High Chaparral, a classic winner in England and Ireland, a two-time champion turf horse in North America, and a dual-hemisphere stallion for Coolmore, was euthanized during exploratory colic surgery due to a perforated intestine, the farm announced Sunday through its Twitter account.

Red River Farm in Coushatta, La., will feature a trio of new stallions for the 2015 breeding season in Guilt Trip, Cameo Appearance, and Sum of the Parts.

Guilt Trip, a 5-year-old son of Pulpit will stand for an advertised fee of $2,500. He retires with three wins in 14 career starts racing for owners Gary and Mary West and trainer Wayne Catalano for earnings of $301,217. His most successful campaign came at age 4 in 2013, when he won the Grade 2 Strub Stakes and placed in the Grade 2 San Fernando Stakes and Mervyn Leroy Handicap.

Disco Rico, a multiple Grade 3 winner and New York sire, was euthanized Thursday after a lengthy struggle with laminitis.

A 17-year-old son of Citidancer, Disco Rico stood at Keane Stud in Amenia, N.Y., where he had resided since the 2008 breeding season. He made his debut at stud in 2002 at Murmur Farm in Darlington, Md. and remained there until being relocated to New York.

It was with considerable surprise that I read the results of the fourth session of the 2012 Keeneland September sale on Sept. 13, 2012. I had left Kentucky for my home in Tennessee earlier that day with the understanding that my part-time employer Vincent Viola was finished buying at the sale.

Stakes winner Kate’s Event has been retired from racing and will stand the 2015 season at Special T Thoroughbreds in Temecula, Calif. for an advertised fee of $1,000.

The 7-year-old son of Event of the Year won eight of 29 starts during his on-track career for earnings of $460,162, highlighted by a victory in the Tiznow Stakes at Hollywood Park. He placed in an additional stakes race in 2014.

Calumet Farm, which has seen a rapid expansion in its stallion operation in recent years, has released its advertised fees and stallion locations for the 2015 breeding season. The Lexington, Ky.-based operation of owner Brad Kelley will be represented by stallions in five states, as well as Canada and Ireland.

Big Drama, the champion sprinter of 2010, will relocate to Bridlewood Farm in Ocala, Fla., for the 2015 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $10,000.

The 8-year-old son of Montbrook previously stood at HallMarc Stallions at Stonewall Farm in Ocala, where he was advertised at the same price. His first foals will be 2-year-olds of 2015.

Grade 3 winner Rydilluc has been retired from racing to stand at Haras San Patricio in Santiago, Chile.

The 4-year-old son of Medaglia d’Oro finished his career with four wins in nine career starts for earnings of $486,490, highlighted by victories in the Grade 3 Palm Beach Stakes and the Penn Mile Stakes, both on turf. Gary Contessa trained Rydilluc for a partnership.

In the provincial and too-often close-minded world of American Thoroughbred racing, the victory of Lawrence Cordes’s Turkish in the Grade 3 Valedictory Stakes at Woodbine on Dec. 7 was almost completely and irrevocably irrelevant. First, the Valedictory was run on Woodbine’s synthetic Polytrack, a surface that American trainers and horseplayers have successfully lobbied almost out of existence. Second, the race, which traditionally closes the Woodbine meeting, is at 1 3/4 miles, a distance representing a vanishingly small percentage of American races.

By Michael Blowen

More than a decade ago, back when Old Friends had just a couple of retirees at Afton Farm in Georgetown, Ky., Sandy Hatfield, stallion manager at Three Chimneys Farm, gave me a halter from my favorite horse of all time – Silver Charm.