Harlan's Holiday is a record-setting juvenile sire. That is likely something few would have anticipated when the horse retired from racing in 2004, but he now stands tall in the company of such greats as Bull Lea, Roman, Nasrullah, Bold Ruler, Alydar, Danzig, Capote, and Tapit - all former holders of the juvenile earnings record.
It’s one thing to reach the top of the mountain. It’s another to stay there.
In the past four seasons, four different men have each held the National Football League’s rushing title and Major League Baseball’s home run crown. Over the same span of time, three different players have each been the leading scorers for the National Hockey League and Major League Soccer.
The American operation of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum’s Darley will hold a series of online auctions for nominations to sires Medaglia d’Oro, Hard Spun, and Lonhro for the 2013 breeding season.
Dashing Blade, one of Germany’s leading sires and the broodmare sire of champion Stacelita, has been pensioned by Gestut Etzean due to old age and arthritis.
To date, the 26-year-old Elegant Air horse has sired 528 winners from 20 crops of racing age for earnings of nearly $21 million. He has sired 67 stakes winners, including Group 1 winners Faberger, Lord of England, and Noble Pearl.
He also sired the stakes-winning mare Soignee, dam of 2011 champion turf female and multiple Grade 1 winner Stacelita.
Forestry, the sire of Preakness Stakes winner Shackleford, will shuttle to Claudio Pizarro's Haras El Catorce in Peru this summer for the Southern Hemisphere breeding season.
The 17-year-old Storm Cat horse currently stands at Taylor Made Stallions in Nicholasville, Ky., for an advertised fee of $8,000.
Canadian champion and classic winner Eye of the Leopard has been retired and will enter stud at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Ky.
The 7-year-old A.P. Indy horse will stand for an initial fee of $10,000.
Eye of the Leopard was purchased in 2012 by Brad Kelley's Bluegrass Hall LLC. Kelley assumed control of Calumet last year, leasing the farm from a trust that purchased the historic property. Eye of the Leopard becomes the fourth stallion added to the roster for 2013, joining Americain, Aikenite and Lentenor. All are first-year stallions.
After standing his first eight seasons in Kentucky, Grade 1 winner The Cliff's Edge will relocate to Fair Winds Farm in Waynesville, Ohio, for the 2013 breeding season.
The 12-year-old Gulch horse, who most recently stood at Margaux Farm in Midway, Ky., will stand for a fee of $2,500 live foal at Fair Winds, established in 1982 by Kim and Lori Williams.
Grade 2 winner Trappe Shot was represented by his first foal on Jan. 15, a colt born at Blackstone Farm near Pine Grove, Pa.
The colt is out of the stakes-placed Broken Vow mare Return the Jewel. It is the family of Canadian champion Silken Cat and Grade 1 winner Mani Bhavan.
Trappe Shot scored his biggest career victory in the Grade 2 True North Handicap in 2011 at Belmont Park. The 6-year-old Tapit horse, who is also twice Grade 1 placed, retired with six wins from 12 starts for earnings of $703,884.
Versatile Grade 1 winner Sidney's Candy was represented by his first foal on Jan. 17, a colt born at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky.
The chestnut colt is out of the Storm Cat mare Ominous Cat, whose dam is the multiple Grade 1-winning Seattle Slew mare Fleet Renee. A full sister to stakes winner Alzora and a half-sister to Grade 2 winner Future Quest, Fleet Renee's five winners from as many starters include Stormy Renee, dam of Breeders' Cup Juvenile Sprint winner Hightail.
In his brief four-race career, Tribal Rule’s raw speed carried him to two emphatic wins in sprints in Southern California.
At stud, he has passed that talent along to his progeny. In 2012, Tribal Rule led California’s sires in juvenile earnings for the second consecutive year.
A 17-year-old by Storm Cat, Tribal Rule had progeny earnings of $3,865,413 in 2012, second in the state to Unusual Heat ($4,610,915). In races for juveniles, Tribal Rule’s progeny earned $838,767, well clear of Swiss Yodeler ($604,262) and Unusual Heat ($562,616).
