Adena Springs, the 2,300-acre central Kentucky property that was established by Frank Stronach in 2007, is being marketed for sale, according to the real-estate firm handling the transaction.

The sprawling property, which has served as the main home for Stronach’s bloodstock holdings since the farm was opened, is one of a number of high-value Thoroughbred farms just outside Paris, Ky. At the height of his involvement in Thoroughbred racing and breeding, Stronach owned hundreds of broodmares and dozens of stallions.

Dubawi became the first sire to have three offspring win Breeders’ Cup races in a single year, also fueling a historic weekend for Godolphin, the owner and breeder of all three victors.

Dubawi, the sire of one previous Breeders’ Cup winner in 2017 Filly and Mare Turf heroine Wuheida, is based at Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket, England, for Sheikh Mohammed’s international Godolphin operation, which stands its stallions under the Darley brand.

The Niarchos Family was honored with the 2021 Longines and IFHA International Award of Merit on Friday at the Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar. Fittingly, their brilliant runner Miesque, who made Breeders’ Cup history during her own career, also showed her influence during this race weekend in California.

Sunday Silence, winner of the 1989 Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Breeders’ Cup Classic, spent his entire stud career in Japan. There, he found a perfectly complementary gene pool and became a breed-shaping sire whose impact in his adopted country cannot be overstated.

Reigning leading sire Into Mischief and rising star Gun Runner both sired Breeders’ Cup winners, and exit last week with stallion records in sight before the end of 2021.

Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Knicks Go and Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Aloha West gave Maryland two Breeders’ Cup winners last week at Del Mar.

Aloha West captured the Sprint by a nose, a few hours before Knicks Go scored his second Breeders’ Cup win in the Classic. He won the Dirt Mile in 2020.

Knicks Go became the third Maryland-bred to win the Classic, joining Concern (1994) and the legendary Cigar (1995).

Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Knicks Go continued to extend the legacy of a sireline that has had its fair share of success in the Breeders’ Cup over the decades.

Knicks Go is a son of WinStar Farm stallion Paynter, a Grade 1 winner and runner-up in the 2012 Belmont Stakes who endeared himself to fans by overcoming a serious illness to resume racing. Paynter, in turn, is by Frank Stronach’s homebred Awesome Again, who defeated a star-studded field that included champions Skip Away and Silver Charm to win the 1998 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs.

Four years ago, the Breeders’ Cup came to Del Mar for the first time, and Gun Runner came to Del Mar to repel his challengers and draw clear to a 2 1/4-length victory in the Classic, locking up the 2017 Horse of the Year title.

“In some ways, it feels like it was just yesterday,” said David Fiske, racing and farm manager for Ron Winchell’s Winchell Thoroughbreds, which campaigned Gun Runner with Three Chimneys Farm. “I’ve re-watched that race from time to time, and it’s better than any antidepressant I’ve ever been prescribed.”

The international Shadwell Stables operation experienced a monumental loss this year as its founder, Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum, died in March. But even as the powerhouse stable navigates that loss and evaluates its operations, it has continued to show the strength of Sheikh Hamdan’s program.

Shadwell will have Kentucky Oaks winner Malathaat as one of the prime contenders in this Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Distaff. And a few weeks ago, Shadwell shone on another fall showcase program, with three winners on British Champions Day, including two homebred Group 1 winners.

World-renowned sire Galileo, whose death in July sent shockwaves through the racing world, will look to posthumously extend his lead as the Breeders’ Cup’s all-time leading sire by money won. Meanwhile, the action this week at Del Mar also could shift the leaderboard of the event’s leading living sires.