Flightline is not the only member of the incoming stallion class of 2023 who has merited a lofty six-figure introductory stud fee. Multiple Grade 1 winner Life Is Good, who like Flightline is expected to be an Eclipse Award finalist in the older dirt male category, has taken up residence at WinStar Farm for an advertised fee of $100,000.
Mandaloun, by leading sire and emerging sire of sires Into Mischief, retires to Juddmonte Farm in Nicholasville, Ky., for the 2023 season. He is the first horse to move into Juddmonte's Kentucky stallion barn in about six years, since champion Arrogate arrived there in fall 2017.
Gun Runner will be represented by his first sons at stud in 2023, both Grade 1 winners from his first crop. Preakness Stakes winner Early Voting has taken up residence at Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., while multiple Grade 1 winner Cyberknife will return home to Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., after one final start.
A.P. Indy was that rare, legendary Thoroughbred, and a lynchpin for the Farish family's Lane's End Farm operation. It's into those massive horseshoes that his great-grandson Flightline now attempts to step, and it's impossible not to draw comparisons.
Grade 1 winner Epicenter, who sustained a career-ending injury in the Breeders' Cup Classic last month, will begin a stallion career at Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., that operation announced Sunday. Epicenter is a grandson of the late Coolmore leading sire Giant's Causeway, giving the international operation a chance to build upon that legacy in the United States.
Grade 1 winner Epicenter, who sustained a career-ending injury in the Breeders' Cup Classic last month, will begin a stallion career at Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., that operation announced Sunday.
The globe-trotting Ouija Board, a champion on two continents who went on to be a classic producer, has died in England at age 21. The Oasis Dream mare had resided at her owner and breeder Lord Darby’s Stanley House Stud in Newmarket.
Ce Ce, the champion female sprinter of 2021, was retired earlier this month after finishing fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint on Nov. 5 at Keeneland.
Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint winner and divisional Eclipse Award champion Shamrock Rose will be among the mares in unbeaten Flightline’s first book before departing for her new home in Japan.
Weanling colts by first-crop sires Vekoma and Country House topped the leaderboard Sunday as the Keeneland November breeding stock sale closed out its Book 4 portion with solid figures.
