Americain, winner of the 2010 Melbourne Cup and a member of the inaugural stallion roster under the new ownership of Brad Kelley at Calumet Farms in Lexington, Ky., will stand the 2013 Southern Hemisphere breeding season at Swettenham Stud in Nagambie, Victoria. His announced fee is $12,000 in Australian currency, or about $13,140.
Frank Stronach's Adena Springs finished 2012 as the leading individual breeder in North America, topping the list for the 10th consecutive year.
According to statistics released by The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc., Adena Springs, which bred the winners of 386 races from 2,946 starts, finished with earnings of $11,615,141.
Padua Stables’ Satish Sanan has sold his family’s Kentucky farm to Borges Torrealba Holdings, the farm confirmed on Tuesday. The Torrealba family of Brazil recently made a major investment in Robert and Blythe Clay’s Three Chimneys Farm near Midway, Ky., which managed the Padua farm near Lexington, Ky., for Sanan. The reported sale price is $8.8 million.
Grade 1 winner Haynesfield has been represented by his first reported foal, a filly out of the stakes-winning Friends Lake mare Soundwave.
Out of the stakes-placed Eastern Echo mare Echo Echo Echo, Soundwave is a half-sister to six winners, including Grade 2 winner Letgomyecho and stakes placed Balaagha and Northern Iowa.
Tarfah, the dam of two-time European champion Camelot, has been shipped to the U.S. to be mated with 2012 leading sire Giant’s Causeway at Coolmore America’s Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky.
“She was sent from England over here,” Ashford Stud general manager Dermot Ryan said. “That shows how international [Giant’s Causeway] is, when you see mares of that caliber coming over here.”
Grade 1 winner Ice Box was represented by his first foal on Jan. 5, a filly born at Buena Vista Farm in Ocala, Fla.
The filly is out of the unraced Bluegrass Cat mare Vision in Blue.
Ice Box, a 7-year-old Pulpit horse, won the Grade 1 Florida Derby in 2010 before finishing a fast-closing second to Super Saver in the Kentucky Derby. Overall, he won three of 16 career starts for earnings of $948,068.
A number of Lexington, Ky.-area Thoroughbred farms will host open houses and stallion showings for breeders to coincide with the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale, which runs from Jan. 7 through Jan. 11.
Additional events will be added to this calendar as they are announced.
Adena Springs
701 Cane Ridge Rd., Paris, Ky.
Sunday, Jan. 6
9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Cajun food to be served; shuttle available from Keeneland.
The 23rd annual Thoroughbred Charities of America Select Stallion Season Auction generated robust bidding on 22 stallion seasons and other prizes on Jan. 5 at the Keeneland Entertainment Center in Lexington, Ky., boosted by a late addition to the stallion season list who arrived straight from the industry headlines.
Overall receipts for the evening auction came in at $727,000, a number that may be adjusted slightly, as some of the seasons had reserve prices.
Tony Cissell has re-joined WinStar Farm to serve as director of stallion operations for the Versailles, Ky. facility.
Cissell left WinStar in the fall of 2011 after working as general manager of the operation for about six years. During his tenure, WinStar won the Eclipse Award as leading owner in 2010, when it campaigned Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver and Belmont Stakes winner Drosselmeyer. He had previously worked at Calumet Farm, Middlebrook Farm and Castleton Lyons.
