LEXINGTON, Ky. - A $60,000 Montbrook-Cozie Keri colt was Friday's final session topper at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's August yearling sale.

Eisaman Equine purchased the colt, a half-brother to stakes-placed Jestersluckyone, from the consignment of Cashel Stud, agent.

At Thursday's fourth session, a $95,000 End Sweep-Susie Smile colt brought the day's top price. Marion Montanari purchased the session-topper from the consignment of Cloverleaf Farms II, agent. The colt is the first foal for his dam, who is a half-sister to stakes-winner Lady Summerhill.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A feud between the late Allen Paulson's son Michael and widow, Madeleine, has divided his bloodstock holdings and could put more of his horses in the public market.

Padua Stable's home base is located roughly a dozen miles southwest of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company. Yet the Padua presence there was limited to showing up to see one of the Padua horses compete at the Ocala Breeders' intertrack wagering facility. There was little presence, till now, of Team Padua at sales time.

Luck has smiled on Tom Reigle, once again. As the proprietor of 105-acre Reigle Heir Farm in Grantville, Pa., Reigle has acquired over several years a handful of young stallions whose careers were going nowhere while they stood in Kentucky. No sooner do the stallions step off the van at Reigle's farm, it seems, than their offspring take off running.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The crowd had thinned out considerably and those who were left were getting a little bleary-eyed by the end of Fasig-Tipton's four-hour evening sale of preferred yearlings at Saratoga Springs two weeks ago.

But trainer Ken Nesky wasn't prepared to leave until he accomplished what he had set out to do: buy a horse for Michael Heidenberg, a new client looking to become an owner.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Two stallions recently acquired to stand stud in the state do not fit the stereotype of a sprint-oriented California stallion.

Comic Strip will move from Lane's End Farm in Kentucky to Special T Thoroughbreds in Temecula, Calif., and Madraar will enter stud at Hideaway Farms in San Jacinto, Calif.

Comic Strip excelled in longer races on dirt and turf, while Madraar, who still is in training, has run best at 1 1/4 miles or longer.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Allen E. Paulson Living Trust, which moved Grade 1 winners Startac and Astra from Simon Bray's barn this week, announced Thursday that their sire Theatrical has been relocated from Diamond A Farms in Versailles, Ky., to Hill 'n' Dale Farms in Lexington.

Jade Hunter, another Paulson stallion who stood this year at Diamond A, also has been moved to Hill 'n' Dale, and a group of Paulson-owned mares is expected to follow.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Ocala Breeders' Sales Company pavilion was the scene of a dramatic pinhooking triumph Wednesday when a $1,500 Candy Stripes weanling who is a half-brother to You graduated into a $170,000 session-topping yearling for his sellers.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Juddmonte Farms, the bloodstock operation of Khalid Abdullah, produced four stakes winners in the United States last weekend, and a fifth in England on Tuesday.

The highest of the highlights were the victories of Flute in the Grade 1 Alabama Stakes and Skimming in the Grade 1 Pacific Classic. Aptitude, second to Fusaichi Pegasus in last year's Kentucky Derby, won the Grade 2 Saratoga Breeders' Cup, the third graded race among the five victories.

The Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation has allocated $56,400 in an equal partnership with the State of Kentucky to fund a research project on Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome (MRLS).

The $112,800 project was developed by Dr. Noah Cohen, a

epidemiologist at Texas A & M University.