Wayne O won a maiden special weight on Saturday at Keeneland as the third choice in a large field of 12 2-year-olds, taking several new owners along for the ride as part of the MyRacehorse.com club investment.
Flameaway, a versatile multiple graded stakes winner, has been retired and will enter stud at Darby Dan Farm in Kentucky. The 4-year-old son of Scat Daddy will stand for $7,500.
Breakout freshman sire Constitution will see his fee more than double to $40,000 for the 2020 season at WinStar Farm.
Classic-placed Grade 1 winner and young classic sire Bodemeister has been sold to continue his stud career in Turkey.
Dual-surface Grade 1 winner Catholic Boy has been retired from racing and will take up stallion duty next year at Claiborne Farm, which acquired his breeding rights earlier in the year.
St Patrick's Day, a Group 3-placed full brother to Triple Crown winner and leading freshman sire American Pharoah, has retired to Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Fla., for the 2020 season.
Bourbon Courage and Imagining, who have held their own nationally in a tough freshman sire class, get their chance to shine locally with several first-crop runners on the Maryland Million program this Saturday at Laurel Park. The stallions are part of a young roster for Anchor and Hope Farm, which is continuing to build its stallion operation even while rebuilding from a destructive fire, which its two freshmen escaped, in August.
Just shy of a decade after his sire won the Empire Classic, one of the top prizes on the New York-bred circuit, Mr. Buff will try to land that $300,000 event. Meanwhile, his sire Friend Or Foe is fashioning an unconventional stallion career in a new adopted state.
War Front will stand for an unchanged fee of $250,000 in 2020 at Claiborne Farm, presumably continuing his reign as the most expensive sire in North America.
Medaglia d'Oro will stand for an unchanged fee of $200,000 in 2020, leading the roster at Darley’s Kentucky farm, which announced its advertised stud fees on Tuesday.
