Ocala Stud Farm to debut The Big Beast at $6,000
J. Michael O'Farrell Jr.’s Ocala Stud announced stud fees for its expanded stallion roster for 2016, which includes new stallions The Big Beast and I Spent It.
DRF Breeding StaffNov 13, 2015
J. Michael O'Farrell Jr.’s Ocala Stud announced stud fees for its expanded stallion roster for 2016, which includes new stallions The Big Beast and I Spent It.
Castleton Lyons announced on Friday that Gio Ponti will stand the 2016 breeding season at the Lexington, Ky., farm for a fee of $12,500 and Justin Phillip will stand for $5,000.
Millennium Farms in Lexington, Ky., announced stud fees for its 2016 stallions, with three of its four stallions - Even the Score, Giant Oak, and Ice Box - standing for $7,500, and the other, I Want Revenge, standing for $5,000.
The stallions Justenuffhumor and Toccet have been sold to stand in Turkey in 2016 in deals brokered by Schumer Bloodstock.
Pollard’s Vision, sire of champion Blind Luck, will stand the 2016 breeding season at Mighty Acres in Pryor, Okla. He had stood the past breeding season at Pleasant Acres Stallions in Morriston, Fla. His fee for next year will be announced later.
Multiple graded stakes winner Majestic City will stand the 2016 breeding season at Questroyal North in Stillwater, N.Y., for a fee of $3,500.
Xixixi, a winning half-brother to Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, will begin his stud career next spring at Xanthus Farm near Gettysburg, Pa. The 4-year-old son of Maimonides will stand for a fee of $5,000
Pants On Fire, a stakes winner in each of the last five years, has been retired from racing and will stand at stud next year at age 8.
After 32 years of the Breeders’ Cup, the patterns of sire lines and female families of the race winners are well established. The Northern Dancer and Mr. Prospector male lines will dominate, and Bruce Lowe female family No. 1 will provide more winners than any other female line.
When John Gaines came up with the idea for the Breeders’ Cup, he started by organizing meetings in Lexington, Ky. This was for a number of reasons, not the least being that Lexington is the heart of the Thoroughbred industry, and local breeders and stallion owners were being asked to fund the effort in its entirety, with a collective commitment in excess of $10 million required just to get the inaugural running held.