WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky., has released the advertised fees for its 2018 stallion roster, with the most dramatic rise in stud fee coming for Bodemeister, who sired Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming from his first crop.

Cairo Prince, a breakout star with his first crop of commercial yearlings this season, will see his stud fee rise to $25,000 for 2018, Airdrie Stud has announced.

Danzing Candy, a multiple Grade 2 winner, will enter stud during the 2018 breeding season at Rancho San Miguel in San Miguel, Calif., where he will stand for an advertised fee of $5,000.

The 4-year-old son of Twirling Candy was retired in August after suffering an ankle fracture during a gallop the day before he was to start in the Grade 2 Pat O’Brien Stakes at Del Mar.

The colt raced for the partnership of Halo Farms and Jim and Dianne Bashor. He was trained by Bob Baffert.

Defrere, New Jersey’s leading sire by progeny earnings all but one year from 2003 to 2015, died Tuesday following a paddock accident at Snow Hill Farm in Paris, Ky., where he resided as a pensioner. He was 25.

Thoroughbred Daily News initially reported the story.

The son of Deputy Minister was bred in Kentucky by Due Process Stable, and is a full brother to champion juvenile Dehere. He ran as a homebred for his brief on-track career, winning 3 of 5 starts for $65,300 and finishing third in the in the Bahamas Stakes at Hialeah Park.

Led by classic sire Curlin, whose fee remains unchanged at $150,000, Hill 'n' Dale Farm has released its roster and advertised fees for the 2018 season.

Two-time Horse of the Year Curlin, by Smart Strike, has sired a classic winner or classic-placed runner in each of his first five crops. The stallion's runners this season are led by champion and multiple Grade 1 winner Stellar Wind, expected to be among the favorites in the Breeders' Cup Distaff, along with Grade 2 winners Curlin's Apprival, Irish War Cry, and Keen Ice. Irish War Cry finished second in the Belmont Stakes.

Mr. Big, a winning son of Dynaformer, will relocate to Harris Farms in Coalinga, Calif., for the 2018 breeding season and will stand for an advertised fee of $6,500. The 14-year-old stood the most recent season at E.A. Ranches in Ramona, Calif., for $6,000.

Mr. Big has sired five crops of racing age consisting of 16 foals. Eight of them are winners, and his runners have amassed earnings in excess of $1.2 million. Big Score, a Grade 3 winner, highlights Mr. Big’s progeny, along with Grade 3-placed Big Book and five-time winner Big Break.

The roller-coaster career of champion Classic Empire has come to an end, with Coolmore's Ashford Stud announcing Wednesday that the colt has officially been retired and will enter stud in 2018.

Coolmore announced days following Classic Empire's runner-up effort in the Preakness Stakes - which turned out to be his final career start - that it had inked a deal to stand John Oxley's Pioneerof the Nile colt upon retirement.

Madefromlucky, a Grade 2 winner, has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, Md., for the 2018 breeding season.

A fee will be announced for the 5-year-old son of Lookin At Lucky at a later time. Northview Stallion Station is currently in the process of syndicating the horse.

“Madefromlucky has a combination of racing ability and pedigree that we just could not pass up,” said Northview president Richard Golden.

The Fappiano, Smart Strike, Gone West, Forty Niner, Seeking the Gold, and Machiavellian branches of the Mr. Prospector male line are all recognized as major players on the international stage, but male-line descendants of Mr. Prospector’s 1988 champion sprinter Gulch have not earned the same panache. Thus, it was interesting to see granddaughters and great-granddaughters of Gulch win two of the biggest races in Canada over the weekend.

Hall of Famer Inside Information died Saturday at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., from natural causes due to old age. She was 26.

The daughter of Private Account was born at Claiborne Farm as a product of the vaunted breeding program of Ogden Mills Phipps. She was later placed in the barn of trainer Shug McGaughey to run as a homebred for Phipps.