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With Distinction, a Grade 3-winning 5-year-old son of Storm Cat raced by the Robert and Beverly Lewis Trust, has been sold for 2007 stud duty at Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds near Ocala, Fla. Syndication is underway, though the horse will race for the rest of the year as the property of Randy Hartley and Dean De Renzo. . . . A two-million-euro Sadler?s Wells filly topped the three-day Goffs Million yearling sale in Ireland on Thursday. A daughter of Alakananda, the filly sold for the equivalent of about $2.5 million to Barbara Facchino?s Barouche Stud.