Breeding News

CSJ Ranch will offer breeders a four-stallion roster for the 2027 breeding season, featuring two-time champion and established sire Inseperable alongside three newcomers retiring from the racetrack.

Parsons Family Limited Partnership’s homebred Rockin With Energy, a two-time winner of the Grade 1 James Dreyer Charger Bar Handicap, has been retired, trainer Paul Jones said via text earlier this week.

Fly The Coup SI 93 has established himself among the nation’s leading first-crop sires in 2026, with his first racing-age offspring making an immediate impact in Indiana. The son of leading sire Favorite Cartel comes from one of Quarter Horse racing’s most accomplished female families.

Apollitical Swing, an unraced son of leading sire Apollitical Jess and a half-brother to 2026 All American Derby(G1) winner Effortless Favorite, will begin his stallion career in 2027 at Armstrong Equine Services in La Mesa, New Mexico. His introductory fee has been set at $1,500, with consideration for proven mares.

B Cause Im A Hero SI 105, a Grade 1 stakes-placed son of leading sire Valiant Hero, will stand the 2027 breeding season at Royal Vista Ranch, LLC in Wayne, Oklahoma. His fee is $3,500.

Grade 3 stakes winner Big Lew Love SI 102, a son of multiple stakes sire Big Lew from one of Quarter Horse racing's most accomplished female families, has been retired from racing and will begin his stallion career in 2027 at Snow Ranch, LLC, in Gainesville, Texas. His introductory breeding fee has been set at $1,500.

Apollitical King SI 90, a son of leading sire and emerging sire of sires Apollitical Jess out of three-time AQHA Racing Champion Flash And Roll, has retired from racing and will begin his stallion career in 2027 at CSJ Ranch in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His introductory breeding fee has been set at $2,000.

Separatist SI 101, a three-time AQHA Racing Champion and one of the Quarter Horse racing industry's most influential sires, died Sunday, November 8, at the Louisiana Center for Equine Reproduction (LACER) in Opelousas, Louisiana. The legendary gray stallion was 29.

Four mares among AQHA’s top 50 all-time leading dams of money earners have accomplished something that reaches beyond their own produce records: each has a daughter who also ranks among the top 50.