LAS VEGAS - The Remsen Stakes has long been a barometer of class for late-maturing 2-year-olds who blossomed at age 3, and this year's renewal, which will be run on Saturday, features juveniles who should be heard from next year at 3. Those who have shown the ability to win at the nine-furlong distance of the Remsen at 2 often have success at 3.

The Keeneland Association's January mixed sale catalog will comprise a record 2,508 horses in 2006. The auction will run from Jan. 9-15 in Lexington, Ky., at Keeneland's sale pavilion.

The 2006 catalog will offer 435 more horses than the previous record of 2,073 horses at the 2005 sale. As a result, the 2006 auction will be one day longer than this year's edition.

The 2006 catalog consists of 1,290 broodmares and broodmare prospects, 924 yearlings, 268 racing-age horses, and 22 stallions or stallion prospects. Four stallion shares also will be up for bid at the sale.

Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky., has raised the stud fee for Forest Camp from $15,000 to $25,000.

An 8-year-old Deputy Minister horse, Forest Camp is the sire of recent Grade 3 Hollywood Prevue Stakes winner Your Tent or Mine, who has won both his starts this year at 2. Forest Camp has sired 13 winners this season from his first crop of racing age.

The 2-year-old filly Diamond Omi, winner of the Grade 2 Oak Leaf Stakes at Santa Anita in October, died of complications of pneumonia on Thursday night, trainer Bob Baffert said on Friday.

Owned by Don Dizney, finished 10th in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies at Belmont Park on Oct. 29, her final start. She won 2 of 5 starts and $160,740.

Diamond Omi was at the Chino Valley Equine Clinic in Southern California at the time of her death.

The Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers Club has elected its new officers, who will take their positions effective in January.

In addition, the club also elected new directors to its board. Those will join directors now midway through their two-year terms in office.

The club's president will be Steven Nicholson of Adena Springs. Other officers for the upcoming year are vice president, Davant Latham of Darby Dan Farm; secretary, Analisa Wagner of Bluewater Sales; treasurer, Clifford Barry of Pin Oak Stud; and sergeant-at-arms, Helen Walsh of Adena Springs.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - As the massive Keeneland November sale drew to a close Friday, the amount of six-figure lots dwindled, but interest in the sale continued.

Geoffrey Russell, director of sales at Keeneland, said the sales market was strong because "central Kentucky is the commercial capital of the Thoroughbred worldwide."

"What makes Kentucky so special is that we supply bloodstock to the whole world," he said. "We have sold to people from 38 countries and 47 states."

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland's November sale benefited from a bullish yearling sale season, ending its 12-day run Friday with gains across the board and records for average and median.

The 12-day auction, headed by Ashado's world-record $9 million sale to Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum, grossed $289,602,900 for 2,816 horses. That was well up from last year's $279,680,200 total for 2,873 horses. The 2005 average price rose 6 percent to $102,842, and median climbed from $32,000 to $35,000.

New York sire Regal Classic got his 47th stakes winner last week when his son Thinking Out Loud won the $214,434 Coronation Futurity at Woodbine.

Regal Classic, a 20-year-old son of Vice Regent, hails from the distinguished family of champion Dance Smartly and stands at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbred Farm near Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Thinking Out Loud was conceived at Joe and Anne McMahon's farm, where Regal Classic has stood since the 2001 breeding season.

Strive, purchased for $180,000 at Keeneland last Monday, will enter stud in 2006 at Pepper Oaks Farm in Santa Ynez, Calif., according to farm manager Jim Wilson.

Strive was purchased by Patricia Youngman, who operates Pepper Oaks Farm.

Raced and bred by Marty and Pam Wygod and trained by Bill Mott, Strive won 4 of 24 starts and $287,910 in a career that ended earlier this year after a victory in an allowance race at Belmont Park.

A look at the list of the 50 leading sires in North America shows that every one of them is a graded stakes winner, giving currency to those who require performance as well as pedigree when patronizing a stallion. This list, however, may soon include Tiger Ridge, whose abbreviated racing career was limited to a second and a third as a 4-year-old in maiden special company at Delaware Park.