The annual Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's fall mixed sale gets under way Monday and continues through Friday. The consignors' preferred catalog has 962 lots and goes through Wednesday. The open sessions, Hips No. 963 to 1,519, sell on Thursday and Friday. Featured in this year's auction is phase two of the Farnsworth Farms dispersal and the continuing dispersal of Four Horsemen's Ranch's breeding and racing stock.

The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale, conducted Oct. 3-5 at the Maryland State Fairgrounds's sales pavilion in Timonium, Md., was an enormous success. Records were smashed in a number of major categories, and Maryland breeders were significant contributors.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's Eastern fall yearling sale, expanded this year from two days to three, ended Wednesday evening with gains in gross and average but a decline in median.

Claiborne Farm will raise the stud fees for its popular young sires Pulpit and Arch in 2006, the Paris, Ky., farm announced Wednesday.

Pulpit's fee will increase from $60,000 to $80,000 in the coming season, while Arch's will rise from $10,000 to $15,000. In the only other change, the fee for 2001 Kentucky Derby winner Monarchos will drop from $25,000 to $15,000. The farm also will stand a new stallion, the Grade 1-winning millionaire Eddington, for $20,000 in 2006. Seeking the Gold's fee will remain $125,000.

Doug Arnold's Buck Pond Farm, which has raised the fee for Lost in the Fog's sire, Lost Soldier, from $7,500 to $12,500 for 2006, announced this week that it is expanding its stallion roster and also will host a broodmare and weanling auction.

Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's three-day Eastern fall yearling sale entered its final day Wednesday with strong prices at the top of the market.

As of 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, the final session's leading price was $135,000 for a Malibu Moon colt out of Picasso's Girl. Marathon Farms signed for the colt, consigned by Francis and Barbara Vanlangendonck's Summerfield agency. The colt's dam is a daughter of Broad Brush and the Grade 3 winner True Affair, and this colt is her first foal.

POMONA, Calif. - A colt by the young sire High Demand sold for $290,000 at Tuesday's Barretts California October yearling sale, topping the one-day event, which exceeded organizers' expectations.

The sale, which primarily comprised California-breds, saw 207 horses sell for $5,239,400, an average of $25,311. The median price was $17,000. There were 76 horses bought back and 40 horses withdrawn.

LAS VEGAS - Long before they became key preps for the Breeders' Cup, the Champagne Stakes and Frizette Stakes were the ultimate prizes for 2-year-olds.

Every decade has had a Champagne and a Frizette winner who were named juvenile champions of their divisions, and the 1960's were particularly memorable.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Jess Jackson, a founder of the Kendall-Jackson Winery and a prominent buyer of expensive bloodstock at auction in the last several years, has sued some of his early advisers, alleging fraud in a number of transactions, including one in which Jackson purchased Afleet Alex's dam, Maggy Hawk, for $750,000.

Fasig-Tipton Kentucky will begin Kentucky's breeding stock auction season on Nov. 6 with 189 horses in its catalog, including the dam of undefeated Grade 1 winner Lost in the Fog, Cloud Break, and the Grade 1-winning mare Riskaverse.

The one-session sale will begin at 4 p.m. with weanlings, followed by in-foal mares, broodmare prospects, and fillies and mares in training. In addition to Cloud Break, the catalog also features Contrive, the dam of runaway Matron winner Folklore, and the dams of Grade 1 winners Bandini, Bellamy Road, Declan's Moon, Lion Heart, and Toccet.