Neolithic, a multiple Grade 1-placed runner, has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Pleasant Acres Stallions in Morriston, Fla., during the 2018 breeding season.

The 5-year-old son of Harlan’s Holiday finished his career with three wins in 12 career starts for earnings of $2,278,028. He finished second in the Grade 2 Fayette Stakes and Grade 3 Discovery Stakes, but he made the bulk of his money running third in the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes and Woodward Stakes, along with another third in the Group 1 Dubai World Cup in the U.A.E.

Quality Road got an exclamation point on his breakout season Thursday night, when two of his daughters were honored as Eclipse Award champions. The young stallion’s emergence at stud is a credit to the program of his breeder, the late Edward P. Evans, whose legacy is continuing in more ways than one.

Valiant Minister, once the most expensive graduate of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. June 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale in the auction’s history, has been retired to Bridlewood Farm in Ocala, Fla., for the 2018 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $2,500.

The 5-year-old son of Candy Ride sold to Charles Chu of Baoma Corp. at the 2015 OBS June sale for $680,000 to top that renewal and earn the sale’s highest-ever price until the bar was raised once again the following year.

A Shin Forward, a Group 1 winner and sire in Japan, will relocate to Rockridge Stud in Hudson, N.Y., for the 2018 breeding season and will stand for a private fee as property of the horse’s breeder, Vivien Malloy’s Edition Farm.

The 13-year-old Forest Wildcat horse began his stud career at Lex Stud in Hokkaido in Japan. He has sired three crops of racing age, with 11 winners and progeny earnings of $501,048. His most successful runner is Center Forward, a winner in four of his 17 career starts.

One year after winning her fourth Eclipse Award, the great racemare Beholder has delivered her first foal.

The 8-year-old mare delivered a colt by Uncle Mo at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky. B. Wayne Hughes’s operation, which raced Beholder, announced the new arrival Wednesday on social media.

“True to form, Beholder has taken motherhood in stride perfectly,” Spendthrift wrote. “Last night, she foaled a beautiful strong bay colt by Uncle Mo. We couldn’t be happier!”

Real Solution, a Grade 1 winner, will move to Dex Comardelle’s Blue Star Racing in Scott, La., for the 2018 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $5,000, with discounts for multiple and quality mares.

The 9-year-old Kitten’s Joy horse stands at Blue Star Racing on lease from owner Calumet Farm. He stood at Calumet in Lexington, Ky., last season for $5,000, and his first foals will be 2-year-olds of 2018.

High Cotton, a prominent sire in Florida, has been pensioned from stallion duty due to declining fertility.

The 15-year-old son of Dixie Union spent his entire career at Ocala Stud in Ocala, Fla., and he will continue to reside there as a pensioner. He stood the 2017 breeding season for a fee of $4,000.

There are few downsides to having a seasoned champion walk into a trainer’s barn in racing form. But trainer Chad Brown has just one regret about his association with Stellar Wind.

“The most disappointing thing is only having her for one start,” Brown told Gulfstream Park publicity. “We’ll try to make the most of that one start.”

Gun Runner’s name is expected to be in the Horse of the Year envelope opened onstage Thursday night at the Eclipse Awards ceremony, and less than 48 hours later, he will walk onto the track as the heavy favorite for the $16 million Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park. Win or lose, he will depart shortly afterward for Three Chimneys Farm in Kentucky, where he will begin his stud career the second week of February.

Grade 2 winner Pleuven has been retired from racing and is available for adoption via aftercare organization New Vocations.

The 7-year-old Turtle Bowl gelding, who last raced in August for owner Nelson McMakin, concluded his career with a record of 20-7-3-4 and earnings of $370,097.