Catholic Boy retired to Claiborne Farm
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.
Nicole RussoOct 18, 2019
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.
Millionaire and world record-setter Disco Partner has been retired to his home state and will begin a stallion career at Rockridge Stud in Hudson, N.Y., in 2020.
International commercial rivals Godolphin and Coolmore dominated the top seats on the buying bench during Book 1 of the Tattersalls sales company's flagship October yearling sale in Newmarket, England – but several other seats on that bench were occupied by an increasingly strong U.S. presence.
Clubhouse Ride, the leading stallion of 2-year-olds in California this year, will stand the 2020 breeding season at Legacy Ranch in Clements, Calif., according to his former trainer Craig Lewis.
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The globe-trotting career of classic winner and champion Animal Kingdom will continue in Japan, as the stallion has been acquired by the Japan Bloodhorse Breeders' Association to stand in that country beginning in 2020.