After posting declines Monday at its opening day, Fasig-Tipton's Eastern fall yearling sale in Timonium, Md., got a boost Tuesday when a Stormy Atlantic filly brought $325,000.

Hip No. 332, Stormy Atlantic's daughter of stakes-placed Princess Birdeye, sold to Jay Em Ess Stable and was the session-leader at 5:30 p.m. Eastern.

The Welker Sales Agency consigned Hip No. 332. The agency also consigned Monday's session-topper, a $190,000 son of champion Maria's Mon.

A Swiss Yodeler filly purchased for $140,000 topped the early hours of Tuesday's California October yearling sale at Barretts, a sale marked by a high number of buy-backs.

The filly, a California-bred, was purchased by Bill Peeples of Santa Barbara, Calif., from the consignment of B.C. 3 Thoroughbreds, agent for Early Equine. Swiss Yodeler was California's leading sire by progeny earnings in 2006.

The filly's dam, Yes We Do, was stakes placed at Golden Gate Fields.

Of the first 73 horses through the ring, 35 were listed as not sold, 32 were sold, and 6 were withdrawn.

A record 5,415 horses have been cataloged for the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, scheduled for 15 days beginning Nov. 5, according to the sales company.

The total comprises 2,684 broodmares, 2,323 weanlings, 403 horses of racing age, 4 stallions, and 1 breeding right, according to Keeneland. Last year, the November sale had a catalog of 5,026 horses.

Prices fell at Tuesday's Northern California yearling sale at Pleasanton, Calif., which was topped by a Siberian Summer colt that sold for $40,000.

At the one-day sale, 154 horses sold for a total of $899,200, down 34 percent from the 2006 sale. The average price of $5,839 was down 29 percent. The median held at $4,000.

Tuesday's sale-topper was consigned by Jack and Barb Hatch's Green Acre Stable, agent for breeder Lercari Thoroughbreds, and purchased by Richard Franco of Modesto, Calif. The colt is out of a Hansel mare, La Charita.

The Keeneland September yearling auction's next-to-last session Monday in Lexington, Ky., featured a $122,000 half-sister to Dream Rush and continued a pattern of dramatic gains in the sale's closing days.

Monday's session, the 14th in the two-week sale, sold 243 yearlings for $2,630,500, almost double the $1,466,300 in receipts for 180 horses at last year's equivalent day. The session average of $10,825 was up 33 percent from last year's $8,146, and the median of $7,000 was up 52 percent.

Magna Entertainment Corp. will exercise an option to purchase the shares of the Maryland Jockey Club that it does not already own, the company announced on Monday.

The transaction, which will cost Magna $18.3 million plus interest, will make Magna the sole owner of the Maryland Jockey Club, which owns and operates Laurel Park and Pimlico Racecourse. Magna purchased a 51 percent share in the MJC in 2002.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Saturday's 12th session at the 14-day Keeneland September yearling sale in Lexington, Ky., continued a pattern of steep increases for middle-market to lower-middle-market stock, with gains across the board and a $105,000 session-topper.

A $235,000 Orientate colt proved that there was still money on the grounds for yearlings Friday, late in Keeneland's two-week September yearling auction in Lexington, Ky. Friday's session was the 11th of 14 selling days at the auction.

Trainer Tim Ritchey signed for the session-leading Orientate colt as agent. The dark bay or brown colt is out of Java Gold's winning daughter Java Star, making him a half-brother to multiple stakes winner La Recherche. Gainesway, agent, sold the session-leader, one of seven horses to bring $100,000 or more by 4:30 p.m.

Larry Ullmann had a quick answer when asked to describe the eight horses he is offering in Tuesday's Northern California yearling sale at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton.

"I think I have the best consignment in the sale," he said. "I hope it goes well."

Ullmann, and his wife, Sheila, who operate as SLU Inc., have consigned the horses through Old English Rancho in Sanger, Calif. The group includes six yearlings who have stakes-winning half-brothers or sisters or are out of dams who were stakes winners or stakes-placed.

Buyers hoping for bargains late in Keeneland's two-week September yearling sale were still finding them thin on the ground on Thursday, the 10th of 14 sessions at the Lexington, Ky., auction.

By 5 p.m., five yearlings had sold for $150,000 or more, giving a good indication of hot competition for the most desirable offerings. The top price at that stage was $182,000, which agent Tom Gentry paid for Hip No. 3456. That was a Hold That Tiger filly out of the Jules mare Julie Girl.