For people in one nation, Feel So Good’s seven-length win on Sept. 6, 2012, was considered a nice effort in a $35,000 maiden-claiming race on a Thursday card at Calder Race Course. For those in another, it was history being written.
The chestnut gelding had become the first South Korean-bred to win a race outside of his home country, a watershed moment for a national racing program making strides to gain recognition on a global scale.
Young sire Exhi will relocate to Michael and Laurel Byrne’s Park Stud near Orangeville, Ont., for the 2014 breeding season, joining first-year sire Nephrite on the stallion roster.
Exhi, a 6-year-old son of Maria’s Mon, stood his initial season at stud last year at T. C. Westmeath Stud Farm in Shelburne, Ont. The Grade 2 winner will stand the upcoming season for $3,000 Canadian.
Young stallions Talent Search and Doubles Partner will stand the 2014 season at Glenn and Becky Brok’s Diamond B Farm in Mohrsville, Pa. Both will stand for an advertised fee of $2,500 live foal.
Talent Search, a freshman sire of 2013, stood his first three seasons at Diamond B before moving to owner-breeder Ken and Sarah Ramseys’ Ramsey Farm in Nicholasville, Ky., for this past season. The 10-year-old Catienus horse was a multiple stakes winner and finished third in the 2007 Breeders’ Cup Sprint for the Ramseys.
Grade 1 winner Swagger Jack will enter stud in 2014 at Millennium Farms in Lexington, Ky. The 5-year-old Smart Strike horse, who will stand as part of a partnership, has an advertised fee of $7,500.
Swagger Jack won five of 18 career starts, earning $460,519. He scored his biggest victory in this season's Grade 1 Carter Handicap at Aqueduct. He finished second in both the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Handicap and the Grade 3 Gulfstream Park Sprint Championship Stakes.
Mandy Minger, vice president of marketing at Daily Racing Form, has been elected to serve on the board of directors for New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program, a multi-state program founded in 1992 that rehabilitates, retrains, and rehomes retired racehorses.
Darley will hold two online auctions for individual seasons to six of its European stallions for the 2014 breeding season.
The European auction has been added to the international breeding operation’s repertoire following success with similar auctions for seasons to its stallions in both the U.S. and Australia.
HallMarc Stallions in Ocala, Fla. released its advertised stud fees for the 2014 breeding season, led by champion sprinter Big Drama.
The 7-year-old Montbrook horse, whose first foals arrived in 2013, will stand for an unchanged fee of $10,000 during the upcoming breeding season.
Big Drama won the Eclipse Award for champion sprinter in 2010 with a campaign that included wins in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint and the Grade 2 Smile Sprint, along with runner-up finishes in the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap and Forego Stakes.
Australian champion Americain and regally-bred newcomer Raison d’Etat will each stand for $15,000 in 2014 to lead the stallion roster at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Ky.
The historic facility stood its first stallion roster under the ownership of Brad Kelley in 2013, and has now assembled an advertised roster of six studs for 2014, with Raison d’Etat and Snapy Halo as new additions.
