ARCADIA, Calif. - Top This and That made only two starts for his breeders, Tom and Debbie Stull, before he was claimed for $40,000 after a win at Santa Anita in January 2005.

In the last year, Tom Stull has watched Top This and That earn more than $200,000 for a four-man partnership and slowly rise in class to join the list of probable starters for the $1 million Santa Anita Handicap next Saturday.

Some breeders may react with disgust that a horse got away from them and went on to improve, but Stull insists he has taken an opposite approach.

The year's second 2-year-olds in training sale begins Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Calder Race Course. Fasig-Tipton's selected sale has cataloged 308 horses and 43 of them are Florida-breds. Last year Fasig-Tipton cataloged 355 horses, 47 of them Florida-breds.

Only eight of this year's sales horses are by current Florida sires. The sires are: Exchange Rate (who stands at Padua Stables), Red Bullet (Adena Springs South), Three Wonders (Hartley/DeRenzo Walmac South), Tiger Ridge (Hidden Point Farm), and Trippi (Ocala Stud).

How many stallions are too many? Don Litz, founder and president of Maryland Stallion Station, said that he and his partner, David DiPietro, considered that question carefully before adding yet another new horse to the farm's burgeoning roster for 2006.

Sixteen New York-bred juveniles are cataloged to the Fasig-Tipton Calder selected 2-year-olds in training sale at Calder, which begins 11 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday.

New York stallion Freud, who stands at Lakland North in Hudson, is represented by two colts and a filly in the sale, all of whom are New York-breds.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Legislation that supporters hope will curtail fraud in horse sales passed Kentucky's House of Representatives in an 84-14 vote on Tuesday.

The bill, HB 446, would require bloodstock agents who represent both the buyer and the seller in a transaction - a practice known as dual agency - to disclose that fact to both clients and obtain written consent from them. It also would prohibit undisclosed commissions to an agent, require a written bill of sale in transactions, and allow victims of fraud to receive triple the damages in addition to costs and attorneys fees.

LAS VEGAS - Winner of the 2001 Preakness, Belmont, Travers, Haskell Invitational, and San Felipe stakes as well as the Santa Anita Derby, Point Given was not only the 3-year-old champion, he was also Horse of the Year, and his first-crop foals are turning into formidable runners at age 3.

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.