LEXINGTON, Ky. - Grade 1 winner Ecton Park, who retired in June to Wintergreen Stallion Station in Midway, Ky., will stand for $15,000 in his first season at stud.

A 5-year-old son of Forty Niner, Ecton Park won the Grade 1 Super Derby, Grade 2 Jim Dandy, and the Risen Star Stakes in 1999. He also won the 2000 William Donald Schaefer Handicap at Pimlico.

Ecton Park placed in seven other graded stakes during his career, most notably the Grade 1 Pacific Classic, in which he finished third last year.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Gold Legend, sire of multiple Grade 1 winner Heritage of Gold, will relocate from Kentucky to Texas, where he will stand at Clarence and Dorothy Scharbauer's Valor Farm for the 2002 breeding season.

Gold Legend, who stood in 2001 at Jonabell Farm in Lexington for $7,500, will stand for $5,000 next year. He remains the property of Jonabell and William Condren.

Gold Legend, an unraced 11-year-old son of Seattle Slew, is the first stallion to depart Jonabell since Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum purchased the property from John A. Bell III.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kentucky stallion Prospect Bay will either leave the state or be sold at auction before the 2002 breeding season, according to John Stuart, a member of the syndicate that owns Prospect Bay.

Prospect Bay, a 9-year-old Crafty Prospector horse, stood the 2001 season at Dr. Tom Simon's Vinery for a $5,000 fee. But in a meeting with shareholders last week, Vinery resigned as syndicate manager, making the horse available to other farms.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland's 13-day September yearling sale ended Sunday - one day later than planned, after the Sept. 11 session was postponed because of the terrorist attacks - but neither the attacks nor the unsteady economy made a dramatic dent in the world's largest yearling market.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - As the Keeneland September yearling auction wound toward its conclusion Saturday, prices dropped sharply and a $37,000 Marlin colt was the most expensive offering at the penultimate session.

Richard Matlow, agent, signed for the colt, a son of the stakes winner You Tell Me, by Clev Er Tell, and a half-brother to Louisiana stakes winners Belek's Star and Clev Er Irish.

Brereton Jones's Airdrie Stud, agent, sold the colt.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Mare reproductive loss syndrome has had a dramatic effect on Keeneland's November breeding stock catalog, which will offer 986 fewer horses this year than it did last year. The 2001 November sale, set for Nov. 5-15, will offer 4,115 horses this year. In 2000, the auction ran for 14 days and offered a record 5,101 horses.

"I would think that mare reproductive loss would have had some effect on the catalog this year, as there were 2,500 mares affected," said Keeneland director of sales Geoffrey Russell.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Who can forget the exceptional performances of Lite Light in the 1991 Kentucky Oaks, Santa Anita Oaks, Mother Goose Stakes, and Coaching Club American Oaks? If anyone has, the race results of the past two weeks give cause to remember this splendid mare.

Her second foal, the Storm Cat mare Gaily Egret, won the Group 3 Sakitama Hai in Japan on Sept. 9, defeating colts. And Lite Light's 2-year-old, the Gone West colt Saddad, won the Group

2 Flying Childers Stakes in England on Sept. 16.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Popular Claiborne Farm stallion Unbridled is recuperating after a 70-minute surgery Friday morning to remove a diseased section of his large colon, according to Claiborne manager Gus Koch.

Specimens from a three-foot section of Unbridled's bowel were sent to the University of Kentucky's Disease Diagnostic Laboratory in Lexington for analysis, and Koch said results are not expected back until later this week.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Gary Biszantz, chairman of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, is making changes in his Cobra Farm racing and breeding operation. Biszantz said Thursday that trainer Mike Puype and Cobra's horses have relocated from Southern California to Kentucky, where Biszantz and his wife, Betty, are building a new home.

The changes involve more than taking out a Kentucky owner's license. Biszantz said he intends to increase Cobra's commercial presence by breeding more horses for auction.

A $77,000 Confide colt purchased by pinhooker Becky Thomas was the Day 10 session-leader at Keeneland's September yearling sale as of 4 p.m. Thursday. The colt, out of the unraced Pleasant Tap mare Tapped Twice, came from the consignment of Eaton Sales, agent.

On Wednesday, the 13-day auction's ninth session rang up a $110,000 top price for a Devil's Bag colt out of For Kicks (Topsider). Mike McCarty purchased the colt from Asmussen Horse Center.