Grade 1 winner I Want Revenge has relocated to stand the 2015 breeding season at Millennium Farms near Lexington, Ky. The 8-year-old son of Stephen Got Even will stand for an advertised fee of $5,000.
I Want Revenge entered stud at Ben Walden Jr. and Elaine Walden’s Pauls Mill Farm, which returned to the stallion business in 2014 but will not stand a roster next year.
Grade 2-placed stakes winner He Be Fire N Ice has been retired from racing and will stand the 2015 breeding season at Rancho San Miguel in San Luis Obispo, Calif. for an advertised fee of $2,500.
The 6-year-old son of Unusual Heat finishes his on-track career with five wins in 16 starts for earnings of $332,580, highlighted by a win in the California Dreamin’ Handicap and runner-up finishes in the Grade 2 Del Mar Mile Handicap and City of Hope Mile Stakes.
He Be Fire N Ice saw his most successful season in 2013, when he was owned by Cicero Farms and trained by John Sadler.
Grade 2 winner Ready’s Image has been purchased by Brad Kelley’s Calumet Farm, and will stand at the Lexington, Ky., operation in 2015 for an advertised fee of $5,000.
The 9-year-old son of More Than Ready previously stood at Walmac Farm in Lexington, Ky. for the same fee.
Ready’s Image is the sire of three crops of racing age, led by Grade 3 winner I’m Already Sexy, stakes winners Rivers Run Deep, Leinan, and Renee’s Passion, and Grade 2-placed Big Sugar Soda.
Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA) will host its 25th annual stallion season auction from Jan. 5 through Jan. 10, 2015, with bids accepted via telephone and online.
The majority of TCA’s seasons will be offered during the telephone and online auction. Online bidding will open at 9 a.m. Eastern on Jan. 5 and continue through 5 p.m. on Jan. 9. Telephone bids will be accepted on Jan. 9, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Interested bidders may register to bid by visiting TCA's website.
Peintre Celebre, the broodmare sire of the top two finishers in Tuesday’s Group 1 Melbourne Cup, has been pensioned from stallion duty at Coolmore’s Castlehyde Stud in Ireland.
The 20-year-old son of Nureyev has sired 14 crops of racing age, with 584 winners and 40 graded/group stakes winners, and combined progeny earnings of over $54 million. Prior to his stallion career, he was named Europe’s Horse of the Year in 1997 on the strength of a campaign that included a victory in the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Fla., has released the 2015 stud fees for its nine-horse stallion roster.
Topping the roster is the state’s leading sire Wildcat Heir, a 14-year-old son of Forest Wildcat whose fee will remain at $10,000.
Awesome of Course will see a fee decrease to $5,000 from $7,500, while Hear No Evil’s fee will move to $2,500 from $3,000.
Adena Springs in Paris, Ky. has released the advertised 2015 stud fees for its nine-horse stallion roster.
The group will once again be led by Awesome Again, a 20-year-old Deputy Minister horse, who will stand for $75,000, the same fee he commanded in 2014.
Close behind will be Hall of Famer Ghostzapper, who will stand for an advertised fee of $60,000. The 14-year-old son of Awesome Again was advertised at $50,000 during the previous breeding season.
Champion Big Brown, winner of the 2008 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, will relocate to New York for stud duty in 2015, standing for a fee of $8,500.
A majority interest in Big Brown has been acquired by Andrew Cohen’s Sunrise Stables and Gary Tolchin’s Golden Goose Enterprises. The 9-year-old Boundary horse previously stood at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky., and he also shuttles to Vinery Australia for Southern Hemisphere breeding. His New York location will be announced in the near future, according to a release from Sunrise Stables.
Grade 1 winner Street Hero will stand the 2015 breeding season at Rancho San Miguel in San Miguel, Calif.
The 8-year-old son of Street Cry previously stood at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky. His 2015 fee will be announced later.
Street Hero won once from six starts at 2 with two seconds and three thirds, racing in California for owner, breeder, and trainer Myung Kwon Cho. His win came in the Grade 1 Norfolk Stakes at Santa Anita, and he subsequently finished third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at the same track in his final start. He earned $419,360.
Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Ky., has released the advertised 2015 stud fees for its 15-horse stallion roster.
Leading the group will be Smart Strike, a 22-year-old son of Mr. Prospector, whose fee will remain unchanged at $100,000.
The next-highest 2015 fee will belong to Candy Ride, who will stand for $60,000 next year, up from his advertised mark of $35,000 in 2014. Progeny by the 15-year-old Ride the Rails horse were led on the track this year by champion Shared Belief.