A day after producing numbers in line with last year's figures, the Tattersalls July sale in Newmarket, England, had two six-figure horses about halfway through its second session Wednesday.

Overbrook Farm's Grade 2 winner Battle Plan, most recently second to Blame in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster last month, will enter stud at Japan's Arrow Stud. A group of Japanese breeders purchased him privately, according to a report in Thoroughbred Daily News.

A 5-year-old Empire Maker homebred, Battle Plan is out of champion juvenile filly Flanders, making him a half-brother to champion 3-year-old filly Surfside.

The Tattersalls July fillies and mares sale in Newmarket, England, ended its first day Tuesday nearly level with last year. The opening session's highlight was an unraced 3-year-old Pivotal filly named Flag Day who sold for about $182,000 to agent Amanda Skiffington.

The session sold 147 horses, two fewer than last year despite a larger catalog, and lost 3 percent in gross. The average price fell 2 percent, and the median remained level with last year. The gross was about $2,883,866, average price was about $19,618, and the median was approximately $7,928.

Singspiel, a champion turf horse and successful English-based sire, was euthanized Friday because of laminitis, Darley Stud said.

A son of In the Wings, Singspiel was 18 and died in England, where he had stood until March at Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum's Dalham Hall stud farm, part of Maktoum's global Darley operation.

Farm owners Donald Cohn and Marty Wygod had forged a relationship in the Thoroughbred stallion business long before Thursday's announcement that three, and perhaps all four, of the stallions from Wygod's River Edge Farm in Buellton, Calif., will stand at Cohn's Ballena Vista Farm in Ramona, Calif., in 2011.

Wygod announced last month that he was dispersing his California-based Thoroughbred holdings, and said at the time he hoped the stallions Benchmark, Bertrando, Dixie Chatter, and Tribal Rule would stay in the state.

Black Tie Affair, the 1991 Horse of the Year, was euthanized Thursday due to laminitis. He was 24.

The gray Miswaki stallion was at the Old Friends Thoroughbred retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky. O'Sullivan Farms in Charles Town, W. Va., pensioned him from stud duty last July after he failed to cover any mares in 2009. Black Tie Affair's last foals are 2-year-olds this season.

Here's a sure bet: Remark is the most unusual Thoroughbred you'll ever see.

Did someone pour bleach on her? Does she suffer from a skin disease? Is it a birthmark?

Yet when I saw her hind end sashaying around Kiaran McLaughlin's shed row at Belmont Park, I knew exactly what Remark was - a holy grail among those who study equine color.

Remark is a brindle Thoroughbred.

New York's former leading sire A. P Jet, who recovered from life-threatening injuries after a fight with another stallion that died, was euthanized June 9 due to age-related infirmities, Sugar Maple Farm confirmed Thursday.

Sugar Maple pensioned the 21-year-old Fappiano horse in 2007. He still resided on the Poughquag farm, occasionally serving as a teaser.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The California-based stallions Benchmark, Dixie Chatter, and Tribal Rule, and possibly Bertrando, will stand at Ballena Vista Farm in Ramona, Calif., in 2011, following a recent private transaction between Ballena Vista farm owner Donald Cohn and Marty Wygod, who previously stood the stallions at River Edge Farm in Buellton, Calif.

Wygod announced the deal on Thursday. Wygod said that Bertrando, a former leading stallion in California, is also expected to stand at Ballena Vista in 2001, pending the formal approval of the Bertrando syndicate.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Thunder Puddles, the sire of Grade 1-winning millionaire Thunder Rumble, has died at age 31.

A top sire in New York, Thunder Puddles died June 29 at Carl Lizza and Jospeh Bartone's Highcliff Farm in Delanson, N.Y. He had stood there since 1985 and was pensioned from stud duty in 2003.