Midas Touch, a Group 2 winner in Ireland who placed in Group 1 races in Ireland, England, and Australia, will relocate to Rockridge Stud in Hudson, N.Y. for the 2016 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $3,500.
The 8-year-old son of Galileo previously resided at War Horse Place in Lexington, Ky., where he stood the 2015 season for $7,500. His first foals are yearlings of 2015.
Grade 1 winner Lea will stand the 2016 breeding season at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., after making his final start in the upcoming Breeders’ Cup Mile or Dirt Mile.
A stud fee will be determined for the 6-year-old son of First Samurai after his Breeders’ Cup start. Claiborne Farm co-owns the horse with Adele Dilschneider and stands his sire.
Circumference, a placed runner in France, has been retired from racing due to injury and will stand the 2016 breeding season at Milky Way Farm in Temecula, Calif. for an advertised fee of $3,000.
The 3-year-old son of Galileo placed in two of his three career starts in France for earnings of $12,557, never racing at a distance shorter than 1 3/16 miles,. Andre Fabre trained the colt for owner Michael Tabor.
During the 1960s and 1970s, it appeared certain that Nasrullah’s talented but mulish son Grey Sovereign had established an enduring male line. Fast enough to win the Richmond Stakes (now Group 2) at 2 and place in England’s best sprints thereafter, he quickly developed a reputation as dangerous and erratic on the racecourse for lashing out at other horses behind the gate and refusing to start.
Vessels Stallion Farm in Bonsall, Calif., a leading Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred breeding farm on the West Coast since the 1980s, was sold earlier this week to a private entity incorporated in Delaware, a person familiar with the transaction said on Thursday.
The farm was sold by the family of Frank “Scoop” Vessels, who died in a private plane crash in 2010. The facility will be renamed Ocean Breeze Ranch. A limited liability corporation called Ocean Breeze LLC acquired the property, according to a source.
Normandy Invasion, a multiple graded-placed runner, has been retired from racing due to a suspensory issue, with stud plans to be determined.
The 5-year-old son of Tapit had recovered from a fractured sesamoid in his right front leg to race in 2015, but owner Rick Porter’s Fox Hill Farm noted on its Facebook page that the suspensory ligament that attaches to the sesamoid was at risk of coming loose, prompting the horse’s retirement.
Grade 1 winner Golden Ticket will begin his stud career next year at Questroyal North in Stillwater, N.Y. The son of Speightstown will stand for $7,500.
Golden Ticket won stakes at ages 3, 4, and 5, posting his biggest victory when he historically dead-headed with Alpha for the win in the 2012 Travers Stakes. He also won the 2013 Prairie Meadows Handicap and the 2014 Left Bank Stakes, both listed events.
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