Finalists for the second annual North American edition of the Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards have been announced, along with the winner of the Thoroughbred Industry Community Award, Leslie Janecka.

Janecka, coordinator of the Kentucky Equine Management Internship program, and the finalists for the other awards will be recognized at an awards ceremony luncheon Oct. 13 at Keeneland. The awards are sponsored by Godolphin, in partnership with the National Horsemens’ Benevolent and Protective Association, Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, and The Jockey Club.

American Pharoah was well traveled during his racing career, making the eight starts of his 2015 championship season at seven tracks in five states. The heart of that campaign was the three-tracks-in-five-weeks crucible of the Triple Crown.

Greatness in a sire of sires is measured both by the absolute quality of his best sire sons and their number. Two-time leading sire A.P. Indy passes muster on both counts.

Horseman and pedigree guru Leon Blusiewicz arrived at the 1997 Keeneland September yearling sale armed with $120,000 for himself and two partners. He took a fancy to a Kingmambo colt out of a Seattle Slew mare, a cross he was fond of. But the bidding reached beyond his price range, and he had to drop out well before the hammer fell at $200,000.

The Kingmambo colt, Lemon Drop Kid, went on to win the Belmont, Travers, Whitney, and Woodward, and earned an Eclipse Award.

Stakes winner Hunt Crossing has been relocated to Indiana Stallion Station in Anderson, Ind., for the 2018 breeding season.

The 8-year-old son of Corinthian previously stood at O’Sullivan Farms in Charles Town, W.Va., where he was advertised for $1,500.

:: DRF BREEDING LIVE: Real-time coverage of breeding and sales

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – “We go to the yearling sales to buy some good horses,” Jack Wolf, co-founder of Starlight Stable and founder of the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, said. “Unfortunately, most of the time, they’re not.”

Chiropractor’s biggest victory came in the Hollywood Derby in November 2015, when he edged March by a head to win the Grade 1 event in his graded stakes debut.

However, the gelding has not finished on the board since then, with his losing streak stretching to seven as he finished sixth in an optional-claiming event last Saturday on the Saratoga turf. According to Craig Bernick, president of owner Glen Hill Farm, that may have been the penultimate start of Chiropractor’s career.

Central Banker entered New York’s stallion ranks with plenty of buzz and took a step toward making good on all the talk with a strong performance from his debut crop at the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred yearling sale.

A 7-year-old son of Speightstown, Central Banker had a sale-topping 12 yearlings sell for a combined $689,000, the fourth-highest gross among the auction’s sires and the most for a New York resident. He stands at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., for $7,500.

Mucho Macho Man took Dean and Patti Reeves to the top of the sport during his ontrack career, highlighted by a win in the 2013 Breeders’ Cup Classic. Now the Georgia-based owners are banking on their star runner getting them back there with his foals.

The Reeveses made their biggest market endorsement of Mucho Macho Man’s foals yet at the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred yearling sale, buying a pair of youngsters by the 9-year-old son of Macho Uno for a combined $190,000.

The export of 1989 Horse of the Year and dual classic winner Sunday Silence to Japan turned out to be a huge blow to the American breeding industry and the most important importation in the history of Japanese racing. Kentucky breeders made it clear that they preferred Sunday Silence’s great rival Easy Goer, who turned out to be just a fair sire, while Sunday Silence led the Japanese sire list 13 times and his best son Deep Impact has topped that same list four out of the last five years.