
Winchell buys interest in Pin Oak stallion Cowboy Cal
Ron Winchell has bought an unspecified interest in Pin Oak Stud stallion Cowboy Cal, who stands at the Versailles, Ky., farm for $7,500.

Ron Winchell has bought an unspecified interest in Pin Oak Stud stallion Cowboy Cal, who stands at the Versailles, Ky., farm for $7,500.

Indian Charlie, sire of four North American champions including Uncle Mo, died Thursday morning at age 16. An In Excess horse who went from California Grade 1 winner to fashionable Kentucky sire, Indian Charlie had cancer and was euthanized at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute, according to a source close to Brereton C. Jones’s Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky., where Indian Charlie stood.
Bank Heist, a Maria's Mon half-brother to 2007 sprint champion Midnight Lute and multiple-graded-placed Captain Cherokee, has retired from the track and will enter stud at Kaz Hill Farm in Middletown, N.Y.
Part of Richard Simon’s former Sez Who Thoroughbreds property in Ocala, Fla., has been sold to an Ocala realtor.
Ruby Be Mine, a 9-year-old stakes-producing mare by Rubiano, brought a bid of $35,000 to top the Fasig-Tipton Texas mixed sale Monday at Lone Star Park near Dallas. The average price at the one-day auction featuring breeding stock was $4,553, up 12 percent from the corresponding sale in 2010.

Last year’s Jockey Club Gold Cup winner, Haynesfield, will start his stud career at Elizabeth and Brereton Jones’s Airdrie Stud in 2012 for a $10,000 fee.

Rousing Sermon will make his graded stakes debut in the $750,000 CashCall Futurity over 1 1/16 miles at Hollywood Park next Saturday under circumstances that could make him dangerous.
WinStar Farm will auction some of its racing memorabilia on eBay this month to benefit the New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program.
Taking inspiration from Spendthrift Farm, Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Ky., will adopt the Share the Upside breeder incentive for breeders sending mares to their new stallion, American Lion.
Confidence in the Thoroughbred business overcame doubts about the global economy at the Tattersalls breeding stock sale , where strong gains added evidence that the Thoroughbred market is turning a corner after three difficult − for some, disastrous − years.