DRF stallion auction features seasons to more than 70 sires

More than 70 Thoroughbred and Standardbred stallions from eight different states and provinces will be represented as Daily Racing Form hosts an inaugural stallion season auction in the coming days.

Bidding for the auction, hosted on EquiRing, by HorseCo, will open 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 28. The auction will close 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 30. The North American breeding season is set to begin just a few weeks hence, in early February.

“In addition to being the No. 1 choice of data for horseplayers, Daily Racing Form is also the preferred source of data for breeders and horse people throughout the industry,” said Robert Forbeck, DRF’s senior vice president/national advertising director. “Plus, avid horseplayers are a great target as potential new owners for the industry. DRF delivers all of these audiences like no one else. We couldn’t be happier with the response from farms and stallion owners throughout North America.”

Stallions standing in Kentucky, the epicenter of Thoroughbred breeding activity in North America, represented with seasons in the auction include two-time Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Goldencents, a successful son of leading sire and emerging sire of sires Into Mischief. Goldencents stands at Spendthrift Farm, which also has made seasons available to Grade 1 winner Gormley, whose third crop races this year; and to Known Agenda and Rock Your World, both Grade 1 winners with their first foals arriving now.

Travers Stakes winner Keen Ice, the sire of 2022 Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike in his first crop, and Preakness Stakes winner Oxbow, the sire of Grade 1 winner Hot Rod Charlie, also are among Kentucky stallions on offer. Both stand at Calumet Farm, which has seasons to 10 other stallions in the auction.

Gainesway Farm has made seasons available to multiple Grade 1 winner McKinzie, whose first weanlings were well received at auctions last fall; and to Grade 1 winner Drain the Clock, who begins his stud career next month. Promoted Kentucky Derby winner Country House, whose first foals are yearlings this season, and the versatile Flameaway, whose well-received first foals race this year, are both represented among nine stallions from Darby Dan Farm.

Other Kentucky farms represented include Buck Pond Farm, with five stallions, including multiple graded stakes-winning newcomer Sacred Life.

New York will welcome several standouts to its stallion ranks this year, including multiple Grade 1 winner Mind Control, a Rockridge Stud/Irish Hill and Dutchess Views/Waldorf/Hidden Lake venture; and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Fire At Will at Sequel Stallions. They are among the group of nine Empire State stallions with seasons on offer.

The popular globe-trotting sire Sir Prancealot, whose first crop of California-sired foals will race this year, has a season on offer from Rancho San Miguel as one of several California farms represented. Grade 1 winner Eight Rings, a prominent newcomer to the state at Tommy Town Thoroughbreds, also is included.

In addition to Kentucky, New York, and California, other states/provinces represented with Thoroughbred seasons in the auction are Louisiana, Ontario, Oregon, and Pennsylvania.

The Standardbred breeding operation Deo Volente Farm has seasons on offer to Lazarus N and Six Pack at its New Jersey farm, and Trixton standing in Ontario. Gulf Shores, a Standardbred stallion in Florida, also will have a season on offer.

For a complete listing of seasons available, information on terms, and to register to bid, click here.