Airdrie Stud Announces 2023 Roster, Fees

Friday, February 2, 2024 at 1:52 pm |Back to: Breeders' Cup Juvenile victor Fierceness makes his 3-year-old debut in Saturday's GIII Holy Bull S. | Benoit By Ocala Stud celebrated a significant achievement when Fierceness (City of Light) became the second GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner in a row to graduate from their breaking and training…

When a male racehorse finishes its career there's a high chance that its owners will seek to put it out to stud. This is a horse racing term that effectively means it mates with female horses across the country - and sometimes the world - with the intent to produce the next generation of champion horses. Breeding is a big deal in the industry but…

Noted rebounded from a disappointing ninth-place showing in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile last month to score his second stakes victory of the season in the Pulpit S. Victorious in Monmouth's Sapling S. in August after breaking his maiden at Saratoga, he missed graded victory by a nose Oct. 8 in Keeneland's GII Bourbon S. and finished way back in…

Stay Hot rebounded from a 10th-place effort in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf with a late-flying victory in the GIII Cecil B. DeMille S. at Del Mar Sunday. The bay ridgling taken in hand and angled over from his outside post to be three wide into the first turn and was near the back of the field through an opening quarter in:22.00. The field…

Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 4:02 pm |Back to: Europe, The St Mark's Basilica sale-topper from the December Foal Sale | Tattersalls By With the foal sales at Goffs and Tattersalls confined to the rear view mirror, perhaps now is the time to get a good gauge on the young sires coming through. Bragging rights belong to St Mark's Basilica (Fr), who…

Having come out on the losing side of a couple of tight photos in graded-stakes company earlier this season, BBN Racing's Trademark (Upstart) was finally on the winning end of things Friday after dropping his nose down on the line just ahead of'TDN Rising Star' First Mission (Street Sense) in the GII Clark S. at Churchill Downs. The consistent Il…

Ace Impact, the undefeated winner of the Prix du Jockey Club and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, will stand for a debut fee of €40000 at Haras de Beaumont in 2024, a record opening price for a French-based stallion. The son of Cracksman become the first three-year-old colt to complete the big-race double since the Prix du Jockey Club was reduced to the…

Brereton C. Jones a prominent figure in the Kentucky equestrian industry and former governor of Kentucky has passed away. He was 84 years of age and left behind his wife Libby, son Bret, and daughter Lucy. Jones was the governor from 1991 to 1995 and prior to it served as lieutenant governor. His tenure is remembered for many reforms. The saddening…

The Saratoga Race Course meet has a deeply ingrained reputation as one of North America's major proving grounds for the mettle of a freshman sire, offering some of the deepest 2-year-old competition for both maidens and graded stakes horses. As one of the meets on the calendar that has the full attention of breeders and stallion operations alike,…

The stallions we assess today find themselves at the first major crossroads of their new career. Poor fellows, they're still a long way from having the chance to demonstrate whether they can actually produce runners. But that seems a pretty incidental consideration in the current marketplace, which has created a self-fulfilling cycle. Like it or…

Everything will come to light in good time. A year ago today, we were looking ahead at 2022 wondering which freshman sire would emerge as the head of his class and set himself up for a long career as a top stallion in Kentucky. Fast forward to the middle of December 2022, and we've got a three-horse race between Bolt d'Oro, Good Magic, and Justify…

The group we consider today for now retains a convenient gloss, still in the happy position of offering "all talk, no action." But they will actually have got as far as delivering their first flesh-and-bone foals into the straw by the time they start receiving their second book of mares. And many of the people who exploited their novelty value last…

Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 6:17 am |Back to: Bret Jones | Sarah K. Andrew Bret Jones is the vice president at Airdrie Stud located in Midway, KY, a 2500-acre breeding operation founded in 1972 by his parents, Governor Brereton Jones and his wife, Elizabeth. He is a graduate of the University of the South (Suwanee) and has formally been a…

On Tuesday morning (Dec. 13) Woodlands Stud's stallions exceeded seasonal harness racing earnings of $32 million across Australasia. This is made up of just five current and one retired stallion - American Ideal, Bettor's Delight, Downbytheseaside, Sweet Lou, What The Hill and Pegasus Spur. As a stud Woodlands Stud are delighted in these results…

With every thoroughbred auction breaking their own previous record breaking results, focus now turns to the stallion fees for 2023. Where is the value, if any and which big names are jumping up or down? Let's find out. One of the most highly anticipated rosters, the Coolmore fees were announced this week and with it a fee for recently crowned…

Upstart: will stand at $30000 for 2023 Rising third-crop sire Upstart leads the Airdrie Stud roster at $30000 for next year, the farm announced on Thursday along with its full roster and fees for 2023. Upstart, a son of Flatter and third-leading North American third-crop sire by progeny earnings, has been represented by five stakes winners this…

Tapit's stud fee will remain at $185000 in 2023, according to a press release from Gainesway Farm Wednesday morning announcing their roster and stud fees for the coming breeding season. The farm's top stallion is currently the leading active sire in North America by Grade I winners (29), Grade I horses (62), graded stakes winners (96), graded…

Spendthrift Farm has announced its stud fees for the roster of 27 stallions set to stand at the Lexington-based farm for the upcoming 2023 breeding season, led again by North America's reigning three-time leading sire Into Mischief who holds steady at $250000. Spendthrift has added four new stallions including 2022 multiple Grade 1 winners Jackie's…

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Spendthrift Farm has announced stud fees for its roster of 27 stallions set to stand at the Lexington-based farm for the upcoming 2023 breeding season, led again by North America's reigning three-time champion General Sire, Into Mischief who will stand for $250000 S&N. Spendthrift has added four new stallions including 2022…

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Spendthrift Farm has announced stud fees for its roster of 27 stallions set to stand at the Lexington-based farm for the upcoming 2023 breeding season, led again by North America's reigning three-time champion General Sire, Into Mischief who will stand for $250000 S&N. Spendthrift has added four new stallions including 2022…

Nest Could Be A Star In The Making; Undefeated Sy Dog Might Head To Royal Ascot; Brinkman Has Big Plans Old Homestead LESINGTON, Ky.-Lucky Seven Stable's Smile Happy is the 9-5 morning-line choice in a field of 12 3-year-olds entered in today's 98th running of the $1 million Toyota Blue Grass (G1) going 1 1/8 miles on the main track. $1 million…

Such was the impression Expert Eye made in winning the Vintage Stakes at Goodwood impressively that he started odds-on for the Dewhurst Stakes only to disappoint badly. But he bounced back at Royal Ascot the following season with another clear-cut victory, in the Jersey Stakes, outclassed Group 3 rivals again in the City of York Stakes later that…

Lucky Vega and Shane Foley after winning the Keeneland Phoenix Stakes last summer Group 1-winning two-year-old Lucky Vega will be ending his brief yet successful racing career in Tuesday's St James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot before heading to Australia for a future at stud. Yulong Stud owner Yuesheng Zhang will resist the temptation to extend…

Stallion Feature; Quality Road Rides Road to Success: Sometimes, leading first crop sires usually are the stallions that come out of no where, however, Quality Road had high expectations to fulfill when he entered stud in 2011 at the Kentucky farm, Lane's End. Quality Road was more than quality as a racehorse, and now, as the leading first crop…

Home Affairs is on the cusp of one of the most anticipated stallion careers in Australian history and he will have a fee to match after Coolmore on Wednesday night announced his introductory figure. In confirming that the son of I Am Invincible would not race on at four, Coolmore Australia said that following June's Group 1 Platinum Jubilee Stakes…