The multiple stakes winner Trappe Shot has been retired from racing and will stand stud at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., it was announced Friday.

Chad Schumer’s Schumer Bloodstock in Louisville, Ky., has bought three stallions and one stallion prospect for export to a variety of stud farms in Saudi Arabia.

The deal will send Shaniko from Moon Lake Farm in Louisiana, Sabre d’Argent from Bridlewood Farm in Florida, and Dance to Destiny from Sam-Son Farms in Canada. It also will export Darley Stud’s 5-year-old A. P. Indy horse Tranquil Manner, third in Quality Road’s Woodward last year.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The stallion deal that sent Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Drosselmeyer to WinStar Farm last week also resulted in a quick return for investors who bought most of the colt’s breeding rights 12 days before the Classic.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Old Friends, the equine retirement facility based in Georgetown, Ky., has received a $50,000 grant from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The funds will be put toward building four new paddocks at the Old Friends Kentucky facility, Dream Chase Farm. That will allow the 501(c)(3) organization to help more retired Thoroughbreds, said Old Friends president and founder Michael Blowen.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – WinStar Farm has worked out a new plan for Drosselmeyer, the 2010 Belmont Stakes winner and 2011 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, who has been retired and will now stand at WinStar near Versailles, Ky., rather than at Keane Farm in New York as originally planned.

Drosselmeyer, 4, will stand in 2012 for $17,500. His sire, Distorted Humor, also is a stallion at WinStar, which is owned by Ken Troutt. Distorted Humor will stand for $100,000 in 2012, and his book will be limited to 100 mares.

Unusual Heat, California’s leading sire by progeny earnings since 2008, will stand for $20,000 at Harris Farms in Coalinga, Calif., to a book of approximately 60 mares in 2012, a stud fee unchanged from 2011.

The fee was announced earlier this week. Madeline Auerbach, part of the stallion’s ownership group, said on Thursday that the stallion’s book will be limited again this year.

“I hope we’ll be close to last year when we had 60,” Auerbach said. “Between 50 and 60 mares are good.”

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Adena Springs, Wintergeen Stallion Station, and Millennium Farms are keeping their 2012 fees for all but one stallion – Borrego, standing at Wintergreen – at the same levels they had in 2011.

Wintergreen, in Midway, Ky., will stand Blind Luck’s sire, Pollard’s Vision, for $12,500 again this year but will trim Borrego’s fee from $10,000 to $5,000 when the 2012 breeding season opens in February. The other Wintergreen stallions will keep their 2011 fees going into the 2012 season. They are Elite Squadron, $5,000; Five Star Day, $5,000; and Neko Bay, $7,500.

Canadian Frontier, sire of Grade 1 winners Hilda's Passion and No Such Word, will relocate in 2012 from Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky., to Brett Brinkman's LeMesa Stallions in Carencro, La. Canadian Frontier, a 12-year-old Gone West horse out of multiple graded winner Borodislew, by Seattle Slew, will have a fee of $3,500 on stands-and-nurses terms or $3,000 on Nov. 1 payment with live foal guarantee. . . . The filing date to avoid late-registration fees for recording foals and 2-year-olds with the Jockey Club is Dec.

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 131 horses for its Texas December mixed sale, set for Dec. 12 at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Tex.

"Over one-third of our 80-plus mares are black-type producers, with several in foal to Valid Expectations, our perennially leading sire in these parts," said Tim Boyce, Fasig-Tipton's southwest region sales director.

The auction starts at noon.
 

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Pumped up by important dispersals, Keeneland’s November breeding stock sale ended a remarkable 11-day run Thursday that built industry confidence that the Thoroughbred market had turned a corner after bruising downturns due to oversupply and the recession.