There are many ways to evaluate a stallion’s performance, with those measures evolving as the breeding industry has over the decades. With the North American foal crop first expanding and then shrinking, stallions’ book sizes and career trajectories changing, and purses ballooning, all figures must be interpreted with proper context and a critical eye. Now, a means of evaluating racehorse performance that has been a respected standard for the last quarter-century can be used to compare stallions as well.
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Csaba, a Grade 3 winner and young stallion, will relocate for the 2018 breeding season to R Star Stallions in Anderson, Ind., where he will stand for an advertised fee of $2,000 with considerations for stakes mares and stakes producers.
The 8-year-old son of Kitten’s Joy previously stood at Pleasant Acres Stallions in Morriston, Fla., for $2,500. His first foals are 2-year-olds of 2018.
Bedford Falls, a half-brother to prominent sire Harlan’s Holiday, will relocate for the 2018 breeding season to Tommy Town Thoroughbreds in Santa Ynez, Calif., where he will stand for an advertised fee of $2,000.
The 14-year-old Forestry horse previously resided at Poplar Meadows in Sanger, Calif., for $1,500.
Bedford Falls has sired six crops of racing age, with 22 winners and combined progeny earnings of more than $1.9 million. His leading runners include Grade 3-placed stakes winner Cuddle Alert and stakes-placed Wonderful Lie.
Dream Tree remained unbeaten with her victory in the Grade 1 Starlet Stakes Saturday at Los Alamitos, and captured the first Grade 1 for the rising Phoenix Thoroughbreds. The partnership, a major player in the U.S. sales market this season, promptly joined the ranks of those paying it forward, donating some of the prize money from the Starlet to those affected by last week’s fire at the San Luis Rey Downs training center.
Barretts Equine Sales will donate 10 percent of sales commissions from its January mixed sale to the California Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Foundation.
The CTHF, a non-profit charitable foundation dedicated to improving the quality of life for backstretch workers at California racetracks and training centers, is among the organizations working to aid displaced horsemen following last week’s fire at the San Luis Rey Downs training center.
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 09:17
Throughout the history of the American and Japanese breeding industries, export of a prominent American stallion to Japan has been a sure sign of acceptance of failure. Thus, when it was announced in October 2012 that Street Sense would stand the 2013 season at Darley Stud’s Japanese outpost, it was fair to assume that his career in America was over.
Pink Lloyd’s undefeated campaign of 2017 will have a looming presence over Canada’s Horse of the Year race, but it also will be the likely deciding factor in Old Forester’s bid to again top the country’s sire list by progeny earnings.
Old Forester, a 16-year-old Forestry horse, leads second-place Silent Name by a margin of $589,927 with about three weeks left in the year. If Old Forester keeps his lead, it will be his fifth reign at the top of the standings, and his third in a row.
River Dancer, a Grade 2-placed son of Pioneerof the Nile, will make his stallion debut at Breakway Farm in Dillsboro, Ind., during the 2018 breeding season for a private treaty.
The 6-year-old horse finished his ontrack career with one win in eight starts for earnings of $91,648. He finished second in the Grade 2 With Anticipation Stakes as a juvenile after winning on debut in a Belmont turf maiden special weight.
River Dancer came out of the With Anticipation with a torn suspensory ligament that sidelined him for 27 months before making his return to the races at age 4.
Swifty Farms in Seymour, Ind., has released its advertised fees for the 2018 breeding season, led once again by Majestic Harbor at $4,000.
Majestic Harbor, a 9-year-old Grade 1-winning son of Rockport Harbor, stood his debut season in 2017 for the same fee, and his first foals will arrive in 2018. He covered a reported 24 mares during the most recent season, tying him for fifth-most in the state.
Swifty Farms will debut two new stallions in 2018, including Fear the Kitten, who will stand for $1,000.
Read our feature piece on the new stallions of 2018 as individual stories below, or download the complete special section as a PDF. The download includes a complete chart of new stallions and stud fees nationwide.