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Good Journey, the successful imported son of Nureyev, has been retired from stud duty.

The Group 1 winner has been retired to Mornington trainer-breeder David Brideoake's Roycevale property at Violet Town.

Good Journey stood at Cornerstone Stud in South Australia and has sired three G1 winners among his 15 stakes winners.

They included Grand Journey, Brideoake’s first G1 winner.

"Good Journey has played a major part in my success as a trainer. It's nice that I can bring him home to happily live out his days,” Brideoake said.

“He has been a lovely stallion. He will cover my private broodmares while enjoying his retirement."

• Much travelled stallion Delago Deluxe will stand under the Redden Thoroughbreds banner at Telemon Thoroughbreds in Queensland this spring.

The Australian-bred son of Encosta De Lago was the champion 2YO in South Africa in 2010-11 when he won the G1 Golden Horse Sprint and G1 Gold Medallion.

Delago Deluxe returned to Australia to stand at Newhaven Park Stud in NSW and to dat has sired 36 winners.

* The Keeneland September Yearling Sale reached a milestone during the seventh session when the sale gross passed the 2017 total with six sessions remaining.

Of the 2225 lots catalogued on the first seven days 1433 yearlings sold for a gross of US$326,287,200 at an average of US$227,695 and median of US$150,000.

The figures are the best for the September Sale since 2008.

The total gross last year was $307,845,400 for 2555 lots sold at a record average of $120,487 and record median of $57,000.

• Classy Pendragon mare Miss Gunpowder has been retired and will be served by champion sire Snitzel.

The six-year-old is going to stud after her vfinal career start in Saturday’s G1 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield.

Trained since she was a late 3YO by David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig, Miss Gunpowder was a $60,000 yearling purchase by Adelaide trainer Phillip Stokes and four races for his stable including the G2 Thousand Guineas Prelude at Caulfield.

She went to the Lindsay Park stable after she was purchased by a syndicate that included Coolmore Stud and was offered at the Magic Millions National Sale last year where she was bought for $700,000 by Neil Werrett and Steve McCann with Mark Pilkington.

A Listed winner and multiple Group place-getter, Miss Gunpowder is out of the US-bred mare Forever Rafter (Delineator), making her a half-sister to the G1 and G2 winner Absolute Glam (Snowland).