The Tattersalls October yearling Book 2 sale ended Thursday in Newmarket, England, with a record gross and improved median, though average price remained slightly under last year’s figure.

The four-day auction sold 788 yearlings for about $52,145,520, yielding an average price of $66,175. The median was about $53,760. Compared year-to-year in the auction currency of guineas, the gross climbed 23 percent, and median was up 7 percent, but average price dipped by 1 percent from last year’s level. The 2011 auction sold 635 yearlings.

New York’s leading freshman sire, Frost Giant, will relocate from Vinery New York to Keane Stud in Amenia, N.Y. He’ll also get a fee hike, from $5,000 this year to $7,500 for 2013, according to a Keane Stud announcement.

Frost Giant previously stood at Vinery’s Sugar Maple division in Poughquag. Vinery’s owner, Tom Simon, put his entire multi-state U.S. operation on the market privately in late August.

Havre de Grace doesn’t know she’s retired.

The 2011 Horse of the Year was on her toes recently as Taylor Made Farm staff led her out of her stall on a cool and gusty fall morning, bowing her glossy bay neck and prancing ladylike into a barnside show ring. There was no obvious sign of the ankle injury that ended her career in April. She danced sideways on the shank, then stopped abruptly and struck a classic pose: head high, ears pointed intently on a distant sound, nostrils gently flaring.

Mark Taylor, who heads Taylor Made’s public sales operation, smiled.

Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Ky., will host a fan appreciation day at its Midway Road stallion complex on Sunday, Nov. 4. The event will take place between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., during which time visitors will not need an appointment. Breeders wishing to inspect stallions at other times can make an appointment with Jill McCully or Gemma Freeman at (859) 873-7300.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Ocala Breeders' Sales Company wrapped up its two-day fall mixed sale Wednesday with increases in average and median prices.

Wednesday's open session grossed $1,201,000 for 161 horses, a 6-percent increase over last year, despite selling 25 fewer horses. The open session average of $7,460 also was up by 22 percent, and the $5,200 median gained 44 percent. The open session's buy-back rate was 22 percent, level with last year's percentage.

The Tattersalls October yearling sale’s Book 2 portion posted mixed results on Wednesday in Newmarket, England, as a smaller session catalog trimmed gross receipts but average and median prices increased.

Wednesday’s session-topper was a 200,000-guinea Exceed and Excel colt who is a half-brother to Group 2 winner Prime Defender. The Hong Kong Jockey Club bought the colt after Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum’s agent, John Ferguson, pulled up at 180,000 guineas. The hammer price was the equivalent of about $336,000.

El Corredor, sire of 2012 stakes winner and Test third-place finisher Beautiful But Blue, will move from Kentucky to New York for the 2013 breeding season, according to Questroyal Stud, which will stand him at its new Stillwater, N.Y., facility.

El Corredor formerly stood at Hill ’n’ Dale Farms in Lexington, Ky., where he had a $10,000 advertised fee this year.

The Mr. Greeley horse will stand for $7,500 (stands and nurses) next year, according to Questroyal.

The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s fall mixed sale opened a two-day stand with upswings at its consignor-preferred session Tuesday in Ocala, Fla.

Topped by a $55,000 weanling Scat Daddy colt, the session sold 119 horses, as compared to 84 last year, and saw its aggregate go up by 52 percent, from $1,112,200 at last year’s opening session to $1,689,900. The average price gained 7 percent as it climbed from $13,240 to $14,201. Median also jumped 18 percent, from $8,500 in 2011 to $14,201. Buybacks fell sharply from last year, from 30 percent to 21 percent.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Dialed In, last year's Florida Derby winner, has retired from racing to enter stud next year at John Phillips's Darby Dan Farm in Lexington.

A group headed by Darby Dan general manager Robert Hammond and Doug Cauthen have acquired the colt's breeding rights, but Robert LaPenta, who campaigned Dialed In, will retain an interest in the 4-year-old Mineshaft colt.

A Shamardal colt fetched the highest bid Tuesday at day two of the Tattersalls October yearling Book 2 sale in Newmarket, England, which posted significant across-the-board gains.