Live in Joy, a stakes-winner, has been retired from racing, and will stand at Broughton Farm in Odessa, Texas, for the 2018 breeding season for an advertised fee of $1,500.
The 9-year-old son of Kitten’s Joy is also advertised with a $500 discount for Texas-bred mares. Ten percent of stud fees paid will be put in a trust fund for any foal bred on the farm toward future aftercare and retirement expenses.
It has been a big year for the sire class that debuted in 2013. The group’s first crop of 3-year-olds cleared two of the three Triple Crown races, with Always Dreaming winning the Kentucky Derby for Bodemeister and Cloud Computing taking down the Preakness Stakes for Maclean’s Music.
Hall of Famer Curlin proved himself able to sire an elite dirt runner early on, getting a Belmont Stakes winner in his first crop. In 2017, he has taken that skill to the next level, leading all sires by progeny Beyer Speed Figures of 100 or more in dirt races with 13.
Those three-digit dirt Beyer efforts were achieved by seven horses, giving Curlin the most to pass that threshold this year through Dec. 14.
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.
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.
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.
