Fast facts

When: Sept. 11-24

Where: Keeneland Association sale pavilion, 4201 Versailles Rd., Lexington, Ky., 40510

Phone: (859) 254-3412 or (800) 456-3412

Yearlings: 4,319, down from last year’s 4,857

Glowing headlines from Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga select yearling sale barely had time to register Aug. 10 before the Wall Street Journal provided a less happy pronouncement that day in its Marketplace section: “Luxury Sales at Risk.”

Albertus Maximus, 2009’s Donn Handicap winner, has retired due to injuries he sustained in the Dubai World Cup that year. He will stand at his owner’s Shadwell Stud in Lexington, Ky., in 2012.

Sheikh Hamdan al Maktoum privately purchased Albertus Maximus, now 7, from his breeders, Marianne and Brandon Chase, after he won the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile in 2008. He won the Donn in his next start but came out of a sixth-place finish as favorite in the Dubai World Cup with a tendon injury. He returned to training late in 2009 but injured a splint bone.

Barretts has cataloged 253 yearlings, representing more than 120 stallions, to its October yearling sale, which will take place on Oct. 11 at Fairplex’s Hinds Pavilion in Pomona, Calif. The catalog is available online at www.barretts.com, and photographs that consignors have submitted of yearlings will be available online after Sept. 6. . . . Carl McEntee , formerly general manager of Ghost Ridge Farms, has taken the job of bloodstock services director at Northview Stallion Station, which operates stallion farms in Maryland and Pennsylvania.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - For the second year in a row, trainer Glenn Delahoussaye signed the ticket on the sale-topper at the Fasig-Tipton Texas summer yearling sale Tuesday at Lone Star Park when he went to $78,000 to buy a City Zip filly for client Bill Cunningham of Vinton, La. Average for the one-day auction, which also featured a dispersal of Heiligbrodt Racing Stable, fell about 4 percent from last year.

David P. Reynolds, the longtime Reynolds Metals chairman who bred and raced dual classic winner Tabasco Cat in partnership with the late W. T. Young, has died in Virginia at age 96.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that Reynolds died Monday at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond "after a period of declining health."

River Downs will host Old Friends Day on Sept. 5, featuring the second running of a race named in honor of the Thoroughbred retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky.

The day’s events will take place between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. and will also include a silent auction of racing memorabilia and such collectibles as a “Moneigh” painting done by Old Friends retiree Danthebluegrassman. All proceeds from the auction will benefit Old Friends.

The remains of Hall of Famer and 1950 champion older horse Noor have traveled from California to Kentucky, where they were to be reinterred Wednesday at the Old Friends equine retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – B. Wayne Hughes’ Spendthrift Farm has purchased the multiple Grade 1 winner Court Vision from a group headed by IEAH Stables and has transferred the 6-year-old horse from Richard Dutrow Jr. to Dale Romans.

While Hughes purchased the horse as a stallion prospect, the plan is to race him the remainder of this year with the Woodbine Mile and Breeders’ Cup Mile as potential goals. He will be retired at year’s end.

The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company ended its August yearling sale Thursday evening with spectacular increases for its two open sessions.