LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland's seven-day January all-ages sale is hurtling toward a record conclusion and picked up more steam at the top of the market Friday, its fifth day of selling.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Bertrando, an Eclipse Award champion on the racetrack 13 years ago, led California's stallions in 2005 with progeny earnings of $3,644,295, a figure well below the amount required to claim the championship in recent years.

Last year, Bertrando had 161 runners that won 79 races, including five stakes. His leading money earner was Unfurl the Flag, the winner of the Grade 1 Triple Bend Handicap at Hollywood Park in July, who earned $311,360.

Florida's Thoroughbred new year gets in gear this week. The Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. will conduct its annual winter mixed sale Tuesday through Friday. The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association will hold its annual awards banquet Monday evening, and the following evening will hold its annual charity auction of stallion seasons at the OBS sales pavilion.

With slots riches finally on the horizon in Pennsylvania, leaders of the state's breeding organization are considering how to share the wealth.

"We want to invite people to come into the state and become committed Pennsylvania breeders," said Peter Giangiulio, the recently appointed president of the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association. "The PHBA's phone number will not become 1-800-VISITPA."

A. P Jet, a 17-year-old son of Fappiano standing at Sugar Maple Farm in Poughquag, was New York's leading sire of 2005, with progeny earnings of $3,430,722.

He will stand the 2006 season at Sugar Maple for a fee of $5,000, live foal.

The Keeneland January sale, which runs through Jan. 15 in Lexington, ended its third session Wednesday night with more total income than it achieved for its entire run in 2005. On Thursday, it added even more to that flood of money, ending day four with cumulative gross revenue of $62,641,400.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Keeneland January all-ages sale entered its third day Wednesday with just a single million-dollar lot to its credit. But the auction's dramatic financial gains across the board revealed a market that was strong overall and not reliant on a few spectacular horses selling at the top.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A day after its opening session produced strong prices but no million-dollar bids, the Keeneland January all-ages sale got its seven-figure mare on Tuesday.

Girl Warrior, selling as Hip No. 598, brought a $1 million bid from Jere Paxton of Yakima, Wash., exceeding the expectations of selling agent Paramount Sales.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Keeneland January all-ages auction, which cataloged a sale-record 2,508 horses this year, began in workmanlike fashion on Monday.

After a heated 2005 auction season that saw Ashado sell for a world-record $9 million, 2006 opened on a cooler note. But prices for mares in particular remained strong as buyers outbid at earlier sales returned to shop the January market.

Ashado, the 2004 champion filly who was sold for $9 million at the Keeneland November sale, will be bred to Storm Cat in 2006, according to Michael Banahan, the director of farm operations at Darley at Jonabell in Lexington, Ky., where Ashado resides.

Ashado, by Saint Ballado out of the Mari's Book mare Goulash, was purchased at the November sale by John Ferguson Bloodstock, acting as agent for Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum, the owner of Darley operations worldwide. Storm Cat, the sire of 143 stakes winners, has a stud fee of $500,000, the highest of any stallion in the world.