Vinery owner Tom Simon has put the operation’s four United States properties on the market “after meetings with his family and taking into account their plans and interests,” Vinery president Tom Ludt announced Tuesday.

WinStar Farm has hired two new employees, the Versailles, Ky., Kentucky farm announced Monday. The farm has hired Chance Timm to manage its stallion nomination sales and Leanna Packard as a bloodstock assistant and coordinator of the WinStar Stablemates membership program.

Timm previously worked in the bloodstock business with Tommy Eastham, Mark Toothaker, and John Fulton. Packard handled stallion nominations, mare bookings, stallion books, and sale contracts at Richland Hills in Kentucky and also worked this year at Eliza Park Stud in Australia.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s August yearling sale’s two open sessions in Ocala, Fla., ended Thursday with strong gains across the board.

The two open sessions sold 397 yearlings for $5,042,000, an increase of 10 percent over last year’s gross for 411 yearlings. Average and median both made significant gains, as both rose by 13 percent. Average went up from $11,201 to $12,700 and median moved from $8,000 to $9,000. Buybacks also declined slightly, falling from last year’s 23 percent to 22 percent.

Led by a $110,000 Kitten’s Joy colt, the first open session at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s August yearling auction ended Wednesday evening with across-the-board gains.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The dams of Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I’ll Have Another and the races’ runner-up, Bodemeister, will go to auction at Fasig-Tipton’s November sale this year.

The auction will take place Nov. 5 at Fasig-Tipton’s Newtown Paddocks in Lexington.

I’ll Have Another’s dam, the 10-year-old Arch mare Arch’s Gal Edith, is in foal to Gio Ponti. Bodemeister’s dam, the graded winner Untouched Talent, is in foal to Unbridled’s Song. Untouched Talent is an 8-year-old Storm Cat mare. Both will sell through Brookdale Farm’s agency.

Monarchos, the 2001 Kentucky Derby winner, is recovering well from his second colic surgery in 16 months, Nuckols Farm owner Charles Nuckols III says.

Monarchos returned to the Midway, Ky., farm on Aug. 11 after undergoing emergency surgery July 31 at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute.

A $220,000 colt from first-crop sire Colonel John topped Tuesday’s select session at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s August yearling sale, capping an afternoon of gains.

Arqana’s four-day Deauville yearling sale in France ended Tuesday with a $1.4 million sale-topper and what appears to be a similar market to last year.

Preakness runner-up Bodemeister has been retired to stud at WinStar Farm after veterinary examinations at the Rood and Riddle equine hospital in Lexington revealed an injury to one of the major muscles in his left shoulder.

Ecurie des Monceaux and the Mandore International Agency topped another auction session Monday at Arqana’s Deauville yearling sale in France as selling moved into Part 2.

Mandore, paid 220,000 euros, or about $270,600, for Ecurie des Monceaux’s High Chaparral-Nightdance Sun colt on Monday to kick off the French sale’s second half. The bay colt is from the family of German champion Next Desert and is the second foal for his unraced dam.