LEXINGTON, Ky. − Starting this fall, Lexington Catholic High School will open a door into the horse industry for some of its students, thanks to a new program that Thoroughbred interests hope might attract a new generation of leaders to one of Kentucky’s largest agribusinesses.

The 161-horse catalog for Keeneland’s April select juvenile sale is now available online at www.keeneland.com.

The auction will take place at Keeneland’s sale pavilion on April 9, starting at 4 p.m. An under-tack preview for the auction is set for April 5, starting at 10:30 a.m.

The 2012 catalog number is nearly level with last year’s catalog of 169 horses, which was 7 percent lower than in 2010. Print editions of the catalog will be mailed the week of March 19.

POMONA, Calif. – The Barretts March sale of selected 2-year-olds in training on Monday showed growth in key categories when compared to the 2011 sale. An Empire Maker filly that sold for $435,000 topped the sale, the first major select juvenile auction of the season.

Boosted by buyers from Japan and California-based owner Paul Reddam, the sale sold 77 horses for $8,426,000, an average of $109,429. The average rose 8.6 percent from last year’s figure of 100,709. There were 149 horses in the catalog, with 44 listed as not sold and 27 withdrawn.

Catalogs are out for the April 18-19 Tattersalls Craven breeze-up sale in Newmarket, England, and the sale will feature 183 juveniles.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A pair of colts by Songandaprayer and Macho Uno breezed in under 10 seconds Friday at the Barretts March select 2-year-old sale’s under-tack show in California.

The sale takes place Monday evening at Fairplex Park’s Hinds Pavilion in Pomona.

:: Barrett's March Sale: Watch live streaming video of on DRF.com starting tonight at 9pm ET.

The Barretts March select 2-year-old auction kicks off the select juvenile auction season Monday with a larger catalog that bucks a recent trend of declining numbers and is studded with some Grade 1-related horses.

Lady Railrider, a five-time stakes winner who earned $603,041, has been retired and will be bred to Lucky Pulpit, according to a statement released last week by Harris Farms of Coalinga, Calif.

Lady Railrider raced for breeders Larry and Marianne Williams, who also own Lucky Pulpit, the leading freshman stallion in California in 2010.

Sand Cove, a winner of nine stakes and more than $1 million and Canada’s champion older horse in 2010, died at the Rood & Riddle veterinary clinic in Kentucky on Feb. 13 following a month-long battle with laminitis.

Retired to stud last fall with a record of 12-5-7 from 36 starts, the 7-year-old Sand Cove was scheduled to stand at James and Janeane Everatt and Everatt-Meeuse’s Shannondoe Farm in St. Thomas, Ontario, and had been booked to 40 mares.

The California-breds offered at Monday’s Barretts March sale of selected 2-year-olds in training may look familiar to prospective buyers.

Of the 21 California-breds in Monday’s catalog, 13 went through the ring at the Barretts October Yearling sale last fall and are being pinhooked to the 2-year-olds in-training sale. That group includes colts by Candy Ride and Tribal Rule who were among the most expensive hips sold at the yearling sale.

JoAnn and Alex Lieblong’s Telling, winner of the Sword Dancer Invitational in 2009 and 2010, will enter stud this year at Stonewall Farm Ocala, the Florida farm confirmed Friday.

The 8-year-old A. P. Indy horse will stand for $6,500 stands and nurses, with special consideration given to out-of-state mares.