WinStar Farm has worked out a new plan for Drosselmeyer, the 2010 Belmont Stakes winner and 2011 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, who will now stand at WinStar near Versailles, Ky., rather than at Keane Farm in New York as originally planned.
Unusual Heat, California’s leading sire by progeny earnings since 2008, will stand for $20,000 at Harris Farms in Coalinga, Calif., to a book of approximately 60 mares in 2012, a stud fee unchanged from 2011.
Adena Springs, Wintergeen Stallion Station, and Millennium Farms are keeping their 2012 fees for all but one stallion – Borrego, standing at Wintergreen – at the same levels they had in 2011.
Canadian Frontier, sire of Grade 1 winners Hilda's Passion and No Such Word, will relocate in 2012 from Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky., to Brett Brinkman's LeMesa Stallions in Carencro, La. Canadian Frontier, a 12-year-old Gone West horse out of multiple graded winner Borodislew, by Seattle Slew, will have a fee of $3,500 on stands-and-nurses terms or $3,000 on Nov. 1 payment with live foal guarantee. . . . The filing date to avoid late-registration fees for recording foals and 2-year-olds with the Jockey Club is Dec. 31, after which the fee increases from $525 to $775 for yearlings and from $775 to $2,000 for 2-year-olds. Registration and status information is available via www.registry.jockeyclub.com.
Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 131 horses for its Texas December mixed sale, set for Dec. 12 at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Tex.
Pumped up by important dispersals, Keeneland’s November breeding stock sale ended a remarkable 11-day run Thursday that built industry confidence that the Thoroughbred market had turned a corner after bruising downturns due to oversupply and the recession.
Three weanlings by Sea the Stars sold for more than $1 million each Thursday at the Goffs November foal sale in Ireland, marking the first weanlings by the European champion to come to market publicly.
Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Ky., has sold Whywhywhy to a Korean syndicate that will stand the 11-year-old Mr. Greeley horse at the Jeju Stallion Station in Jeju, South Korea.
Pin Oak Stud in Versailles, Ky., will maintain 2011 stud fees for all but one of their stallions when the 2012 breeding season opens in mid-February.
As Keeneland's November breeding stock sale neared its end, prices on its 10th day dropped off more steeply compared with last year's equivalent session, even though the auction overall was well up over 2010's cumulative figures.
