Grade 1 winner Java’s War has been retired from racing and will stand the 2017 breeding season at Colebrook Farm in Uxbridge, Ontario, for an advertised fee of $3,000 Canadian.
Justice Farm in Lexington, Ky., will debut two stallions during the 2017 breeding season – Grade 3 winner Looking Cool and Grade 3-placed stakes winner Harry’s Holiday.
Two-time Grade 1 winner Brody's Cause and Grade 3 winner Cinco Charlie will stand at Spendthrift Farm in 2017.
The latest of Into Mischief’s growing list of significant contributions to the Thoroughbred breed is the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes winner Practical Joke.
Unusual Heat, California’s all-time leading sire by progeny earnings, has been pensioned from stud duty at age 26.
Bloodstock agent Justin Casse went to the 2014 Arqana December breeding stock sale in Deauville, France, and signed tickets for two weanlings and a pair of broodmare prospects. Keep Quiet, one of those weanlings, confirmed the voyage as a successful one on Sunday by winning the Grade 3 Bourbon Stakes at Keeneland and earning a berth to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf.
Union Rags is beginning to break the freshman sire race open, as he recorded the second Grade 1 winner of his nascent stud career when Dancing Rags captured the Alcibiades Stakes on opening day at Keeneland. She will now head to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, along with the stallion's Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante winner Union Strike.
Heading into 2016, A. P. Indian was a useful minor stakes winner, but certainly nothing approaching a national standout. In his 6-year-old season, however, the gelding has blossomed for trainer Arnaud Delacour, winning six straight stakes races, including a pair of Grade 1 events. The most recent victory in the streak came in the Grade 2 Phoenix Stakes on opening day at Keeneland, and the gelding will head out to the Breeders' Cup Sprint at Santa Anita as one of the favorites.
Creator, winner of the 2016 Belmont Stakes, has been sold to the Japan Bloodhorse Breeders’ Association, which intends to retire the colt from racing and stand him at Shizunai Stallion Station in Hokkaido, Japan, for the 2017 breeding season.
Canadian champion Hunters Bay will relocate to Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs North in Aurora, Ontario, for the 2017 breeding season.
