Breeders' Cup Classic winner Gun Runner will enter stud next season at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky., his owners announced on Tuesday.

Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., released the advertised fees for two newcomers to its stallion roster for the 2018 breeding season, led by multiple Grade 1 winner Practical Joke at $30,000.

Fresh on the heels of siring a pair of Breeders' Cup winners, Medaglia d'Oro's advertised stud fee will rise to $250,000 in 2018, Darley announced on Tuesday.

Lane’s End in Versailles, Ky., released the advertised 2018 stud fees for three members of its stallion roster with notable runners in this year’s Breeders’ Cup, including Candy Ride, the sire of Classic winner Gun Runner, who will stand for $80,000.

On paper, there aren’t many similarities between the young Rushing Fall, who won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf going a route on the lawn, and Roy H, an older gelding who won the Breeders’ Cup Sprint on dirt.

The same goes for New York-bred Bar of Gold, who got her dark nose down on the line to win the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint in a major upset, and the flashy Great Britain-born, French-based Talismanic, who prevailed in the marathon Breeders’ Cup Turf.

Breeders’ Cup winners comprise an exclusive club. Even more exclusive is the club broodmares Leslie’s Lady and Win Approval joined during the most recent renewal of the event.

The pinnacle of the late Edward P. Evans’s experience with the Breeders’ Cup came when Saint Liam, a horse he bred, rallied four wide down the Belmont stretch to win the 2005 Classic.

The Virginia horseman died in December 2010, and his Spring Hill Farm’s roster was dispersed the following year to a record-setting reception at the Keeneland September and November sales, but this year’s Breeders’ Cup results were still covered with his fingerprints.

History has shown that a Breeders’ Cup winner sometimes can be bought cheaply, but this year’s event proved that it often pays to pay up.

The average sale price for this year’s seven Breeders’ Cup winners to change hands at public auction was $674,375, up significantly from last year’s event, when 10 winners averaged $296,632. The spike in average price was largely thanks to a pair of seven-figure purchases out of the 2016 Keeneland September yearling sale.

When Butch Savin and trainer Jimmy Croll paid a sale-topping $270,000 for Mr. Prospector at the 1971 Keeneland July sale of selected yearlings, they were buying - or at least hoped they were buying- a talented racehorse, and were focused on winning major stakes races with little thought to a future stud career. Another colt born the same year as Mr. Prospector, however, set in motion seismic changes in the Thoroughbred marketplace perhaps best exemplified by the winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf last Saturday, Mendelssohn.

Even the humblest horse at a reputable Thoroughbred auction is afforded the dignity of a black and white sticker on its hip to designate its lot number.

Dignity was one of many things on short supply for Meetmeontime in the summer of 2009, when the Marion County Humane Society found her among 33 neglected horses on the Ocala, Fla. farm of Lope Gonzalez. A year and a half after going through the auction ring as Hip 718, the mare was identified by the Humane Society with a sickly green “29” painted on her neck.