Spendthrift Farm announced Thursday that Grade 1 winner Into Mischief, among this season’s leading freshman sires, will stand for $10,000 in 2013, an increase from his previously announced fee.
Historic Calumet Farm in Lexington, Ky., has announced its stud fees for 2013, with Group 1 winner Americain leading its newly created three-stallion roster.
Banking and media giant Joe Allbritton, who came into the Thoroughbred racing game late in his life and won two classics with Hansel, died in Houston, Texas, on Wednesday. He was 87.
Sightseeing, a Grade 2 winner by Pulpit, lost a battle with colic in early December, the same week his sire died unexpectedly. At the time of his passing, the 8-year-old stallion ranked 11th among North American-based freshman sires with progeny earnings of $500,904.
Group 1 winner Biondetti has been retired and will begin his stud career at Woodford Thoroughbreds in Reddick, Fla. in 2013.
Nicanor, a stakes-placed full brother to 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, will enter stud in 2013 at Shamrock Farm in Woodbine, Md.
Champion sprinter Benny the Bull will stand the 2013 breeding season at Eugene Melnyk’s Winding Oaks Farm in Ocala for an advertised fee of $2,500 live foal.
An upcoming provision on whether a race gets black type in catalogs will put more than half of North America’s stakes races under review and might cost the first three finishers in some stakes black type. This new measure also could dramatically alter the landscape for regional breeding programs.
Sheikh Ahmed al Maktoum and Darley Stable’s 4-year-old Selkirk filly Nahrain, winner of the Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes this year, has been retired and will join Darley Stable’s broodmare band.
Pulpit, a multiple Grade 2 winner and prominent sire, died in his paddock at Claiborne Farm on Thursday at age 18. The stallion had shown no signs of ill health in the weeks prior to his death.
