Grade 3 winner Keep Up has been retired and will enter stud in 2014 at Mill Ridge Farm near Lexington, Ky. The 6-year-old Unbridled’s Song horse will stand for a fee of $5,000, stands and nurses, or $4,000 for two years if participating in the Mill Ridge “Share the Upside” incentive program.
Zabeel, a Group 1 winner and top sire in Australia and New Zealand, has been pensioned from stallion duty, RaceNet reports.
Multiple Grade 2 winner Zanjero has been sold to Turkish owner/breeder Serdar Kemal Ozcolak and will stand in 2014 at the Jockey Club of Turkey’s Karacabey National Stud in Bursa for an advertised fee of $2,954 (6,000 Turkish Lira), BloodHorse reports.
In a year of accomplishment, the Oklahoma Thoroughbred Retirement Program has forged a relationship with the equestrian team at the University of Oklahoma, assisted in rescue efforts during the Moore, Okla., tornado, and reunited the 12-year-old Prospective Kiss, who last raced in July, with his breeder.
A visit to the 2013 Tattersalls December sale in Newmarket, England, last week offered the opportunity to make the short trip out Duchess Drive to the village of Cheveley to see the undefeated Frankel. The great one did not disappoint, but the most surprising aspect of a delightful hour at Juddmonte Farms’ stallion division was the appearance of Cacique among the seven stallions standing for 2014 at Banstead Manor Stud.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Flat Out will make his debut at stud in 2014 at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., where he will stand for an advertised fee of $10,000.
Smart Strike rose to prominence in the mid-2000s, and in 2007 and 2008, he finished atop the North American general sire earnings list after his sons English Channel and Curlin earned Eclipse Awards and became among the best racehorses of their era.
Grade 1-winning stallion After Market has been sold to the Jockey Club of Turkey, and will stand the 2014 breeding season for an advertised fee of $3,925 (8,000 Turkish Lira), Racing Post reports.
Multiple stakes winner Gig Harbor will make his stallion debut in 2014 at Victory Rose Thoroughbreds in Vacaville, Calif. for an advertised fee of $1,500, BloodHorse reports.
Nastique, a four-time Grade 1 winner and producer of two graded/group stakes winners, died from the infirmities of old age at Brookdale Farm in Versailles, Ky. She was 29.
