INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Two California-bred mares are in the thick of the race for the Eclipse Award as the nation's top older filly or mare.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - *, 2000's Horse of the Year and winner of the 2000 and 2001 Breeders' Cup Classic, will stand for $30,000, WinStar Farm announced Friday.

The 4-year-old Cee's Tizzy colt, who has been at WinStar since Nov. 21, will stand as the property of WinStar, Taylor Made Stallions, and Cee's Stable partners Michael Cooper, Pamela Ziebarth, and Kevin Cochrane.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Not every top racehorse goes on to become a top sire, but among the freshman class of 2001, such high-quality racehorses as Siphon, Pulpit, Louis Quatorze, and Smoke Glacken have begun their stallion careers with a bang. Each has at least one graded stakes winner, and all of them appear to have their best racing ahead of them. This suggests that some of these freshman sires will have classic candidates next year, and one might even follow in the path of Maria's Mon and sire a classic winner from his initial crop of racers.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Fall traditionally is a busy time for stallion relocations, as farms around the country settle deals to buy or sell stock in time for the upcoming breeding season.

In recent weeks, a number of young stallions with fees from $5,000 to $15,000 have shipped out of the Bluegrass, and the reasons behind some of the departures provide an indication of how competitive the stallion business is these days. They also provide some evidence that several states' breeding industries are gaining economic clout when it comes to luring stallions.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Grade 1 winner Wekiva Springs, who stood at Kentucky's Pin Oak Stud for $10,000 this year, will return to his native Florida in 2002. He will stand for $7,500.

Don Dizney, who bred Wekiva Springs, will stand the horse, a 10-year-old by Runaway Groom, at his Double Diamond Farm near Ocala. Wekiva Springs is the sire of two stakes winners from two crops to race.

LAS VEGAS - Racing and breeding was dealt a severe blow this year with the death of superstar stallion Unbridled and his daughters, 1998 champion 3-year-old filly Banshee Breeze and Exogenous, a leading candidate for champion 3-year-old filly this year.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Grade 1 winner Delaware Township, who ended his career with a three-length win in the Nov. 17 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash at Laurel, will take up stallion duties in 2002 at Satish and Anne Sanan's Padua Stables.

*, a 5-year-old son of popular Florida sire Notebook, will stand for $6,500. The horse will stand as the property of Eb Novak's New Farm, which raced him, and Padua Stables.

VERSAILLES, Ky. - WinStar Farm and Taylor Made Stallions plan to announce a fee for new stallion Tiznow this week, according to WinStar vice president Doug Cauthen.

The 4-year-old Cee's Tizzy colt made his formal debut Monday at WinStar in Versailles as some 60 local breeders and media watched the farm's stallion manager, Larry McGinnis, parade him.

WinStar and Taylor Made Farm will manage Tiznow's stud career in a joint venture, and the 4-year-old colt's owners - Michael Cooper, Pamela Ziebarth, and Kevin Cochrane - will retain an interest.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - As stallion and mare owners prepare for the 2002 breeding season, many wonder whether the syndromes that affected their horses this spring will repeat next year. No one has definitively established a single cause for the mare reproductive loss syndrome, swelling of the heart sac, and eye inflammation that appeared in 2001. But one of the front-line veterinarians who dealt with the heart symptoms, has a theory that may shed some light on at least a portion of the spring's damaging syndromes.

Several years ago, William Garbarini and Michael T. Martin campaigned Rush Chairman Bill, who was named the champion 2-year-old male among New York-breds in 1992.

It looks like history will repeat itself for Garbarini and Martin, who became buddies more than 40 years ago as college roommates at Rutgers University in New Jersey. The partners have another potential New York-bred champion on their hands in White Ibis, a 2-year-old gelded son of Distinctive Pro.