Union Rags was an obvious young stallion prospect for Lane’s End Farm to invest in. Phyllis Wyeth’s homebred is a son of former farm stallion Dixie Union, and going another generation back, his grandsire, Dixieland Band, was one of the original three stallions at Lane’s End Farm when it was established.

The breeding rights to Grade 1 winner Eight Rings, who is among the favorites for next week's Breeders' Cup Juvenile, have been acquired by the international Coolmore group. The outfit plans to stand the colt at its Ashford Stud in Kentucky upon his eventual retirement.

A horse is a horse, of course, of course – even when that horse is a graded stakes winner who is one of the favorites for a Breeders’ Cup race. So Jim and Susan Hill of Margaux Farm make sure that their stable star Totally Boss gets to act like the horse he is between races by coming back to the farm, a training method that has taken him to the threshold of a tilt at the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on Nov. 2 at Santa Anita.

Triple Crown winner Justify and the globe-trotting Mendelssohn were the busiest stallions in North America in 2019 as they stood their first season at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky, The Jockey Club’s Report of Mares Bred revealed Thursday.

Mongolian Groom punched his ticket to the Breeders’ Cup Classic with his victory in the Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes in September at Santa Anita, prompting his connections to supplement him to the race. He also punched a ticket home to Kentucky for his sire, Hightail, who has found stakes success from a limited sample size and now returns from several seasons in Arkansas to Calumet Farm for the 2020 season. 

Catalina Cruiser, who is bound for a start at next week's Breeders' Cup, will stand alongside his sire at Lane's End Farm upon his eventual retirement.

Catalina Cruiser is by Lane's End sire Union Rags, and that is not his only connection to his future home. The 5-year-old is out of a mare by Mineshaft, a Lane's End homebred champion by its legendary sire A.P. Indy. Catalina Cruiser was bred in Kentucky by Lane's End's W.S. Farish, and was a $370,000 Keeneland September yearling. He races in the colors of Hronis Racing.

Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky has unveiled its stallion roster and the majority of its fees for 2020. The Ashford roster is led by its pair of Triple Crown winners, American Pharoah and Justify.

Wayne O won a maiden special weight on Saturday at Keeneland as the third choice in a large field of 12 2-year-olds, taking several new owners along for the ride as part of the MyRacehorse.com club investment. The nascent company seeks even greater heights in the coming weeks as it holds a stake in Breeders’ Cup contenders Street Band and Lazy Daisy.

Flameaway, a versatile multiple graded stakes winner, has been retired and will enter stud at Darby Dan Farm in Kentucky. The 4-year-old son of Scat Daddy will stand for $7,500.

An Ontario-bred trained throughout his career by Mark Casse for John Oxley, Flameaway retires with a record of 6-3-1 from 18 starts and earnings just shy of a million, at $911,634. After winning his debut on a synthetic track, he won a pair of off-the-turf stakes as a juvenile, taking the Grade 3 Bourbon Stakes at Keeneland and the Skidmore Stakes at Saratoga.

Breakout freshman sire Constitution will see his fee more than double to $40,000 for the 2020 season at WinStar Farm.

Constitution stood for $15,000 in 2019 at WinStar, which welcomes a pair of newcomers for next season in Audible and Yoshida, and welcomes home Take Charge Indy. The Kentucky farm’s roster is led by stalwart sires More Than Ready at $80,000, Speightstown at $70,000, and Distorted Humor at $50,000.