LEXINGTON, Ky. - Life At Ten has been scratched from Sunday’s Fasig-Tipton November sale and plans call for her to remain in training with Todd Pletcher.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - It won’t be long into Sunday’s Fasig-Tipton November breeding stock sale where the future of Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Awesome Feather will be decided.

Awesome Feather is hip No. 10 in the sale that starts at 4 p.m. Eastern in the Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Ky.

Awesome Feather completed a perfect 6-for-6 campaign Saturday with a 1 3/4-length victory in the $2 million Juvenile Fillies, a win that should clinch an Eclipse Award for her as the nation’s top 2-year-old filly.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky’s November breeding stock sales start Sunday at Fasig-Tipton before moving to Keeneland on Monday morning. The Thoroughbred market has seen a little sunshine in the last 12 months, and sellers are hoping that will spur some late-year growth in demand for the weanlings, breeding stock, and racing-age horses that will hit the auction ring between now and Nov. 20, when Keeneland’s 13-day auction ends.

But the 2010 watchword is still “stability,” and that is what auction officials say they are expecting.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The frustrations of the modern California Thoroughbred breeder and farm owner evaporated momentarily for Cal Fischer as Soul Candy roared to the lead in the final furlong of the $150,000 California Cup Classic at Hollywood Park on Oct. 30.

The 73-year-old Fischer had finally secured his first stakes win as an owner and breeder after a lifetime involvement in the sport. He stood in the winner’s circle beaming, reflecting on years of work.

“I couldn’t believe it,” he said Friday. “I hope it’s the first of many to come.”

Sword Dance, the pensioned sire of the 1997 Arlington Million winner, Marlin, died in Florida earlier this week at age 26.

Standing at Marilyn and Gil Campbell's Stonehedge Farm South, Sword Dance, a Nijinsky II horse, had been a top Florida sire before his retirement after the 2004 breeding season. The farm attributed his death Monday to natural causes.

LEXINGTON, Ky. − Runnymede Farm was founded in 1867, and in the ensuing 143 years there aren’t many things its owners, the Clay family, haven’t accomplished in the world of Thoroughbred breeding and racing. But this weekend they’re about to do something they’ve never done before: run a horse in a Breeders’ Cup race.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Mr. and Mrs. Ben Walden Jr.’s Pauls Mill, whose 2011 stallion roster features Summer Bird, has hired Patrick Morell as its director of sales.
Sandy Sanborn, who has acted as stallion administrator and handled sales, will remain in stallion and farm office administration at the Versailles, Ky., stud farm.
Morell most recently was general manager at Penn Ridge Farms in Pennsylvania but also worked at Vinery in Kentucky, which Ben Walden formerly owned. At Vinery, Morell was the director of stallion seasons and shares.

Majesticperfection, a track record-setting Grade 1 winner, has retired from racing and will stand in 2011 at Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky.

The 4-year-old colt doesn’t have a fee yet. He will stand alongside his sire, Harlan’s Holiday, at Airdrie.

The farm plans to announce fees for all its stallions after the Breeders’ Cup.

One of the defendants in the complex, $500 million ClassicStar mare-lease series of lawsuits has entered into a settlement totaling more than $21 million with seven plaintiffs.