Not For Love, a cornerstone stallion of the Maryland breeding program for close to two decades, has been pensioned from stud duty due to a reproductive hematoma.

Farm veterinarian Dr. Jayson Layfield advised Richard Golden, owner of Northview Stallion Station that the 25-year-old son of Mr. Prospector’s injury would take too long to heal at this point in the breeding season to consider going forward. He was standing for an advertised fee of $15,000 at the Chesapeake City, Md., farm, where he debuted at stud in 1996.

Multiple Grade 3 winner Wiseman's Ferry, best known as the sire of two-time Horse of the Year Wise Dan, died March 17 at Dana Point Farm in Lenhartsville, Pa. A cause of death has yet to be determined for the 16-year-old Hennessy stallion.

Multiple graded stakes winner Wildcat Red was named Florida’s 2014 Horse of the Year Monday night at the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association annual awards banquet and gala in Ocala, Fla.

Champion American Pharoah returned to action where he left off, leading throughout and pulling clear late to win his season debut in the Grade 2, $750,000 Rebel Stakes on Saturday at Oaklawn Park.

Ogygian, a multiple Grade 1 winner, prominent sire, and the oldest resident at Old Friends Equine Retirement in Georgetown, Ky., was euthanized Saturday due to complications from colic. He was 32 years old.

A son of Damascus, Ogygian was bred in Florida by Tartan Farms Corp. and raced as a homebred for the stable of William L. McKnight. He was out of the winning Francis S. mare Gonfalon, whose eight winners from 10 runners include Grade 1-placed stakes winner Lookinforthebigone and stakes-placed Diggings and Moving Shoulder.

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Profiles - 2014 New York stallion honors

With several of New York’s top stallion farms just a short trip up the Hudson from the trading floors of Wall Street, one shouldn’t be surprised to hear stock market principles applied to the horse business.

Leading general sire

Throughout the myriad changes in the landscape of New York’s breeding program in recent years, one name has consistently remained on top.

Empire State mainstay Freud has finished first or second by earnings among New York stallions with state-sired runners in each of the past seven years, and he has led by turf earnings every year in the same time period.

The sustained run at the top of New York’s sire standings over the better part of the past decade can be attributed not only to the talent of his foals but their durability.

Leading freshman sire

When Darley moved its homebred Desert Party to Sequel Stallions in Hudson, N.Y., after his second season at stud in Kentucky, the goal was almost certainly to position him as one of the Empire State’s most attractive offerings. So far, so good.

Leading New York juvenile sire

Champion and dual classic winner Big Brown has arrived at Dutchess Views Farm in Pine Plains to continue his stud career in New York with what could be an exciting season ahead of him.

The sire is back in the headlines with his unbeaten Grade 1 winner Dortmund among the leading contenders for the Kentucky Derby. In the 3-year-old filly ranks, Big Brown has Puca, well regarded after a 16-length maiden romp last fall at Belmont, although she was recently fourth in the Grade 2 Davona Dale Stakes.