An Uncle Mo colt out of grade 1 winner Dame Dorothy lit up the bid board at $1.6 million during The Saratoga Sale, topping the opening Aug. 9 session of Fasig-Tipton’s selected yearlings sale in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Agent Jacob West went to $1.6 million to secure a handsome Uncle Mo colt out of grade 1 winner and graded stakes producer Dame Dorothy.

Korea Racing Authority’s 5-year-old Knicks Go, dominant winner of the Aug. 7 Whitney Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course, jumped from sixth place to the No. 1 position in the latest NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll.

A yearling from the first crop of Triple Crown winner Justify out of Breeders’ Cup winner Bar of Gold was the first hip to light up the bid board Aug. 9 at The Saratoga Sale, selling for $825,000 to Hoolie Racing, Travis Durr, agent.

The bidding picked up as The Saratoga Sale continued at Fasig-Tipton Aug. 9, with West Point Thoroughbreds, John Ballantyne, and Scarlet Oak Racing going to $990,000 for a Tapit filly (Hip 61) consigned by Denali Stud, agent.

Siblings to outstanding performers including Blue Point, Battaash, Ghaiyyath, and Palace Pier feature among a customarily strong catalog of 502 for Book 1 of the 2021 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.

Former jockey James Lopez died Aug. 8 in San Antonio, Texas, from complications of gall bladder surgery and other health issues, according to his mother, Bonnie Lopez. He was 43.

A horseman and a gentleman, Emile Allain had a love of horses from an early age. The native of France became a top trainer in Ontario. He died over the weekend at the age of 91.

Maiden special weight races for Kentucky-breds will offer a purse of $135,000, first-level allowance races $145,800, and second-level allowance races $156,600.

Multiple graded stakes winner Hogy was euthanized Aug. 9 after a catastrophic fracture of his left hind ankle in a paddock accident at Old Friends in Georgetown, Ky., the farm announced.