Four-time Eclipse Award winner Beholder delivered her third foal this week, and in a vote of major confidence for one of its young stallions, owner Spendthrift Farm said she will stay home for this season's mating.
Grade 1 winner Boisterous, who has been standing in California, is moving back East, where he spent the majority of his racing career. Boisterous is moving to Diamond B Farm in Mohrsville, Pa., for 2020.
Preakness Stakes winner and sire Shackleford has been exported to continue his stud career in Korea.
Al Shaab Stud, the largest Thoroughbred breeding operation in war-torn Libya, was raided on Saturday, with the farm's stallions and in-foal broodmares being stolen.
Triple Crown winner Justify has been represented by his first reported foal, a filly born in Virginia.
In September, Phil Lebherz's Premier Thoroughbreds was honored by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association as California's outstanding breeder of 2018. The way Spiced Perfection continues to run, the operation could continue reaping awards.
Square Eddie has successfully developed from a young upstart in the California stallion ranks to a stalwart in his state of residence who makes an impact with graded stakes horses.
For all that went right for him on the racetrack through an accomplished six-year career, Clubhouse Ride had a bumpy start as a stallion.
Sir Prancealot, a stallion formerly based in Europe and Australia, will arrive in California in early January prior to the start of the 2020 breeding season.
A pair of Grade 1-winning freshman sires by Giant’s Causeway recorded their respective first stakes winners on Saturday at Laurel Park, doing their best to keep their sire’s flame burning in the U.S.
