Tarfah, the dam of two-time European champion Camelot, has been shipped to the U.S. to be mated with 2012 leading sire Giant’s Causeway at Coolmore America’s Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky.
Grade 1 winner Ice Box was represented by his first foal on Jan. 5, a filly born at Buena Vista Farm in Ocala, Fla.
A number of Lexington, Ky.-area Thoroughbred farms will host open houses and stallion showings for breeders to coincide with the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale.
Furioso, a multiple stakes winner and four-time Horse of the Year as voted by the National Association of Racing, will stand at Darley Japan in 2013 for a fee of 500,000 yen, or about $5,700.
TCA stallion season auction raises more than $700,000
Tony Cissell has re-joined WinStar Farm to serve as director of stallion operations for the Versailles, Ky. facility.
WinStar Farm will conduct drawings for a “Breed to Win” promotion, providing an incentive for supportive breeders with a complimentary 2013 breeding season to 12 of the farm's stallions.
The legislation signed to prevent the national “fiscal cliff” included a pair of provisions for tax incentive programs that benefit Thoroughbred owners and breeders.
Canadian champion filly Tu Endie Wei died on Dec. 24 in Kentucky while undergoing an operation for fibrous adhesions. The Johar filly had been retired to owner Brereton Jones' Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky., in November.
Selkirk, twice rated Timeform’s champion miler in Europe and one of the leading English-based sires of the past two decades, died yesterday at Lanwades Stud in Newmarket, England.
