Three Chimneys Farm announced today stud fees for its stallions for 2017, and all but one will have the same fee as this year. The exception is 16-year-old Sky Mesa, whose stud fee for the next breeding season will be $15,000, down from $20,000 in 2016.
Kennedy, a winning son of A.P. Indy from the family of Bernardini, will relocate to River Oaks Farm in Sulphur, Okla., for the 2017 breeding season, where he will stand for a fee of $1,250.
Just before the Breeders' Cup, WinStar Farm is rolling out an incentive program for breeders of stakes horses by its program.
The success of freshman sire Dialed In has led to a doubling of his stud fee for 2017. Darby Dan Farm announced its 2017 fees today, and the Lexington, Ky., farm indicated that Dialed In, third on the 2016 freshman sire list, will stand for $15,000, up from $7,500 in each of his first four years at stud.
The stud fee for Curlin will increase by 50% in 2017, as Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm in Lexington, Ky., announced fees for its stallions for the next breeding season.
The Breeders' Cup is filled with horses of all kind, from high-dollar auction yearlings to horses that once ran for a tag. Here are some facts highlighting the breeding, sales and claiming history of some of the Breeders' Cup entrants.
While looking at another consignment at the 2013 Tattersalls December sale, the fluid walk of another mare across a Park Paddocks courtyard grabbed my attention. A quick check of my catalog confirmed that the beautiful bay mare named Anabaa’s Creation was already on my look list. The following day, I was able to buy her for 450,000 guineas (about $775,000) on behalf of Vincent and Teresa Viola’s St. Elias Stables.
Spendthrift Farm announced 2017 stud fees for 26 stallions that will stand at its Kentucky-based operation this upcoming breeding season, as well as fees for four stallions standing in New York, Maryland, and Louisiana. The roster includes three new Kentucky-based stallions, and is spearheaded again by leading sires Malibu Moon and Into Mischief, whose fees are both $75,000 for 2017. Into Mischief is already been booked full.
Even before starting With Honors in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, Larry, Nanci and Jaime Roth will get to hoist a trophy in the name of their LNJ Foxwoods racing operation. LNJ Foxwoods will be honored as OwnerView's New Owner of the Year.
In terms of their racing accomplishments, turf specialist Tepin and main-track runner Stellar Wind don't have much in common, beyond their Eclipse Awards. But the two actually share a common ancestor in the influential broodmare Gallant Nurse.
