MIAMI - With an early top price of $900,000 for an A.P. Indy colt, Fasig-Tipton's select 2-year-old sale at Calder Race Course on Tuesday showed the ups and downs consignors have learned to expect in the risky 2-year-old market.

MIAMI, Fla. - Seattle Slew, 1977's Triple Crown winner and one of the sport's influential sires, has been temporarily removed from stud duty Monday at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky.

In a letter to shareholders, Three Chimneys president Dan Rosenberg said that the 28-year-old stallion will undergo a neurological examination and semen analysis.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Repent won the Grade 3 Risen Star Stakes at the Fair Grounds on Sunday and increased support for himself as a candidate for the Kentucky Derby. Ashford Stud, which stands Repent's sire, Preakness winner Louis Quatorze, will doubtless be rooting for the colt, as well as last season's champion juvenile colt, Johannesburg, a son of Hennessy, if he starts in the Kentucky classic.

ARCADIA, Calif. - With four children, 15 grandchildren and "twins on the way," Michael and Nancy Brown do not spend as much time involved with racing as they did in previous years.

But the one horse they have in training - Vixen Storm - more than makes up for a large stable.

A 4-year-old gelding, Vixen Storm finished third in the $250,000 California Cup Classic last November and won a $54,000 allowance race for statebreds on Thursday at Santa Anita.

"This is it," Nancy Brown said. "We're very busy here and there. We are just having a nice time with Vixen Storm."

A solid group of 13 Maryland-breds will be offered in Fasig-Tipton's selected sale of 2-year-olds in training, beginning on Tuesday. Great success awaits if this year's group is anything like last year's.

A year ago, the Florida sale yielded the highest price ever for a 2-year-old by Maryland's leading sire, Two Punch. The colt, named Denver and Over, out of General Assembly's daughter Moments Delight, brought $675,000, the third highest-priced colt of the sale.

There have been several New York-bred gems discovered at 2-year-old in training sales in Florida in recent years.

On Tuesday, buyers hoping to strike gold with a 2-year-old New York-bred will have their pick of 11 registered New York-breds who are part of Fasig-Tipton's select one-day sale at Calder.

Gander, the 2000 New York-bred Horse of the Year and a contender to win the title again for his 2001 campaign, was purchased for $50,000 in March 1998 from an Ocala Breeders' Sales Company auction.

Fasig-Tipton's annual Florida selected sale of 2 year-olds in training begins 11 a.m. Tuesday at Calder Race Course.

Last year the sales company changed its format from a Monday evening and a Tuesday afternoon to a one-time Tuesday session, a change that proved eminently successful.

"I think with the pressure that everyone has these days, that to be able to come down a week in advance to view the under-tack show, possibly go home, and come back again for the one session sale, it works out far better this way," said Terence Collier, Fasig-Tipton's director of marketing.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Brooke and Lindsley Royster have sold their Chance Farm in Lexington to their longtime boarders Edmond and Sharon Hudon.

The private deal transfers three tracts of land, totaling 216 acres, to the Hudons, who have boarded horses at Chance Farm since 1989. Sharon Hudon said they will change the property's name to Sierra Farm, after Ed Hudon's Riverside, Calif., company Sierra Aluminum.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Graded stakes-winning racemares Serena's Song and Pico Teneriffe each produced foals this week.

Serena's Song, already the dam of stakes winner Serena's Tune and Group 1-placed Sophisticat, produced a colt from the final crop of Unbridled. A Claiborne stallion, Unbridled died in October at age 14.

The bay Unbridled colt, born on Feb. 19 at Denali Stud near Lexington, is the fifth for 10-year-old Serena's Song, who is owned by Bob and Beverly Lewis.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Top English sire and two-time champion miler Kris retired from stud duty on Tuesday at age 26, according to The Racing Post.

Kris, the sire of English champion 3-year-old filly Oh So Sharp, was to retire after this season, but declining fertility prompted Plantation Stud in Newmarket, England, to stop his breeding career early. Kris will live out his days at Plantation, where he stood since 1995. He began his career at owner Lord Howard de Walden's Thornton Stud.