The racing and marketing departments of Calder Race Course know how to put on a good show. Their racing creations include the Summit of Speed, the Florida Stallion Stakes series, the Juvenile Showcase, and others. The Sept. 6 program was an all 2-year-old card, labeled Juvenile Showcase Day.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - There has been a noticeable increase in Russian buying activity this year at the Keeneland September yearling sale. That's due partly to increasing entrepreneurial wealth in the former Soviet Union and partly to the region's rapidly developing racing and breeding industry, according to bloodstock adviser Jean-Pierre Deroubaix, a consultant helping Russia's agriculture ministry reorganize the country's stud book and racetrack network.

After Tropical Storm Hanna dumped two inches of rain in the area and forced Laurel Park's Gin Talking Stakes off the turf on Sept. 6, the sun came out during the running of the race. For Carol Kaye-Garcia, it was almost a sign that the late Jim Glenn was watching.

Splashing through the stretch 6 3/4 lengths in front as the sun beamed off her chestnut coat was Miss Charm City, a 2-year-old Bowman's Band filly bred by Glenn. Trained by Carol's husband Carlos Garcia and owned in the name of Glenn's estate, Miss Charm City scored her second dominating win in as many starts.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The select sessions at Keeneland's two-week September yearling sale ended Tuesday, but select-level buyers and prices stole the limelight on Thursday as the auction entered its fourth day.

Thursday's session spun off a $1.1 million session-topper in Hip No. 1084, a Medaglia d'Oro filly out of Amizette.

The active stallion and broodmare populations both decreased in 2007, the Jockey Club announced Thursday as it released North American breeding statistics for that covering season.

The organization, which runs the continent's Thoroughbred breed registry, reported that 3,638 stallions covered 61,262 mares, resulting in 34,561 live foals reported for 2008. The number of active stallions declined 6.3 percent from 3,881 reported for 2006 at this time last year, and the number of mares bred declined 3.7 percent from the 63,629 reported for 2006.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The select sessions at Keeneland's September yearling auction ended Tuesday, but there were still a few select-sale prices on Wednesday when the open, or non-select, portion of the sale began.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Maktoum name continued to dominate sale results at Keeneland on Tuesday, but it was Sheikh Hamdan, not his brother Sheikh Mohammed, who picked up the session-topping colt for $1.5 million at the second and final select session.

The session-topper was by A.P. Indy, who also led Monday's selling with a $3.1 million filly out of Chimichurri that Sheikh Mohammed purchased. Greg Goodman's Mt. Brilliant Farm sold Tuesday's top colt, son of Taegu and a half-brother to Grade 2 winner Classic Elegance.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Empire Maker, the 2003 Belmont Stakes winner whose first foals are 3-year-olds this year, challenged perennial leading sire A.P. Indy for the top spot on the list of sires ranked by yearling averages for the first day of Keeneland's September sale.

Buyers bought four Empire Maker yearlings on Monday for a total of $2.63 million, or $658,750 per horse. Eleven A.P. Indy yearlings were bought for total receipts of $7.27 million, or $661,364 per horse, helped by the $3.1 million session-opper, a filly.

Grade 1 winner and millionaire Showing Up has retired from racing and will enter stud in 2009 at Frank Stronach's Adena Springs South.

The Ocala, Fla., farm will stand the Strategic Mission horse in partnership with owners Roy and Gretchen Jackson. He will stand for $7,500.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - On a day when million-dollar fillies dominated the Keeneland September yearling sale's opening session Monday, the big story turned out to be about one of the buybacks. And not just any "reserve not attained," either: This was an A.P. Indy colt whose $7.7 million price fell below his undisclosed minimum asking price, making him the most expensive buyback in Keeneland's history.