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Northview Stallion Station will be busy at the upcoming Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December Mixed and Horses of Racing Age Sale on Tuesday, Dec. 8. The consignment will offer nearly 50 head, including a 27-horse reduction of breeding stock for Joseph Besecker. Perhaps more importantly, the annual Midlantic sale will allow the Chesapeake City, Maryland-based farm the opportunity to show off stock from their growing stallion roster, including the first weanlings from Irish War Cry (Curlin) and Hoppertunity (Any Given Saturday). "Our game is to bring the best we can for the...

Champion Midnight Bisou (Midnight Lute) arrived at Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa Thursday afternoon after completing her final phase of rehabilitation at WinStar Farm. The five-time Grade I winner will visit Hill 'n' Dale flagbearer Curlin. Midnight Bisou was preparing for her Breeders' Cup bid this fall when an sesamoid fracture incurred during a work at the end of September forced connections to retire the mare prematurely. Midnight Bisou shone as one of brightest stars at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale on Nov. 8. Co-owner Chuck Allen of Allen Racing couldn't...

TDN New Stallions, Sergei Prokofiev

Dual-surface Grade I winner War of Will is set to begin his career at stud at Claiborne Farm alongside sire War Front. We speak with Bernie Sams on their new addition. War Front is undoubtably heralded as one of America's top turf sirs, but Claiborne's Bernie Sams said he finds any stereotype that the stallion is solely a grass producer is unjustifiable. "I think War Front has been labeled to some extent as a turf sire, but unfairly so because he got his start with dirt stakes winners," he said....

Since his maiden-breaking 'TDN Rising Star'-worthy juvenile debut, McKinzie had caught the eye of Gainesway Farm. But according to Gainesway's Director of Stallion Sales and Recruitment Sean Tugel, the son of Street Sense had the attention of nearly every top stud farm in the country. "He was on everybody's radar from the very beginning," he said. "Any time you see one win first time out from Bob Baffert's barn, you have to recognize it." McKinzie's resume only improved from there over the next three years before he retired in October...

Cracksman (GB) (Frankel {GB}), who was a European Champion at three and four, retired to Darley's Dalham Hall in 2019. His first crop of foals are due to come under the hammer at the upcoming sales. Jack Bloom spoke to TDN's Alayna Cullen about the young sire. Also expecting his first foals in 2021, MG1SW Too Darn Hot (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) will command £45,000 at Dalham Hall, while the veteran Group 1 sire New Approach (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is listed as private. Also at Dalham Hall, both Golden Horn (GB)...

Breeders' Cup Classic contenders Improbable, Global Campaign and Tom's d'Etat arrived at WinStar Farm, where they are set to begin their career at stud in 2021.

It may have seemed a foregone conclusion when he hit the line a decisive winner of the Breeders' Cup Classic, and it proved to be so. Authentic arrived to take up stud duty at Spendthrift Farm on Monday after the Breeders' Cup. We talk to Bob Baffert and Ned Toffey about the new stallion. Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic winner Authentic (Into Mischief-Flawless, by Mr. Greeley) has been retired to Spendthrift Farm, where he will stand for a fee of $75,000 S&N, the farm announced Monday morning, two days...

2014 Travers hero VE Day (English Channel) will see his first Kentucky crop of yearlings sell at this year's Fasig-Tipton October Yearling Sale. Katie Ritz checks in with Buck Pond Farm's Doug Arnold. Grade I-winning millionaire V. E. Day will be represented by his first crop of Kentucky-bred yearlings at the upcoming Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings Sale scheduled to be held Oct. 26 through 29. Owned by Magalen Ohrstrom Bryant, the son of English Channel won the Curlin S. at three before capturing the 2014 GI Travers over Wicked Strong...

Twenty-five years after his perfect season--the centerpiece of a 16-race round-the-world winning streak, we look back at the incomparable, invincible, unbeatable Cigar with the people who were closest to him. It was the sixth race on an ordinary Friday card in October at Aqueduct some 26 years ago and there was nothing to suggest that the $34,000 allowance event would ever have any relevance. Jose Santos was aboard the favorite, a recent allowance winner who started out at Suffolk Downs named Golden Plover. Julie Krone had the mount for Tom...

It was a monumental day for Hill 'n' Dale Farm, as the entire stallion roster made the move from their Lexington location to the newly and extensively renovated Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa outside Paris, Kentucky. Katie Ritz was on the scene. A caravan of four massive Sallee Horse Vans journeyed from Fayette County to Bourbon County today to deliver the 13 members of the Hill 'n' Dale stallion roster to their new residence: Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa. Two-time Horse of the Year and Hill 'n' Dale flagbearer Curlin...

In a few months, the first crop of foals from Claiborne's Catholic Boy will hit the ground. A Grade I winner on both dirt and turf, the son of More than Ready was popular with the breeders. We heard from trainer Jonathan Thomas and Claiborne's Walker Hancock. A graded stakes winner at ages two, three and four, Catholic Boy won three of his four starts as a juvenile, including the GIII With Anticipation S. on turf at Saratoga and the GII Remsen S. on dirt. In 2018, Catholic Boy became...