LEXINGTON, Ky. - Pico Central, a North American Grade 1 winner and a leading contender for the Breeders' Cup Sprint, has been retired from racing because of an upper foreleg injury, Robert Clay and Satish Sanan announced Thursday.

The 6-year-old Brazilian-bred, a son of Spend a Buck, will stand at the Sanan family's Padua Stables in Summerfield, Fla., as the property of a syndicate that will include Padua and Clay's Three Chimneys Farm. Padua purchased a 50 percent interest in Pico Central's breeding rights in May.

The Keeneland September yearling sale continued its record run on Wednesday, but prices were tailing off from the dizzying levels seen early during the two-week auction.

With selling still underway, a $270,000 Wild Wonder colt was the session leader. John Brocklebank purchased the son of Susie Do, by Talinum. Taylor Made, agent, sold the colt, who is a half-brother to the winner Susie's Prize.

Midway Road, a dual Grade 3 winner and runner-up in the 2003 Preakness, has been retired from racing and will stand at Lane's End Farm near Versailles, Ky., in 2006.

A 5-year-old son of Jade Hunter, Midway Road will stand for $7,500 in 2006.

Midway Road won the 2004 Fayette and Ben Ali stakes, setting a track record of 1:46.78 for nine furlongs in the Ben Ali.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Keeneland September yearling sale rolled through its eighth day of selling Tuesday, so far defying predictions that the market would slip sharply in the auction's second week.

By 5 p.m. on Tuesday, the eighth session had produced a top price of $185,000 for an Orientate colt out of stakes winner Soul Onarazorsedge. Dennis Yokum purchased the colt from Four Star Sales, agent. Yokum represented Mercedes Stables in the purchase.

Four Horsemen's Ranch near Ocala, Fla., will disperse its horses and sell its 171-acre property, the Ocala Star-Banner has reported.

Four Horsemen's 27 broodmares will sell at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's fall mixed sale in October.

LAS VEGAS - As September comes to an end, the 2-year-old picture is starting to gel, and there are a handful of juvenile colts who could make this year's renewal of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile memorable. Hopeful Stakes winner First Samurai (by Giant's Causeway) leads the division so far, but some recent stakes winners and even a few impressive maiden winners could show up for the Juvenile.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland's September yearling sale, which sold a sale-record $9.7 million Storm Cat-Tranquility Lake colt to Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum, broke its own previous world record for total auction receipts on Monday morning, at the two-week sale's halfway point.

The auction surpassed last year's world-record total of $324,904,300 on Monday when Hip No. 2,216, an Officer colt out of Prim Flower, brought $45,000, bringing the 2005 auction's total receipts at that point to $324,927,500. Peter O'Callaghan's Woods Edge agency sold the colt to Excel Bloodstock.

Added Edge, a Canadian champion juvenile and two-time Grade 3 winner in the United States, has been retired from racing. His stud plans have not been announced.

The Keeneland September yearling sale in Lexington, Ky., threw off another seven-figure horse on Saturday as the 14-day auction resumed after a day's break.

Buzz Chace, agent, went to $1.1 million to purchase a son of Distorted Humor and the stakes-producing A. P. Indy mare Weekend in Indy. The colt is a half-brother to Grade 3 winner Bohemian Lady. The Taylor Made agency sold the colt, who was the day's highest-priced lot as of 5 p.m.

Closing Argument, a Grade 3 winner who was second to Giacomo in this year's Kentucky Derby, has retired from racing and will stand in 2006 at Sequel Stallions in Ocala, Fla. He will have a $10,000 fee.

A 3-year-old son of Successful Appeal, Closing Argument will stand for the partnership of Sequel Stallions owner Becky Thomas and Lewis Lakin, Dennis Narlinger's JMJ Racing, and Phillip and Marcia Cohen.

A Florida-bred trained by Kiaran McLaughlin, Closing Argument won the Grade 3 Holy Bull Stakes and ran third in the Blue Grass Stakes.