LEXINGTON, Ky. – WinStar Farm is holding the line on all but one of its stud fees for the 2012 breeding season. Ken Troutt’s breeding farm near Versailles, Ky., will double Bellamy Road’s stud fee from $10,000 to $20,000, but it will keep the fees the same for the other stallions it acquired earlier this year from Ben Walden’s Pauls Mill Farm and stand all of its previous WinStar sires for the same fees they had in 2011.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Vinery, which stands stallions in Kentucky, Florida, and New York, has announced its stud fees for the 2012 breeding season, and the upcoming roster has some cuts and some raises in fee levels.

The Kentucky stallion roster’s More Than Ready and Congrats get notable boosts in price. More Than Ready will rise from $40,000 to $60,000, and Congrats gets a lift from $15,000 at the start of 2011 to $35,000 next year. Also getting fee raises among the 2012 Kentucky stallions are Benny the Bull, who goes from $3,000 to $3,500, and Pure Prize, from $5,000 to $7,500.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland’s November breeding stock sale posted a fifth consecutive day of dramatic gains across the board Friday at its fifth of 11 sessions. And, once again, it was a horse from the late Ned Evans’s Spring Hill consignment featured prominently. This time, a $510,000 Quiet American weanling, a full sister to the dam of 2005 Horse of the Year Saint Liam, topped the session.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Ashford Stud has put a $35,000 stud fee on 2010 juvenile champion Uncle Mo for his first year at stud.

The 3-year-old Indian Charlie colt will stand at Ashford, Coolmore Stud’s American division in Versailles, Ky. Campaigned by Mike Repole, Uncle Mo earned more than $1.6 million, won the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and Champagne Stakes in 2010, and was only out of the money once in eight lifetime starts. This year, his two wins included the Grade 2 Kelso Handicap. He’s a son of the Arch mare Playa Maya.

Victor’s Cry, winner of last year’s Shoemaker Mile, and 2011 Indiana Derby winner Wilburn have retired from racing and will enter stud next year. B. Wayne Hughes’s Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., has bought both. Hughes will stand Wilburn at his farm but will stand Victor’s Cry at Michael Byrne’s Park Stud in Canada.

Their fees will be announced later.

A colt by the successful young sire War Front sold for $190,000 at Keeneland’s November sale on Wednesday, a record auction price for a West Virginia-bred weanling. The previous high was $185,000 for a Vin Nistelroy colt at the 2007 Keeneland sale.

Kingsbury Stables bought the colt from 84-year-old West Virginia breeder Buck Woodson.

Woodson said he felt confident enough in the colt, based on a number of private offers before the sale, to set a reserve price of $99,000.

John Phillips’s Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Ky., has hired Robert Hammond as its general manager. Hammond most recently was the stallion manager and bloodstock director at Ken Troutt’s WinStar Farm near Versailles, Ky. Hammond, a native of England, also has been a trainer, farm owner, consignor, and bloodstock agent both in the U.S. and Britain. . . . Grade 1-winning millionaire Gayego will enter stud next year at Canada’s Norse Ridge Farm, where he will stand for $6,500 in Canadian funds.

Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum’s Darley Stud announced Thursday that it will double Bernardini’s stud fee, from $75,000 to $150,000, for the 2012 breeding season.

A Darley release explained the raise by saying Bernardini “has solidified his remarkable first-crop achievements with star 3-year-old Stay Thirsty.”

Stay Thirsty won the Travers, Jim Dandy, and Gotham this year. He also was runner-up in the Belmont Stakes and placed in the Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes.

Fasig-Tipton Midlantic’s Dec. 5 winter mixed sale, which features Phase II of the Flying Zee Stables dispersal, has a 395-horse catalog. The auction consists of mares, weanlings, and horses of racing age.

In-foal mares include some covered by such fashionable sires as Giant’s Causeway, Indian Charlie, and Lemon Drop Kid, as well as some in foal to champion Lookin at Lucky. The Flying Zee dispersal has 50 horses of racing age, including 28 juveniles, as well as 30 weanlings, most of which are eligible for New York-bred registration. The sale starts at 10 a.m.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The late Ned Evans’s Spring Hill horses continued to exert their influence on Keeneland’s November breeding stock sale at Thursday’s fourth session, but it was another dispersal that produced the session-topper.