Grade 1 winner and young sire Take Charge Indy will be repatriated from Korea to stand at WinStar Farm in 2020, the farm announced over the weekend.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Jockey Club is considering a rule that would for the first time limit the number of mares that an individual stallion can cover during a North American breeding season beginning in 2021, a limitation that would have significant impacts on the breeding industry.

The late Arch made his legacy apparent on the final Saturday of the summer’s marquee race meetings, represented by graded stakes winners as a sire, sire-of-sires, and broodmare sire.

Preservationist, a 6-year-old son of Arch, won the Grade 1 Woodward Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga after earlier this season winning the Grade 2 Suburban Stakes at Belmont Park. In the process, he became a millionaire, and also, according to Equineline statistics, became the 13th Grade 1/Group 1 winner for Arch, who died in 2016 at Claiborne Farm.

Monday marked not only closing day at Saratoga, but the end of an era, as pioneering racing partnership Dogwood Stable, in partnership with Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, was represented by its final runner.

The stakes-placed winner Pipes, who Dogwood and Eclipse purchased last year as a juvenile, carried Dogwood’s colors to a runner-up effort in Monday’s seventh race. He was claimed for $30,000 by trainer Tom Morley for Thomas Albrecht, ending the horse’s association with the partnership.

This summer’s marquee summer race meetings at Saratoga and Del Mar, which traditionally unveil promising 2-year-olds, provided a major opportunity for this year’s highly anticipated class of freshman sires led by Triple Crown winner American Pharoah to step up – and step up, they did.

Kentucky Downs was built in 1990 as Dueling Grounds Race Course and spent the better part of its early existence running in relatively quiet fashion over its European-style course in Franklin, Ky. The track has experienced a renaissance in recent years, spiking in popularity both with horsemen, due to its soaring purses, and with horseplayers.

Thoroughbreds are prized for the bravery and athleticism, making them a natural fit for the sport of eventing, described as the triathlon of equestrian sport. Indeed, a number of Thoroughbreds are set to compete at the United States Eventing Association’s American Eventing Championships this week at the Kentucky Horse Park. 

European champion Noble Mission managed to finish fifth on last year’s freshman sire earnings list, even with his most promising runner, Grade 1 Champagne Stakes runner-up Code of Honor, missing the Breeders’ Cup due to illness. The Galileo stallion figures to finish much higher on this year’s second-crop sire list after Code of Honor swept to victory in the Travers Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga, giving Noble Mission a Grade 1 winner from his debut crop. 

Multiple Grade 1 winner Mitole will stand at Spendthrift Farm in 2020.

Mitole, a 4-year-old Eskendereya colt campaigned by Bill and Corrine Heiligbrodt, scored his latest victory in the Grade 1 Forego Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga, establishing a stakes record of 1:20.80 for the seven furlongs. He has now won 9 of 13 career starts, and pushed his earnings past $2 million with the win.

Arthur Hancock III was standing in the darkness outside a stall in Saratoga after the Curlin colt inside, raised and consigned by his Stone Farm, sold for $1.5 million to co-top the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale. Hancock was quick to credit the colt’s breeder, celebrity chef Bobby Flay.

“When you got one like that, and you got the opportunity to sell one like that, our job is getting him here in one piece and showing him the best we can, and he did the rest,” Hancock said. “Bobby bred a good horse. I told people Bobby breeds horses as damn near good as he cooks.”