Retired undefeated to serve as a
broodmare for her owner, between 1980 and 1991 Madelia produced ten foals. While at stud, she was bred to leading
sires including
Northern Dancer,
Affirmed,
Exclusive Native,
Spectacular Bid,
El Gran Senor,
Nureyev,
Blushing Groom,
Chief's Crown, and
Alysheba. While none of her offspring were able to replicate their mare by winning any classics, Madelia did produce some useful racehorses. Her first foal, Magdalena (Northern Dancer), finished third in the 1983
Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot and her second foal, Claude Monet (Nureyev) won the 1984
Dante Stakes. Marignan (Blushing Groom) came closest to emulating his classic winning dam when finishing second in the 1992 Prix du Jockey Club while Moonlight Dance (Alysheba) became the broodmare's sole Group One winner when taking the
Prix Saint-Alary in 1994 - a race won by Madelia seventeen years earlier. Madelia also found success as a grand-dam with the aforementioned Moonlight Dance producing Millionaia, runner up in the 2004
Prix de Diane, and Fencing Master, second in the 2009
Dewhurst Stakes. Madelia's unraced filly Moon Indigo (El Gran Senor), after being covered by Sunday Silence, gave birth to Admire Sunday who finished second in the 1998
Hanshin Himba Stakes. After her retirement to stud, she produced the classic winning
Tall Poppy, classic placed Fusaichi Ho O and champion Japanese three-year-old filly
Aventura. Madelia died at the age of thirty from old age. ==Pedigree==