Touch Tone, the 2001 Iowa Derby winner who finished a game second to eventual Horse of the Year Point Given in the Haskell Invitational, has been retired because of a breathing problem. He will enter stud at JEH Stallion Station in Pilot Point, Texas, and will stand for a fee of $2,500.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland's 10-day November breeding stock sale continued its strong run at the fifth session on Friday, punching out six-figure prices with regularity. As of 5 p.m. Eastern, the session leader was a $285,000 Wolf Power-Velveteen filly named Warren's Whistle, whom Bill Carl bought from Mineola Farm, agent.

On New York Showcase Day at Belmont Park last month, many of the New York-breds competing in the seven stakes were sired by out-of-state stallions.

Sunday's New York Stallion Stakes Series at Aqueduct, on the other hand, features the progeny of New York-based stallions.

The horses competing in the four Stallion Stakes, which are worth a total of $450,000, must be sired by registered New York stallions who were nominated to the series the year of the horse's conception. The foal's owner is then required to keep the horse eligible to the series.

Tuesday's election could have a profound impact on the state of Georgia's Thoroughbred industry.

The Ontario Thoroughbred season is winding down, but you wouldn't know it by the way the local horse people have been buying up young horses and breeding stock at recent American auctions.

That is good news for future Woodbine meetings, after a 2002 season that was badly lacking in standout performers in most divisions.

More than 70 yearlings, or about 12 percent of the catalog, from the Oct. 21-22 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale in Lexington were purchased by Ontario-based owners or trainers.

What's in a name? Rosy prospects, apparently, for fillies who go by the name of Willa on the Move. Two of them have raced within the past 14 years - both Maryland-breds, and both now stakes winners of some renown.

Willa on the Move, the current model, walloped Maryland-bred 3-year-old rivals in the Politely Stakes on Nov. 2 at Laurel Park, drawing off to an 11-length score for owner Peter Angelos, who campaigns her in the name of his Marathon Farms.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The California Thoroughbred Breeders Association has submitted a list of statebreds that are potential starters for the National Thoroughbred Racing Association's Great State Challenge race series at Sam Houston Race Park on Dec. 7.

Not surprisingly, the list of California-bred hopefuls includes several winners from last weekend's California Cup program.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Keeneland November sale entered its fourth day Thursday, with the $420,000 broodmare Water Music the early session leader. Water Music, in foal to Monarchos, went to Glenn Sikura from the consignment of Anderson Farms, agent for Sam-Son Farm. Water Music is by Danzig out of the Seattle Slew mare Classic Slew.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - When Bless walked into the sales ring at the Keeneland November sale on Tuesday, there was no more question about her than there was about her brother Fusaichi Pegasus when he stood in the same ring at the Keeneland July select yearling sale in 1998. Bred and raised by Arthur Hancock and Stonerside Stable and quartered in the same Keeneland stall that her older brother had used, Bless brought the identical sum, $4 million, as a broodmare that Fusaichi Pegasus sold for as a yearling.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Keeneland November mixed sale rolled into its third of 10 sessions on Wednesday with an early top price of $500,000 for the mare Smokey Mirage.

Audley Farm acquired the Prairie Gold Lassie Stakes winner, who is in foal to Giant's Causeway. Taylor Made Sales, agent, sold Smokey Mirage. She is a daughter of Holy Bull and the Grade 1-placed Slewpy mare Verbasle.