LEXINGTON, Ky. - Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's two-day juvenile sale in Timonium, Md., which posted a $280,000 sale-topping End Sweep colt in its opener Monday, continued its upswing Tuesday and ended with gains across the board.

Together, the pair of sessions sold 282 lots for $9,312,600 in total receipts, up 9 percent from last year, when 268 horses brought $8,529,400. The average price also climbed, by 4 percent, from last year's figure of $31,826 to $33,023 this year. The median followed suit, rising 7 percent, from $21,000 to $22,500.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - King Cugat, a millionaire son of Kingmambo, will shuttle to Australia for the southern hemisphere breeding season, Lane's End Farm confirmed Tuesday.

King Cugat, a Grade 2 winner with earnings of more than $1.2 million, will stand at Widden Stud in New South Wales under a partnership deal with Gerry Harvey's Baramul Stud. The 5-year-old horse has not been sold and will return to Lane's End for the 2003 northern hemisphere season, according to Jill McCully, Lane's End's stallion coordinator.

BALTIMORE - When War Emblem and Magic Weisner finished one-two Saturday in the Preakness at Pimlico Race Course, it meant sports fans across the country could look forward to War Emblem's pursuit of the Triple Crown in the Belmont Stakes on June 8 at Belmont Park.

Closer to home, it also meant that Audrey and Allen Murray, owners of Our Emblem, the sire of War Emblem, and Nancy Alberts, breeder, owner, and trainer of Magic Weisner, continued on their magic carpet ride in Maryland.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A $280,000 End Sweep colt was the opening session leader late Monday afternoon at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's annual 2-year-old-sale in Timonium, Md.

Roger Dreyer bought the Maryland-bred colt, who is out of the Phone Trick winner Line's Busy. Walter Burke's Valley View Farm, agent, consigned the session leader.

The colt is a half-brother to placed runner Free Line and is from the family of stakes winners Miss Audimar and Charge My Account. He had worked a quarter-mile in 22 seconds during the under-tack show last week.

Doug Henderson's Marablue Farm is a 400-acre Thoroughbred stallion station, nursery, and training center in the northeast quadrant of the Ocala area. In a matter of days, Marablue Farm will mark its 28th year of operation. As for birthday presents, Marablue Farm owner and general manager Doug Henderson already got a big one when the Juddmonte Farm's Prince Khalid Abdullah won last Sunday's Group 1, French 1000 Guineas with Zenda, a daughter of the Juddmonte stallion Zamindar, who was repatriated from England to stand at Marablue Farm.

The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society's annual 2-year-olds in training sale at Woodbine racetrack on May 16 took sizable hits in gross sales and average price, with only 23 of the 87 horses catalogued sold.

Thirty-nine horses were bought back by their consignors.

Gross sales dropped more than 40 percent from $1,069,500 to $594,700, and the average price tumbled from $32,409 to $25,586.

There are several changes to this year's Maryland Million, the state's second-biggest day of racing behind Preakness Day. The 2002 Maryland Million will be run Sept. 21 at Pimlico.

New York-breds will be a strong presence at Fasig-Tipton's Midlantic two-day sale of 2-year-olds in training in Timonium, Md., beginning Monday.

More than 50 New York-breds were among the sale horses after a list of early withdrawals for the Midlantic sale was released on Thursday afternoon.

The New York-bred contingent includes Crafty Cowboy (Hip No. 72), a son of the New York-based freshman sire Rodeo. The colt's third dam, Spectacular, produced the 1979 Horse of the Year, Spectacular Bid. Crafty Cowboy is consigned by Wavertree Stables, Inc. and Ciaran Dunne, agent.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Swiss Yodeler was the star 2-year-old of the 1996 Hollywood Park spring-summer meeting, sweeping the three stakes for the division.

Six years later, four of his daughters have put the young stallion back on top - this time on the national freshman sire list.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The term "international Thoroughbred buyer" invokes the image of wealthy Arab princes or powerful breeding conglomerates ready to spend millions on a horse. But sellers with horses at the lower level of the Barretts May 2 auction in California saw another aspect of international buying power.