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Multiple Grade I winner Country Grammer and Two Phil's, this year's runner-up in the Kentucky Derby, join the WinStar Farm stallion barn for the 2024 season. Elliott Walden tells us about the new recruits.

The commercial travails of turf stallions in Kentucky have become notorious. But there are a couple of aligning trends that give Up to the Mark every right to make a breakthrough when he starts his new career at Lane's End in 2024. Here Chris McGrath chats with Bill Farish on the three-time Grade I winner.

After winning nine of 10 races at the graded stakes level, Elite Power's career culminated with a repeat victory in the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint. From there he was on to Juddmonte, where the champ will stand for an initial stud fee of $50,000 in 2024.

2022 Breeders' Cup Juvenile champion Forte has retired to Spendthrift Farm, where he will launch his stud career in 2024. The multiple Grade I-winning son of Violence is already booked full for his debut season at stud.

Five-time Group one winner Modern Games has been retired from racing and will join the Darley stallion roster at Dalham Hall for 2024. Also joining the team at Dalham Hall is Conor Norris who is joining the nominations department. He tells us all about Modern Games and gives us some information about himself.

Walmac Farm has added two new stallions to their growing roster for 2024: Pappacap, who stands out as the first son of Gun Runner to go to stud that was a graded stakes winner at two, and Fulsome, a multiple graded stakes-winning son of Into Mischief.

With the yearling sales underway in Europe it is always exciting to see which of the first season sires are impressing buyers. One of this year's crop who is quick into stride is Kameko, a dual G1 winning son of Kitten's Joy who stands at Tweenhills. David Redvers tell us about Kameko.

Wootton Bassett is a sire who has done it the hard way but he has certainly proved his worth. Coolmore purchased the stallion in 2020 and as we await his first Coolmore-bred crop to hit the yearling sales Mark Byrne tells us all about Wootton Bassett.

The G2 Flying Childers is fast becoming a stallion making racing and one of the past year's winners, Caturra, has joined the roster at Overbury Stud. He shares many similarities with a fellow stallion at the stud which Simon Sweeting tells us more about.

After spending one year in Japan in 2013, Darley's Street Sense has been at the top of the stallion ranks in Kentucky. Darren Fox tells us why he believe Street Sense's best years are still ahead.

Keepmeinmind, whose prowess on the track first brought sire Laoban to the national forefront, and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Champion and Eclipse Finalist Fire At Will  join Honest Mischief, Freud and Mission Impazible at Sequel New York's stallion roster, bringing diverse and interesting options for Thoroughbred breeders in the Empire State.

The first foals by champion Essential Quality are hitting the ground now, so we stopped in to visit a few of the new arrivals. We also talked to Darley's Kate Galvin about why it is a good time to breed to the son of Tapit in his second year at stud.