LEXINGTON, Ky. – Racketeer, a graded-placed earner of more than $400,000, has retired to the Old Friends equine facility in Georgetown, Ky., after his rescue earlier this year from a California feedlot.

Adena Springs and the California group Neigh Savers arranged to pull the Adena Springs homebred gelding from the feedlot. In his last start, September 2011, Racketeer had won in claiming company at Fairplex Park for La Canada Stables and trainer Jack Carava, but then fell off the radar until identified at the feedlot, according to an Adena Springs announcement Thursday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – A $110,000 Divine Park colt led selling at the Keeneland September yearling auction’s 10th, and penultimate, session Thursday afternoon as average slipped but median jumped from the corresponding Thursday session last year.

Thursday’s session sold 225 yearlings for $3,937,500, well down from last year’s $5,131,100 for 291 yearlings, but average finished only slightly down, dipping from $17,633 last year to $17,500, a decline of less than 1 percent. Median gained 17 percent, rising from last year’s $12,000 to $14,000

The recent Keeneland September yearling sale marked the end of an era for what sales director Geoffrey Russell called “very much Keeneland’s horse” as the last yearlings by A.P. Indy, once a sale-topping yearling himself at Keeneland, went through the auction ring.

Key figures for the Keeneland September yearling sale remained strong during the bellwether auction’s ninth day of selling on Wednesday, with average gaining 23.1 percent over the comparable day last year and median jumping 33.3 percent.

Average for 302 horses sold was $27,245 on Wednesday, compared to average of $22,127 during last year’s comparable session. Median on Wednesday was $20,000, compared to median of $15,000 last year. The buyback rate during the session was 9.6 percent, compared to a buyback rate of 13.7 percent during the comparable session last year.

A colt by Yes It’s True out of the winning Saint Ballado mare Wadena was the session-topper as of late afternoon Wednesday at the Keeneland September yearling sale in Lexington, Ky.

The colt was bought by James Kasparoff, agent, for $220,000 out of the consignment of Bill Reightler, acting as agent, according to Keeneland sales records. Kasparoff is a California-based trainer.

(For Keeneland September sales results, click here)

LEXINGTON, Ky. – A $260,000 Even the Score colt topped Tuesday’s eighth session at the Keeneland September yearling sale on a day that extended the auction’s upward trend for average and median price.

Stonestreet Stables bought the session-leading colt, a May 8 foal out of Runaway Grey. The gray or roan colt is a half-brother to Grade 3-placed Mystic Mama. Penn Sales was the consignor.

Bill Kaplan and Pinnacle Racing's champion sprint female Musical Romance and Peachtree Stable's 2011 Kentucky Oaks winner Plum Pretty will sell in November.

Three Chimneys Sales will consign Musical Romance to Fasig-Tipton's November auction in Lexington on Nov. 5. She is pointing for the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint and will be available for inspection there from Nov. 4. A Concorde's Tune-Candlelightdinner mare, she is 5.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – A $260,000 Even the Score colt led early selling Tuesday at the Keeneland September yearling sale’s eighth session, which at 3:30 p.m. was on pace to post more gains.

Stonestreet Stables bought the session-leading colt, a May 8 foal out of Runaway Grey. The gray or roan colt is a half-brother to Grade 3-placed Mystic Mama. Penn Sales was the consignor.

(For Keeneland September sales results, click here)

Deputed Testamony, the 1983 Preakness winner who had been the oldest living Triple Crown race winner, died Tuesday morning at Bonita Farm in Maryland, the Baltimore Sun reported. He was 32.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Fillies ruled the results list Monday as the Keeneland September yearling sale’s Book 4 portion got underway Monday in Lexington with more gains across the board.

Fillies held the top three spots by price on the results sheet, including the $280,000 session-leader. That was an Unbridled’s Song daughter, the first foal out of Grade 2 winner Tizfiz and a member of 1997 Horse of the Year Favorite Trick’s family.

Pelican, LLC, bought the gray or roan filly, a Jan. 17 foal last year. Baccari Bloodstock was the consignor.