LEXINGTON, Ky. - Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's fall yearling sale, which ended Wednesday evening with declines across the board, unexpectedly provided a test of the Sales Integrity Task Force's code of ethics. The company acknowledged that, under a new policy it formulated after the code's 2004 unveiling, it should have scratched a Chief Seattle filly that had been sold privately on the auction grounds within 24 hours of entering the sale ring.

The filly, a daughter of Kwik as a Wink, sold at auction to agent Buzz Chace for $270,000 and was the sale's second-highest-priced lot.

Another six-figure yearling led the way early in the final session Wednesday at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's fall yearling sale. A $250,000 filly by Unbridled's Song was the afternoon's session leader as of 4:15 p.m.

L and D Farm purchased the filly, a chestnut daughter of stakes winner Sheepscot, from the Paramount agency. The filly is a three-quarter-sister to record-setting Grade 2 winner Navesink River.

The California Horse Racing Board is scheduled on Thursday to review license applications for account-wagering companies amid debates over how much of the telephone and Internet betting revenue should be shared with horsemen and whether the account-wagering companies should be required to share their signals.

A yearling colt by the sire Grand Slam was the $145,000 sale topper by late afternoon on Monday at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall yearling sale at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington.

The colt, who is the first foal out of the unraced Storm Cat mare Dalia Cat, was purchased by Legend Inc. out of the Mill Ridge Farms consignment. Mill Ridge was acting as an agent.

More than 1,000 yearlings have been cataloged to the sale, which will be conducted over three days.

Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., has placed two barns on its backstretch under quarantine while track officials await tests on whether a horse there has equine herpesvirus, a highly contagious disease.

A consortium of racetracks and North America’s four bet-processing companies have developed hardware and software that will allow tracks to post near-final odds within 10 seconds of betting being closed, a racetrack group, the Thoroughbred Racing Association, said Thursday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Toe-grab horseshoes pose such a statistically significant factor in racehorse injuries that racing commissions should pass rules immediately banning the equipment, participants in a two-day conference on the health and safety of racehorses here said Tuesday.

Bluegrass Cat, the winner of the Grade 1 Haskell Stakes who also ran second in some of this year's biggest 3-year-old races, will stand for $50,000 in 2007 at WinStar Farm near Lexington, the farm announced late Monday.

Bluegrass Cat, a son of Storm Cat out of the A.P. Indy mare She's a Winner, was retired after finishing second to Bernardini in the Grade 1 Travers Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 26. Following the race, trainer Todd Pletcher said that X-rays had revealed a non-displaced fracture in his right hind pastern bone.

Sweetnorthernsaint, who finished seventh as the favorite in the Kentucky Derby, will return to the races next Thursday in a third-level allowance race at Laurel Park. The seven-furlong race will be Sweetnorthernsaint's first start since he finished second to Bernardini in the Preakness on May 20. Sweetnorthernsaint drew post 4 in an eight-horse field and will be ridden by Ramon Dominguez.

Magna Entertainment Corp. has been awarded a license by the state of Florida for slot machine operation at Gulfstream Park, Magna announced Friday.

Magna officials said they expect to have 516 slot machines installed and operational within the next several weeks. Gulfstream was awarded the right to operate 1,500 slot machines by a referendum that passed in Broward County earlier this year.

"This is an important day in the evolution of Gulfstream Park," said Paul Micucci, the track's president and general manager.