George Strawbridge's 2008 champion grass mare Forever Together has retired to Stone Farm in Kentucky and will be bred to Smart Strike in 2011. Forever Together arrived at Stone Farm last Friday evening, a week after her sixth-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf, a race she won in 2008 and in which she had finished third in 2009.
Darley Stud will keep Medaglia d'Oro and Street Cry at their 2010 stud fee levels for the coming breeding season and will decrease the fees of seven other stallions on the roster at its Kentucky farm.
Taylor Made Stallions generally has lowered its stallions’ fees for 2011 while offering discounts for Nov. 1 stud fee payments.
A $50,000 weanling by first-crop sire Tiz Wonderful led a parade of young stock at the top of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale’s prices Monday.
Grade 1 winner Nonsuch Bay provided the buzz Sunday at Keeneland’s November breeding stock sale, where she was the only six-figure horse at the auction’s seventh session. Nonsuch Bay brought $210,000 from SF Bloodstock.
Twisted Tale, a 5-year-old broodmare by Tale of the Cat, solid for $250,000 at Saturday's sixth session of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.
Juddmonte Farms has sold its homebred Belmont Stakes winner privately to Japanese interests, according to an announcement sent out Friday evening by the farm's advertising agent, Lance Bell.
Quality Road will launch his stud career at Lane's End with a $35,000 fee, the Kentucky farm announced Friday.
A 3-year-old half-sister to likely 2-year-old champion and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Uncle Mo took top billing Friday at the Keeneland November breeding stock auction, selling to WinStar Farm for $400,000.
Weanlings were in demand Thursday at Keeneland's two-week November auction, a bright spot in a session that posted losses across the board.
