LAS VEGAS - A.P. Warrior was doing so well that trainer Eoin Harty did not wait for Del Mar. Unveiled in a 5 1/2-furlong maiden race last Sunday at Hollywood Park, A.P. Warrior drew off to an impressive victory, looking like future stakes material.

A.P. Warrior is one of four pricey babies that Harty has for owner Stan Fulton. Bought for $1.3 million at last September's boutique Keeneland sale, A.P. Warrior is a colt by A.P. Indy out of the Quiet American mare Warrior Queen, a champion 3-year-old filly in England and Ireland.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Thoroughbed breeder and seller Rosilyn Polan got a long-awaited payday at Monday's opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling sale. Going into the two-day auction, Polan's best price for a sale horse was, as well as she could recall, somewhere below $100,000. But on Monday afternoon, Polan's colt by El Corredor lit up the price board to the tune of $385,000, giving her Sunday Morning Farm a bona fide home run. California-based owner B. Wayne Hughes signed the ticket.

Jess Jackson, who owns the Kendall-Jackson winery and who operates Stonestreet Stable, has purchased the original Adena Springs property near Versailles, Ky., from Frank Stronach.

The purchase follows Jackson's purchase of the former Buckram Oak Farm near Lexington, Ky., and brings his total farmland in central Kentucky to 1,109 acres. The Adena property is located on Route 60 and currently operates as the Adena Springs Kentucky broodmare division.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - With the high-flying Keeneland July sale on hiatus for the third consecutive summer, Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's July yearling sale on Monday and Tuesday launches the season. When it opens at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington this year, the sale will have a couple of notable distinctions: a record number of horses in the catalog and Grade 1 winner Buzzards Bay as a last-minute special addition.

The 2005 Fasig-Tipton July catalog went to press with 672 lots, up sharply from last year's 492.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - In the spring, the season may turn a young man's fancy toward romance, but summer - or the summer sale season, actually - is the time of year that adds energy and excitement to the stallion managers of Kentucky and other breeding centers.

The sales season is the time when many breeders and farms make their profit for the year, and the select auction sessions - Fasig-Tipton's sales in Lexington and Saratoga and the early days of Keeneland September - provide a majority of the income, although they account for a minority of yearlings.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Young sires Intidab and Songandaprayer have punched their tickets to Kentucky's stallion ranks.

Intidab, a 12-year-old son of Phone Trick and the Mr. Prospector mare Alqwani, will relocate from Gallagher's Stud in New York to Shadwell Farm's Nashwan Stud division in Lexington starting in 2006. He stood in New York this year for $3,500. From two crops to race consisting of just 13 racing-age horses, Intidab has sired multiple graded winner Greater Good and English stakes-placed Sentiero Rosso. His fee will be announced later.

David S. Romanik has worn many hats in the Thoroughbred world. Professionally, he succeeded his father, Lennie, as general counsel for Gulfstream Park under the Donn family regime. Later, when Magna Entertainment took over Gulfstream, he was appointed president and CEO of the track, succeeding Doug Donn.

Until recently, Romanik was the CEO for Hialeah Park, working with the Brunetti family to regain Hialeah's revoked parimutuel permit. He has also enjoyed success as an owner, having raced Caltech, one of the top turf 3- year-olds of 1989.

Yearlings by New York sires Freud, Good and Tough, and Phone Trick are among 20 New York-breds cataloged to the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling sale.

The two-day auction, which heralds a succession of yearling sales in the coming months, gets underway on Monday.

Freud, whose yearlings make up his second crop, is represented by four in the sale, including a beautifully bred colt from a family of Grade 1 winners.

Go for Gin, the 1994 Kentucky Derby winner who stands at Bonita Farm in Darlington, Md., caught the attention of many breeders as the sire of three stakes winners during a one-week span, July 3-10.

"Requests are already coming in from people who want to send mares to him next year," said J. William Boniface, proprietor of family-owned Bonita Farm.

The former Blooming Hills Farm in Clements, Calif., sold earlier this year, will become a multi-purpose farm, rather than operating primarily as a breeding farm, according to new owner Pete Parrella.

Parrella, who is in the lumber business in Orange County, completed the purchase of the 125-acre Blooming Hills earlier this year from owners Ron and Fran Stolich. Under their direction, Blooming Hills stood five stallions.