Stakes winner Japan to stand at Waldorf Farm in New York
Japan, a Grade 2-placed stakes winner, will debut at stud for the 2016 season at Waldorf Farm in North Chatham, N.Y. for an advertised fee of $7,500.
DRF Breeding StaffDec 03, 2015
Japan, a Grade 2-placed stakes winner, will debut at stud for the 2016 season at Waldorf Farm in North Chatham, N.Y. for an advertised fee of $7,500.
Campbell Stables in Jackson, Mich., has announced the fees for its 2016 stallions, with both sires, Gun Power and Elusive Hour, standing for $1,000.
It didn’t take long for Top Hit to become a major player among Arizona’s sire ranks. When his first crop finished its 3-year-old campaign in 2009, the son of Twining was fourth on the state’s general sire list by earnings. Top Hit spent the next five years positioned no lower than third, and is set to add another year to that run in 2015. Top Hit also is poised to start a pair of new streaks as Arizona’s leading sire by winners and progeny earnings, after holding both spots for the first time last year.
Khozan, an allowance winner who caused a brief stir this winter on the 2015 Kentucky Derby trail before being derailed by injury, has been retired from racing and will stand the 2016 breeding season at Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Fla., for a fee to be determined later. The 3-year-old son of Distorted Humor won both of his career starts for earnings of $49,200, racing for owner Al Shaqab Racing and trainer Todd Pletcher.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Sweet Return will relocate to Nicks Farm in Sellersburg, Ind., for the 2016 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $2,000.
The Jockey Club reminds owners of unregistered yearlings and 2-year-olds that the requirements for registration must be completed by Thursday, Dec. 31 to avoid additional late fees.
Wild Gold, a six-time stakes winner and prominent Iowa stallion, has died of natural causes at age 25. The son of Wild Again had resided at Madison County Thoroughbreds in Macksburg, Iowa since 2004, having previously stood at Pegasus Ranch in California and Adena Springs South in Florida.
Boerjan, 61, is self-made and proud of it. His hard work and good fortune have afforded him and his wife a lifestyle that includes Thoroughbreds roaming their farmland in Ft. Wayne, Ind., where Boerjan rides and trains a small stable of horses when he isn’t working his semi-regular job as a construction pipefitter. His attitude is remarkably upbeat, partly because of this: Boerjan hit the proverbial home run in September when his stable star, Kalamos (nicknamed “Tom”), won a fat purse and more at Kentucky Downs when taking the Old Friends Stakes.
Reigning leading sire Tapit, who stands at Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Ky., has broken his own single-season progeny earnings record for a North American stallion.
Grade 1 winner Mr Speaker has been retired from racing and will debut at stud in 2016 at Lane’s End in Versailles, Ky., for an advertised fee of $10,000.