Five Breeders' Cup Classic winners have resided on Frank Stronach's Adena Springs stallion roster, and Shaman Ghost will surely have a place in the stud barn regardless of the outcome. But a Classic win by the homebred colt Nov. 5 at Santa Anita would make it the kind of history-making achievement that would take generations to match.
Phyllis Wyeth liked the strapping, white-faced colt that her mare Tempo had delivered in the spring of 2009, but her accountant advised her to sell him to bolster her stable's tax standing. She purchased him back in 2011, and Union Rags has been repaying her ever since.
Drosselmeyer, winner of the 2010 Belmont Stakes and the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Classic, has been sold for stud duty to stand in Brazil at Stud TNT, where he had been a shuttle stallion for the last five Southern Hemisphere breeding seasons. The 9-year-old son of Distorted Humor had stood at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky., for the Northern Hemisphere breeding season since 2012, beginning with a $17,500 stud fee. This past Northern Hemisphere season, he had stood for a fee of $10,000.
Taylor Made Stallions in Nicholasville, Ky., released the advertised fees for its 2017 stallion roster, including Grade 1 winner Mshawish, who will stand his first season for $20,000.
Grade 3 winner Den’s Legacy has been retired from racing and will debut at Mighty Acres Farm in Pryor, Okla., joining prominent Oklahoma sire Mr. Nightlinger, who relocates to the farm for the 2017 breeding season. Mr. Nightlinger will stand for an advertised fee of $2,000, while a fee for Den’s Legacy will be announced at a later time.
For visual impact combined with quality of competition, it may be hard for any performance anywhere in the world to top the stunning eight-length victory last Saturday of Winx in the Group 1 Cox Plate, Australia’s most prestigious weight-for-age race.
Pioneerof the Nile, the sire of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, will stand for $110,000 to lead the expanded WinStar Farm stallion roster in 2017, the operation announced Saturday.
Grade 2 winner Exhi will relocate to Highfield Stock Farm in Okotoks, Alberta, for the 2017 breeding season, and will stand for an advertised fee of $3,000 Canadian.
Breeding activity in North America this past breeding season was down 2.5 percent from the 2015 season at this same reporting time, The Jockey Club said in its annual Report of Mares Bred, released Friday. In 2016, a total of 33,746 mares were bred to 1,423 stallions, compared with 34,627 mares bred to 1,449 stallions last year. The number of active stallions was down 1.8 percent from 2015 and down 8 percent from 2014.
Stakes winner Mosler has been retired from racing and will enter stud in 2017 at Josh and Mike Pons’s Country Life Farm in Maryland.
