LEXINGTON, Ky. - Rancho San Miguel in Paso Robles, Calif., has added a pair of young stallions to its roster for the 2005 season. The farm, owned by Tom Clark, will stand Grade 1-placed stakes winner Marino Marini and also has relocated former Gainesway stallion Formal Gold from Kentucky.

Marino Marini, a 4-year-old Storm Cat colt, will stand for $10,000. Formal Gold, an 11-year-old stallion by Black Tie Affair, will carry a $7,500 fee.

ELMONT, N.Y. - When High Peaks runs in Sunday's $100,000-added Schenectady Handicap for New York-bred 3-year-old fillies at Belmont Park, she will try to become the first stakes winner produced by her dam, Phari.

Tom Bush, High Peaks's trainer, remembers Phari well. Bush trained Phari, a daughter of Black Tie Affair, the 1991 Horse of the Year and Breeders' Cup Classic winner.

Ocala Week, Oct. 8-14, is the time when the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association holds its annual membership meeting and sponsors several industry-related activities. In addition to that schedule, the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company conducts its fall mixed sale.

Charles Hesse, a road builder and sand and gravel contractor with headquarters near Monmouth Park in New Jersey, is the breeder of one of the nation's current top 2-year-olds, Park Avenue Ball.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Northern California breeders, who have lacked a steady local venue to sell yearlings in the last decade, have thrown support behind Tuesday's Northern California yearling sale at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton.

Although the sale, conducted by the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association, is not expected to approach the impact of the established Del Mar yearling sale held each August, Tuesday's sale will fill a void left by the departure of the American Equine Sales Company, which held sales in August in recent years in northern California.

As the record-breaking Keeneland September yearling sale wound toward its Sept. 27 conclusion, there were still six-figure horses selling at the auction's late sessions.

Feb. 1 could mark the end of a Florida Thoroughbred landmark, the Franks Farms Southland division in Ocala, Fla. The 1,100-acre nursery currently is under contract with a developer who plans to transform most of the property into an equestrian community.

Olmodavor, a two-time Grade 3 winner, has been retired and will stand at Frank Stronach's Adena Springs, according to trainer Richard Mandella.

Mandella was quoted in a press release issued by Oak Tree Racing Association, whose meet opens at Santa Anita on Sept. 29.

Mandella said Olmodavor has shipped to Adena Springs Kentucky in Versailles, Ky., and could stand there or at the farm's Florida division in Ocala.

"He was wearing a little thin, and it was getting time to retire, so we did," Mandella said.

The stallions War Deputy and Alydeed, who had been standing at Windfields Farm in Ontario, have been sold and will be moving in opposite directions.

War Deputy is heading to Elia Stud near Athens, Greece, for the 2005 breeding season. Alydeed is going to Peaceful Valley Stud near Red Deer, Alberta.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Keeneland September yearling auction, which entered its ninth of 14 sessions on Wednesday, did something that afternoon that no other yearling sale has ever done: it broke the $300 million barrier for total income. And by the time it ends on Sept. 27, it could become the richest Thoroughbred auction in history.