Champion Zenyatta delivered her third foal, a filly by popular young commercial sire War Front, early April 20 at Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Ky.

The filly arrived at 12:03 a.m. Eastern.

Zenyatta, a 10-year-old Street Cry mare, has been boarded at Lane's End for owners Jerry and Ann Moss since her retirement from racing in late 2010. The mare is also the dam of Cozmic One, a 2-year-old colt by Bernardini, who is in training at Mayberry Farm in Ocala, Fla.; and Ziconic, a Tapit yearling colt, who resides at Lane’s End.

At the time I left Windfields Farm in Maryland for Kentucky in 1974, debate raged between the Oshawa, Ontario, office of Windfields Farm and the Maryland office over whether to raise Northern Dancer’s stud fee for 1975 to $25,000. Less than 10 years later, no-guarantee seasons to Northern Dancer sold on the open market for $1 million.

Multiple Grade 1 winner and producer Take Charge Lady added another feather to her cap Thursday, as she was honored with the Broodmare of the Year award by the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association (KTA) and Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders (KTOB).

The 15-year-old Dehere mare, whose season was highlighted by the racetrack performance of champion son Will Take Charge, was honored with the award – presented since 1946 –as part of the Kentucky-bred champions program, presented at an annual awards luncheon in Lexington, Ky.

The Federal Court of Australia issued a unanimous judgment Thursday in denying an appeal by Bruce McHugh that sought to overturn the country’s ban on artificial insemination of Thoroughbreds.

The ruling upholds the rules of the Australian Stud Book with regards to breeding Thoroughbreds and denies McHugh’s contention that banning artificial insemination restricts his right to free trade.

Grade 2 winner Santiva has relocated to Swifty Farms in Seymour, Ind., where he will stand for an advertised fee of $3,000.

The 6-year-old son of Giant’s Causeway previously stood at War Horse Place in Lexington, Ky., where he began his stallion career in 2013 and stood for $7,500.

Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Ky.,  has named John Hamilton its director of client development.

Hamilton has worked in the Thoroughbred business for 31 years, 20 of those in his most recent post at Three Chimneys Farm, where he worked in bloodstock sales and client relations.

Graded stakes winner Noble Tune has been retired and will begin his stud career with the upcoming Southern Hemisphere season at Rathmor Stud in South Africa. He will stand for a fee of 25,000 Rand, or about $2,365 in U.S. funds.

My Flag, a Grade 1 winner and dam of champion Storm Flag Flying, was euthanized due to complications from foaling after producing a healthy Bernardini colt on April 12. The Easy Goer mare was 21.

In 1955, a chestnut-coated “California comet” named Swaps streaked from Santa Anita to the finish line at Churchill Downs, beating the favored Nashua in the Kentucky Derby. Fifty-nine years later, Swaps’s then-18-year-old exercise rider, Art Sherman, is the trainer of the latest chestnut California comet, the appropriately named California Chrome, the smashing winner of the Santa Anita Derby on April 5.

Thoroughbred industry veteran Bill Betz knows how hard it is to taste success in the Kentucky Derby.

“It takes a lot of luck ... The Derby has its own life,” he said. “The stars have got to align.”

The stars have been kind to Betz. He is a co-breeder of 2009 Kentucky Derby upset winner Mine That Bird. This year, he has a rooting interest in Grade 2 Rebel Stakes winner Hoppertunity, recently second to divisional standout California Chrome in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby. Betz co-bred Hoppertunity and consigned the colt to sale as a yearling.