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Classic winner, Eclipse Award champion, and prominent sire Lemon Drop Kid has died, Lane's End Farm, the stallion's birthplace as well as his current home, reported Friday. The stallion, who stood alongside his sire, the late Kingmambo, was 28.
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The hard-knocking graded stakes winner Five Star General will begin his stud career at Covilar LLC’s Owl Hollow Farm in Floyd, Va., in 2025.
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As of the first of December – some 10 weeks from the start of the Northern Hemisphere breeding season – a pair of major "free agents" were still on the board. Grade/Group 1 winners Senor Buscador and Rich Strike remained without announced stallion deals, with their connections intending to stand them at stud in 2025.
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While many long-established partnerships are reflected in Claiborne's current stallion roster, the farm’s two newcomers this year represent new links to prominent racing entities. Claiborne will debut Grade 1 winners Bright Future and Prince of Monaco for 2025.
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Gun Pilot was bred, born, and raised at Three Chimneys Farm, where his sire, Gun Runner, reigns supreme. Unsurprisingly, the latter's first sons to stud have been in high demand. After carrying the Three Chimneys colors to a Grade 1 victory in the Churchill Downs Stakes, Gun Pilot now becomes the first of those to join his sire in the farm’s stallion complex.
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Grade 1 winner Domestic Product joins his successful sire Practical Joke at Coolmore's Ashford Stud for 2025.
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More Than Looks scored a career-best victory in the Breeders' Cup Mile at Del Mar, and co-owner Anthony Bartolo said immediately afterward that the owners intended to continue to race the colt. But More Than Looks was found to have reinjured a tendon, so he will now begin his stud career at Lane's End Farm in 2025, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $15,000.
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Welcoming a classic winner to a stallion roster is a proud moment. Welcoming two to the roster in the same year is an exceptional rarity. Spendthrift Farm will welcome two winners of American Triple Crown races to its stallion ranks for the 2025 season – and if that isn't enough, the farm adds another Grade 1 winner as well.
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There may still be scorch marks on the Saratoga turf from Cogburn's virtuoso performance in this year's Grade 1 Jaipur as he sizzled 5 1/2 furlongs in less than a minute for a North American record. Despite a loss in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint in his career finale, Cogburn will begin his stallion career as an extremely hot commodity whose bandwagon is becoming crowded with supporters.
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Gainesway Farm introduces four new stallions this year. They are Grade 1 winner Tapit Trice, graded stakes winner Charge It, Preakness Stakes winner Seize the Grey, and Grade 1 winner Muth.
