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Breeding sheds open this week in North America – and, taking in the specifics of the current marketplace, the competition to make a stallion successful is as fierce as a prolonged duel leading to a multi-horse photo finish on the racetrack.
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Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner and Eclipse Award champion 2-year-old Citizen Bull and unbeaten stablemate Barnes, the top two choices on the inaugural Daily Racing Form Derby Watch line, are both by Into Mischief.
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In 2022, just four Thoroughbred foals were born in North Carolina, according to The Jockey Club's Report of Mares Bred. One of those is Volleyballprincess, who won the Ruthless Stakes for 3-year-old fillies last Saturday at Aqueduct.
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Multiple stakes winner and prominent broodmare Miss Macy Sue died recently, at age 22 at Taylor Made Farm in Kentucky, where she was boarded for Albaugh Family Stables. The mare's legacy lives on through two prominent sons at stud in Kentucky – both of whom are represented on this year's Kentucky Derby trail.
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Tapwrit, winner of the 2017 Belmont Stakes, has been relocated for 2025 to the Indiana Stallion Station and adds to the recent influx of star power in the state.
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When Belmont Park reopens in 2026, it will sport an all-weather Tapeta track alongside its existing courses. Planning ahead for the reimagined circuit, it's a boon for New York breeders that Bucchero, the top synthetic-surface sire in the United States, resides in New York.
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Of the 15 West Coast stallions bred to 40 or more mares in 2024, 14 stood in California. The exception was Washington-based Alternation.
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In one of the closest duels on any stallion list for 2024, Vekoma edged McKinzie and Tiz the Law to claim the freshman sire earnings title.
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The addition of Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike would have been enough to bring headlines to Rich Miller's Mountain Springs Farm, but Mountain Springs isn't just adding Rich Strike.
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The Thoroughbred industry was rocked by the loss of classic sire and perennial leading stallion Uncle Mo in December. But meanwhile, his champion son Nyquist was wrapping up the best season of his career to date. With promising runners still on the track, several well-bred crops of his own still to come, Nyquist a strong success, and several other promising sons in the pipeline, Uncle Mo may be gone – but long will he live.
