Leading juvenile sire Into Mischief's stud fee has risen to $150,000 and he is already booked full for 2019, Spendthrift Farm has announced as it revealed its stallion roster and a new incentive program.

Breeders' Cup Classic candidate West Coast, last year's champion 3-year-old male, will join the Lane's End Farm stallion roster in 2019, the farm has announced.

West Coast, a Flatter colt who races for Gary and Mary West, finished second to Accelerate, another future Lane's End stallion, in last Saturday's Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes. That marked his first start since finishing second in the Dubai World Cup six months prior.

The Churchill Downs Racing Club has been named the 2018 New Owner of the Year, OwnerView has announced.

The award, presented by Fasig-Tipton, honors a new Thoroughbred owner who has been successful in the sport and has had a positive impact on the industry. The Racing Club will be honored during the fifth Thoroughbred Owner Conference, scheduled for Oct. 30-Nov. 1 in Louisville, Ky.

Tapwrit, winner of the 2017 Belmont Stakes, has been retired from racing and has arrived at Gainesway Farm to stand alongside his sire, Tapit, in 2019.

This year’s North American Thoroughbred foal crop will show a slight decline, according to The Jockey Club’s report of 2017 breeding statistics and 2018 foal crop statistics released Monday.

The Jockey Club has reported that 1,778 stallions covered 34,288 mares in North America during 2017, according to statistics compiled through Sept. 26. The number of active stallions has declined 5 percent from the 1,863 reported for 2016 at this time last year, while the number of mares bred also declined 5 percent from the 36,045 reported for 2016.

Ten stakes races will be conducted on the star-studded opening week at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., with plenty of runners hoping to move on to the Breeders’ Cup. But the most popular Thoroughbred in competition in Lexington this week might be a few miles away at the Kentucky Horse Park as several hundred retired racehorses vie for their own rich prize.

The great French racehorse and sire Teddy, by Ajax, was unfortunate to be foaled in 1913 during World War I, and had few opportunities to race in France. Still he won six of his eight races in France and Spain, including the most important events available, and confirmed his genetic class by leading the French sire list in 1923. Teddy was imported to the U.S. in 1931 primarily because of the Triple Crown sweep in 1930 of his paternal grandson Gallant Fox, whose sire, Sir Gallahad III, led the sire list in 1930, 1933, 1934, and 1940.

Grade 2 winner and classic-placed Irish War Cry has been retired and will enter stud in 2019 at Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, Md.

Irish War Cry raced as a homebred for Isabelle De Tomaso. Irish War Cry's breeding rights were purchased in May 2017 by a partnership led by Hill 'n' Dale Farm, which stands his sire, Curlin.

Classic-placed champion Good Magic has been retired and will enter stud at Hill 'n' Dale Farm alongside his sire, Curlin.

Good Magic, who was bred by Stonestreet Farm, was sold by Hill 'n' Dale on behalf of his breeder at the 2016 Keeneland September yearling sale, where e Five Racing went to $1 million to acquire him. Stonestreet later bought back in, and the two entities raced him in partnership to three graded stakes victories from nine starts and earnings of more than $2.9 million.

Although yearling buyers are forever in search of high-quality individuals by stallions they believe to be sires of sires, success in the breeding shed is never guaranteed, and sire lines often take unpredictable twists and turns on the road to immortality.