Noble Mission, a multiple Group 1 winner and full brother to European champion Frankel, has been retired from racing and will make his stallion debut at Lane’s End in 2015.
The Versailles, Ky., farm purchased a majority interest in the 5-year-old son of Galileo and will stand him in association with his owner and breeder, Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms. A 2015 fee will be announced.
Step 1: Get lots of money.
Step 2: Wave your hand repeatedly at a sale.
If only it were that simple, life would be far easier for hundreds of bloodstock agents, farm managers, consultants of various types, and Thoroughbred breeders this week in Lexington, Ky. If success in breeding Thoroughbreds were determined only by who has the most money, the richest people in the world would breed all the best horses.
Stakes winner Merit Man has been retired from racing and will stand at stud in California in 2015.
Merit Man, a 4-year-old colt by With Distinction, will stand at Lovacres Farm in Warner Springs, Calif., for an advertised fee of $5,000.
DRF Breeding staff writer Joe Nevills analyzes each race of the 2014 Breeders’ Cup World Championships in the form of Haiku; a Japanese poem of 17 syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five.
Friday, Oct. 31
Juvenile Turf
Coolmore duo looms
Hootenanny survives charge
Running on the lead
Dirt Mile
One circuit around
A victory lap to stud
Goldencents defends
Pleasantly Perfect, a multiple Grade/Group 1 winner, has been purchased by Turkish-based owner and breeder Levent Sarikaya, and will stand at the Turkish National Stud in 2015, BloodHorse reports.
The 16-year-old son of Pleasant Colony was originally slated to relocate to Taylor Made Stallions in Nicholasville, Ky., for 2015 after previously standing at Lane’s End in Versailles, Ky. Pleasantly Perfect stood for an advertised fee of $5,000 in 2014.
Sequel Stallions New York in Hudson, N.Y. has released its advertised stud fees for the 2015 breeding season, with no changes among its returning roster.
Leading New York stallion Freud will once again command the farm’s highest stud fee. The 16-year-old son of Storm Cat will stand for $10,000 during the upcoming breeding season.
New to the Sequel Stallions roster is Grade 1 winner Alpha. The 5-year-old son of Bernardini will stand for $8,500 in his debut season at stud.
Champion Zenyatta's weanling filly by popular young commercial sire War Front was euthanized on Oct. 28 following a paddock accident.
The filly, who was born April 20, resided at Lane's End Farm near Versailles, Ky., where Zenyatta has been boarded since her retirement in late 2010 for owners Jerry and Ann Moss.
Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky. has revealed the advertised fees for its 2015 stallion roster.
Leading the group will be Creative Cause, who will stand for $15,000. The 5-year-old son of Giant’s Causeway’s first foals are weanlings of 2014.
New to Airdrie Stud for 2015 is Grade 2 winner Cairo Prince, a 3-year-old Pioneerof the Nile colt, who will stand his debut season for $10,000.
Given the choice between starting Coolmore colorbearer The Great War in either the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile or the Juvenile Turf, the partnership selected the former. It’s by far the taller order for the colt, a minor stakes winner in Europe who has raced exclusively on turf and never beyond 6 1/2 furlongs. Still, The Great War has a dirt-leaning pedigree with enough stamina influences to make him an intriguing longshot in a Juvenile field that lost favored American Pharoah to lameness on Tuesday, leaving a wide-open group of colts with some major distance questions.
