LEXINGTON, Ky. – Two days after Reneesgotzip finished third in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, Lane’s End Farm announced that her sire, City Zip, will get a fee bump next year from $20,000 to $25,000.

City Zip is the only stallion on the Versailles, Ky., farm’s roster to stand for more in 2013 than this year. In addition to Grade 2 stakes winner Reneesgotzip, City Zip is represented by Grade 1 winner Dayatthespa and Grade 2 winner City to City among his 10 stakes winners this year, and he’s currently ranked sixth by progeny earnings on the North American general sire list.

The mixed sale season in Kentucky starts on Monday with the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale, a fast-paced, one-session auction that features some of the world's top breeding and racing prospects.

This year's catalog features defending Horse of the Year Havre de Grace, Breeders' Cup winner Zagora, and the broodmares who produced the Kentucky Derby and Preakness exactas, to name a few. Also cataloged are some well-bred weanlings, including the first looks in the auction ring at the progeny of some prominent first-crop sires.

Ashford Stud announced on Monday that it has purchased 2011 champion 2-year-old male and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Hansen. The Tapit colt will enter stud at the Versailles, Ky., farm in 2013 at a fee to be announced.

The positioning of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky and Keeneland November mixed sales, just days after the Breeders' Cup, encourages buyers to strike while the iron is hot — and both auctions got plenty of major catalog updates as a result of the Breeders’ Cup on Nov. 2 and 3 at Santa Anita Park.

Speightstown, the 2004 sprint champion and now North America’s third-leading general sire, underwent colic surgery Saturday for a nephrosplenic entrapment, according to WinStar Farm, which stands the 14-year-old Gone West horse.

A nephrosplenic entrapment occurs when the horse’s large intestine becomes hooked over the nephrosplenic ligament,  which connects the spleen to the left kidney. Speightstown’s prognosis is “excellent,” according to Dr. Nathan Slovis of the Hagyard Equine Medical Institute, the Lexington, Ky.,  equine hospital where the surgery took place.

Vinery will raise leading New York sire Posse’s stud fee from $10,000 to $12,500 next year, but it will trim fees for four of its other stallions, it announced on Friday when releasing fees for its Kentucky and New York stallions. Vinery’s flagship stallion, More Than Ready, will stand in Kentucky for $60,000, the same fee as this year.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Ol’ Memorial Stable and C. E. Glasscock’s Grade 3 winner Soaring Empire, who last raced in February, will enter stud in 2013 at Vinery New York, the farm announced Friday.

A 5-year-old son of Empire Maker, Soaring Empire will stand at Vinery’s Sugar Maple division in Poughquag, N.Y. for a fee of $2,500 payable when the foal stands and nurses.

LEXINGTON, Ky. − When you talk to auction officials and consignors about the Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland November mixed sales, the word you’re most likely to hear is “stability.” In 2008, after the economy crashed and took bloodstock prices with it, stability was so rare that sellers and auctioneers merely aspired to it, the way in more prosperous times they hoped for million-dollar horses. But four years later, auction participants are using the word “stability” with a lot more confidence.

The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale will amount to a quick turnaround for many horses in the auction who will be coming in from starts at the Breeders’ Cup or other recent races.

While the list of horses fresh off the track is as strong as ever at this sale, the top prices of the night are likely to come from three horses being sold as broodmare prospects. The mares who produced the Kentucky Derby and Preakness exactas will bookend the evening, and defending Horse of the Year Havre de Grace is positioned in the middle of the catalog.

Grade 1-placed Maimonides will relocate to Vinery Kentucky for the 2013 breeding season, Vinery president Tom Ludt announced Wednesday.

The 7-year-old Vindication horse, who is a half brother to Grade 1 winners and successful sires Roman Ruler and El Corredor, will move to Vinery’s Lexington division with the closing of the Vinery Florida division in Summerfield. He stood for $3,500 in 2012, and his first crop of foals will be 2-year-olds in 2013.