LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky Derby and Preakness runner-up Bodemeister will stand at WinStar Farm in Lexington when his racing days are over, the farm and the colt’s owners announced Thursday.

WinStar and the 3-year-old Empire Maker colt’s owners, Ahmed Zayat and Michel and Tiffany Moreno, have put together a partnership to stand the colt. Zayat and the Morenos will continue to race the 3-year-old Empire Maker son. Bodemeister is pointing for the July 29 Haskell at Monmouth.

Fasig-Tipton’s vice-president of recruiting and selections, William Graves, has been inspecting yearlings for the auction house’s select sales since 1992. Graves and his team − Dennis Lynch, Peter Penny, Bayne Welker, and Max Hodge − have a simple goal: to choose the best of about 2,500 yearlings nominated for Fasig-Tipton’s July and Saratoga select sales.

With the 2012 Triple Crown in the history books, it’s interesting to compare the career of Flower Alley with that of another classic sire, Birdstone, since the two have traveled similar paths to success.

Fasig-Tipton kicks off the 2012 yearling market with the first two major sales, and they are sales of distinctly different character.

Champion Hollywood Wildcat, the 1993 Breeders’ Cup Distaff winner who produced 2000 Breeders’ Cup Mile winner War Chant, has died of cancer at age 22.

The mare died on June 23 at Roseglade Farm near Wilmore, Ky., according to Thoroughbred Times, which first reported it. She was reported in foal to Kitten’s Joy when she died.

Rachel Alexandra, the 2009 Horse of the Year, is expecting a filly by Bernardini, Stonestreet Farm announced Saturday on its Facebook page.

The Bernardini filly will be the 6-year-old Medaglia d’Oro mare’s second foal. Her first, a colt by Stonestreet’s 2007 and 2008 Horse of the Year Curlin, was born at the Lexington, Ky., farm on Jan. 22.

I’ll Have Another, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes last month, is bound for stud duty in Japan.

Owner Paul Reddam said Friday that a deal has been reached with Shigeyuki Okada’s Big Red Farm on the island of Hokkaido to stand I’ll Have Another beginning with the 2013 breeding season. Financial terms were confidential, Reddam said.

I’ll Have Another is currently based at trainer Doug O’Neill’s stable at Betfair Hollywood Park.

The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June juvenile sale enjoyed a record-breaking final session Wednesday when the sale-topping Elusive Quality colt set a new sale mark of $350,000 and gross and average both also set records.

LEXINGTON, Ky.  - A $200,000 Unbridled’s Song colt led across-the-board gains at Tuesday’s opening session at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s three-day June juvenile and racing-age sale in Florida.

The first session ended Tuesday evening with 211 horses sold, as compared to 176 last year. the 2012 gross was $4,949,300, up 35 percent from last year’s $3,662,500. The first day’s $23,456 average price increased 13 percent from 2011’s $20,810, and the $16,000 median made a gigantic move, rising 68 percent from last season’s $9,500. 

A $200,000 Unbridled’s Song colt led early selling Tuesday as the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company began its three-day June juvenile and racing-age sale in Florida.

Blinkers On Racing Stable signed for the 3:30 p.m. session-leader, a son of the Fusaichi Pegasus winner Kauai Calls. At the under-tack show last week, the colt breezed an eighth-mile in 10 seconds, the co-fastest one-furlong time for the day.

McKathan Brothers, agent, consigned the gray or roan colt, who was cataloged as Hip No. 56.