Calumet Farm announced fees for its stallions, and in doing so indicated it will have four new stallions for the 2017 breeding season. Big Blue Kitten, War Correspondent, Slumber, and Optimizer all will be standing their first season at stud in 2017 at the Lexington, Ky., farm.
Highest-priced stallion on the Calumet roster for 2017 is English Channel, at $25,000, the same fee as in 2016.
Tapit, North America's two-time reigning leading sire, will stand for a fee of $300,000 in 2017, again making him the most-expensive stallion on the continent.
The 15-year-old son of Pulpit stands at Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Ky., and has maintained this $300,000 fee since 2015, covering books of 148 and 125 mares in the last two seasons, according to The Jockey Club's Report of Mares Bred. He is followed atop North America's most-expensive sires by War Front, who will command a fee of $250,000 in 2017 at Claiborne Farm.
Hit It a Bomb, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, has been retired from racing and will debut at stud in 2017 at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky.
The 3-year-old son of War Front will stand for a fee of $8,500 under the farm’s Share the Upside program, in which breeders would earn a lifetime breeding right beginning in 2019 after having two live foals and paying the stud fees. He will stand for $7,000 under a standard stands and nurses contract.
Ironicus, one of the best middle-distance turf runners in North America the past two years, has been retired and will stand the 2017 breeding season at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky. The 5-year-old son of Distorted Humor out of Meghan’s Joy, by A.P. Indy, will stand for a fee of $7,500.
In 2015 and 2016, Ironicus won five of 10 starts, with four seconds, winning three graded stakes and placing in three graded stakes. His only off-the-board finish the last two years was in his last career start, finishing fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Mile, beaten two lengths.
Haynesfield, who has two crops of racing age, has moved from Kentucky to California for the 2017 breeding season. The son of Speightstown will stand at Rancho San Miguel in San Miguel, Calif., as the property of Climax Stallions for a fee of $5,000. Climax Stallions is a partnership of Bob and Sean Feld.
Haynesfield stood at Airdrie Stud since 2012 after a racing career that saw him win 10 of 19 starts, including the 2010, Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup, and earn $1.3 million.
Jeranimo has moved to Harris Farms in Coalinga, Calif., for the 2017 breeding season. He will stand for $2,500.
The son of Congaree had stood his first two seasons at stud at Tommy Town Thoroughbreds in Santa Ynez, the most recent season for $2,500. He has seven yearlings in his first crop and he was bred to nine mares this past season, according to the Report of Mares bred recently released by The Jockey Club.
Jeranimo, winner of two Grade 1 races and an earner of $1.5 million, won 11 of 40 career starts from ages 3 to 8 while racing on the West Coast.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Champion California Chrome, North America’s leading moneywinner, will debut at stud for a fee of $40,000 next year, Duncan Taylor of Taylor Made Farm said Tuesday while working at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.
Adena Springs announced its lineup of stallions for the 2017 season, and in the process revealed that all four stallions that had been at its Florida operation this past season have been relocated to its two other farms. Adena Springs South stallions Fort Larned, Capo Bastone, and City Wolf will stand at Adena Springs Kentucky in Paris, Ky., for the 2017 breeding season. In October, Adena announced that Hunters Bay was moving from Adena Springs South to Adena Springs North in Aurora, Ontario, Canada.
Tamarkuz earned a place at stud at his owner’s farm when he won the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Santa Anita on Friday. Three days after the biggest victory of his career, it was announced that he would take up residence at Sheikh Maktoum’s Shadwell Farm in Lexington, Ky., for the 2017 breeding season. The son of Speightstown will stand for a fee of $12,500.
There was an element of irony in Arrogate’s victory over California Chrome in last Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Classic for Taylor Made Farm, co-owner and future home of the latter.
Juddmonte Farms’ Arrogate is a son of Taylor Made’s late flagship sire Unbridled’s Song, who died in 2013 after standing his entire career at the Nicholasville, Ky., facility. Taylor Made also sold Arrogate’s dam, Bubbler, to his breeder Clearsky Farm in 2010.
