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Due to expansion Roisin Close relocated to Chapel Stud roughly three years ago. Offering a range of services, Roisin also stands five stallions with two new horses added to the roster this year. Roisin tells Alayna Cull more about the stud and her stallions.

Two new stallions, both debut winners as juveniles who went on to become Grade I winners, have joined the Lane's End roster for 2022. Code of Honor (Noble Mission {GB} - Reunited, by Dixie Union) and Lexitonian (Speightstown - Riviera Romper, by Tapit) will stand for a fee of $10,000 in their first year at stud.

The Irish National Stud has welcome two new stallions to their roster for 2022, Lucky Vega and Nando Parrado. Both were high class two-year-olds and both will have strong support this season. Conor Hyland tells TDN's Alayna Cullen about the new stallions.

This year Journeyman Stud in Ocala, Florida added two new stallions to their stud roster: GIII Los Alamitos Derby winner Uncle Chuck and stakes-winning Florida-bred Chance It (Currency Swap).

2021 G1 Pegasus World Cup winner Knicks Go, trained by Brad Cox and campaigned by Korea Racing Authority, finished second behind Life Is Good in his career finale in the marquee test for older horses at Gulfstream Park Jan. 29. The son of Paynter will stand the 2022 breeding season at Taylor Made Stallions.

In 2021 two of Rathasker Stud's stallions sires Group 1 winners. Maurice Burns talks to TDN about those successes and the stallions.

Multiple graded stakes winner Tacitus, a son of Tapit out of champion Close Hatches, begins his stud career this year at Taylor Made Farm. We check in with Duncan Taylor on the blue-blooded millionaire and his early reception by breeders.

The National Stud is beginning to assert itself as a premier stallion farm in Britain after a successful 2021 for freshman sires Time Test and Aclaim. In partnership with Whitsbury Manor Stud and Nick Bradley Racing they have welcomed new recruit Lope Y Fernandez to the stud for the upcoming season. Jamie Jackson, who was recently appointed Nominations and Marketing Manager, tells us more about the only son of Lope De Vega currently standing in the UK.

This year WinStar Farm welcomed Independence Hall, a son of their successful young sire Constitution to their stud barn. We spoke with Liam O'Rourke on the multiple graded stakes winner and the strong backing he'll be receiving by breeders in his first year.

Dubawi spearheads the Darley stallion roster in Europe and as he turns 20 TDN paid him a visit at Dalham Hall. Those closest to him share stories of what it is like to be involved with the elite stallion.

Grade I winner and 'TDN Rising Star' Charlatan has been popular with breeders as he is set to begin his first year at stud at Hill 'n' Dale Farm. The son of Speightstown and winner of the 2020 GI Malibu S. will stand for $50,000 in 2022.

Six weeks after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the Breeders' Cup World Championships were held at Belmont Park. Tiznow made history when he became the first horse to win back-to-back editions of the Classic, defeating European invader Sakhee to race caller Tom Durkin's legendary proclamation of "Tiznow wins it for America!"