Reddam Racing LLC, Ocala Stud, and Morton Fink earned top honors as the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA) held its annual National Awards Dinner Friday, Sept. 6, at the Fasig-Tipton facility in Lexington, Ky.
Kentucky Derby winner and champion Street Sense, who has sired two Grade 1 winners this season, will return to Darley's Jonabell Farm near Lexington, Ky., after standing the 2013 season at the operation's Japanese location. A stud fee will be announced at a later date.
Grade 3 winner Winslow Homer, retired earlier this year, will stand the 2014 season at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Fla. A stud fee will be announced at a later date.
Grade 1 winner I Want Revenge will enter stud next year at Ben and Elaine Walden’s Pauls Mill Farm in Versailles, Ky., marking a return to the stallion business for that operation.
Less than two months after siring his first career winner, in Korea, multiple Grade 2-winning millionaire Cowboy Cal was represented by his first U.S. winner, as Tachi scored a solid maiden win in his second career outing Aug. 27 at Indiana Downs.
Grade 2 winner O’Prado Again has been retired, and will begin his stallion career in 2014 at Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Ky.
California stallion Tribal Rule gained an advantage in his ongoing duel with Unusual Heat at the top of the Golden State’s general sire list this year when his son Ethnic Dance won the second division of the Grade 2 Del Mar Derby on Sept. 1.
One week after a broken weight-bearing pin complicated St Nicholas Abbey’s recovery from a fractured pastern, the 6-year-old Montjeu horse and six-time Grade/Group 1 winner has had what Coolmore Stud declared “his best week since his initial surgery.”
Grant Williamson has been hired to join the marketing and sales team at Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs. Williamson will be based at the operation’s Paris, Ky., location, but will promote Adena stallions in all locations.
Stonewall Farm in Midway., Ky., once home to such stallions as Medaglia d’Oro and Leroidesanimaux, has sold for $7.5 million to an entity called Stonewall Dominion LLC, according to the Paulick Report.
