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Fifty-seven horses from a catalog of 219 sold on Sunday at the New York Breeders' Sales Company fall breeding stock sale in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., for total gross proceeds of $627,900 and an average price of $11,015, down 1.4 percent from the average of $11,173 last year, when 160 horses sold, according to results provided by the company. Seventy-four horses were scratched from the and 94 did not meet the reserve price set by the seller or did not attract a bid. . . . 300 North Capital, a Pasadena, Calif.-based institutional investment manager, has become a promotional partner of the Breeders' Cup for this year's event at Santa Anita Park on Nov. 6-7. 300 North Capital will use Breeders' Cup materials for promotions and will receive on-site advertising at the event and a "major hospitality package for its core clients," the Breeders' Cup said.