Airdrie Stud will keep the stallion fee of Uncle Mo’s sire, Indian Charlie, at $70,000 for the 2011 breeding season that opens in February, but that figure will drop to $63,000 for breeders paying by Nov. 1, 2011.
Vinery will boost the fee of its flagship stallion, More Than Ready, from $30,000 to $40,000 but will cut many of its other horses’ fees in 2011.
Lookin At Lucky will start his stud career with a $35,000 fee, and Giant’s Causeway will drop in price from $100,000 to $85,000 in 2011, Ashford Stud announced Tuesday.
Vinery stallion Purge is the latest sire to join the ranks at Vinery’s new operation in New York.
A pair of Galileo yearlings were the $233,700 top sellers Monday at the Tattersalls December yearling sale in Newmarket, England. The one-day sale kicked off the annual Tattersalls December auction series with a higher gross but downturns in average and median.
Keeneland’s 13-day November breeding stock auction ended Saturday with the market between 10 and 15 percent below last year’s levels.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Friday’s penultimate session at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale ended with precipitous drops as average and median plummeted by more than 35 percent.
Lookin at Lucky, 2009’s juvenile champion who went on to win the Preakness and Haskell this year, has retired from racing at age 3 and will enter stud at Coolmore Stud’s Kentucky division, Ashford Stud. Coolmore has purchased the colt from owners Mike Pegram, Karl Watson, and Paul Weitman, and has not yet set a fee for the Smart Strike colt.
The Pamplemousse, who won two Grade 3 stakes in early 2009 but was later plagued with injuries, has been retired and will stand the 2011 breeding season at Rancho San Miguel in San Miguel, Calif.
Applebite Farms in French Camp, Calif., is closing this winter, former farm manager Duane Griffith said Thursday.
