DRF Breeding staff writer Joe Nevills analyzes each race of the 2013 Breeders’ Cup World Championships in the form of Haiku; a Japanese poem of 17 syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five.
J. Michael O’Farrell’s Ocala Stud released its advertised stud fees for the 2014 breeding season Wednesday, with the fees for all of its returning stallions unchanged from last year, and a new addition in Grade 2 winner Prospective.
Prominent sire Smart Strike will stand for $100,000 in 2014 to lead the Lane’s End roster, which was unveiled Wednesday.
Grade 1 winner Emcee has been retired from racing and will stand the 2014 breeding season at Becky Thomas’s Sequel Stallions in Hudson, N.Y.
The three farms that comprise the European wing of Shiekh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum’s Darley operation have announced their stud fees for 2014.
Grade 1 winner Paynter, who captured the racing world’s attention with a remarkable comeback from illness this year, will enter stud in 2014 at WinStar Farm near Versailles, Ky.
Verrazano, a two-time Grade 1-winning 3-year-old, will make the final start of his career in Friday’s $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Santa Anita and will stand the 2014 breeding season at Ashford Stud, the American division of Ireland’s Coolmore stud, it was announced Tuesday.
A Lloyds of London underwriter of an insurance policy on the recently deceased shuttle stallion Indygo Shiner has filed suit against Summer Wind Equine, claiming that the $1 million policy should not be paid out because of a breach of agreement. The story was first reported by the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Grade 1 winner Hard Spun will stand the 2014 breeding season at Darley Stud in Hokkaido, Japan.
B. Wayne Hughes’ Spendthrift Farms announced the 2014 stud fees for its 21-stallion roster spanning five states and provinces, with the most notable change coming for the operation’s marquee sire, Malibu Moon.
