Mont Saint Legame won last weekend’s Cattleya Sho at Tokyo Racecourse, the first of two races in Japan offering points toward the 2017 Kentucky Derby. Although the colt has yet to set foot on American soil, he is by a familiar name.

At this time last year, Uncle Mo was well on his way to a record-shattering freshman season. The resident of Coolmore’s Ashford Stud was represented by 28 individual winners, including seven stakes winners, in 2015 en route to earnings of $3,632,314, a record for a North American freshman. He was, of course, led by Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Nyquist, who emulated his young sire with an unbeaten championship campaign.

The parallels between the stud careers of War Front and his sire, Danzig, are undeniable. Both went to stud with little fanfare and almost non-existent expectations. Both sired multiple Grade 1 winners in their first crops (Danzig three and War Front four from a larger crop), first crops that included stakes winners on both dirt and turf. And both horses eventually came to be regarded primarily as turf sires, especially effective in Europe.

With more than a month remaining in 2016, two-time reigning leading sire Tapit has again broken his own single-season progeny earnings record for a North American stallion.

The 15-year-old Pulpit horse, who stands at Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Ky., came into Saturday with earnings of $18,371,097. His runners on Saturday included Divining Rod, who earned $100,000 for finishing a close second in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct. That effort pushed Tapit’s seasonal earnings past his previous record of $18,397,691 for 2015.

Champion Untapable, who was retired in June, will travel to England to be bred to unbeaten champion Frankel in 2017, her first season as a broodmare. David Fiske, manager for the mare’s owner and breeder, Winchell Thoroughbreds, confirmed the pairing Friday evening at Churchill Downs.

Take Charge Indy, who stood at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky., his first three seasons at stud, has been purchased by the Korea Racing Authority and will stand in South Korea in 2017. Take Charge Indy had been scheduled to stand at WinStar for a fee of $15,000 for 2017. He stood for $17,500 in 2016.

Canadian champion Dynamic Sky has been retired and will stand the 2017 breeding season at Shannondoe Farm in St. Thomas, Ontario. The son of Sky Mesa will stand for $2,965 ($4,000 Canadian).

Three-time Eclipse Award winner Beholder is settling into her new life as a broodmare prospect after arriving at Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky this week.

California Chrome will not arrive at Taylor Made Farm in Kentucky until after his planned final start in the inaugural $12 million Pegasus Cup on Jan. 28, but the wheels are already turning on his second career.

California Chrome LLC purchased nine mares at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale for a total of $2.79 million. Six of those mares were purchased for the horse’s co-breeder Perry Martin.

The sudden retirement announcement of Breeders’ Cup Juvenile runner-up Not This Time with a soft-tissue injury this week gives Taylor Made Farm, which is continuing to rebuild its roster, a third new stallion for 2017.

The Taylor family’s operation lost flagship stallion Unbridled’s Song suddenly in the summer of 2013. This past season, the farm advertised just four stallions, led by Graydar, a son of Unbridled’s Song whose first foals are yearlings, at $15,000.