Since January 2017, North America's four major auction houses have hosted 32 individual sales, and Medaglia d'Oro has sired the most expensive offering at five of them, more than any other stallion.
Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Good Magic
The opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale went without the splashy prices that drove the top of the market last year, producing declines in gross and average with a slightly higher median, and spearheaded by the $260,000 broodmare prospect Bling On the Music.
Innkeeper, who was the final son of Secretariat standing in the United States, was euthanized on Feb. 2 following complications from colic. The 30-year-old stallion last stood as a sporthorse sire at Virginia Tech’s Middleburg Agricultural Research and Extension (MARE) Center in Middleburg, Va.
Grade 2 winner Ready’s Image will relocate to Midwest Equine and Veterinary Hospital in Trafalgar, Ind., for the 2018 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $2,000.
It is vanishingly rare for a horse who does not win his first stakes race until he is 6 years old to become a successful sire. The case of Speightstown, who fits that description, is a little different than most late developers, however.
As champion Gun Runner crossed the line in the $16 million Pegasus World Cup, he not only concluded his career in style, but also gave Candy Ride a valuable head start in the 2018 sire race.
The young stallion Mastery – undefeated in four starts before his racing career was cut short by injury – appears to be highly anticipated as he starts his second career this month at Claiborne Farm.
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.
