Arlington Capital Partners, a Washington-based private equity fund, announced Monday the formation of Sports Information Group LLC and its acquisition of Daily Racing Form LLC and sister company Sports Enthusiast Media from an entity controlled by The Wicks Group of Companies, LLC. Terms of the transaction, which was completed Oct. 19, were not disclosed.

A pair of yearlings brought $642,600 each to top the Book 2 portion of the Tattersalls October yearling sales in Newmarket, England. The two-day Book 2 auction ended Wednesday with gains in all categories.

Wednesday's top yearling was a half-sister by Nayef to Italian Group 1 winner Imperial Dancer that Sheikh Hamdan al-Maktoum's Shadwell Estate bought from Trickledown Stud. Trickledown consigned the filly on behalf of the Strange Family Partnership. The filly's auction price was 300,000 guineas.

In a sign that Pennsylvania's slot-machine revenue is helping fuel investment in the state's breeding industry, Maryland's prominent Northview Stallion Station announced plans Wednesday to expand into the Keystone State.

Northview has purchased 171 acres in Lancaster County, Pa., about 40 minutes' drive from the Maryland facility in Chesapeake City, Md. Northview stands four of Maryland's top 10 active stallions, including the state's top sire, Not for Love. Plans call for the Pennsylvania division to open in time for the 2009 breeding season.

Breeders' Cup Ltd. does not currently have a signed simulcasting contract with a single major account-wagering operator in the U.S., the Breeders' Cup and account-wagering companies acknowledged on Tuesday.

The officials all said on Tuesday - 10 days before the event begins on Oct. 26 - that they were in negotiations to resolve outstanding issues and were hopeful that the contracts would be signed by next Friday, the first day of the two-day event this year at Monmouth Park in New Jersey.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A number of central Kentucky stallion farms already have issued their 2008 stud fees, and most appear to be taking a conservative line by cutting fees or keeping them near 2007 levels. That comes as a relief to commercial breeders, who hope to maintain or improve their profit levels.

Even the redoubtable Storm Cat, who led the fee list with his $500,000 fee in 2007, had his fee trimmed sharply to $300,000, a reflection partly of a drop in prices at the top of the select yearling market.

TrackNet Media, the company formed by Churchill Downs Inc. and Magna Entertainment to market simulcast signals, has signed an agreement to buy and sell simulcast signals on behalf of Oaklawn Park, TrackNet announced Monday.

TrackNet will negotiate with simulcast outlets over the wagering and broadcast rights to Oaklawn, which runs a winter-spring meet. TrackNet will also negotiate with other tracks to buy simulcast content for Oaklawn, which is open year-round as a simulcast site.

Six companies, including the owners of Philadelphia Park and Finger Lakes racetrack, have expressed an interest in operating a casino at Aqueduct racetrack in Queens under a contract with the state, the office of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced late on Monday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The dam of Lawyer Ron, now in foal to the highly fashionable sire Distorted Humor, will head to auction at Fasig-Tipton's November mixed sale on Nov. 4.

Donation, a 12-year-old daughter of Lord Avie, will sell as part of the Four Star Sales consignment. Four Star Sales will offer the mare on behalf of Walmac Farm co-owner Bobby Trussell.

Four Star Sales also will consign the mare's weanling colt by Smarty Jones.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Sales Integrity Task Force called for self-regulation on Monday to address three contentious issues in the bloodstock world: potential licensing of agents, disclosure of sale horses' ownership, and disclosure of veterinary histories.

The recommendations were announced in a public forum at Keeneland's sale pavilion here and included a ban on the use of anabolic steroids within 45 days of a sale, printing an agents' code of conduct in the conditions of sale, and establishing a voluntary registry where sellers can detail the ownership of sale horses.

Slew o' Gold, a Hall of Famer, two-time champion, and the first stallion to stand at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky., was euthanized Sunday night at the farm because of the infirmities of old age. A sire of 12 group or graded winners, he was 27.

Slew o' Gold, pensioned in August 2002, had had difficulty coping with unusually hot temperatures that reached 100 degrees in central Kentucky this summer.