Jazz Club, a multiple graded stakes winner of $417,687 who stands at Maryland Stallion Station, became the state's first freshman sire to get a winner this year when Maddy's Our Girl dominated a maiden race at Delaware Park on July 6.

Jazz Club, a 10-year-old son of Dixieland Band, has 38 foals of racing age. Maddy's Our Girl, bred and owned by William M. Rickman, was her sire's third starter.

Rickman has been the stallion's biggest supporter and bred 11 mares to him in 2002. Maddy's Our Girl, a May foal, is out of the stakes-placed Rollicking mare Hay Roll.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Cesario became the first Japanese-bred racer to win a Grade 1 stakes in the United States with a smashing triumph in the American Oaks at Hollywood Park. Running 10 furlongs in 1:59.03, Cesario held off the previously unbeaten Melhor Ainda, who was the only filly to close on her through the stretch.

Although Cesario's trainer went on the record encouraging other Japanese owners to race in the States, there is not likely to be a stampede of Japanese-bred racehorses to courses in America, considering the extremely rich purses they can run for at home.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Owner and breeder Ken Ramsey has had his share of downs in the past year, but, as he told the Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers Club in Lexington last Tuesday, he will take the bad with the good in his favorite sport.

Early this year, the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority fined him $25,000 for offering to pay a rival owner $1,000 to scratch a horse from a race. This spring, his trainer, Dale Romans, was hit with a quarantine during a strangles outbreak.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Bear Fan, one of the nation's top female sprinters of 2004, has returned to training after failing to get in foal earlier this spring.

A 6-year-old California-bred, Bear Fan worked three furlongs at Santa Anita in 35.20 seconds Thursday. She has been nominated for the $75,000 Valkyr Stakes for statebred fillies and mares over six furlongs at Hollywood Park on July 16. Trainer and co-owner Wesley Ward has mentioned the $150,000 Rancho Bernardo Handicap over 6 1/2 furlongs at Del Mar on Aug. 19 as a goal.

Mr. Greeley - sire of such Grade 1 winners as Nonsuch Bay, El Corredor, Celtic Melody, and Whywhywhy - has relocated from Spendthrift Farm to nearby Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Ky.

The 13-year-old Mr. Greeley's six Grade 1 or Group 1 winners also include Reel Buddy, winner of England's Sussex Stakes, and Miss Kournikova, who won Australia's Oakleigh Plate. He is the sire of 23 stakes winners from seven crops to race.

Mr. Greeley will stand at Gainesway for a $35,000 fee in 2006, the same fee he had at Spendthrift this year.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Meetings among three Kentucky breeders' groups charged with recommending a breeders' award plan have stalled as the parties try to find common ground on the issue of distributing the projected $10 million to $12 million in annual awards for horses racing out of state.

That was the word Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers' Club members got Tuesday night at the organization's monthly meeting.

LAS VEGAS - At 20 years old, Dynaformer just keeps rolling along. Last weekend, two of his young runners, Purim and Dynamist, became his latest stakes winners, bringing his total number of stakes winners to 67.

Without a leading 2-year-old or a horse of racing age to propel the market, the Barretts summer sale in Pomona on Tuesday suffered declines compared with the inaugural sale in 2004.

Overall, 107 horses sold for $1,164,300, an average price of $10,881 and a median price of $6,500. While the number of horses sold increased from 93 in 2004, the gross fell 7 percent, while the average and median prices were each down 19 percent.

LAS VEGAS - Two historic juvenile stakes, the Astoria and Tremont, will be run this holiday weekend at Belmont Park and feature precocious 2-year-olds, many of whom are giving their freshman sires a head start at stud. The Tremont runners listed are those who earlier in the week were expected starters.

Astoria Stakes

Cary Jackson has twice sent out a homebred to win the grand championship at the Maryland Horse Breeders Association's annual yearling show. The first time was in 1973, and the second was last week.

"I never expect to win with anything I show, because the judges are all so different," said Jackson, after judge Ben Perkins Sr. selected his Cryptoclearance colt from among 106 Maryland-bred yearlings at the 71st edition of the event, held June 26 at the Timonium Fairgrounds.