Tuesday Night Notes - Oct 24

- No more head-to-head wagers for this year's Breeders Cup. The...pools averaged approximately $75,000 each in 2005. [Daily Racing Form] Can't say I ever actually bet any of those; I think the most interesting part was to see what matchups they came up with. So we'll have to come up with our own here once the entries, or the pre-entries are announced on Wednesday. They'll be two pick fours, guaranteed for $1 and $1.5 million.

- Point Ashley is out of the Juvenile Fillies, and that's one bet-against I won't get to bet against.

- Rockport Harbor, who was sold to Darley in April, will stand for $20,000 in Lexington. He's by Unbridled's Song, but comes from what seems like a very modest female family, though his first two dams were minor stakes winners. His broodmare sire is Copelan, by Tri Jet, a line that goes back to Tom Fool. Doesn't seem like the most fashionable of bloodlines - he has no Northern Dancer and one instance of Mr. Prospector - but he was certainly fast and game.

Distorted Humor's fee has been raised from $150,000 to $225,000. He began his stallion career for a fee of $12,500 in 1999 and stood the 2002 breeding season for $10,000. [Thoroughbred Times]