LEXINGTON, Ky. - Young sire and Grade 1-winning millionaire Dixie Union was euthanized Wednesday because of a deteriorating neurological condition, Lane's End Farm announced. He was euthanized at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital here, according to the farm.

A 13-year-old Dixieland Band horse, Dixie Union is the sire of 34 stakes-winners and stood at Lane's End in Versailles, Ky., for an advertised fee of $35,000 this year. His leading earner is 2009 multiple graded winner and millionaire Gone Astray, winner of last season's Pennsylvania Derby.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's July select auction opened Tuesday here with some evidence that there's still demand for Thoroughbred yearlings. But, as many sellers anticipated, buyers are as choosy as ever in the Thoroughbred industry's tighter economic conditions.

Sire Medaglia d'Oro remained popular as Fasig-Tipton July's first of two sessions kicked off the 2010 boutique yearling sale season. A Medaglia d'Oro half-brother to Grade 2 winner Principle Secret was the session topper after bringing $450,000 from agent Dick O'Gorman for Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum.

Robert and Blythe Clay's Three Chimneys Farm will send a consignment to England's Tattersalls December sale for the first time under its own name, Racing Post reported Tuesday.

The Midway, Ky., farm recently added two European representatives to its staff, signaling an intention to expand its international marketing. Plans call for Three Chimneys to sell 10 to 15 horses at the December auction in Newmarket, which offers breeding stock, foals, and racing-age horses.

The Tattersalls July sale of mares and horses in training ended Friday morning in Newmarket, England, with a sale-record top price and moderate declines in average and median.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - At last year's Fasig-Tipton July yearling sale, Dapple Stud's Mike Akers summed up the market best: "You've just got to suffer through the resetting of the market."

Consignors at the 2010 edition on Monday and Tuesday in Lexington hope the market has reset and will now either hold steady or rise.

Reigning Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Dancing in Silks has resumed training with Carla Gaines and is expected to make a comeback by the end of the Del Mar meeting in late summer, Gaines said Friday.

Dancing in Silks has not started since finishing fifth in the Grade 2 San Carlos Handicap at Santa Anita in February. The loss ended plans for a trip to Dubai for the $2 million Golden Shaheen sprint in March and led Gaines and owner Ken Kinakin to give Dancing in Silks a break during the spring.

"I think he was just tired," Gaines said.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Tattersalls July sale of mares and horses in training ended Friday morning in Newmarket, England, with a sale-record top price and moderate declines in average and median.

A $729,330 colt by Invincible Spirit set a sale-record price Thursday at the Tattersalls July sale in Newmarket, England.

The 3-year-old colt, Business as Usual, won once at 2 and again this year from four starts to date. The Kern/Lillingston agency's Alastair Donald purchased him and said the colt will head to Hong Kong trainer John Moore, possibly to point for the Hong Kong Derby. Business as Usual is out of the stakes-producing Irish River mare Lesgor. The price in local currency is 460,000 guineas.

The major yearling auction season begins July 13 with Fasig-Tipton's July select sale in Lexington, and sale participants say they are expecting more meat and potatoes than caviar and champagne in a market still muted by the recession.

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.