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.

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.