Leigh Ann and Kerry Hopper’s R Star Stallions at Richwine, located in Anderson, Ind., stood its first stallion in 2010. Only a few years later, the operation has become a prominent player in the regional stallion market, and is poised for continued success in 2016 with some of the top stallions in the state.
The aptly named Road Ruler continues to rule Illinois with no signs of slowing. For the third consecutive year, the relatively young stallion is the Prairie State’s top active stallion.
The Ohio breeding program remains in the midst of significant upheaval as the market continues to adjust to the state’s new tracks and expanded gaming.
Shore Breeze ended Added Edge’s three-year reign at the top of Iowa’s sire standings by earnings, but both stallions walked away from 2015 with their own victories.
The Keeneland January horses of all ages sale closed Friday with declines in average and median, but a slight bump in gross, led by a trio of high-profile purchases by prominent owner and breeder Virginia Kraft Payson.
Multiple Grade 3 winner Silver Medallion will begin his stud career in 2016 at Argyll Farms in St. Mary, Jamaica, after selling Tuesday at the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale.
Multiple stakes winner Zee Bros will stand at a farm to be determined in New Mexico after being purchased Thursday by Justin Evans’s A & A Equine as a stallion prospect for $3,000 at the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale.
Gray Meteor, an unraced half-brother to Grade 1 winner Flashy Bull, will stand at the Agar, S.D., farm of new owner Paul Brandt after being purchased as a stallion prospect on Thursday for $11,000 at the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale.
Tiz Tiger, an unraced son of Grade 1 winner Honey Ryder, will begin his stud career at the Oklahoma farm of Steve Williams after selling to the trainer and breeder as a stallion prospect on Thursday for $2,000 at the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale.
Bakken, a Grade 2-placed son of Distorted Humor, will stand at Flying Horse Farm in Kelowna, British Columbia, after selling to farm owner R. J. Bennett for $50,000 on Thursday as a stallion prospect at the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale.
