Multiple graded stakes winner Chatain will relocate to continue his stud career at Whispering Oaks Farm-Louisiana Stallion Station North in Carencro, La., as the property of a partnership.
The 10-year-old Forest Wildcat horse most recently stood at Holly Hill Farm in Benton, La. His 2014 fee at Whispering Oaks will be $1,500, payable when the foal stands and nurses.
Champion Hansen has been sold to continue his stud career in South Korea, becoming the latest stallion exported to that country’s burgeoning racing and breeding industry.
Hansen, a 4-year-old son of Tapit, began his stud career this season at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud near Versailles, Ky. The horse’s former co-owner, breeder, and namesake Dr. Kendall Hansen confirmed the sale to the Blood-Horse on Oct. 8
The Jockey Club and the Organizacion Sudamericana de Fomento del Sangre Pira de Carrera (O.S.A.F.), which promotes Thoroughbred breeding and racing in nine South American countries, will host a Pan American Conference in New York City from June 3-6, 2015.
Epsom Derby winner and sire North Light will relocate to stand at Lanwades Stud near Newmarket, England, for 2014.
The 12-year-old Irish-bred son of Danehill most recently stood at Adena Springs’ facility in Aurora, Ontario. His 2014 fee at Lanwades will be 6,000 pounds, or about $9,640 in U.S. funds.
North Light won three times and finished second three times in seven career starts, earning $1,989,577. In addition to winning the Epsom Derby in 2004, he also was runner-up in the Irish Derby.
In 2007, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum changed the landscape of the American breeding industry, and, not incidentally, the trajectory of his own global racing and breeding operation. During that racing season, Sheikh Mohammed purchased three of the four best American 3-year-olds of the year – Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense, Grade 1 King’s Bishop winner and Derby runner-up Hard Spun, and Grade 1 Haskell Invitational winner Any Given Saturday – and retired all three to stand at his Darley division at Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Ky., at the end of the year.
Stakes winner Make Music for Me and winner World Renowned, both retired this year, will stand their first seasons at Brazeau Thoroughbred Farms in Hemet, Calif. Stud fees for both horses will be announced at a later date.
Indiana Stallion Station of Anderson, Ind., will host a stallion show and open house on Saturday, Oct. 12, beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern.
The farm’s roster is highlighted by Domestic Dispute, currently the third leading sire in Indiana.
Graded stakes winners Mustanfar and Ventana, along with Dr. Large, Heat Summer, Quarter Given, and Storm Account, comprise the rest of the Thoroughbred roster. The farm also stands Quarter Horse stallions Real Visions and Story’s Black Beauty.
Thomas Haley Asbury, owner of Hedgewood Farm in Lexington, Ky. died Sept. 29 at age 86.
A Lexington native, Asbury was brought into the horse business at age 15 through his local 4-H program, and he eventually became a partner in Hedgewood Farm with his father, Charles Augustine Asbury. His son, Carson Asbury, later became a partner in the farm, making it a third-generation operation.
