He was a seven-figure yearling, with all the high hopes implied. He was managed carefully, due to minor issues, but lived up to expectations on the racetrack, winning multiple Grade 1 events, including the Breeders’ Cup Classic to conclude his career. He then went on to become a breed-shaping sire, a star in every stage of his career.

Grade 1 winner Epicenter, who sustained a career-ending injury in the Breeders’ Cup Classic last month, will begin a stallion career at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., that operation announced Sunday. Epicenter is a grandson of the late Coolmore leading sire Giant’s Causeway, giving the international operation a chance to build upon that legacy in the United States.

Grade 1 winner Epicenter, who sustained a career-ending injury in the Breeders' Cup Classic last month, will begin a stallion career at Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., that operation announced Sunday.

Epicenter, by the Giant's Causeway horse Not This Time, will stand for a fee of $45,000.

“He was a brilliant horse whose best racing days were still in front of him,” owner Ron Winchell said in a Coolmore release. “Bred on the reverse of Gun Runner’s Candy Ride-Giant’s Causeway cross, he’s a hugely exciting stallion prospect.”

The globe-trotting Ouija Board, a champion on two continents who went on to be a classic producer, has died in England at age 21. The Oasis Dream mare had resided at her owner and breeder Lord Darby’s Stanley House Stud in Newmarket.

Ce Ce, the champion female sprinter of 2021, was retired earlier this month after finishing fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint on Nov. 5 at Keeneland.

A 6-year-old, Ce Ce won 11 of 23 starts and earned $2,407,100 for owner and breeder Bo Hirsch and trainer Michael McCarthy. Her career was highlighted by a win in the 2021 BC Filly and Mare Sprint at Del Mar and consecutive Grade 1 wins in the Beholder Mile at Santa Anita and Apple Blossom Handicap at Oaklawn Park in the spring of 2020.

Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint winner and divisional Eclipse Award champion Shamrock Rose will be among the mares in unbeaten Flightline’s first book before departing for her new home in Japan.

Flightline is debuting for an advertised fee of $200,000 at Lane’s End. Farm principal Bill Farish said the stallion’s book will number around 150, and that there has been strong international interest, as well as the expected high-quality domestic mares.

Weanling colts by first-crop sires Vekoma and Country House topped the leaderboard Sunday as the Keeneland November breeding stock sale closed out its Book 4 portion with solid figures.

To this point of the sale, Keeneland reports that 1,566 horses have sold for gross receipts of $201,383,300. Through the same seven sessions of the 2021 sale, 1,690 horses had sold for $186,168,500.

Multiple Grade 1 winner Jack Christopher has officially been retired after missing last week’s Breeders’ Cup, and will enter stand in 2023 at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky.

Jack Christopher, campaigned by Jim Bakke, Gerald Isbister, and Coolmore, which bought in during the colt’s juvenile season, will debut for an advertised fee of $45,000. The flashy colt will stand alongside his sire, Munnings, who he closely resembles. Munnings has been a consistently successful sire the last several years, and has seen his fee climb from $20,000 in 2019 to $100,000 for 2023.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Flightline, the undefeated Breeders’ Cup Classic winner who is sure to be named Horse of the Year, will have a $200,000 fee in his first year at stud, according to an announcement by Lane’s End Farm, where the 4-year-old colt will stand next year.

The $200,000 fee will be the highest since 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharaoh went to stud in 2016.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Susan Moulton will have runners both days of the Breeders’ Cup in Manny Wah and homebred Andthewinneris, both graded stakes winners at Keeneland, and both carrying the sentimental silks of her late father, Naylor Morton.

“It’s been amazing – the silks I use are my father’s,” she explained. “I had some silks in the past, but when my father passed, I started using his.”