Young stallion Talent Search will stand the 2013 breeding season at Ramsey Farm in Nicholasville, Ky. The 9-year-old Catienus horse, who will be represented by his first crop of 2-year-olds on the track next year, stood the 2012 season at Diamond B Farm in Mohrsville, Pa.
Millionaire and multiple graded stakes winner Smart Bid has been retired and will enter stud in 2013 at Highcliff at Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater, N.Y.
Team Valor has retired Grade 1-winning filly Summer Soiree, who finished third Sunday in the Matriarch Stakes at Hollywood Park.
Nathan Tinkler, the 36-year-old Australian mining tycoon whose Patinack Farm was a prominent select auction spender in recent years, has been sued by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum’s Kildangan Stud.
The Tattersalls December sale kicked off on Monday with a one-day yearling auction, which saw five horses sell for 100,000 guineas ($168,300) or more but posted overall declines compared with the first session in 2011.
Broodmare of the Year Oatsee, who saw two of her foals win graded stakes races in as many days over the holiday weekend, will be among the mares in unbeaten champion Frankel’s first book next spring.
The fastest way to win a stakes for older California-breds this month is through the claim box.
Group 1 winner Americain, retired earlier this month, will begin his stud career in 2013 at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Ky.
Ramsey Farm in Nicholasville, Ky., announced Thursday that champion Kitten’s Joy will stand the 2013 season for $50,000 when the foal stands and nurses, the same fee as in 2012.
Havre de Grace's $10 million price tag at the recent Fasig-Tipton fall mixed sale raised the question of whether purchasing high-priced broodmares makes economic sense.
