Multiple Grade 3 winner Ioya Bigtime, Illinois Horse of the Year in 2012, has been privately purchased for stud duty in Uruguay.

The 6-year-old Dynaformer horse was offered at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale by Scott Mallory, as agent for owner-breeder Team Block, but failed to meet his reserve when bringing a high bid of $80,000 on Saturday. Following that, Team Block reached an agreement to sell the horse to Perhaps Bloodstock of Diego Mitagstein of Argentina and Stud y Haras Bloodstock of Pablo Nunez of Uruguay.

Multiple Group 1 winner Declaration of War will stand for 40,000 Euros (about $53,642) and classic winner Camelot will stand for 25,000 Euros ($33,525) as they begin their stud careers at Coolmore Stud’s headquarters in Fethard, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.

Unbeaten champion Frankel will stand for an unchanged fee of 125,000 pounds, or about $199,733, to lead the 2014 roster at Juddmonte’s Banstead Manor Stud near Newmarket, England.

The fee for the 5-year-old Galileo horse, who will stand his second season, is the highest on a Juddmonte roster that saw its fees largely remain stable, but will still look quite different for 2014. Cacique has re-joined the roster following fertility trouble, while classic-producing sire Zamindar has been pensioned.

North America's reigning leading general sire Giant's Causeway will stand for an unchanged fee of $85,000 to lead the roster at Coolmore's Ashford Stud near Versailles, Ky., for 2014.

The 16-year-old Storm Cat horse, Europe’s Horse of the Year in 2000, led the North American general sire list for the third time in the last four years in 2012. Giant’s Causeway, whose fee has remained unchanged since 2011, is currently third on the general sire list in both earnings (over $9.8 million) and stakes winners (20) this year.

Multiple Grade 3-winning turf sprint specialist Bridgetown will enter stud in 2014 at Questroyal North in Stillwater, N.Y., for an introductory fee of $4,500.

Breeder-owner William R. Harris, 90, died Friday at his home in Mineral, Va., according to trainer Chris Grove.

Harris bred and owned multiple stakes winners Sweet Goodbye ($692,772), Five Steps ($413,746), and Deer Run ($408,530).

“He was always the biggest client in the barn,” Grove said. “In our heyday he owned 22 or 23 horses in our 50-stall barn at Bowie, so he got a lot of my attention. We talked on the phone just about every other day. I worked for him since 2000 but only saw him six or seven times. He stuck with me through the good times and bad.”

Any survivor of the 1970s is inevitably reminded of the disco group The Village People by the name of this year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic hero, Mucho Macho Man. The Village People brought the phrase “macho man” into the vernacular through its hit disco anthem by that name.

Back on Sept. 28, racing witnessed an unusual Grade 1 double when Mucho Macho Man and Private Zone – both sons of Macho Uno – respectively captured Santa Anita’s Awesome Again Stakes and Belmont Park’s Vosburgh Invitational. Five weeks later, the former returned for a triumphant $5-million encore in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, and in the process vaulted his hot-as-a-pistol sire into the North American top 10 by 2013 progeny earnings.

The average person might be disappointed if a half-million-dollar sale of a horse fell just short of being realized. But not Robert Zoellner. When his homebred She’s All In came within $5,000 of reaching her $500,000 reserve during the Fasig-Tipton auction Nov. 4 in Kentucky, he was quietly pleased she did not sell.

“Deep down inside, I was relieved,” Zoellner said. “Sometimes the hard decisions in life are made for you.”

James Hastie has been hired as the executive director of the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (TAA), effective Nov. 18., and will be based in the organization’s Lexington, Ky., offices.