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When Golden Pal retired to Coolmore America for the 2023 season, he became the second son of Uncle Mo to join his sire at the farm, alongside Mo Town. A 15-year-old stalwart of the Coolmore stallion roster, Uncle Mo is currently enjoying a bit of a hot streak with his group of 2023 three-year-olds. Arabian Knight is the #1 ranked horse on the TDN's Derby Top Contenders off one start-the first race on the Breeders' Cup Saturday card-- indicating just how impressive that race was. The $2.3-million sales topper at...

After a short hiatus from the stallion business, Mill Ridge welcomed GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Oscar Performance to their farm in 2019. Four years later, they now add a second stallion to their roster in Aloha West (Hard Spun - Island Bound, by Speightstown), who claimed the 2021 GI Qatar Racing Breeders' Cup Sprint for Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Wayne Catalano.

TDN Rising Star, Breeders' Cup Juvenile and 2-Year-Old Champion Corniche will stand his first season at Ashford Stud this year. We talk to Ashford's Adrian Wallace and his trainer Bob Baffert about their high expectations for the versatile young sire.

Among Ashford Stud's new stallions for 2023, two members of the Coolmore quintet boast standout sire-making families. GI Preakness S. hero Early Voting is out of a half-sister to perennial top sire Speightstown while Jack Christopher, a 'TDN Rising Star' who raced to three Grade I victories, is out of a half-sister to Darley's Street Boss.

Spendthrift Farm has added four new stallions to their extensive roster for 2023. Of those, two carry the weighty distinction of winning a graded stakes at two. Both precocious horses furthered their success on the racetrack after their juvenile campaigns. Mo Donegal (Uncle Mo) took home a hard-fought win in the 2021 GII Remsen S. and went on to claim a Classic victory this year, while his new studmate Jackie's Warrior (Maclean's Music) came close to an undefeated season at two, but upped his game at three to be named...

Speaker's Corner and Mystic Guide, both Grade I-winning homebreds for Godolphin, have joined the Darley America stallion roster for 2023. The newcomers hail from impressive Godolphin families. Speaker's Corner, who will command an initial stud fee of $20,000, is out of a daughter of GI Breeders' Cup Distaff victress Round Pond (Awesome Again), while Mystic Guide, a 'TDN Rising Star' who will stand for $15,000, is a son of five-time Grade I winner Music Note.

Winstar's Global Campaign isn't just a Grade I-winner with 126 yearlings in the pipeline in 2023: he's also a half-brother to leading first-crop sire Bolt d'Oro.

With a Juddmonte pedigree through and through, Mandaloun bore Prince Khalid bin Abdullah's green, pink and white silks at the highest level of the sport during his racing career. A 'TDN Rising Star' on debut and the promoted 2021 Kentucky Derby winner, the homebred will now pick up the torch for Juddmonte's American stallion operation as he embarks on his stud career.

Sumbe stallion Le Havre passed away unexpectedly at the start of 2022, but in the season after his death, the operation could hardly have a more alluring new arrival than Prince AA Faisal's Mishriff (Ire). We talked to Mathieu Le Forestier about the globe-trotting multiple Group 1 winner.

European Champion Sealiway carried Kamel and Pauline Chehboub's green and yellow silks to victory in two Group 1 races. Now, he retires to the stud farm that was built just for him: Haras de Beaumont.

Among Ashford Stud's four newcomers for 2023,  two of the new additions hold Breeders' Cup titles. While turf sprinting superstar Golden Pal boasts the rare distinction of taking home two Breeders' Cup trophies, his new studmate Corniche justified his 'TDN Rising Star'-worthy debut last fall when he claimed the 2021 GI TVG Breeders' Cup Juvenile.

While the Flightline connections have been busy at the Keeneland November Sale assembling a powerhouse group of mares to send to their new stallion, the superstar himself has been settling in to his new home at Lane's End Farm. We stopped by to visit the undefeated son of Tapit, who arrived at the Versailles-based breeding operation less than 24 hours after he cemented his place in history in the GI Longines Breeders' Cup Classic.