Unusual Heat to stand for $20,000 in 2015
Unusual Heat, a perennial leading sire in California, will stand for an advertised fee of $20,000 during the 2015 breeding season at Harris Farms in Coalinga, Calif.
DRF Breeding StaffNov 17, 2014
Unusual Heat, a perennial leading sire in California, will stand for an advertised fee of $20,000 during the 2015 breeding season at Harris Farms in Coalinga, Calif.
Grade 3 winner Fort Loudon has been retired from racing and will make his stallion debut at Bridlewood Farm in Ocala, Fla., during the 2015 breeding season for an advertised fee of $4,000.
Forestry, a Grade 1 winner and sire, has been purchased by Haras Sao Jose da Serra in Brazil, and will not return to the Northern Hemisphere for the 2015 breeding season.
The Irish foal crop grew 6 percent in 2014, while the foal population in Great Britain declined, Racing Post reports.
Grade 1 winner and millionaire Sweet Return will relocate to J. Michael O’Farrell’s Ocala Stud in Ocala, Fla., for the 2015 breeding season. The 14-year-old Elmaaul horse, who most recently stood at nearby Journeyman Stud, will stand for an advertised fee of $3,500.
The fallout from the Breeders’ Cup Classic may have clouded the Horse of the Year picture, but on the undercard, other divisional rankings became much clearer. In the juvenile filly division, the performance of unbeaten Lady Eli in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf could produce an anomaly compared with most years since the Eclipse Awards for both champion juvenile categories are normally granted to dirt horses.
For a horse who led the American sire list in 2004, ranked fifth in 2008, and has sired 116 stakes winners, Elusive Quality gets relatively little respect from the commercial market. His 34 yearlings sold this year have averaged $84,056, and stallion stations have hardly been clamoring to stand his sons at stud. The latter may be about to change, since Hootenanny’s victory in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf catapulted Elusive Quality’s son, Quality Road, to the top of the American freshman sire list. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, Elusive Quality’s son Evasive ranks a surprising second on the French freshman sire list.
Red Rocks, winner of the 2006 Breeders' Cup Turf, will return to America to continue his stud career at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Ky.
Daily Racing Form is pleased to announce the launch of its DRF Breeding SirePowered Results interface, the first interactive sire tool to help breeders and owners sort results on demand.
Castleton Lyons in Lexington, Ky., has released the advertised fees for its two-horse stallion roster. Leading the duo is three-time Eclipse Award winner Gio Ponti, whose fee will remain unchanged at $15,000.