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American Freedom, a Grade 3 winner and young sire, has been sold to Bob and Tyree Wolesensky to stand at their Leadem Farm in Leola, Ark.

Airdrie Stud has announced that Klaravich Stables’ multiple track-record setter Highly Motivated will join the farm’s stallion roster for the upcoming 2023 breeding season. 

Regardless, if the number of mares bred is up, business is probably good for a stallion and a farm. Following is a list of the stallions who saw the biggest jumps in mares bred in 2022.

Airdrie Stud has announced the stud fees for the farm’s 2023 stallion roster. 

Ocala stud has set 2023 stud fees for its roster of 10 stallions for the upcoming breeding season, led by Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby winner Roadster who will stand his initial season at stud for $7,500 S&N. Also new to the roster for 2023 is Grade 1 winner Gretzky the Great, who will stand for $3,000 S&N.

Racing fans will have the unique opportunity to bid on and acquire halters and hats of this year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) entrants during “Hats and Halters,” an online auction fundraiser, which opens today and runs through Nov. 4 at 7 p.m.

Airdrie Stud has announced that Wertheimer and Frere’s homebred Happy Saver will retire to the Midway, Ky. nursery following this year’s Breeders’ Cup World Championships. 

A rangy gray colt by Creative Cause, Packs a Wahlop has a stride to match and he proved much best in Sunday’s $200,000 Zuma Beach Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita as he glided to a facile 2 ¾-length win.

Bloodstock editor Joe Nevills selects five regional stallions, position by position, that he would stand at a hypothetical Kentucky stud farm

Though Besilu Stables' time in the deep end of the Thoroughbred industry was brief, the mark it left on the North American stud book will be felt for generations to come