LEXINGTON, Ky. - Ingot Way, dam of 1998 Horse of the Year Skip Away, was euthanized early Wednesday morning after colicking, leaving a legacy of good auction results for her owners at Summer Wind Farm near Georgetown, Ky.

Ingot Way, who was 21, died at the Hagyard Davidson McGee veterinary hospital. Summer Wind manager Mark Moloney said surgeons delivered Ingot Way's Awesome Again colt by Caesarean section before the mare died. The foal, who was 5 1/2 weeks premature, also died Wednesday at the clinic.

JAMAICA, N.Y. - Say Florida Sandy, the all-time leading New York-bred in earnings, has been named New York-bred Horse of the Year for 2001.

That award and other championships were announced at a dinner hosted by the New York Thoroughbred Breeders on Tuesday in Albany, N.Y.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kris S., the 25-year-old sire of champions Soaring Softly and Hollywood Wildcat and four Breeders' Cup winners, has been retired from stud duty at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky., because of a neck injury.

"Unfortunately, Kris S. has not responded to treatment for the neck injury he incurred in late February, and it is clear that his stud career must come to an end," Doug Cauthen, president of WinStar, said. "We are trying to keep him comfortable, but going back into service is out of the question."

Frank Stronach's Adena Springs sold 40 horses for gross receipts of $945,500 and an average price of $23,638, at the farm's inaugural 2-year-olds in training sale on Thursday afternoon in Florida.

The juvenile sale, conducted by Ocala Breeders' Sales Company at Adena Springs South, was the first for Adena, and it made use of a novel experiment: publishing the reserves on 58 of the 68 horses on offer. Of the 58 with published reserves, 30 sold, or 52 percent. The 10 without reserves all sold.

Proud Greida could be just another face in a crowd, but she has been at the center of one amazing story after another at the Boniface family's Bonita Farm in Darlington, Md.

A 12-year-old gray daughter of Proud Truth, Proud Greida was a modest winner and had produced just one foal before the Bonifaces purchased her for $7,000 in 1996 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December mixed sale.

As a new Thoroughbred season gets under way at Woodbine, members of the industry look forward to yet another year of high purses, impressive wagering figures, and plenty of slot machine revenue.

So now is the time, said Glenn Sikura, president of the Ontario division of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society, to concentrate on helping the breeders in the province take advantage of the thriving industry.

When the final numbers were tallied, the Ocala Breeders' Sales selected sale of 2-year-olds in training, held in Ocala Tuesday and Wednesday, was among the most successful in its history. The only decrease from last year came in gross, which was down 3 percent, from $15,166,000 last year to $14,722,000. Last year, 216 horses sold; this year 200. Average price rose 5 percent, to a sale record $73,610. Buybacks were virtually the same as last year, at 38 percent.

OCALA, Fla. - The Bridlewood Farm of Arthur Appleton has had a series of successes the past few weeks, beginning with the sale of a Bridlewood-bred 2-year-old filly for $1.9 million at the Barretts auction of juveniles in training and continuing with state breeders' awards for the farm's premier broodmare, North of Eden, and racehorse, Forbidden Apple. Then Tuesday, with their first consignment of juveniles in training, Bridlewood sold the opening session's high-priced lot at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's auction of 2-year-olds in training.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Two top broodmares from the Stonerside Stable operation, Halory and Banker's Lady, died this month after foaling, according to an announcement by the Paris, Ky., farm.

Halory, dam of four graded stakes winners and the $6.4 million yearling now named Van Nistelrooy, was 18 and died on March 14 after foaling an Unbridled colt. Banker's Lady, a Grade 1 winner and the dam of Grade 2 winner Banker's Gold, was 17 and produced a Coronado's Quest filly on March 4, shortly before her death.

Both mares' foals have been placed on nurse mares and are doing well.

Topped by a $400,000 Phone Trick colt bought by Eugene Melnyk, the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's March 2-year-old sale ended Wednesday with declines across the board.

The two-day auction in Ocala, Fla., sold 98 juveniles this year for a total of $6,255,000, down 59 percent from last year, when far more horses - 216 - passed through the ring for gross receipts of $15,166,000. The average price dropped 9 percent, from $70,213 last year to $63,827 this time.