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.
Grade 2 winner Overdriven will stand the 2013 breeding season at Ocala Stud in Ocala, Fla., for an introductory fee of $3,000 when the foal stands and nurses.
Bullet Train, a Group 3 winner and a three-quarter-brother to two-time European Horse of the Year Frankel, will stand his first season at stud at Wintergreen Stallion Station in Midway, Ky., for a fee of $7,500, payable when the foal stands and nurses.
Tersa, the dam of multiple Grade 1 winner and millionaire Rock Hard Ten, died Nov. 27 at Diamond A Farms in Versailles, Ky.
Sequel Stallions in Hudson, N.Y., has unveiled its 2013 stallion roster and fees, and leading sire Freud’s fee will remain unchanged from 2012 at $10,000.
Banimpire, a five-time group stakes winner, brought about $2.5 million Tuesday as the day’s most expensive horse at the Tattersalls December breeding stock sale in Newmarket, England.
Henny Hughes, currently ranked second on the North American juvenile sire list, will return to the United States for the 2013 Northern Hemisphere breeding season.
Considering that last year's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December mixed sale featured the high-profile dispersal of the late Carl Lizza Jr.'s Flying Zee Stable, sales figures were expected to be down at the conclusion of Monday's renewal at Timonium, Md., and they were.
A weanling half-sister to recent Grade 1 winner Unbridled Command became the first offering to break the six-figure mark Monday at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December mixed sale. McMahon and Hill Bloodstock, agents for Edition Farm, purchased the Read the Footnotes filly for $100,000.
