Grade 1 winner Constellation has been retired from racing and will visit Hall of Famer Curlin for her first mating during the 2018 breeding season.
The 4-year-old Bellamy Road filly finished her ontrack career with five wins in 14 starts and earnings of $619,809. She raced for the Roth family’s LNJ Foxwoods and spent time with trainers Steve Asmussen, Jerry Hollendorfer, and Bob Baffert.
Tonalist, the winner of the 2014 Belmont Stakes, will stand for an advertised fee of $20,000 at Lane’s End in Versailles, Ky., during the 2018 breeding season.
The 6-year-old Tapit horse was initially advertised for $30,000 by Lane’s End when the farm announced its 2018 fees in October. He stood his debut season in 2016 for $40,000, then was advertised at $30,000 in 2017.
Grade 2 winner Wildcat Red will enter stud at Buck Pond Farm in Versailles, Ky., for the 2018 breeding season at an advertised fee of $7,500.
The 6-year-old D’wildcat horse retired with six wins in 22 career starts for earnings of $1,108,975.
Grade 3 winner Eagle has been retired and will stand the 2018 breeding season at Valor Farm in Pilot Point, Texas, for an advertised fee of $5,000.
A 5-year-old Candy Ride horse, Eagle retires with seven wins in 24 starts and earnings of $754,186. His resume is highlighted by a victory in the Grade 3 Ben Ali Stakes, as well as scores in the non-graded Michael G. Schaefer Memorial Stakes and Tenacious Stakes.
He finished in the money in seven additional graded stakes races, including a runner-up effort in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap.
Divining Rod, a Grade 3 winner and classic-placed runner, has been retired and will debut at stud in 2018 at Country Life Farm in Bel Air, Md., for an advertised fee of $5,000.
The 5-year-old Tapit horse will stand for a partnership of Roy and Gretchen Jackson, who campaigned him on the racetrack, along with Country Life Farm and Kentucky-based Gainesway Farm.
Tom’s Ready, a Grade 2 winner, has been retired from racing, and will stand at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., for the 2018 breeding season.
The 4-year-old More Than Ready colt will stand for an advertised fee of $7,500 on a one-year commitment through the farm’s Share the Upside program, or for $6,000 under a standard “stands and nurses” agreement.
Although it is easy to demonstrate statistically that the schism between dirt and turf horses is somewhat overrated, it has seldom been more readily illustrated than by the results of Aqueduct’s two Grade 2 dirt features for juveniles last Saturday.
The Demoiselle Stakes went to Wonder Gadot, who had won her maiden on turf and run third in the Grade 1 Natalma on the grass before winning the Grade 3 Mazarine on Woodbine’s synthetic surface and finishing sixth in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies on dirt.
Signature Red, a Grade 2 winner and Canada’s leading freshman sire of 2016, will relocate to Adena Springs North in Aurora, Ontario, for the 2018 breeding season and will stand for an advertised fee of $3,000 Canadian.
The 11-year-old Bernstein horse previously resided at Colebrook Farms Stallion Station in Uxbridge, Ontario, and stood in 2017 for $2,500.
Signature Red has sired two crops of racing age, with 13 winners and progeny earnings of $780,695. His runners are led by stakes winners Signature Spring and Latonka and stakes-placed Red Cabernet.
Nicks Farm in Sellersburg, Ind., will add veteran stallions Quien and Mr. Mabee to its roster for the 2018 breeding season, each standing for $1,000.
Quien, a placed 13-year-old Pulpit horse, previously stood at Southern Indiana Equine Center. He has sired six crops of racing age, with 19 winners and combined progeny earnings of $937,829, led by stakes winners I’m Workin On It and Gliding Alone.
