Lane's End Farms

Lane's End Farm has donated seasons to Candy Ride (Arg), Quality Road, City of Light, and Union Rags to the auction offered at the Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA) 'Tis the Seasons Celebration presented by LNJ Foxwoods. Now in its 30th year, the celebration will be held at Distillery Square in Lexington, Ky., Sunday, Jan. 12, at 5:30 p.m. The Lane's End stallion seasons are no guarantee. Other stallion seasons offered at the celebration will include Audible, Blame, Constitution, Street Sense (with a 2021 breed back), and Vino Rosso. Halters...

Reviewing the 2019 sires' championship, it was striking to observe such consistent correlation between fees and performance. Almost without exception, the top of the table was dominated by the most expensive stallions in the business. The big guns, in other words, had all found their range. Of the top 20 sires in Kentucky, in fact, only one is still standing for less than $40,000. Yet he is also younger than all bar one of that elite. (Uncle Mo is also just 12.) Those two distinctions are hardly unrelated, of course....