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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.

Four-time Grade I winner Life Is Good arrived at WinStar Farm the morning after the Breeders' Cup and received a warm welcome from his WinStar and China Horse Club connections. Todd Pletcher also stopped by to send off his pupil, who was known as 'Scooter' around the barn.

Catholic Boy and Demarchelier, both residents of Claiborne Farm, will be represented by their first crop of yearlings at Keeneland September. We visited the pair and a few of their sales-bound youngsters here.

Airdrie Stud will be represented by two first-crop yearling sires at the upcoming Keeneland September Sale. We spoke to their Director of Sales Jocelyn Brooks about Grade I winners Preservationist and Divisidero.

Next week, the first yearlings by Darley's dual champion Too Darn Hot (GB) will be offered for sale at the Arqana August Yearling Sale. Expectations were always going to be high for Too Darn Hot--a son of sire of sires Dubawi, out of the triple Group 1-winning mare Dar Re Mi (GB) (Singspiel {Ire}), from the deep family of the prodigious sire Darshaan (GB). An undefeated Champion at two who repeated as Champion at three, he also achieved the best foal sales average of 2021. But uniquely, it will not...

Omaha Beach set the bar high for this year's class of first-crop yearlings stallions at the Fasig-Tipton July Sale, where five of his progeny sold and averaged $236,000. He sends six yearling through the ring at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale, and we looked at a few pointing for the elite auction.

GI Florida Derby winner Audible was the most popular new sire in WinStar's history in 2020. This year, his first yearlings take on the sales ring.

Yearlings from the first crop of champion Vino Rosso sold for top dollar at the Fasig-Tipton July Sale. In just a few weeks, the next round of progeny by the Breeders' Cup Champion will head to Saratoga.

Buyers will have plenty of opportunity to get a good look at the first crop from Maximus Mischief at next week's Fasig-Tipton July Sale. With a dozen yearlings currently slated to go through the ring for Maximus Mischief, Spendthrift's Mark Toothaker said the young sire is generating quite the commercial buzz.

Yoshida, a Grade I winner on dirt and turf, was poplar with breeders in his first year at WinStar Farm. This year, the resulting crop is now yearlings. We took a look at a few pointing for the sales ring.

Mitole (Eskendereya - Indian Miss, by Indian Charlie) is a barn favorite for Spendthrift Farm's Stallion Sales Manager Mark Toothaker for several reasons, perhaps a big one being that, as Toothaker joked, "He's easy on a guy trying to sell stallion season." The 2019 GI Breeders' Cup Sprint champion bred over 200 mares in each of his first few years at stud, including that tough third season where many promising stallions are lucky to get 100. What has made Mitole so extremely popular? The TDN's Katie Petrunyak sits down with Toothaker...

The first-crop of yearlings from multiple graded stakes winner Catalina Cruiser are ready to kick off sales season at the Fasig-Tipton July Sale.