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Coal Front is new to Louisiana for 2025 just as his son Coal Battle is making some noise on the Kentucky Derby trail and his daughter Haulin Ice is coming off a season in which she won stakes at Gulfstream Park and Oaklawn to contend for 2024 Arkansas-bred of the year.
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Gun Runner and Justify have been hailed for extraordinary starts to their stud careers, which now have them among the nation's leading sires.
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Into Mischief, who stands at Spendthrift Farm, claimed his sixth consecutive North American general sire title in 2024, placing him among some of the bloodstock industry's all-time greats.
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Two successful Kentucky sires have made their way to Canada for the 2025 breeding season, Breeders' Cup Classic winner Ghostzapper and Tapiture.
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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.
