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.
Martin O’Dowd, general manager of Runnymede Farm in Paris, Ky. will open a new bloodstock management venture while continuing to oversee the farm’s international breeding and racing operations.
Alphabet Soup and Touch Gold have returned to Adena Springs Kentucky in Paris, Ky., to stand the 2014 breeding season for fees yet to be announced. The two stallions stood the past three seasons at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Grade 1 winner Any Given Saturday will relocate to Pin Oak Lane in New Freedom, Pa., for the 2014 breeding season to stand for an advertised fee of $5,000.
A look at the most influential broodmares in the three-decade history of the Breeders' Cup.
Although the Kentucky Derby – and to a lesser extent the Preakness and Belmont – might enjoy more widespread popularity and recognition among the sporting public, the Breeders’ Cup represents the highest-quality racing on the North American continent each year. As such, it is both entirely predictable and entirely fitting that cumulative Breeders’ Cup results over its 29-year history reflect the distribution and evolution of major American and international sire lines.
Henny Hughes, a multiple Grade 1 winner and sire of champion Beholder, has been sold to Yushun Company in Hokkaido, Japan, Thoroughbred Daily News reports.
Oxbow, winner of the 2013 Preakness Stakes, has been retired from racing and will begin his stallion career in 2014 at Taylor Made Stallions in Nicholasville, Ky., for an advertised fee of $20,000.
Louisiana sire Lone Star Special will relocate to stand the 2014 breeding season at Special T Thoroughbreds in Temecula, Calif.
Wildcat Heir will lead the stallion roster at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Fla., for 2014, standing for a fee of $10,000, stands and nurses.
