As Kentucky breeding sheds open this month, Lane's End faces the challenge of reintroducing Mr Speaker to breeders after the young stallion was forced to spend extended time in Chile for piroplasmosis treatment.
Rainbow Heir, a recent winner of the Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint Stakes, has been retired from racing and will begin his stallion career at Ocala Stud in Ocala, Fla., during the 2018 breeding season for an advertised fee of $3,500.
Texas Chrome, who has been named 2017 Texas-bred horse of the year, will enter stud this season in Arkansas, his owner, Danny Keene, said Wednesday.
Grade 2-winning turf sprinter Green Mask will spend his post-racing life at Old Friends Equine Retirement in Georgetown, Ky.
It is inevitable that a $16 million race with a $7 million first prize would have an outsized influence on sire lists. Last year, Arrogate’s victory in the inaugural Pegasus World Cup, quickly followed by the $6 million first prize for the Dubai World Cup gave Unbridled’s Song an unassailable lead for the 2017 sire championship.
Neolithic, a multiple Grade 1-placed runner, has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Pleasant Acres Stallions in Morriston, Fla., during the 2018 breeding season.
Quality Road got an exclamation point on his breakout season Thursday night, when two of his daughters were honored as Eclipse Award champions.
Valiant Minister, once the most expensive graduate of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. June 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale in the auction’s history, has been retired to Bridlewood Farm in Ocala, Fla., for the 2018 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $2,500.
A Shin Forward, a Group 1 winner and sire in Japan, will relocate to Rockridge Stud in Hudson, N.Y., for the 2018 breeding season and will stand for a private fee as property of the horse’s breeder, Vivien Malloy’s Edition Farm.
One year after winning her fourth Eclipse Award, the great racemare Beholder has delivered her first foal.
