McCann's Mojave's victory in the $150,000 All American Handicap at Golden Gate Fields on Nov. 17 was not the richest win of the 7-year-old horse's career. The purse was just a fraction of the $1 million Sunshine Millions Classic that McCann's Mojave won in a 33-1 upset at Gulfstream Park last January.

The Grade 3 All American was not his most prestigious victory, a distinction achieved with a victory in the Grade 2 Potrero Grande Breeders' Cup Handicap at Santa Anita in 2004.

Tom and Chris Bowman have reached one high point after another over the past several years with their Maryland-based breeding operation. So it's no surprise that the Bowmans are likely to be listed among the breeders of 2007 Eclipse Award winners.

But hardly anyone would have predicted that it would happen with a steeplechaser.

Medallist, a multiple graded stakes winner, will relocate from Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky., to Maryland's Northview Stallion Station, Three Chimneys announced Tuesday. A 6-year-old Touch Gold horse out of the Grade 1-placed stakes winner Santari, Medallist will stand for $5,000.

"This is a move to give the horse access to a new market in his third and fourth years," said syndicate manager Case Clay, "when a lot of Kentucky-based mares are going to first- and second-year stallions."

Hook and Ladder got his second stakes winner from his first crop of runners when Spanky Fischbein won the $100,000 Great White Way division of the New York Stallion Stakes last Sunday.

A 10-year-old son of Dixieland Band, Hook and Ladder stands at Sequel Stallions New York in Hudson.

He is also the sire of Bongard Stakes winner Big Truck and I Promise, who finished third in the Grade 3 Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.

Additions to Florida's stallion ranks are being announced on a daily basis. Among those being retired to stud duty in 2008 are the stallions Pavarotti and Simon Pure. Both will stand at Hartley/DeRenzo Walmac South. Ocala Stud will stand High Cotton, while Exclusive Quality enters stud at Journeyman Stud.

Pavarotti is a 3-year-old son of A.P. Indy out of Snow Forest, by Woodman. Bought by the partnership of Michael Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier, and Derrick Smith at the Keeneland yearling sales of 2005 for

LEXINGTON, Ky. - With 13 victories in a row, the unbeaten 4-year-old filly Peppers Pride is becoming a legend in New Mexico racing, and owner-breeder Joseph Allen of Abilene, Texas, believes that his racehorse is something special and would like to keep winning races with her.

In her most recent start, Peppers Pride won the New Mexico Cup Championship Fillies and Mares Stakes at Zia Park on Nov. 11. That victory has brought her increasing attention, as she approaches the modern benchmark for consecutive victories in North America.

The year 2007 for Canadian-bred horses will be remembered mostly for the exploits of a trio of Grade 1 winners who made their country's horsepeople proud.

Jambalaya, bred by Gus Schickedanz of Schomberg, Ontario, and raced by Kingfield Farms, became the first Canadian-bred winner of the Arlington Million; Sky Conqueror, owned and bred by Bill Sorokolit, won the Grade 1 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day; and Maryfield, bred and sold by Mike Carroll and John Harvey Jr., won the inaugural running of the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.

Skeedattle Associates, a partnership comprising Willie White, Lou Rehak, and Bob Orndorff, has had many successes in its 16 years of owning Thoroughbreds. Skeedattle has expanded to the breeding side of the business, and within a short time has notched numerous accomplishments, among the most notable coming over the past two weeks at Laurel Park.

Defer, a Grade 3 winner, will enter stud in 2008 at Empire Stud in Hudson, N.Y., the farm announced Monday. A 5-year-old Danzig horse who will stand for $6,500, Defer won the 2004 Laurel Futurity. . . . Pavarotti, the stakes-winning A. P. Indy colt who set a nine-furlong track record of 1:49.75 when he won the Round Table Stakes at Arlington in July, has retired to stand at Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds in Ocala, Fla. A 3-year-old out of group-placed Snow Forest, by Woodman, he will stand for $6,500.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The concept of deep family was central to the attraction possessed by some of the multimillion-dollar mares sold this week at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.

Deep family is not simply a close relationship to a major racehorse. For instance, probable Horse of the Year Curlin is an outstanding racehorse, but he does not have a deep family. His dam had produced no black-type performers prior to Curlin, the Preakness and Breeders' Cup Classic winner, and her dam, Grade 2 stakes winner Barbarika, has not produced a stakes winner herself.