Grade 2-placed stakes winner He Be Fire N Ice has been retired from racing and will stand the 2015 breeding season at Rancho San Miguel in San Luis Obispo, Calif. for an advertised fee of $2,500.
Grade 2 winner Ready’s Image has been purchased by Brad Kelley’s Calumet Farm, and will stand at the Lexington, Ky., operation in 2015 for an advertised fee of $5,000.
Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA) will host its 25th annual stallion season auction from Jan. 5 through Jan. 10, 2015, with bids accepted via telephone and online.
Peintre Celebre, the broodmare sire of the top two finishers in Tuesday’s Group 1 Melbourne Cup, has been pensioned from stallion duty at Coolmore’s Castlehyde Stud in Ireland.
Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Fla., has released the 2015 stud fees for its nine-horse stallion roster. Topping the roster is the state’s leading sire Wildcat Heir, an 8-year-old son of Forest Wildcat whose fee will remain at $10,000.
Adena Springs in Paris, Ky. has released the advertised 2015 stud fees for its nine-horse stallion roster. The group will once again be led by Awesome Again, a 20-year-old Deputy Minister horse, who will stand for $75,000, the same fee he commanded in 2014.
Champion Big Brown, winner of the 2008 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, will relocate to New York for stud duty in 2015, standing for a fee of $8,500.
Grade 1 winner Street Hero will stand the 2015 breeding season at Rancho San Miguel in San Miguel, Calif.
Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Ky., has released the advertised 2015 stud fees for its 15-horse stallion roster. Leading the group will be Smart Strike, a 22-year-old son of Mr. Prospector, whose fee will remain unchanged at $100,000.
Juddmonte Farms has released the advertised fees for its 2015 stallion roster in Newmarket, England, led once again by the undefeated Frankel.
