The trio of Street Cry, Bernardini, and Medaglia d’Oro will each stand for $100,000 in 2014 to top Darley’s stallion roster at Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Ky.
Street Cry and Medaglia d’Oro each stood for $100,000 in 2013, while Bernardini’s fee represents a drop from his 2013 fee of $150,000.
Belong To Me, sire of champion Forever Together, has been pensioned at Lane’s End Farm near Versailles, Ky. The son of Danzig is 24.
Belong to Me is the sire of 788 winners to date from 17 crops of racing age who have total earnings of over $72 million. He has sired 77 stakes winners.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Point of Entry has been retired from racing and, as was announced earlier this year, will stand the 2014 breeding season at Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs Kentucky in Paris, Ky.
The 5-year-old son of Dynaformer made his final start in the Breeders’ Cup Turf last weekend, finishing fourth. That marked a successful return for Point of Entry and recovery from a condylar fracture in his left hind cannon bone suffered last June while winning the Grade 1 Manhattan Handicap.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Ron the Greek has been sold to undisclosed foreign interests.
Former co-owner Adam Wachtel confirmed the sale of the 6-year-old Full Mandate horse on Tuesday, and added that the horse may make another start or two overseas for his new connections before entering stud, although “nothing is set in stone.”
Grade 1 winner I Want Revenge will stand his first season at stud in 2014 at Pauls Mill in Versailles, Ky., for an advertised fee of $10,000.
The 7-year-old son of Stephen Got Even won three of 14 career starts. His résumé is highlighted by a victory in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial Stakes, which was preceded by a win in the Grade 3 Gotham Stakes. He entered the 2009 Kentucky Derby as the morning line favorite, but was scratched the morning of the race due to injury.
Grade 1 winner Flashy Bull will relocate to Penn Ridge Farms in Harrisburg, Pa., for the 2014 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $4,500.
The 10-year-old son of Holy Bull previously stood at Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky., where his most recent fee was $10,000. Airdrie Stud will continue to work in partnership with Penn Ridge Farms regarding the stallion.
Owner-breeder Egon Weinfeld, founder of Britain’s renowned Meon Valley Stud, died on Tuesday at age 85, Racing Post reports.
Weinfeld founded Meon Valley Stud, located in Southampton, in 1980, and built an internationally successful stable of homebreds from foundation mares Reprocolor, Home and Away, One in a Million, and Odeon.
Saratoga Stud LLC, a full-service Thoroughbred breeding facility, will open in mid-December in Stillwater, N.Y., with the former Highcliff Farm team at the helm.
Saratoga Stud will be located on part of the 300-acre Irish Hill Century Farm, owned by Rick Burke. The operation will be headed by C. Lynwood O'Cain, DVM; his wife, Suzie; and Burke. Dr. O’Cain, as resident veterinarian, oversaw the breeding operation of the late Carl Lizza, Jr.’s, Highcliff Farm, near Amsterdam, N.Y., for 23 years, while Suzie O’Cain was in charge of stallion promotion and development.
A federal appeals court halted the planned opening of horse slaughter facilities in New Mexico and Missouri on Monday, temporarily delaying the resumption of horse slaughter in the U.S. and adding another twist in an ongoing legal battle between the plants and animal rights groups.
