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The two most recent winners of the Preakness Stakes, National Treasure and Seize the Grey, have officially been retired and have taken up residence at their stallion homes.
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Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Moira, who sold for $4.3 million to rank among the top prices of the Fasig-Tipton November sale, could continue racing before beginning her broodmare career in Australia.
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Eight first-crop offspring of Flightline have been sold at public auction thus far this season, and they have averaged $655,897, against his introductory stud fee of $200,000 at Lane's End Farm. After three first-crop foals by Flightline averaged $974,058 over the summer at a Japan Racing Horse Association sale, he was represented by five lots in his home country this week.
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The late Fast Anna is the sire, from limited crops, of Distaff winner and Horse of the Year candidate Thorpedo Anna. Medaglia d'Oro's son Atreides, who moved from Hill ‘n' Dale in Kentucky to River Oaks Farm in Oklahoma beginning with the 2020 season, sired Filly and Mare Sprint upset winner Soul of an Angel.
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Following the 41st edition of the Breeders' Cup last weekend at Del Mar, there is now a logjam atop the event's list of all-time leading sires, with some of the world's standouts represented. Five-time reigning North American leading sire Into Mischief, the late, great shuttle sire More Than Ready, and European standout Dubawi each had a win on the weekend and are now tied with another leading American sire, Curlin, with eight career wins each at the event.
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The first time the Breeders' Cup was held at Del Mar, Gun Runner won the 2017 Classic – one of four Grade 1 wins in a Horse of the Year campaign. This year, as the Breeders' Cup returned to Del Mar, Sierra Leone, a son of recently minted Hall of Famer Gun Runner, made his own case for championship honors with a victory in the Classic.
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Immersive won the third Grade 1 stakes of her nascent career in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and is virtually assured the 2-year-old filly Eclipse Award title. The filly became the second winner of this race for her sire, Nyquist, who is on an upward trajectory into the nation's elite sires.
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Ghostzapper's association with the Breeders' Cup didn't end with his championship-clinching win in 2004. He is the sire of multiple Breeders' Cup winners and Eclipse Award champions, and is expected to be represented by a champion at this weekend's edition at Del Mar, where his growing influence as a broodmare sire will be on display, as well.
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The six-time stakes winner Catholic Boy will stand at Harris Farms in Coalinga, Calif., in 2025, the farm announced earlier this week.
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Five-time reigning leading sire Into Mischief, in pursuit of his sixth title, figures to reign as one of the most expensive sires in North America again for 2025.
