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Florida Stallions: Khozan moves to Ocala Stud
Khozan's success as a Florida sire will have to continue in a new location, as a change of direction for his current barn is resulting in a move to Ocala Stud.
Nicole RussoJan 27, 2025
Khozan's success as a Florida sire will have to continue in a new location, as a change of direction for his current barn is resulting in a move to Ocala Stud.
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Group 1 winner Senor Buscador, a late addition to the stallion ranks for 2025, will enter stud alongside his sire, Horse of the Year Mineshaft, at Lane's End Farm in Kentucky when the breeding season begins in just a few weeks.
Juddmonte announced the birth of Elite Power's first foal, born on January 16th, at Norevale Farm. With nearly identical marking as his sire, the chestnut colt is out of Havin a Party, a daughter of GSW Chimichurri who sold for $2.1 million dollars as a broodmare. The dam's first foal to race is a winner. The colt's half siblings have sold as yearlings for $575,000 (by Constitution), $325,000 (by Constitution), and $275,000 (by Not This Time).
Leading breeders Carrie and Craig Brogden and Dr. Sandra Fubini have reported that Lil Miss Moonlight, a stakes-placed City of Light mare who was carrying her first pregnancy, has foaled a bay colt by Airdrie Stud’s Grade 1 Kentucky Derby winner Mage at their Machmer Hall in Paris, KY. Out of a Malibu Moon half-sister to the top-class European miler Taareef, Lil Miss Moonlight was purchased by Machmer Hall at the 2023 Keeneland November Sale and sent to Mage for her first covering.
Spendthrift Farm’s Taiba, Gun Runner’s only 3-time Grade 1-winning son to date, sired his first reported foal this week when a colt was born late Monday, January 6th at Castleton Lyons in Lexington.
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Jan. 1 marked the official start of foaling season in the Northern Hemisphere, and among the notable arrivals this year will be the first foals for a quintet of Eclipse Award winners standing in Kentucky. The first of those represented was 2023 Horse of the Year Cody’s Wish, whose first reported foal is a colt both Jan. 6 in Kentucky.
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Familiar names were atop the lists of leading sires, breeders, and owners of 2024.
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Rich Strike, upset winner of the 2022 Kentucky Derby who had a roller-coaster year-plus trying to make it back to the races, is expected to begin his stud career at Mountain Springs Farm in Palmyra, Pa., in 2025.
The Street Fighter, a stakes-caliber performer by multiple Grade 1 winner Street Boss, has relocated to Rancho San Miguel in California for the 2025 breeding season. The 10-year-old stallion will stand for a fee of $2,500, with a live foal guarantee.
With California racing opportunities dwindling at Big Fame's level, her breeder, Dr. Dorothee Kieckhefer, feared the filly would slip through the cracks into an unsavory situation, and stepped in to re-acquire her. That move set Big Fame on the path to a second career as a sport horse.