With more than a month remaining in 2016, two-time reigning leading sire Tapit has again broken his own single-season progeny earnings record for a North American stallion.
Champion Untapable, who was retired in June, will travel to England to be bred to unbeaten champion Frankel in 2017, her first season as a broodmare. David Fiske, manager for the mare’s owner and breeder, Winchell Thoroughbreds, confirmed the pairing Friday evening at Churchill Downs.
Take Charge Indy, who stood at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky., his first three seasons at stud, has been purchased by the Korea Racing Authority and will stand in South Korea in 2017. Take Charge Indy had been scheduled to stand at WinStar for a fee of $15,000 for 2017. He stood for $17,500 in 2016.
Canadian champion Dynamic Sky has been retired and will stand the 2017 breeding season at Shannondoe Farm in St. Thomas, Ontario. The son of Sky Mesa will stand for $2,965 ($4,000 Canadian).
Three-time Eclipse Award winner Beholder is settling into her new life as a broodmare prospect after arriving at Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky earlier this week.
California Chrome will not arrive at Taylor Made Farm in Kentucky until after his planned final start in the inaugural $12 million Pegasus Cup on Jan. 28, but the wheels are already turning on his second career.
The sudden retirement announcement of Breeders' Cup Juvenile runner-up Not This Time with a soft-tissue injury earlier this week gives Taylor Made Farm, which is continuing to rebuild its roster, a third new stallion for 2017.
Ocala Stud saw one of its best sires, Kantharos, move to Kentucky to stand the upcoming breeding season, and will have two new stallions on its roster to try to take that one’s place.
In 2015, Exaggerator captured both the Grade 2 Saratoga Special and the Grade 3 Delta Downs Jackpot on the way to 2016 victories in the Grade 1 Preakness, Santa Anita Derby, and Haskell Invitational. Last Saturday, Gunnevera completed that same double, but it is too early to speculate on whether he can emulate Exaggerator’s achievements as a 3-year-old in 2017.
Marking, a Grade 1-placed runner, will debut at stud in 2017 at A & A Ranch in Anthony, N.M., for an advertised fee of $3,500.
