Dream Tree remained unbeaten with her victory in the Grade 1 Starlet Stakes Saturday at Los Alamitos, capturing the first Grade 1 for the rising Phoenix Thoroughbreds in the process. The partnership, a major player in the U.S. sales market this season, promptly joined the ranks of those paying it forward and donated a percentage of the winnings to wildfire recovery.
Barretts Equine Sales will donate 10 percent of sales commissions from its January mixed sale to the California Thoroughbred Horsemen's Foundation.
Throughout the history of the American and Japanese breeding industries, export of a prominent American stallion to Japan has been a sure sign of acceptance of failure. Thus, when it was announced in October 2012 that Street Sense would stand the 2013 season at Darley Stud’s Japanese outpost, it was fair to assume that his career in America was over.
Pink Lloyd's undefeated campaign of 2017 will have a looming presence over Canada's Horse of the Year race, but it will also be the likely deciding factor in Old Forester's bid to again top the country's sire list by progeny earnings.
River Dancer, a Grade 2-placed son of Pioneerof the Nile, will make his stallion debut at Breakway Farm in Dillsboro, Ind., during the 2018 breeding season for a private treaty.
Swifty Farms in Seymour, Ind., has released its advertised fees for the 2018 breeding season, led once again by Majestic Harbor at $4,000. Swifty Farms will debut two new stallions in 2018, including Fear the Kitten, who will stand for $1,000.
Read our feature piece on the new stallions of 2018 as individual stories, or download the complete special section as a PDF.
Arrogate, at $75,000, and Gun Runner, at $70,000, enter a market that again has warmed to new stallions. Here is a year-by-year look at Kentucky's top incoming stud fees of the past decade.
Kentucky traditionally sees the most stallions enter its ranks each breeding season, but the migration of prospects from the racetrack to regional farms can fluctuate depending on the health of each state's program.
The Thoroughbred industry is a landscape of dynasties and history. That is evident in this year's Kentucky class of sires, with major farms tapping into lines that have worked for them in the past by standing young stallions aside their sires or close relations, or securing sons from rising sirelines.
