The Niarchos family, operating under the name of Flaxman Holdings Ltd., earned the fourth annual John Deere Award as outstanding breeders of the 2014 Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series and the Breeders’ Cup World Championships.
Irish sire Kodiac set a record for single-season 2-year-old winners by a North American or European stallion when his son Cry No More won his debut Nov. 30 in Sweden.
Heritage Place, a Quarter Horse auction house in Oklahoma City, will conduct its third annual winter mixed Thoroughbred sale Saturday. There are 134 horses cataloged for the sale, covering both breeding and racing stock. The auction starts at 11 a.m. Central.
Music City, a stakes-winning son of City Zip, will make his stallion debut in 2015 at Win Row Farm in Lebanon, Ohio for an advertised fee of $1,000.
Grade 2 winner Gervinho has been retired from racing and will stand the 2015 breeding season at Tommy Town Thoroughbreds in Santa Ynez, Calif., for an advertised fee of $3,500.
Fort Larned, winner of the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Classic, will relocate to Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs South in Williston, Fla., for the 2015 breeding season.
Whatever the future holds for Classic Point, Flatter has vindicated Claiborne’s faith in him as a stallion. While he is unlikely ever to reach the highest levels of fashionability, he has proven himself as a solid sire of graded stakes winners.
The Japan Bloodhorse Breeders’ Association released its advertised fees for the 2015 breeding season, featuring several names familiar to U.S. breeders.
U S Ranger will relocate to Rancho San Miguel in San Miguel, Calif., where he will stand the 2015 breeding season for an advertised fee of $3,000.
Young stallion Vertiformer will make his stallion debut at Poplar Creek Horse Center in Bethel, Ohio, for an advertised fee of $2,000.
