ARCADIA, Calif. – Bolt d’Oro, the winner of the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity earlier this month and one of the nation’s leading 2-year-olds, will stand at stud at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., at the conclusion of his racing career, owner and trainer Mick Ruis and farm owner B. Wayne Hughes said on Sunday.

Hughes was at Santa Anita on Sunday to watch Bolt d’Oro work five furlongs in 1:01.40 in advance of the Grade 1 FrontRunner Stakes at 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita on Saturday. The $300,000 FrontRunner Stakes is a key prep for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Del Mar on Nov. 4.

Proceed, a six-time stakes winner, will begin his stallion career at A & A Ranch in Anthony, N.M., during the 2018 breeding season for a fee to be announced later.

The 6-year-old son of Desert God retired with 8 wins in 11 starts for earnings of $468,329. He was a standout in his native New Mexico, taking the Mine That Bird Derby, Sunland Park Handicap, New Mexico Classic Cup Championship Colts and Geldings Stakes, Red Hedeman Mile Stakes, New Mexico State University Handicap, and Albert Dominguez Memorial Stakes.

The Jockey Club’s 2016 breeding statistics, released Thursday, revealed a slight decline in breeding activity among both stallions and broodmares during the 2016 breeding/2017 foaling season.

The report shows 1,863 stallions covered 36,045 mares in North America during the 2016 breeding season, resulting in 21,624 live foals reported in 2017. Compared with the 2015 season, active stallions fell 3.1 percent from 1,923, while mares dipped 2.5 percent from 36,964.

A good horse can come from anywhere.

That racing truism has been used for centuries to explain the emergence of a talented racehorse from unfashionable parents and sometimes unfathomable locations.

Rainbow Heir, a Grade 3 winner and contender for this year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, will stand at Ocala Stud in Ocala, Fla., upon his retirement from racing.

The 7-year-old son of Wildcat Heir has won 12 of 29 career starts over five seasons of racing for earnings of $639,405. His victories include the Grade 3 Jersey Shore Stakes, two editions each of the Wolf Hill Stakes and New Jersey Breeders Handicap, and the Teddy Drone and Gin Rummy Champ stakes.

Harry’s Holiday, a Grade 3-placed runner, will relocate to Southern Indiana Equine in Austin, Ind., for the 2018 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $3,000.

The 6-year-old son of Harlan’s Holiday debuted at stud in 2017, standing at Justice Farm in Lexington, Ky., for the same fee. He covered 28 mares in his first season.

The Group 1 victories last weekend at the Curragh of Decorated Knight (Irish Champion Stakes), Hydrangea (Matron Stakes), Order of St George (Irish St. Leger), and Happily (Moyglare Stud Stakes) expanded the lead of their sire, Galileo, on the 2017 English/Irish sire list, and increased the total earnings of his offspring this year to more than four times those of second placed Dubawi.

Seth Klarman's Klaravich Stables and longtime partner William Lawrence were honored as the 2016 Owners of the Year, and WinStar Farm was named Breeders of the Year as the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association held its annual awards dinner Saturday at historic Calumet Farm.

The Klaravich team, which was named Southern Region Owner of the Year, earned the national award over fellow regional honorees Juddmonte Farms (Eastern), John Oxley (Midwest), and Spendthrift Farm (Western).

Grade 3 winner American Freedom has been retired from racing and will begin his stallion career at Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky., next year for an advertised fee of $10,000.

The 4-year-old son of Pulpit had three wins from eight starts for earnings of $705,100, including wins in the Grade 3 Iowa Derby at Prairie Meadows and the Sir Barton Stakes at Pimlico. He also finished second in last year’s Grade 1 Travers Stakes and Grade 1 Haskell Invitational.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – There is a strong chance that sale figures will be up at the CTHS yearling and mixed sale on Tuesday at the Thunderbird Show Park in Langley, British Columbia.

Not only is this the sale’s strongest catalog in years, but there is a major rule change that allows foreign-bred horses who go through the sale to run in the 2018 CTHS Sales Stakes at Hastings. Previously, the Sales Stakes were restricted to Canadian-breds.