Where did Canuki and Cactus Cafe go? That question has been occupying racing officials in Ohio and West Virginia since the week before the Kentucky Derby, when a group of anti-slaughter advocates who had arranged foster homes for those two racehorses discovered both effectively disappeared May  1 when trainer and horse hauler Mark Wedig picked them up from Beulah Park’s barn area in Grove City, Ohio. A two-week search for the horses was ultimately successful, but the case highlights how difficult it can be to trace horses once they’ve left racetrack property.

Fasig-Tipton's Midlantic May 2-year-old sale ended Tuesday afternoon in Timonium, Md., with increases across the board.

The auction posted gains in gross receipts and average,and medianices with 313 horses bringing a combined $16,871,000 for a $53,901 average price and a $28,000 median. The gross revenue was 4 percent higher than last year's total for 343 juveniles, while the average increased by 14 precent and median was up by 12 percent. Buy-backs were 24 percent, compared with 18 percent last year.

The Virginia State Fair and Meadow Event Park complex in Doswell, Va., including 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat’s birthplace, brought $5.35 million Tuesday at auction from a fair operator, according to local news reports.

Some familiar names from the 2012 Triple Crown races were featured in the pedigrees of high-priced horses Tuesday at Fasig-Tipton’s Midlantic May 2-year-old sale in Timonium, Md.

The session-leader at 3 p.m. was Hip No. 332, a $450,000 full sister to Trinniberg, a Kentucky Derby starter who previously won the Grade 3 Swale and Bay Shore Stakes. Abdullah Saeed Almaddah bought the April 4 Teuflesberg filly from the McKathan Brothers agency.

The American Basketball Association, a publicly traded company that operates a league of 90 independently owned basketball teams, has signed a letter of intent to acquire the pinhooking operation of IEAH Stables, the former owner of 2008 Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown, according to the two sides.

A $575,00 colt by second-crop sire Scat Daddy topped Monday's opening session as Fasig-Tipton's Midlantic May 2-year-old sale kicked off a two-day run in Timonium, Md., with gains in average and median prices.

Mercedes Stable snapped up the $575,000 colt, a chestnut son of unraced Magical Mist, by Congaree. Kings Equine, agent, consigned the March 20 foal. Cataloged as Hip No. 39, he is from the family of Grade 1 winner J P's Gusto and had worked an eighth-mile in 10.2 seconds at the auction's under-tack show.

A $575,000 colt by second-crop sire Scat Daddy was the early session leader Monday as Fasig-Tipton’s Midlantic May 2-year-old sale kicked off a two-day run in Timonium, Md.

Mercedes Stable snapped up the $575,000 colt, a chestnut son of unraced Magical Mist, by Congaree. Kings Equine, agent, consigned the March 20 foal. Cataloged as Hip No. 39, he is from the family of Grade 1 winner J P’s Gusto and had worked an eighth-mile in 10.2 seconds at the auction’s under-tack show.

A U.S. District Court judge in California has confirmed an international arbitrator’s ruling that Thoroughbred owner and breeder Jerry Jamgotchian should pay Coolmore Stud and related entities just over 310,000 euros, or about $394,000, in stud fees from 2007 and 2008.

Joseph Alvarez is the breeder of the multiple stakes winner Stoney Fleece, who won the Alcatraz Stakes at Golden Gate Fields last weekend.

That is about the extent of Alvarez’s involvement in the colt. These days, the quickest way for Alvarez to benefit from Stoney Fleece’s success is to cash a bet.

Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's 2-year-old under-tack show concluded Thursday in Timonium, Md., with a Midnight Lute colt the day's fastest worker over an eighth-mile.

A dark bay son of Grade 2-placed Angel Trumpet, he went in 10 seconds. He is cataloged as Hip No. 311 in Breaking Point Farm's consignment.

Thursday's quickest quarter-mile time was 21.8 seconds, the time posted by Hip No. 300. A dark bay filly, she is by Sharp Humor out of stakes-placed A Girl Needs Cash, from the family of graded winner Careless Heiress. Bobby Dodd, agent, is the consignor.