The Breeders’ Cup was a victory that eluded the globetrotting Singspiel. He finished second in the 1996 Turf at Woodbine in his Eclipse Award championship campaign and was training toward a second attempt in 1997 at Hollywood Park when he sustained a career-ending fracture.

After watching its breeding program graduate Arrogate defeat California Chrome in the 2016 Breeders’ Cup Classic, this year, Clearsky Farm will be in the middle of the action as the event comes to Del Mar.

General a Rod, a Grade 1-placed stakes winner, has been retired from racing and will stand at Hidden Springs Farm in Palmyra, Ind., for the 2018 breeding season at an advertised fee of $3,500.

There are a few parallels between Arrogate, the defending winner of the Breeders’ Cup Classic, and Elate, a prominent contender in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff.

Both horses were later-developing horses who required patient handling from their Hall of Fame trainers. Arrogate posted his first Grade 1 victory in scintillating fashion in the Travers Stakes in August of his 3-year-old season at Saratoga. Elate broke through at a similar point of the season, romping to her first Grade 1 win in the Alabama Stakes at the historic track.

The late Street Cry will be long remembered as the sire of the greatest racemares in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres during the first two decades of the 21st century. Zenyatta’s 19 straight victories from her 20 career starts distinguishes her from all comers north of the equator, but that record streak has been surpassed by the 22 consecutive victories of Winx in Australia, culminating in her third consecutive Group 1 W.S. Cox Plate last Saturday.

Grade 1 winner Jersey Town will relocate to Road’s End Farm in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada for the 2018 season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $2,000 Canadian.

The 11-year-old son of Speightstown previously resided at Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Ky., and will continue to stand as property of owner Charles Fipke.

“We are very excited about bringing a horse of Jersey Town’s caliber to British Columbia,” said Road’s End Farm owner Jack Bennett. “He should make a major contribution to the breeding industry in the Pacific Northwest.”

Grade 1 winner Klimt has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Darby Dan Farm for an advertised fee of $10,000.

The 3-year-old son of Quality Road will be offered under the farm's Share the Upside program, in which breeders can earn a lifetime breeding right to Klimt, either by breeding two mares in 2018 or breeding a mare in 2018 and 2019. Two live foals must be produced with either option. Klimt will also be offered for $10,000 under a standard one-year stands and nurses contract.

It has been two decades since Skip Away shipped out to California to win the 1997 Breeders’ Cup Classic – highlighting a career in which the big gray Hall of Famer brought home four Eclipse Award statues, including the 1998 Horse of the Year trophy, won 10 Grade 1 races, placed in 20 other graded events, and bankrolled $9.6 million.

Cat Thief sprang a $41.20 upset in the 1999 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Gulfstream Park. Cat Thief, who now stands in Saudi Arabia, has flown similarly under the radar in his second career and is now quietly fashioning a good reputation as a broodmare sire, with champion Classic Empire on his résumé and Highway Star a contender for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.

Many breeders spend their entire lives trying to produce one horse with the chops to make it to the Breeders’ Cup. This year, Frank and Patricia Generazio have two in the same race.

The Generazios will send two homebreds to the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint– Disco Partner, who broke the world-record time for six furlongs on turf in the Grade 3 Jaipur Invitational at Belmont, and Pure Sensation, who comes off a win in the Grade 3 Turf Monster Handicap at Parx Racing. Christophe Clement trains both.