Pancho Villa, a multiple graded winner and sire of Grade 1 winner Do It With Style, died Monday at Dr. and Mrs. Steve Hicks's Cedarcrest Farm near Palestine, Texas, apparently of a heart attack.

Steve Hicks said Tuesday that the 24-year-old stallion had been preparing to cover his first mare of the season when he collapsed and died.

Pancho Villa, a son of Secretariat and a full brother to Storm Cat's dam, Terlingua, stood his first season at Cedarcrest in 1995. The Hickses had purchased him from Gainesway Stud in Kentucky.

Michael Tabor has sold his Grade 1 winner Lion Tamer to a partnership that intends to stand the horse at stud in 2007.

But the partners have not ruled out the possibility of running the 6-year-old in 2006, one of the partners has said.

Lion Tamer's new owners are Harvey "Drew" Peltier III, Bryan Harang's Georgia Farms, and R. Allan Savoie's Rebecca Farms, all of Thibodaux, La., and Peter Willmott's Willmott Stables of Chicago. The group announced the deal Monday.

A Forestry colt who worked an eighth-mile in 9.80 seconds put in the fastest work at Sunday's preview show for Fasig-Tipton's Feb. 28 select juvenile sale at Calder Race Course.

The colt, cataloged as Hip No. 153, is out of the Unbridled mare Magical Masquerade. The Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds agency has consigned the colt to the one-day auction.

The day's fastest time over a quarter-mile was 21.20 seconds, posted by two horses.

There will be one more under-tack preview at Calder on Feb. 26 at 10 a.m.

Attorneys for Jess Jackson and for Emmanuel de Seroux's bloodstock agency, Narvick International, are in settlement discussions over a lawsuit Jackson filed in September alleging that Narvick defrauded him.

Narvick had had until Friday to file a counter-claim against Jackson and appeared poised to do so, but attorneys for Jackson filed a stipulation Friday extending Narvick's counter-claim deadline to March 20. The stipulation was filed in San Diego County Court.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Bob Lewis was as well known in America's sale pavilions as he was in its racetrack clubhouses. Usually accompanied by advisors D. Wayne Lukas, Bob Baffert, and John Moynihan, Lewis and his wife, Beverly, regularly attended yearling and 2-year-old auctions from California to New York. They were annually among top buyers by total expenditures. But the Lewises weren't only buyers. When their champion filly Serena's Song retired and became a broodmare, the Lewises also became very successful sellers.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The hillside course at Santa Anita seems to belong to Cambiocorsa this winter.

A California-bred filly, Cambiocorsa stretched her unbeaten streak over the course to five on Wednesday with a front-running victory against open company in an optional claimer worth $78,700. The performance was an ideal prep for the $125,000 Irish O'Brien Stakes for statebred fillies and mares on the hillside turf course on March 17.

"I wish they ran down the hill all year round," said her trainer, Doug O'Neill.

Having enjoyed positive results with relocated stallions in the past, Questroyal Stud is happy to have veteran stallion Fast Play on hand for the 2006 breeding season.

A son of Triple Crown winner and leading sire Seattle Slew, Fast Play hails from Wafare Farm in Kentucky.

He stands for a fee of $4,000 live foal, in partnership with the Wafare Farm syndicate and Nathan Fox, at Questroyal Stud in Otisville, N.Y.

The Azpurua clan is stingy with given names. The three brothers who emigrated from Venezuela some 40 years ago are Manuel, Leo, and Eduardo. All of them have prospered in the Thoroughbred business, and many of their sons and nephews are continuing the line. Eduardo Azpurua Sr. owns and operated Shangri-La Farm, andis also the breeder of Kentucky Derby hopeful Sweetnorthernsaint, who won the Miracle Wood at Laurel on Feb. 4.

The vote for the 2005 Maryland-bred champions was one of the tightest in years, but there was no doubt who was going to be horse of the year. ZWP Stable's Cherokee's Boy, a five-time stakes winner and the leading statebred money-earner in 2005, was the unanimous choice for champion older male as well as horse of the year.

Cherokee's Boy, a son of retired Country Life Farm sire Citidancer and a stakes winner each of the four years he has raced, had previously earned state-bred championship honors at 2. But his campaign last year at age 5 was by far his most successful yet.

The Ocala Breeders' Sales Company has cataloged 535 lots for its upcoming March selected juvenile sale. The two-day auction will run from March 21-22 at the OBS facility in Ocala, Fla.

OBS will host its annual Day of Champions races on March 20 and that night will conduct the annual Adena Springs 2-year-old auction at Adena Springs South near Ocala.