Three horsemen's groups with the task of recommending a distribution plan for Kentucky's proposed breeder incentive awards met again Wednesday in an attempt to unify behind a single plan.

The three groups - Kentucky Equine Education Project, Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers Club, and Kentucky Thoroughbred Association/Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders - have differed over whether the projected $10 million to $12 million in breeders' funds should be distributed to Kentucky-bred winners at Kentucky tracks only or to national and some international winners as well.

California stallions You and I, D's Bertrando, and Golden Gear will relocate within California for the 2006 breeding season.

The trio stood in 2005 at Fran and Ron Stolich's Blooming Hills Farm near Clements, Calif., but the Stolichs sold the property earlier this year to Quarter Horse owner Pete Parella. All three stallions will now relocate to Sue Hubbard and Associates Farm in Creston, Calif., Ron Stolich said Wednesday.

The Japan Racing Horse Association did not get a record sale-topper this year, but it concluded its two-day select foal sale Tuesday with a record gross. The auction on the island of Hokkaido sold 242 lots for about $71,178,571, a figure which, expressed in the local currency of yen, topped last year's record-setting auction.

Frank Stronach's Magna Entertainment Corp. has expanded its equine activities to the production of bedding for horse stalls. The company announced Monday that it has built a a plant in Lumberton, N.C., to manufacture a pellet form of straw to be sold under the brand name STREUfex.

LAS VEGAS - Unbridled's Song is proving to be as impressive a stallion as he was a racehorse.

burst upon the racing season as a 2-year-old in 1995, winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile in a stirring battle over Hennessy. From the first crop of Unbridled, a champion at 3 when he captured the Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic, Unbridled's Song won the Florida Derby by 5 3/4 lengths in a tour de force over a stellar field that included Editor's Note (Belmont Stakes winner), Skip Away (Horse of the Year), and Louis Quatorze (Preakness winner).

The Japan Racing Horse Association's two-day July select foal sale on Hokkaido got under way Monday without breaking last year's top-price record, but the auction opened with gains on last year's first day.

Turk O Witz, dam of Grade 1 winners Mr Purple and Queens Court Queen, died June 14 at Darby Dan Farm near Lexington, Ky. A 26-year-old Stop the Music mare, Turk O Witz, was euthanized because of the infirmities of old age, a farm official said.

Turk O Witz's best foals to date are millionaire Mr Purple, winner of the 1996 Santa Anita Derby and four other stakes, and Queens Court Queen, whose six stakes victories included the Grade 1 Santa Margarita Invitational and Santa Maria handicaps in 1995.

The profile of New York sire Lycius continues to rise in the wake of Palladio's victory in the Grade 2 Ohio Derby last weekend.

Palladio, who added the $350,000 Ohio Derby to his score in the Victoria Park Stakes three weeks earlier at Woodbine, is the 30th known stakes winner for Lycius.

He is also the 13th group or graded stakes winner for the stallion, whose progeny earnings are more than $1 million for 2005 and more than $13.7 million for his career.

Janie Roper, like so many women of her generation, has made it in what used to be a man's occupation. Roper is a bloodstock agent who specializes in taking yearlings to market. She won't have her shingle out at next week's Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling sale, because she's home at her Ocala, Fla., farm prepping 46 for the August Ocala Breeders' Sales yearling sales.

It seems it was meant to be that Desert Radiance was going to produce a Queen's Plate winner for breeder Jeff Begg and his family's Windways Farm.

On two occasions, Begg tried to sell Desert Radiance, a stakes-winning Desert Wine mare, at auction, and both times he bought her back, unhappy with the bids he was getting for her.

On June 26, Desert Radiance's seventh foal, Wild Desert, won the 146th Queen's Plate and is going to be odds-on to win the second jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown, the Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie, on July 17.