The 12-day Keeneland September yearling auction rolled into its eighth session Tuesday off successive gains from its first seven days. Though the daily top price was tailing off as the sale neared conclusion, six-figure horses were still passing through the auction ring.

As of 5 p.m. Tuesday, the day's top seller was a $230,000 Silver Charm colt that Bob and Beverly Lewis bought from James Keogh's Grovendale agency. The colt is the first foal out of Extra Rare, a Texas stakes winner by Rare Brick.

Breeding stock from the late Gerald Leigh's famous stud will go under the hammer at this year's Tattersalls December sale, the auction house announced Tuesday.

Leigh's Eydon Hall Farm bred such horses as the 1994 Breeders' Cup Mile winner, Barathea, English classic winner Bosra Sham, and Group 1 winners Act One, Gossamer, and Markofdistinction. Leigh died in June 2002, at age 71. The executors of his estate and his children, Sarah and Robin, decided to offer "the vast majority" of his bloodstock at the December sale, according to a Tattersalls release.

Day 7 of Keeneland's 12-day September yearling sale continued the strong selling seen last week at the auction, even as prices took their usual second-week drop. With the select portion of the sale well past, the Keeneland September sale still was ringing up six-figure horses.

As of 5 p.m., the Monday session leader was a $230,000 Way West colt out of Conchita Villa, an unraced Pancho Villa mare. Gainesway, agent, sold the colt, who is from the family of Grade 2 winner Clever Secret, to Jay Em Ess Stable.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland's 12-day September yearling sale, which posted 30- to 40-percent increases after its first four sessions, continued Saturday with a similarly bullish atmosphere.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Keeneland September yearling sale took a day off Friday from its 12-day stand, interrupting a run of sales price increases.

The sale's first week ended Thursday with 30- to 40-percent gains over last year's opening days, when the yearling market in general suffered declines, especially at the top of the market.

California's Barretts sale company will accept bids via the Internet at two upcoming auctions.

Through an agreement with the Live Global Bid company, Barretts will take bids from online bidders at its fall mixed sale on Oct. 27-28 and at its winter mixed sale on Jan. 20-21, 2004. Both auctions will be broadcast live on the Internet from the Barretts sale pavilion in Pomona, Calif.

Maryland's breeding industry was shaken to the core when word came from the Pons family's Country Life Farm that perennial leading sire Allen's Prospect had been euthanized on Sept. 3, at age 21, following complications after surgery to remove a tumor under his jaw.

Ocala Week, the Florida Thoroughbred industry's annual homecoming, will have some major changes to its traditional scheduling.

Activities begin on Wednesday, Oct. 8, a day earlier than usual, and conclude Oct. 16 with final session of the Ocala Breeders' fall mixed sale. Among the changes is the date of the Jockey Club's interactive seminar, to be held this year on Oct. 8 at Steinbrenner's Ramada Inn.

Pat Calandro hadn't seen Buy the Sport since she sold the New York-bred filly as a yearling two years ago at Saratoga.

When Calandro found out that Buy the Sport, who had been running in Europe, was entered in last Saturday's $250,000 Gazelle Handicap at Belmont Park, she immediately made plans to go to the track to see her run.

It was worth the 140-mile round-trip drive from her farm in Holmes, N.Y., because Buy the Sport provided Calandro with her first Grade 1 win as a breeder.

Nureyev had a champion's pedigree, racetrack talent and, most important of all, heart and courage. A white-faced son of Northern Dancer, he battled with infertility and a life-threatening fracture of his right hind leg, suffered in 1997, during his 20 years at stud. But those difficulties did not stop him from becoming one of the world's most notable stallions.