Unbridled Express has been a consistent leader in Indiana’s stallion ranks. This season, he will have a barnmate who looks poised to be a state powerhouse.

Mor Spirit will stand his first Indiana season in 2024 at Swifty Farms in Seymour for a $2,500 fee, joining a roster led by Unbridled Express. An 11-year-old son of Eskendereya, Mor Spirit formerly stood at Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky, and the numbers he garnered in that state give him a clear advantage moving to a regional marketplace.

Anchor Down, the leading stallion in Iowa, regardless of progeny conception area, for 2023, has departed the country. But his stall in the Iowa State University stallion barn didn’t stay empty for long, as the program continues to boast an enviable roster for students to work around.

Skippylongstocking had a memorable year on the track in 2023, and his success played a key role in lifting Exaggerator to the top of the general sire list in Louisiana.

Exaggerator had total progeny earnings of $5,009,737 last year to edge Carpe Diem, who ranked second in the state with $4,960,721, according to Daily Racing Form statistics.

Into Mischief continues to reign supreme among North American stallions, leading Daily Racing Form’s leading sires edition as he claimed his fifth consecutive general sire earnings title in 2023.

Mitole won four Grade 1 races in his 2019 Eclipse Award champion sprint campaign, winning by an average of more than two lengths. He had to work a bit harder for his latest title.

The late B. Wayne Hughes had a feeling about the flashy bay colt. He purchased the son of first-crop sire Harlan’s Holiday for a relatively modest $180,000 as a 2-year-old, and later that year, campaigned him to a Grade 1 win in the colors of Spendthrift Farm, which he had purchased in 2004. Hughes was eager to get the colt into the stallion barn at Spendthrift.

When Khozan went to stud, he was commonly referenced in conversation as the half-brother to multi-time Eclipse Award champion Royal Delta. Now, he has made a name of his own as Florida’s leading sire.

Khozan, who has stood his entire career at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud in Reddick, Fla., led the Florida first-crop and 2-year-old sire lists with his initial runners in 2019. He has led the Florida general sire list for four consecutive years since, and turned in a particularly dominant performance in 2023, leading across a number of categories.

With a recent Grade 1 winner to his credit, Frac Daddy had a breakout year in 2023 and should be a popular sire for the 2024 Canadian breeding season.

Frac Daddy was Canada’s leading 2-year-old sire last year in both number of winners and money won. The 14-year-old son of Scat Daddy sired 10 juvenile winners, including stakes winners Scat Dancer and No More Options, a King’s Plate prospect. The icing on the cake was when his California-bred 3-year-old filly Daddysruby took the Grade 1 La Brea at Santa Anita in December.

McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds already had plenty of firepower on its stallion roster, as it has developed New York’s current leading sire Central Banker and has a rising star behind him in 2023’s top freshman sire, Solomini. Now, the farm welcomes in Bucchero, who has proven himself in Florida and is poised to be a standout as the New York breeding and racing industry looks ahead to the future.