While looking at another consignment at the 2013 Tattersalls December sale, the fluid walk of another mare across a Park Paddocks courtyard grabbed my attention. A quick check of my catalog confirmed that the beautiful bay mare named Anabaa’s Creation was already on my look list. The following day, I was able to buy her for 450,000 guineas (about $775,000) on behalf of Vincent and Teresa Viola’s St. Elias Stables.

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Spendthrift Farm announced 2017 stud fees for 26 stallions that will stand at its Kentucky-based operation this upcoming breeding season, as well as fees for four stallions standing in New York, Maryland, and Louisiana.

Even before starting With Honors in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, Larry, Nanci, and Jaime Roth will get to hoist a trophy in the name of their LNJ Foxwoods racing operation.

In terms of their racing accomplishments, turf specialist Tepin and main-track runner Stellar Wind don’t have much in common beyond their Eclipse Awards. But the two actually share a common ancestor in the influential broodmare Gallant Nurse.

Win or lose, several horses at the Breeders’ Cup will make a bit of bloodstock history when they load into the starting gate.

Four broodmares will be represented by multiple starters this weekend, and several other mares who have previously produced starters in American racing’s major season-ending event will be represented by their second or third career starters. Currently, 154 mares have produced multiple Breeders’ Cup starters; by no means a small group but still a selective one, considering that there have been 3,390 individual starters since the event’s inception in 1984.

Freshman sire Gemologist is on the rise this fall, and his fortunes at the Breeders’ Cup are tied to another rising entity, the China Horse Club, and its partnership with his home, WinStar Farm.

The China Horse Club owns, solely or in partnership, three unbeaten 2-year-olds who will be standouts in their respective Breeders’ Cup events in Yellow Agate (Juvenile Fillies), Theory (Juvenile), and Good Samaritan (Juvenile Turf).

Fairway King, a minor winner on the racetrack, was the major winner over the Oct. 29-30 weekend at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, as he and trainer Lauren Turner earned “America’s Most Wanted Thoroughbred” honors at the Retired Racehorse Project's Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America.

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Eclipse Award-winning 2-year-old and 2016 Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist has been retired and will join Darley’s 2017 stallion roster at Jonabell in Lexington, Ky. Darley announced 2017 fees for all its stallions, and Nyquist will stand for a fee of $40,000 in his inaugural year at stud.

Nyquist will join a group that features two of North America’s elite stallions in Medaglia d’Oro and Bernardini. Medaglia d’Oro’s fees for 2017 will remain at $150,000 and Bernardini’s will remain at $100,000.

Upstart, one of the best of the crop of 2012, has been retired from racing and will stand the 2017 breeding season at Brereton and Libby Jones’s Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky., for a fee of $10,000. A stakes winner at 2, 3, and 4 and an earner of $1,732,780, Upstart registered his best win in blitzing the Grade 2 Holy Bull field with a 105 Beyer Speed Figure in his sophomore debut, and at 4, he captured the Grade 3 Razorback Handicap.

Grade 1 winner Sidney’s Candy will remain at Haras La Pasion in Argentina to take up permanent residence and stand during the Southern Hemisphere breeding season.

The 9-year-old son of Candy Ride previously resided at WinStar Farm during the Northern Hemisphere season, where he was advertised for $10,000. He has been a regular shuttle stallion to Haras La Pasion, owned by Ricardo Benedicto, who purchased a significant interest in the horse in 2011.