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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.

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.