Triple Crown winner Justify will debut for an advertised stud fee of $150,000 in 2019, while Triple Crown winner American Pharoah will stand for $110,000 as Coolmore announced the roster and fees for its Ashford Stud in Kentucky on Sunday.

The rare twin Thoroughbreds Mr. Ping and Mr. Pong, who drew national attention when they debuted in the same race in April, have been retired from racing and will embark on second careers as polo ponies under twin brothers Charlie and Harry Caldwell.

The 3-year-old geldings by Denis of Cork and out of the unraced Domestic Dispute mare Washingtonian were foaled on April 16, 2015, at Avonwood Farm in West Virginia for owner and breeder John P. Casey. The successful birth of twins is rare for horses, especially Thoroughbreds, whose pregnancies are closely monitored.

Triple Crown winner Justify arrived Monday morning at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., where he will begin stud duties in 2019.

Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Farm came to the Keeneland September yearling sale prepared to sell colts and buy fillies – and found the former much easier than the latter.

Sierra Farm patriarch Ed Hudon died last Thursday, just a day after an American Pharoah colt bred and raised by his operation sold for $1.4 million to Larry Best’s OXO Equine to top a session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

“I always wanted to sell a million-dollar horse, so when Ed died the next day, I feel like that was his last gift to me,” Hudon’s widow, Sharon, told Keeneland publicity.

Ed Hudon purchased the colt’s dam, the multiple Grade 2-winning Pulpit mare Bsharpsonata, for $375,000 out of the 2016 Keeneland November breeding stock sale.

Freshman sire Cairo Prince had a massive day Saturday, including striking the first blow on the Kentucky Derby trail, to move among the leaders of his peer group.

The Cairo Prince colt Cairo Cat edged Tight Ten in the Grade 3 Iroquois Stakes on Saturday at Churchill Downs to earn an automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and 10 points toward a spot in the 2019 Derby in the first points race of the series.

Gun Runner won the world’s richest race, the $16 million Pegasus World Cup, in January, and his $7 million share of the purse gave his sire, Candy Ride, a big leg up in the 2018 stallion race. Candy Ride is no one-hit wonder, either, with Grade 1 winners Game Winner and Separationofpowers also adding to his tally over the summer.

The one failure in the long and glorious stud career of 2011 leading sire Distorted Humor has been the absence of a successor at stud to carry on his male line.

Triple Crown winner Justify will begin his stud career at Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., in 2019.

Multiple graded stakes winner McCraken has been retired and will stand for $10,000 at Airdrie Stud in 2019. 

McCraken, a 4-year-old son of Ghostzapper who raced as a homebred for Janis Whitham and was trained by Ian Wilkes, compiled a career mark of 14-6-1-3 with earnings of $869,728.