A pair of million-dollar mares were the highlights Wednesday at the Tattersalls December auction of mares and mixed stock in Newmarket, England.

Group 1-winning racemare Frizzante and the broodmare Ebaraya each brought 500,000 guineas, or about $1,002,750.

The London Thoroughbred Services agency purchased Frizzante, a 5-year-old Efisio mare, for an undisclosed client. Ebaraya, a 5-year-old Sadler's Wells mare sold in foal to Machiavellian, went to Ira Gumberg's Skara Glen Stables, represented by Irish agent John McCormack.

The demand for accomplished broodmares and broodmare prospects continued Tuesday at the Tattersalls December mare auction in Newmarket, England.

LAS VEGAS - When it comes to racing class, it has always been about the dam and her entire tail-female line (dam, dam's dam, dam's granddam, etc.). There was never a better example of what class in the dam means than last weekend at Hollywood Park, where three major stakes winners from the same female family raced. Two of them won, while the other finished a strong third off a long layoff and tough trip.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Private Account, sire of Hall of Famer Personal Ensign and 60 other stakes winners, died of old age on Thanksgiving Day. The stallion, who had been pensioned at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., since 1995, was 28.

Two weanlings from Danehill's final crop logged the highest prices so far at the Tattersalls December foal sale in Newmarket, England.

A colt out of Zarawa, by Khayasi, brought approximately $1,012,095 from B.B.A. Ireland's Adrian Nicol. Bob Lanigan's Tullamaine Castle Stud in County Tipperary, Ireland, was the consignor.

About an hour later, Peter Doyle Bloodstock went to about $942,638 to acquire a filly out of Irish Oaks winner Knight's Baroness offered by breeder Bjorn Neilsen. The filly is a half-sister to Group 2 winner Riyadian.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The victory of the unbeaten Declan's Moon in the Nov. 20 Hollywood Prevue Stakes has put the dark bay gelding on center stage among the 2-year-olds who will race for the divisional championship in the Hollywood Futurity.

Declan's Moon is expected to line up against Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Wilko and Champagne winner Proud Accolade in the Hollywood Futurity, and the outcome of this race may decide if any of them gets the Eclipse Award as leading 2-year-old colt or gelding.

The bandwagon is filling up in Pennsylvania, before a slot machine handle has even been pulled.

When Gov. Ed Rendell signed the bill in July legalizing slots in the state, Pennsylvania's breeding industry prepared to take off. Recent announcements indicate business is soaring.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - When Michael Gill, the nation's top owner by wins, moved his California stable to the East Coast last spring, it marked the end of a largely unsuccessful six-month involvement in California racing.

Gill claimed more than 100 horses from October 2003 until May of this year, but had little to show for it. While racing in California, Gill had 18 winners from 153 starters, a 12 percent success rate. When his stable left, Gill admitted that in hindsight he made a lot of bad claims.

It was a Florida Chamber of Commerce day, and more than a thousand Florida breeders were on hand for Sunday's Florida Thoroughbred Farm Managers parade of stallions and equine trade show. Thirty-three stallions were shown at the Ocala Equestrian Center, adjacent to the Ocala Breeders' Sales complex.

Halo's Image, Florida's 2004 leading sire by progeny earnings, was named the farm managers' sire of the year.

"It's an honor," said George Isaacs, general manager of Bridlewood Farm, which owns Halo's Image. "He will stand for $10,000 live foal, and he's earned it."

As Ontario breeders begin to choose stallions for their mares for the spring of 2005, a handful of newcomers to the local ranks offer some impressive pedigree lines.

Dance to Destiny, a graded-stakes-placed full brother to Queen's Plate winners Dancethruthedawn and Scatter the Gold, will attract a lot of interest when he begins stud duty at John Brnjas's Colebrook Farms in Uxbridge.