Wake at Noon, Canada's reigning Horse of the Year, enters stud next spring at the farm of his owner and breeder, Bruno Schickedanz, in Kettleby, Ontario.
A 6-year-old son of Cure the Blues out of Sermon Time, Wake at Noon is expected to compete in the Woodbine Slots Cup on Nov. 8 and perhaps once more before he is retired.
WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky., which announced in October that it would raise Distorted Humor's fee from $20,000 to $50,000 in 2004, also will double Victory Gallop's fee, to $30,000.
Victory Gallop, an 8-year-old son of Cryptoclearance, is the nation's second-leading freshman sire this year. His leading earner is Victory U. S. A., who finished third in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and second in the Frizette.
* Twining, the sire of Two Item Limit, will head for Japan after completing the Southern Hemisphere breeding season in Australia.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Millionaire and Grade 2 stakes winner Dollar Bill has been retired to stud at William Schettine's Signature Stallions near Ocala, Fla. A 5-year-old Peaks and Valleys horse, Dollar Bill will stand his first season for $3,500.
Dollar Bill won the 2000 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill and finished second in the Lane's End Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland at 2 before hitting the Triple Crown trail in 2001. He won the Risen Star Stakes and finished third in the Blue Grass before tackling the Derby, but he finished 15th after a rough trip.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Sales companies and buyers have complained in recent seasons that North America's stallion ranks have been depleted by age-related attrition and early deaths. The Breeders' Cup results pointed up the losses, as proven sires Pleasant Colony, Kris S., and Unbridled were among those who received posthumous accolades.
LAS VEGAS - A pedigree look at Breeders' Cup Day:
Distaff
Adoration is by the late sire Honor Grades (Danzig), a stakes-placed half-brother to A.P. Indy and Summer Squall. While Honor Grades did not have the high racing class of his siblings, he was a useful sire, and the majority of his offspring preferred turf. Adoration traces in tail-female line to the stakes-winning mare Belle Noire.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - In late 2000, when Kentucky horseman Bruce Kline went shopping for a farm, he never dreamed he'd end up buying one of the showplaces of the Thoroughbred industry.
But now that he and his partners have bought Spendthrift Farm, their goal is to return it to prominence with a stallion roster that eventually will include Grade 1 winners Cuvee, one of the favorites in Saturday's Breeders' Cup Juvenile, and Whywhywhy, son of popular Spendthrift stallion Mr. Greeley.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - There have been some management changes at Calumet Farm, the legendary Lexington showplace owned by the estate of Henryk de Kwiatkowski. But, addressing a continual concern of Lexington's racing fans and history buffs, the estate's legal representative said Friday that the farm is not being sold.
Precocity, a millionaire graded stakes winner, is in the running to become Florida's leading freshman sire in several categories. And this comes as no surprise to owner John Franks.
"I always thought he'd make a sire," said Franks while attending the recent Ocala Breeders' Sale fall mixed sale. "Lots of people thought otherwise. They didn't think he had the right kind of pedigree. I have a different opinion."
Slightly more than a year after fracturing an ankle that nearly ended his career, 4-year-old Cape Power won the $250,000 West Virginia Breeders' Classic Stakes Oct. 11 at Charles Town.
Trained by Tim Grams, Cape Power provided owner-breeder Tex Mullins, who has been breeding horses in the state since the inception of the West Virginia Development Fund in the early 1980's, with the biggest win of his career.