Pleasant Acres Stallions announces the 2025 stallion fees for Bodexpress, Champions Dream, Chess Chief, Curlin’s Honor, Doppelganger, Gunnevera, Leinster, Magic on Tap, Mr Fisk, Neolithic, Simplification, and Verifying.

The Street Fighter, a stakes performer by multiple grade 1 winner Street Boss, has relocated to Rancho San Miguel in California for the 2025 breeding season. The 10-year-old stallion will stand for a fee of $2,500, with a live foal guarantee.

The Kentucky Derby winner faces a field that includes three from the Bob Baffert barn, Santa Anita Derby (G1) winner Stronghold, and Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) second Bentornato.

France Galop’s administrative council has formally adopted a budget for 2025 which will see the sport run a €15 million deficit.

Measured Time, a grade I winner at Saratoga Race Course, blitzed the field in his first start of the Dubai World Cup Carnival for the familiar Meydan Racecourse team of Godolphin, trainer Charlie Appleby and jockey William Buick.

Soul of an Angel, dramatic winner of the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) and this summer’s Alabama Stakes (G1) winner Power Squeeze will line up together for the first time in the $140,000 Rampart Stakes Dec. 26 at Gulfstream Park.

Owner Mike Repole, always a strong competitor on the East Coast, has made his presence out west felt following back-to-back dazzling performances from the 3-year-old filly Accuracy.

The Dec. 22 Arima Kinen (G1) draws a quality field despite the absence of champion Do Deuce, who will miss his chance at one last grade 1 victory as lameness forces him out of the race.

As much as extending 2024 by a few months would not bother trainer Kenny McPeek, he’s already looking forward to 2025.

A handful of college students visited the Fasig-Tipton sales grounds in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., catalogs in hand, making the rounds of the more than 200 broodmares and weanlings that would be offered at the company’s fall mixed sale Oct. 15.