Breeding News

With the 2026 racing season entering its final months, Golden Boi, Cyber Monday, and Kj Mucho Macho Man have emerged as the respective leaders among AQHA's first-, second-, and third-year sires by money earned, highlighting a group of young stallions beginning to establish themselves in the Quarter Horse breeding industry.

Multiple graded stakes sire Majestic Cartel, a full brother to AQHA Racing Champion Five Bar Cartel, will relocate to Snow Ranch, LLC in Gainesville, Texas, for the 2027 breeding season.

Stakes winner and Grade 3-placed Fast Flyer 123 SI 111, a son of leading sire Flying Cowboy 123 from Grade 1 winner Uptowne Babe, has been retired from racing and will enter stud in 2027 at Scarlett Hill Farm near Weatherford, Texas.

Grade 1 winner and leading young sire Cyber Monday SI 98 will stand the 2027 breeding season at Lazy E Ranch for a fee of $6,000, it was announced this week. He is also enrolled in the new stallion incentive Fuego. Cyber Monday’s 2026 and 2027 foals will be eligible for the Azul Flight in the 2028 Fuego races.

Grade 1 winner and AQHA Racing Champion Enforce SI 102, a member of one of the most accomplished families in Quarter Horse racing, will retire from racing at the conclusion of his 2026 campaign and enter stud at Burns Ranch near Menifee, California, for the 2027 breeding season.

The Louisiana Quarter Horse Breeders Association is seeking stallion breeding donations for its 2027 LQHBA Stallion Service Auction, an annual fundraiser benefiting scholarships for graduating Louisiana high school seniors.

Two-time AQHA Racing Champion and Grade 1 stakes sire Uncle D SI 96 will return to Oklahoma for the 2027 breeding season, standing at Cavenaugh Quarter Horses, LLC near Wayne.

Royal Vista Ranch is proud to welcome One Fabulous Eagle back to his Oklahoma home, where he began his stallion career. Now a multiple Grade 1 sire with over $10.6 million in progeny earnings, One Fabulous Eagle brings proven speed, class, and a Grade 1 résumé back to Oklahoma breeders for the 2027 season.

St Pats Tea, a multiple graded stakes winner on the racetrack who became the dam of Grade 1 winner Bodacious Dash and the earner of more than $1.4 million, has died, according to a social media post from her owners, Bob and Jerry Gaston.