Medaglia d'Oro will stand for an unchanged fee of $200,000 in 2020, leading the roster at Darley’s Kentucky farm, which announced its advertised stud fees on Tuesday.
Medaglia d'Oro is one of North America's most expensive stallions, as his 2019 fee trailed only War Front, standing for $250,000 at Claiborne Farm, and Tapit, standing for $225,000 at Gainesway. Neither has had his 2020 fee confirmed yet.
Millionaire and North American record-setter Disco Partner has been retired to his home state and will begin a stallion career at Rockridge Stud in Hudson, N.Y., in 2020.
Disco Partner, a New York-bred Disco Rico horse, raced as a homebred for Patricia Generazio and retires with a career record of 33-11-6-8 for earnings of more than $1.4 million. The 7-year-old retires after going winless in five starts this year, most recently finishing fifth in the Belmont Turf Sprint Invitational on Oct. 5.
International commercial rivals Godolphin and Coolmore dominated the top seats on the buying bench during Book 1 of the Tattersalls sales company's flagship October yearling sale in Newmarket, England – but several other seats on that bench were occupied by an increasingly strong U.S. presence.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Clubhouse Ride, the leading stallion of 2-year-olds in California this year, will stand the 2020 breeding season at Legacy Ranch in Clements, Calif., according to his former trainer Craig Lewis.
Clubhouse Ride stood the 2019 season at Harris Ranch in Coalinga, Calif., for $2,500. The 2020 fee will be $3,500, according to Lewis, who has a minority share in the stallion primarily owned by Six-S Racing.
“A lot of people thought the fee should be higher, but they want to keep it reasonable,” Lewis said on Sunday.
Preservationist, who rewarded his owner’s patience by winning the Grade 1 Woodward Stakes as a 6-year-old, has been retired from racing. He will stand stud next year for $10,000 at Brereton Jones’s Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky., it was announced Tuesday.
Two-time Horse of the Year Curlin, a consistent classic sire who is enjoying a career year in the commercial arena, will stand for an unchanged stud fee of $175,000 in 2020, Hill 'n' Dale Farm announced Sunday night. Fees for the rest of the farm's roster will be announced at a later date.
The exacta in Sunday's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was swept by the influence of international leading sire Galileo and the holdings of England's Newsells Park Stud.
Galileo is the sire of Waldgeist, who ran down the great Enable to win the Arc. Enable, who was bidding for an unprecedented third consecutive Arc victory, is from the first crop of Galileo's son Nathaniel, who stands at Newsells Park – which also co-owns Waldgeist.
Frank Stronach's homebred Canadian Hall of Famer Awesome Again, the sire of multiple champions and classic winners, has been pensioned from stud duty, Adena Springs announced on Wednesday. The son of Deputy Minister is 25, and had been servicing select books of mares for a private fee in recent years.
