Power Broker, a Grade 1 winner as a juvenile, has been retired and will stand the 2014 season at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm in Lexington, Ky. The 3-year-old son of Pulpit will stand for an advertised fee of $10,000.
Pollard’s Vision, sire of champion Blind Luck, is one of four stallions joining the stallion roster for the inaugural season at Joe and Helen Barbazon’s Pleasant Acres Stallions in Morriston, Fla.
Heavy Breathing, a Grade 3-placed winner and a full brother to young New York sire Frost Giant, will stand his initial breeding season at Dutchess View Farm in Pine Plains, N.Y. for an advertised fee of $2,500.
Grade 1 winner Corinthian will relocate to Pin Oak Lane in New Freedom, Pa., for an advertised fee of $4,000 with discounts for multiple mares.
Veterinarian Brooke Bowman and Louis Merryman have formed a new stallion operation, Heritage Stallions, on property that was formerly part of the original Windfields Farm near Chesapeake City, Md.
Grade 1 winner Bullsbay will relocate to Northview PA in Peach Bottom, Pa., for the 2014 breeding season.
Grade 1 winner Coil’s advertised fee will remain at $5,000 as he enters his second year of stud at Magali Farms in Santa Ynez, Calif.
Prominent European sire Invincible Spirit will stand the 2014 breeding season for a fee of 70,000 Euros, or about $94,650 in U.S. funds, the Irish National Stud in Co. Kildare, Ireland, has announced.
Champion sprinter Trinniberg has been retired from racing and will join the six horses that comprise Vinery’s New York stallion roster in moving to Lere Visagie’s Rockridge Stud in Hudson, N.Y. for the 2014 breeding season.
From a genetic point of view, it is arguable that the male line of a given sire is the least important part of any pedigree. Compared with other chromosomes, the Y chromosome that determines gender is tiny and carries very little other information.
