Tapit stays most-expensive stallion in North America at $300,000
Tapit, North America's two-time reigning leading sire, will stand for a fee of $300,000 in 2017, again making him the most-expensive stallion on the continent.
Nicole RussoNov 10, 2016
Tapit, North America's two-time reigning leading sire, will stand for a fee of $300,000 in 2017, again making him the most-expensive stallion on the continent.
Hit It a Bomb, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, has been retired from racing and will debut at stud in 2017 at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky.
Ironicus, one of the best middle-distance turf runners in North America the past two years, has been retired and will stand the 2017 breeding season at Claiborne Farm. The 5-year-old son of Distorted Humor out of Meghan’s Joy, by A.P. Indy, will stand for a fee of $7,500.
Haynesfield, who has two crops of racing age, has moved from Kentucky to California for the 2017 breeding season. The son of Speightstown will stand at Rancho San Miguel in San Miguel, Calif., as the property of Climax Stallions for a fee of $5,000. Climax Stallions is a partnership of Bob and Sean Feld.
Jeranimo will move to Harris Farms in Coalinga, Calif., for the 2017 breeding season. He will stand for $2,500.
Champion California Chrome, North America’s leading moneywinner, will debut at stud for a fee of $40,000 next year, Duncan Taylor of Taylor Made Farm said Tuesday while working at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.
Adena Springs announced its lineup of stallions for the 2017 season, and in the process revealed that all four stallions that had been at its Florida operation this past season have been relocated to its two other farms. Adena Springs South stallions Fort Larned, Capo Bastone, and City Wolf will stand at Adena Springs Kentucky in Paris, Ky., for the 2017 breeding season. In October, Adena announced that Hunters Bay was moving from Adena Springs South to Adena Springs North in Aurora, Ontario, Canada.
Tamarkuz earned a place at stud at his owner’s farm when he won the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Santa Anita on Friday. Three days after the biggest victory of his career, it was announced that he would take up residence at Sheikh Maktoum’s Shadwell Farm in Lexington, Ky., for the 2017 breeding season. The son of Speightstown will stand for a fee of $12,500.
There was an element of irony in Arrogate’s victory over California Chrome in last Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Classic for Taylor Made Farm, co-owner and future home of the latter.
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah will stand for a private fee and record-setting young sire Uncle Mo will get a significant hike in 2017, Coolmore’s Ashford Stud of Kentucky announced on Monday.