DEL MAR, Calif. - There will not be many starters in Monday's $100,000 I'm Smokin Stakes for California-bred 2-year-olds at Del Mar. But the runners that will appear have given hints that they could have promising careers, and not just in statebred races.

With a substantial portion of its buyer base in nearby Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi hurt by Hurricane Katrina, Fasig-Tipton's Texas summer yearling sale at Lone Star Park ended its two-day run Tuesday evening with declines across the board.

A $130,000 filly by Orientate, a freshman sire and 2003's champion sprinter, remained the top lot as Fasig-Tipton's Texas summer yearling sale in Grand Prairie, Texas, neared the end of its second and final session Tuesday.

Offlee Wild, winner of the Suburban Handicap in July at Belmont Park, has been retired from racing.

retirement comes less than a month after Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum's Darley organization purchased the 5-year-old Wild Again horse to stand as a stallion at its Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Ky. Offlee Wild's racing career had been in doubt since he finished last of five in the Aug. 21 Saratoga Breeders' Cup Handicap and exited the race with ankle trouble.

The five-day Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s August yearling sale, which ended Friday, failed to match last year's strong results.

The 2005 auction opened with a one-day select session that could not keep pace with last year's record-setting select day.

Freshman sire Forest Camp has gotten off to a sharp start. He has eight winners from his first crop, and all of those won at first asking, said Brereton Jones, owner of Airdrie Stud, where Forest Camp stands.

"In all the years I've been in the horse business, I've never seen any sire have eight consecutive first-time starters win," Jones said. "And they're from Del Mar to Saratoga and from Japan to Puerto Rico."

Forest Camp's progeny so far include two stakes-placed runners, The Pharaoh and Hello Liberty.

Lady Tak, a multiple Grade 1-winning mare who earned more than $1 million, has been retired from racing, trainer Steve Asmussen said Friday.

Lady Tak, 5, has been sent to Hill 'n' Dale Farm in Lexington, Ky.

Asmussen said the decision to retire Lady Tak, owned by William Heiligbrodt, was made after it was determined she could not make Sunday's Grade 1 Ballerina Handicap, a race she won last year. Asmussen said he lost valuable training time with Lady Tak this spring when his Churchill Downs barn was one of three put under quarantine for equine herpes.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Dwain Davis, an investment banker from Paso Robles, Calif., and his family are in the process of buying Alex Trebek's Creston Farm in Creston, Calif., a deal that should be completed by the first week of October, Davis said Friday.

Davis said negotiations began earlier this year, when his family began exploring ways to invest in Thoroughbred racing. Creston Farm has been on the market for several months.

"We thought this was a good time to take a look at the market," Davis said of Thoroughbred racing. "We were pretty aggressive about it."

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A report from University of Louisville economic analysts - which Kentucky breeders hoped would resolve the debate over how the state's breeder incentive fund should be distributed - has backed a national distribution proposal. But the debate continues.

Limehouse, the winner of the Grade 2 Brooklyn Handicap this year, has been sold by Dogwood Stable to the Vinery farm, outside of Lexington, Ky. Limehouse will be retired at the end of this year, according to a release from Dogwood.

Limehouse, who has a record of 7 wins from 19 starts, including three graded stakes wins, is by Grand Slam out of the Dixieland Band mare Dixieland Blues. Dogwood's release said the horse will be syndicated, although a share price and stud fee have not yet been set.