McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., announced Tuesday that Mr. Sekiguchi, Canada’s leading freshman sire in 2011, will relocate to New York for the 2013 breeding season and stand for a fee of $2,500 live foal.
Group 3 winner Bullet Train, a three-quarter-brother to unbeaten champion Frankel, has been retired and will enter stud in Kentucky in 2013.
Grade 1 winner Courageous Cat will stand the 2013 breeding season at Questroyal North in Stillwater, N.Y.
Australian bloodstock sales company Magic Millions announced on Tuesday that international wagering company Betfair will become a major sponsor of Magic Millions beginning Jan. 1.
Issam Fares’s Fares Farm, breeder of two-time Horse of the Year Curlin, will disperse its Thoroughbred breeding and racing stock at the Keeneland horses of all ages sale, held Jan. 7-11.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Rock Hard Ten has been sold to the Korean Racing Authority to stand at stud in Korea. The 11-year-old son of Kris S.began his stud career in 2006 at William S. Farish’s Lane’s End Farm.
Pin Oak Lane Farm in New Freedom, Penn., has reduced the fees for two of its stallions, Albert the Great and Lite the Fuse, and will stand Rockport Harbor for the first time in 2013.
Repent, currently fifth on the Florida general sire list, will stand at Woodford Thoroughbreds for $3,000, the same as in 2012.
Multiple graded stakes winner Unbridled Energy will stand the 2013 breeding season for $2,500 live foal at Larry Mabee’s Golden Eagle Farm in Ramona, Calif.
The Keeneland November breeding stock sale generated one more round of fireworks before the end of Friday's 11th and final session when broodmare Royal Irish Lass sold to Brandywine Farm for $210,000.
