There will be at least 24 new stallions standing in Florida for 2006. All but a few of these are entering stud for the first time. Six of these newcomers are Grade 1 stakes winners, including Pico Central (by Spend a Buck) and Proud Accolade (Yes It's True), who will stand at Padua Stables. High Fly (Atticus) enters stud at Live Oak Stud. Wildcat Heir (Forest Wildcat) has been retired to CloverLeaf Farm II.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Korea Racing Association made news last week by completing deals for two young Kentucky stallions, 2002 Breeders' Cup Classic winner Volponi and Grade 1 winner Yankee Affair. The acquisitions were made possible in part by a change in Korean equine import regulations, another sign that Korea's developing racing and breeding industry is upgrading in much the same style that Japan's has under the Japan Racing Association. The KRA is similar to the JRA in that it is a government body that handles its nation's stud book and racing regulations.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Breeders who send mares to Momentum for the 2006 breeding season will be given an opportunity to sell the yearling back to the farm in 2008 for $15,000 without obligation, stallion owner Paul Reddam and Vessels Stallion Farm announced this week.

Momentum, who entered stud in 2005, will stand at Vessels in Bonsall for $5,000 in 2006. The promotion is designed to increase Momentum's book of mares, which Reddam said numbered 58 in 2005.

Irving and Marjorie Cowan have retired their multiple Grade 1-winning filly Society Selection to Lane's End in Versailles, Ky.

Irving Cowan said that breeding plans for the filly have not been finalized but that the couple is considering sending Society Selection to either Lane's End stallion A.P. Indy or Ashford stud Giant's Causeway. The Cowans own shares in A.P. Indy.

Grade 1 winner High Fly, retired in November with a condylar fracture, will stand at his owner and breeder's Live Oak Stud. High Fly will stand for $5,000 in 2006.

High Fly won the 2005 Florida Derby, Fountain of Youth, and Aventura Stakes. He also finished second this year in the Jerome Handicap and third in the Holy Bull Stakes. He retired about two months after finishing second to eventual Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Silver Train in the Jerome and left the track with a 5-1-1 record and $927,300. Nick Zito trained High Fly.

LAS VEGAS - This is the second installment on the 2006 freshman stallions, alphabetically featuring the sires H through L with particular emphasis on how to bet their offspring. The sires' names are followed by their pedigree, where they stand, and their designation (SP means speed; ST, stamina; T, turf; HT, hidden turf; x2, both sides of pedigree).

Cozzene'saffair, a stakes winner in foal to Congaree, brought $65,000 to top the Fasig-Tipton Texas mixed auction at Lone Star Park on Sunday. Jerry Cutrona bought the broodmare from Lane's End Texas, agent for Star Valley Thoroughbreds.

In all, 157 horses sold for a total of $607,400, or an average of $3,869. That average was down 15 percent from $4,585 last year, when 180 horses sold for a total of $825,300. There were 88 horses not sold during this year's auction, as opposed to 59 in 2004.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - This year's likely 3-year-old champion, , will begin his stud career at Graham Beck's Gainesway Farm in Lexington. He will stand for $40,000 in 2006.

The 2005 Preakness and Belmont winner also has a new owner in Stonestreet Stables' Jess Jackson, who recently bought a major interest in the colt. Afleet Alex had been campaigned by Cash Is King Stable, a partnership headed by Chuck Zacney. Zacney would not disclose Jackson's exact share in Afleet Alex and said only that the colt would stand at stud as the property of Jackson, Cash Is King, and Gainesway.

The durable Ground Storm, a graded-stakes winner who won races at Aqueduct, Belmont, and Saratoga, will enter stud for 2006 at Pegasus Farms in Dover Plains, Dutchess County.

A son of classic winner and classic sire Summer Squall, Ground Storm will stand for $3,000, live foal, as the property of Pegasus Farms and Joseph Parisi.

During his career, Ground Storm won or placed in 30 of 40 starts, earning $628,600.

He earned graded status with a victory in the Grade 3 Stymie Handicap at Aqueduct in 2002, winning by two lengths in a time of 1:48.80 on the inner dirt.

Victories by Canadian-breds Indian Vale, Jambalaya, and That's the Problem in the United States helped land Eugene Melnyk, Gus Schickedanz, and Adena Springs the three finalists' positions for the Sovereign Award for top breeder of 2005.

The Sovereign Awards will be handed out at the Wyndham Bristol Place Hotel in Toronto on Dec. 16.

Melnyk, who is also nominated as outstanding owner along with Harlequin Ranches and Stronach Stables, had one of his best years with his homebreds.