photo courtesy of DarleyQuiet American

Quiet American, whose 56 stakes winners include sired champions Real Quiet and Hidden Lake, has been pensioned from stud duty by Darley at age 27.

Grade 2 winner and California-bred millionaire Bold Chieftain was represented by his first foal on Feb. 1, a colt born at Sue Greene’s Woodbridge Farm in Oakdale, Calif. The bay colt is out of the winning Cat Dream mare Mistical Dream, a half-sister to Grade 2-placed winner Mysterious Cat and to Mistical Bel, the dam of Grade 1 winner Mistical Plan.

A 10-year-old son of Chief Seattle, Bold Chieftain stands at Ellen Lee Jackson’s Victory Rose Thoroughbreds in Vacaville, Calif., for a fee of $3,000.

Coolmore Stud has purchased an interest in promising 3-year-old Verrazano from owner Let’s Go Stable, adding another talented sophomore to its roster of possible Kentucky Derby contenders.

The international racing and breeding entity operated by Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith, and Susan Magnier purchased a half interest in champion juvenile Shanghai Bobby from Starlight Racing days before the Harlan’s Holiday colt captured the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.

The Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association has announced its 2013 seminar and clinic schedule.

The schedule includes four ownership seminars, a breeding clinic and three pedigree and conformation clinics, all of which feature discussions by industry experts. The goal of the programs is to provide industry participants with the knowledge necessary to improve their likelihood for success in the Thoroughbred business.

Courtesy Juddmonte FarmsFrankel's full brother born at Banstead Manor

A full brother to European Horse of the Year Frankel was foaled on Feb. 2 at Juddmonte Farms' Banstead Manor Stud in Newmarket, England.

New York breeder Suzie O’Cain has been elected to serve on the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation’s board of directors.

O’Cain and her husband, Dr. C. Lynwood O’Cain, managed Highcliff Farm in Delanson, N.Y., for 23 years, helping to bring the farm to national prominence. Following the death of Highcliff owner Carl Lizza in 2011, the O’Cains successfully transferred the farm’s breeding operations to Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater, N.Y. last summer.

Highcliff at Mill Creek will stand Bob and John, Congaree, Cosmonaut, Maybry’s Boy, Smart Bid, and Stonesider for 2013.

An online auction of many of the assets of bankrupt Thoroughbred Times concluded Feb. 1, with items including the publication's trademarks selling for a total of $165,000.

David Bradshaw of Utah was the winning bidder on the publication's numerous trademarks and copyrights, as well as the domain name www.thoroughbredtimes.com, securing the rights for $93,000.

Other high-ticket items included a customer e-mail list, which brought $23,000.

The horsemen’s groups for Michigan’s Thoroughbred, Quarter Horse and Arabian racing divisions each announced their 2012 champions over the weekend.

The Michigan Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association revealed its divisional winners on its website, while the Great Lakes Quarter Horse Association and the Association of Racing Arabian Breeders (A.R.A.B.) of Michigan handed out its awards on Saturday at a year-end dinner in Wayland, Mich.

Goldikova, a champion on two continents who won an unprecedented three consecutive editions of the Breeders' Cup Mile, gave birth to her first foal on Sunday, Feb. 3, a colt by leading international sire Galileo.

The colt was born at Coolmore Stud in County Tipperary, Ireland.

Stakes winner Street Life will stand the 2013 breeding season at Terry Lovingier’s Lovacres Ranch in Warner Springs, Calif. The 4-year-old son of Street Sense will stand for a fee of $5,000 when the foal stands and nurses.

Campaigned by Magnolia Racing Stable and Hidden Brook Farm and trained by Chad Brown, Street Life won three of eight starts and earned $237,735 during 2012, his only season of racing.