Four-time Grade 2 winner Mohaymen has been retired from racing and will begin his stallion career at Shadwell Farm’s Nashwan Stud in Lexington, Ky., for the 2018 breeding season at an advertised fee of $7,500.

Grade 1 winner Practical Joke will begin his stallion career at Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., during the 2018 breeding season, upon the conclusion of his racing campaign.

The 3-year-old son of Into Mischief most recently won the Grade 1 H. Allen Jerkins Stakes on Aug. 26 at Saratoga, and will likely make his next start in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Del Mar. Chad Brown trains Practical Joke for owners Klaravich Stables and William Lawrence.

For a state that produces only around 500 Thoroughbred foals per year, Oklahoma has produced its fair share of top racehorses. Racing Hall of Famer Lady’s Secret, who was Horse of the Year and champion older mare in 1986, earned $3,021,325, but is not the leading money-earning Oklahoma-bred. That honor belongs to Kip Deville, winner of the 2007 Breeders’ Cup Mile and three other Grade 1 races, who earned $3,103,197.

Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming will stand at WinStar Farm upon his retirement, as the farm announced on Wednesday that it has acquired his breeding rights in partnership.

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.

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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.”