Coolmore Stud announced Thursday that it would raise Giant's Causeway's fee in 2006, giving the stallion a $300,000 price at Coolmore's North American division, Ashford Stud. Coolmore also announced it would lower the fee for Fusaichi Pegasus, also standing at Ashford, from $150,000 to $125,000.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Haskell winner and millionaire Roman Ruler has been retired and will enter stud at Hill 'n' Dale Farms in Lexington, the farm has announced. His fee in 2006 will be $30,000.

An outstanding juvenile last year, won his first two starts - the second in the Grade 2 Best Pal - by a combined 11 lengths. He went on to take the Grade 2 Norfolk Stakes after finishing second in the Del Mar Futurity. He wrapped up his juvenile season ranked two pounds below eventual champion Declan's Moon, rating 124 pounds on the Experimental Free Handicap.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic winner Saint Liam will have a $50,000 fee in 2006, when he begins his stud career at Lane's End in Versailles, Ky.

Saint Liam capped his three-season racing career on Saturday with a one-length win in the Classic, beating Flower Alley.

Proud Truth, winner of the 1985 Breeders' Cup Classic, has died in Panama, according to press reports. The 23-year-old stallion reportedly died on Aug. 15 after a bout of colic.

Trained by John Veitch and racing as a homebred for John W. Galbreath's Darby Dan Farm, Proud Truth won six graded stakes in all, including the 1985 Florida Derby and Peter Pan Stakes to complete his trio of Grade 1 victories.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Whether from the thunder of his offspring's hooves or the roars of fans cheering for their favorite, Sunday Silence is still the king of Japan, some three years after his death at age 16.

A horse of uncommon presence and outstanding ability, Sunday Silence became Japan's greatest sire. Leading sire lists ever since the racetrack appearance of his first crop, Sunday Silence earned an amazing reputation in Japan. He did the unthinkable by becoming more revered and famous than his many celebrated offspring.

Breeding and racing good horses is nothing new for Hazel Marsh, the Virginia horsewoman who with her late husband, John D. Marsh, campaigned homebred multi-millionaire Majesty's Prince and many other stakes winners.

Still, Marsh is reveling in the accomplishments of her latest star, Bright Gold. Proving all but unbeatable at 5 1/2 furlongs on turf, Bright Gold has racked up victories in her last five starts, taking two stakes at Colonial Downs en route to her most ambitious performance to date, in the $100,000 Franklin County Stakes on Oct. 20 at Keeneland.

The two-day Barretts October mixed sale, held earlier this week in Pomona, Calif., had slight gains in gross, average, and median prices over the corresponding sale in 2004.

Comprising broodmares and weanlings, the sale saw 440 horses sell for $2,529,400, a gain in gross price of 11 percent over the 419 horses sold last year. This year's sale averaged $5,749, a gain of 6 percent, and the median of $3,000 marked a gain of 20 percent.

"Gone West" are two words with much meaning for Manuel Andrade, one of the Ocala, Fla., area's newer Thoroughbred farm owners. A former resident of the Azores Islands who did indeed go west crossing the Atlantic to make his fortune, Andrade bought Breakaway Farm from Randy and Linda Mills some months ago and renamed it Get Away Farm. Just this past week, Andrade bought the Gone West stallion Double Honor from Farnsworth Farms.

Buying and operating a Thoroughbred farm and purchasing a leading sire are not what Andrade had in mind when he bought the 100-acre property.

A pair of juveniles took steps toward state championships on New York Showcase Day.

Sharp Humor won the $100,000 Sleepy Hollow Stakes over Parkhimonbroadway, with New York Breeders Futurity winner Classic Pack finishing third.

Sharp Humor previously had won the Bertram Bongard, and on Showcase Day avenged a loss to Classic Pack in the Futurity.

Sharp Humor is by Distorted Humor, the sire of New York-bred Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide, out of Bellona, a daughter of former state sire Hansel.

With the news that Canadian champion Mobil has been retired and will enter stud in Ontario at Windfields Farm in Oshawa next spring, broodmare owners will certainly be clamoring to send their mares his way.

Mobil, or "Mo" as he was known during his career, is an impressive-looking dark bay by Langfuhr out of Kinetigal, by Naskra.