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Peppers Pride, undefeated in 19 lifetime starts to set a new modern win record, has arrived at Richland Hills in Midway, Ky., to start her broodmare career. A 6-year-old Desert God mare, she will be bred to Tiznow. . . . Storm Cat's last foal, a filly out of Richwoman, was born March 5 at Town and Country Farms in Paris, Ky. The filly is the final horse from the pensioned stallion's last crop of three foals. . . Castleton Lyons stud farm in Lexington, Ky., will not shuttle Bernstein - sire of such graded winners as Dream Empress, Doremifasollatido, and West Side Bernie - to Haras la Biznaga in Argentina for the 2009 Southern Hemisphere season, as it had for seven consecutive breeding seasons.