Forty Niner, 1987's champion juvenile and runner-up to the filly Winning Colors in the 1988 Kentucky Derby, may be facing the end of his breeding career in Japan, according to a report in the Racing Post.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - By winning the Grade 2 Virginia Derby, Go Between became the third homebred winner of the race for owner-breeder Peter Vegso, joining Orchard Park and Silver Tree. Perhaps Vegso's successes are providing a little chicken soup for the bettor's soul, which would be appropriate, as he is the president of Health Communications Inc., the Florida-based company that publishes the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series of books.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The New York Breeders' Sales Company isn't holding a summer yearling sale at Saratoga this year, but the company has big plans for the fall.

DEL MAR, Calif. - The California-bred Red Bullet colt who topped the Barretts May sale earlier this year is in training with Eoin Harty in Saratoga and is expected to make his debut later this summer.

The colt, who has not yet been named, was purchased for $2.5 million by Sheikh Mohammed's Darley Stable, a record price for the May sale. He is up to a half-mile in his workouts and is scheduled to have another workout in coming days, Harty said.

Fleet Indian became the 17th New York-bred millionaire with her facile victory in the Delaware Handicap last Sunday.

In a proverbial stroll in the park performance, she cruised home 5 1/2 lengths best in 2:02.08 for the Grade 2, $1 million race at 1 1/4 miles.

Winning her sixth consecutive race, Fleet Indian sent her career earnings to $1,104,513 with a record of 11-0-1 in 16 starts.

Bred by Becky Thomas and Lewis Lakin, the daughter of Fleet Indian is out of the Afleet mare Hustleeta, who is a half-sister to graded stakes-placed Cherokee Wonder.

The Maryland Horse Breeders Association became the first organization of its kind in the country when it was established back in 1929.

Its founding fathers couldn't have predicted the complex issues facing the state's Thoroughbred breeding industry in 2006. But they would almost certainly have found a kindred spirit in James B. Steele Jr. - the man elected Wednesday evening to serve as the 32nd president of the MHBA.

Within a matter of weeks, Florida will head into the prime time hurricane season. Hurricanes did no damage to Marion County, Florida's Thoroughbred heartland, last year, but in 2004 there were two major storms that rambled through the county. The American Association of Equine Practitioners has an emergency and disaster preparedness committee, and the following are some of its recommendations.

* Have some sort of descriptive mechanism for identifying individual horses, especially foals. The equine passport described below is worthy of consideration in this regard.

Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro continued to hold steady at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center on Thursday, a situation that chief surgeon Dr. Dean Richardson expects the colt could maintain for weeks as he recovers from fractures and laminitis.

Ticker Tape, the winner of two Grade 1 races for 3-year-old fillies in 2004, has been retired after suffering a leg injury earlier this year, trainer Jim Cassidy said.

underwent surgery in mid-June to have two screws inserted in a cannon bone. The injury was detected following the mare's seventh-place finish in the Grade 1 Gamely Breeders' Cup Stakes at Hollywood Park May 29.

Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro remained in stable but serious condition Wednesday at the University of Pennsylvania's equine hospital, two days after veterinarians changed casts on both of his hind legs.

The colt is recovering from the shattered right hind leg he sustained in the May 20 Preakness and from laminitis he developed last week in his left hind leg because of excessive weight-bearing on the left leg.