72 in the 1:55 list.

Not only is Skyvalley a youthful son of Muscles Yankee - he was foaled in 2004 - but on his distaff side he can claim equal distinctions. He is a half-brother to a champion trotting mare in Allegro Agitato Tr 1:57.8 ($529,854), a multiple winner at Group 1 level in New Zealand and Australia and herself being sired by Sundon, proving that crossing with Sundon mares will undoubtedly work.

Their dam, Chiola's Lass Tr 2:04 ($157,779), was one of the leading daughters of a champion trotting sire in Chiola Hanover. She won 10 of her 17 starts including the Victoria Oaks, NZ Great Northern Derby and The Holmfield and was voted the NZ Trotter of the Year at 2 and 3.

Discussions are presently underway with the view of ensuring Skyvalley is available to New Zealand breeders for the coming season.

Peter WHARTON