Breeding News

Tell Cartel added another highlight to his 2026 sire record Friday night when JT Midlife Crisis posted another fastest qualifying time for the $1,000,000 Texas Classic Futurity (G1) at Lone Star Park.

Multiple Grade 1 winner Favorite Jesshawk SI 96, a four-time stakes winner with career earnings of $493,939, will retire from racing following the 2026 season and begin his stallion career at Louisiana Center for Equine Reproduction in Opelousas, Louisiana, in 2027. His introductory breeding fee has been set at $3,500.

A Revenant’s offspring continue to make their mark in Grade 1 company, most recently with Revenantly, who was runner-up in the Golden State Million Futurity (G1) at Los Alamitos on October 25.

Nearly seven years after his death, Corona Cartel SI 97 continues to shape the future of American Quarter Horse racing. The legendary son of Holland Ease, who died December 18, 2019, at age 25, established a breeding dynasty that extends well beyond his own $73.8 million in progeny earnings, producing successful stallion sons, influential broodmares, and a growing collection of descendants competing at the highest levels of the sport.

Dunn Ranch has announced a special $3,750 Color Incentive breeding fee for Tobiano and Double Copy Overo Paint mares booked to leading AQHA and APHA race-bred stallion Chilitos SI 103 for the 2027 breeding season.

For decades, First Down Dash has stood as the gold standard among Quarter Horse racing's sires of sires. His sons have dominated breeding programs across the country, producing generations of stakes winners and accumulating hundreds of millions of dollars in progeny earnings.

Flash Divine, a 2020 son of champion First Moonflash, will start his second season at stud at Crystal Springs Farm and Racing for the 2027 breeding season at a fee of $2,000. The multiple Grade 2-placed stallion stood his first season at stud in 2026.

B Cause Ima Hero SI 105, a Grade 1 stakes-placed son of leading sire Valiant Hero and currently ranked among the nation's top second-year Quarter Horse sires, will stand the 2027 breeding season at Royal Vista Ranch, LLC in Wayne, Oklahoma.

MJ Farms, one of New Mexico's most established Quarter Horse breeding operations, has announced its stallion fees for the 2027 breeding season, featuring a five-stallion roster headed by leading sires Big Daddy Cartel and Eye Am King.