LEXINGTON, Ky. - The second session of Keeneland's September yearling sale was postponed Tuesday shortly after the hijacked airline attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. The sale will resume on Wednesday at 10 a.m. Eastern time with hip No. 285.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Monday's opening session of the Keeneland September yearling sale got off to a slow start but roared at its conclusion as a three-way bidding war ignited over the $5.5 million session-topping Storm Cat colt. Despite a buyback rate of 36 percent, the session posted gains in average and median, thanks in large measure to the session's seven-figure sellers.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - In a deal that puts his total value at $50 million, Point Given will stand at Three Chimneys in Midway for a $125,000 stud fee.

A 3-year-old Thunder Gulch colt, Point Given was retired Aug. 30 after owner Prince Ahmed Salman announced that the colt had a strained tendon in his left front leg, and, after 10 days of negotiations involving several Kentucky farms, Salman and Three Chimneys announced the deal Sunday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - In a deal that puts his total value at $50 million, Point Given will stand at Three Chimneys in Midway, Ky., for a $125,000 stud fee.

The 3-year-old Thunder Gulch colt was retired Aug. 30 after owner Prince Ahmed Salman announced the colt had a strained tendon in his left front leg, and, after 10 days of negotiations involving several Kentucky farms, Salman and Three Chimneys announced the deal Sunday.

Sources close to the negotiations said that Point Given will be syndicated in 50 shares of $1 million each, with Salman likely to keep 10 shares.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Virginia Thoroughbred breeder and owner Mark Hardin, who stood some of the state's most successful stallions, died Tuesday after a long illness. He was 70.

New York-breds will have ample opportunities to shine during Belmont Park's Fall Championship meet, which opened Friday with the $75,000-added Gen. Douglas MacArthur Handicap for statebreds.

During the course of Belmont's 37-day meet, which runs through Oct. 28, a total of 12 stakes, worth more than $1.375 million, are earmarked for New York-breds,

Horatius, sire of champion sprinter Safely Kept, has been pensioned from stud duty at the age of 26, effectively ending the reign of one of Maryland's most popular stallions.

Horatius, a graded stakes-winning son of Proudest Roman and True Charm (Cohoes), has stood at Charles and Cynthia McGinnes's Thornmar in Chestertown, Md., since beginning his stud career in 1981. This year, he stood for an advertised fee of $1,900 and covered just four mares.

Several Maryland stallions that are having big years look to extend their success in the fall. The season is topped by Maryland's second biggest day of racing - the Maryland Million on Oct. 13 at Pimlico, which is restricted to runners conceived in Maryland.

Allen's Prospect

Amy Tarrant is new to the Thoroughbred business. A native of Burlington, Vermont, she hired veteran horseman Ron J. Taylor to get her into the game, and Taylor did just that - spending roughly one million dollars at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's 2 year-old sales, for 10 horses.

"I have been in the hunter-jumpershow horse set as a hobby, and when my youngest of five kids went off to college, I decided to make it more or less a full-time hobby," Tarrant said. "But the thought of owning racehorses was always there."

LEXINGTON, Ky. - As Keeneland prepares for its 13-day September yearling sale, consignors of select yearlings may not be as jumpy as they might have been before the season's round of boutique yearling sales began in July. But their brethren who sell stock to middle- and lower-market buyers will be anxiously awaiting the September sale's later sessions, which traditionally reflect the health of the wider Thoroughbred market.