LEXINGTON, Ky. - Grade 1 winner Trippi has been purchased by a group of Florida-based investors headed by Joe O'Farrell's Ocala Stud and will enter stud there rather than at Kentucky's Vinery at 2002.

According to Dogwood principal Cot Campbell, Vinery had an option to purchase a 25 percent interest in the 4-year-old End Sweep colt when he retired in August.

"On reviewing the situation last week," Campbell said, "we mutually agreed that the horse was better suited for Florida. I then contacted Ocala Stud."

Vinery representatives were not available for comment.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland's September yearling sale entered its ninth session on Wednesday with a $110,000 Devil's Bag colt the session leader as of 4:30 p.m.

The colt, a son of the Grade 3-winning Topsider mare For Kicks, went to Mike McCarthy from the consignment of Asmussen Horse Center, agent.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Although momentum was slowing at Keeneland's 13-day September yearling sale on Tuesday, the auction's eighth day of selling, the market was holding steady.

As of 5 p.m., the Tuesday session's leader was a $200,000 Elusive Quality colt that Reynolds Bell Jr., agent, bought from Brookdale Farm. The colt is out of the Staff Writer mare Labeled Lady. The afternoon's top filly at that time was a $150,000 daughter of Phone Trick and Virginia City (Carson City). Linda Rice, agent, purchased the filly from Bluewater Sales, agent.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Handsome chestnut sons of top international sire Storm Cat brought the top prices at the two select sessions of the Keeneland September yearling sale last week. The highest price of the sale was $6.4 million, which Coolmore bid on Sept. 12 for a colt out of Halory, the dam of Blue Grass Stakes winner Halory Hunter and three other stakes winners. The session's high price on Sept. 10 was $5.5 million for a colt out of La Affirmed who sold to Sheikh Mohammed.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Seemingly undaunted by economic downturn and national disaster, the 13-day Keeneland September yearling sale continued at a steady pace over the weekend, ringing up $200 million in gross revenues for the third consecutive year on Saturday.

Through Sunday, the last session for which complete figures were available, the 2001 September sale was running behind in gross revenue - a product of its smaller catalog this year - but the average and median prices were both up.

An Elusive Quality colt out of the Axe II mare Glimmer Glass was sold for a session-high $300,000 Sunday at the sixth day of the Keeneland September yearling sale.

Trainer Bob Baffert signed the sale ticket for the colt, who was cosigned by agent Mill Ridge Sales out of Elusive Quality's first crop.

The colt is a half-brother to stakes winner Kohen Witha K. and Squall Linda, who placed in Grade 3 company.

Sunday's total receipts on 254 lots amounted to $12,836,300 as sales declined 13.48 percent from 2001 when 304 lots were sold for $14,835,400.

LEXINGTON, Ky. ? The Keeneland September yearling sale's select market, which produced a sale-topping $6.4 million Storm Cat colt on Wednesday, had receded into memory by Saturday. But even though the top prices have fallen off since the select sessions ended Wednesday, there was still some money on the table in the open market.

A $425,000 Roar colt was the most expensive lot at the yearling sale's fifth session, thanks to the continued presence of a regular buyer from the select sessions, Prince Ahmed bin Salman's The Thoroughbred Corp.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A $575,000 Maria's Mon colt was the day's top price Friday as Keeneland's September yearling sale continued the fourth of its 13 sessions with sharp declines in average and gross.

Consignors had feared that the auction's later days would begin to show the effects of current economic uncertainty, and the Friday session brought some of those worries home. As compared to its equivalent session last year, average price on Friday plummeted 11 percent to $93,038, while gross dropped 14 percent to $23,445,500 for 252 yearlings. Last year's fourth session sold 261 lots.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Keeneland September yearling sale, running a day behind due to the postponement of Tuesday's session until Wednesday, continued on an upswing Thursday with a session-topping $1.5 million Woodman half-brother to champion Jewel Princess bought by Aisling Cross, a Coolmore Stud staffer, signing as agent.

At the third session, the auction's first non-select session, average price jumped 21 percent to $140,896, while median rose 18 percent to $100,000. The session sold 264 yearlings for total revenue of $37,196,500.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - With a $6. 4 million Storm Cat-Halory colt leading the way, Keeneland's September yearling sale resumed Wednesday with a show of market confidence in the wake of Tuesday's attacks in New York and Washington, D.C.

The second session of the 13-day sale had been postponed from Tuesday.

On Wednesday, the Thoroughbred world's usual big bidders converged to produce the season's top-selling yearling so far, the $6.4 million colt who was purchased by agent Demi O'Byrne.