LEXINGTON, Ky. - Lane's End Farm has dropped the stud fees for 14 sires on its Kentucky roster, including A.P. Indy, whose fee was lowered from $250,000 to $150,000.

Lane's End also has lowered Smart Strike's fee from $125,000 to $75,000 and Curlin's from $75,000 to $60,000. The Versailles, Ky., nursery has added two stallions for the upcoming season: former Hill 'n' Dale Farm stallion Candy Ride, whose fee climbs from $12,500 to $25,000, and former Hurricane Hall sire English Channel, who keeps his 2009 fee of $25,000.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Lane's End Farm has dropped the stud fees for 14 of the sires on its Kentucky roster, including lowering A.P. Indy from $250,000 to $150,000.

In other notable fee cuts, Lane's End has lowered Smart Strike's fee from $125,000 to $75,000 and Curlin's from $75,000 to $60,000. The Versailles, Ky., nursery has added two stallions for the upcoming season: former Hill 'n' Dale Farm stallion Candy Ride, whose fee climbs from $12,500 to $25,000, and former Hurricane Hall sire English Channel, who keeps his 2009 fee of $25,000.

Gulch, the champion sprinter of 1988 and longtime sire, has been retired by Lane's End Farm in Versailles, Ky., the farm announced Thursday.

The farm said that Gulch, 25, was retired because of declining fertility. A Mr. Prospector horse, Gulch bred 20 mares in 2009, according to Jockey Club statistics.

Peppers Pride has lost the Tiznow foal she was carrying, her breeder and co-owner Joe Allen said on Thursday. It was to be the first foal for the history-making mare, who retired undefeated in 19 starts in January. Allen said the foal had been due in late February or early March. He said Peppers Pride will probably be bred back to Tiznow next season. She is based in Kentucky.

Allen said Peppers Pride lost her foal about 10 days ago.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Joseph LaCombe's Grade 2-winning horse Deputy Glitters has returned to training after standing one season at stud in Florida.

The 6-year-old Deputy Commander horse covered only nine mares at Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Fla., in 2009, his first year at stud. He stood for $2,500. LaCombe shipped him to Gayle Woods, also in Ocala, in the late spring to begin prepping for a comeback, said Journeyman owner Brent Fernung.

"He's doing really, really good," Woods said Thursday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Pauls Mill Farm, the new operation owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ben Walden, Jr., announced Wednesday that it will keep stud fees the same for Artie Schiller and Bellamy Road.

Artie Schiller, the Breeders' Cup Mile winner in 2005, will stand for $15,000 again in 2010, while 2005 Wood Memorial winner Bellamy Road will stand for $10,000. Both stood for those fees in 2009 when at Hurricane Hall. Artie Schiller, by El Prado, and Bellamy Road, by Concerto, relocated to Pauls Mill this year. Their first foals will be juveniles next year.

Ashford Stud, the Kentucky division of Coolmore Stud, will host an open week for breeders to inspect its stallions from Nov. 9 -15, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. The farm advises that no appointment is necessary, and hot food will be available.

Ashford stands such stallions as Giant's Causeway, Henrythenavigator, Tale of the Cat, and others, and will introduce a French Group 1 winner, Thewayyouare, in 2010.

Fasig-Tipton Midlantic has cataloged 344 horses for its Dec. 7 mixed auction in Timonium, Md., to begin at 10 a.m.

The catalog consists mainly of weanlings and broodmares in foal. Catalogs will be available online at by Nov. 9 and in all Fasig-Tipton offices by Nov. 13, the company said.

Catienus, New York's leading stallion before he went to stand at his owners' Kentucky farm in 2008 and 2009, will head back to the Empire State again in 2010.

Jeff Ramsey, stallion manager at Ramsey Farm in Kentucky, said Catienus, a 15-year-old Storm Cat horse, will stand at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in 2010.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The foundation for Eric Kruljac's first Breeders' Cup starter next weekend cost about the same as a European vacation.

Way back in 1995, Kruljac recalls that he and a former partner paid $3,000 to buy the yearling filly Iza Bay, the dam of La Nez, who is among the pre-entries for the $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita on Friday.

Only Kruljac, and a select few others, know how much of a bargain that has become.