Grade 2 winner Hyper will debut at stud at Tara Farms in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, in 2017 after selling as a stallion prospect for $5,000 Thursday at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.
Grade 1 winner Misremembered has been relocated to BG Thoroughbreds in Hemet, Calif., for the 2017 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $2,500.
Tourist, the winner of this year’s Breeders’ Cup Mile, was confirmed to be retired by WinStar Farm on Thursday, and will debut at stud at the operation’s Versailles, Ky., farm for the 2017 breeding season for an advertised fee of $12,500.
Court Vision, the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Mile winner, has been relocated to Acadiana Equine at Copper Crowne in Opelousas, La., where he will stand as property of a partnership for an advertised fee of $3,500.
Sunrise Stallions, which owns three New York-based stallions, announced Tuesday that the 2017 stud fee for Big Brown will be $7,500, down from $10,000 this year. Big Brown, by Boundary, is fourth on the general sire lists in New York this year with progeny earnings of $3.28 million. The sire of top older horse Dortmund stands at Dutchess View Farm in Pine Plains, N.Y.
Just a few days after Stuart Janney III announced that his homebred Ironicus was being retired to stand at Claiborne Farm in Kentucky, he announced that Ironicus’s half-brother Norumbega was being retired to stand at Bonita Farm in Darlington, Md., in 2017 for a fee of $3,000.
One of the highlights of the ongoing Keeneland November sale has been the nine-horse Phipps Stable reduction consignment, with Claiborne Farm as agent.
Frankel will stand the 2017 breeding season for the same fee as in 2016, but due to the decline in the pound after the Brexit vote, breeders paying in U.S. dollars would be getting a 17.7 percent discount compared with this year.
Runhappy, the champion sprinter of 2015, has been retired from racing and will debut at stud in 2017 at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., for an advertised fee of $25,000.
Calumet Farm announced fees for its stallions, and in doing so indicated it will have four new stallions for the 2017 breeding season. Big Blue Kitten, War Correspondent, Slumber, and Optimizer all will be standing their first season at stud in 2017 at the Lexington, Ky., farm.
