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The dispersal of horses owned by Mockingbird Farm continues today with the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's annual August yearling sale in Ocala, Fla. Included in the record 1,540 yearlings cataloged for the sale ware 108 Mockingbird yearlings. Also selling Monday are selected yearlings. On Tuesday, the open sessions begin and continue through Friday. The sale begins at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) each day…Philadelphia Park-based rider Jeff Lloyd fractured three vertebrae in his lower back during an accident in the first race Sunday. Agent Ray Lopez said the rider was alert and had limb function after being taken to Frankford-Torresdale Hospital. X-rays revealed the jockey had fractured vertebrae C-7. C-8, and C-9. Further diagnosis of the jockey's condition was not available, according to the Philadelphia Park publicity office. The accident occurred when Lloyd's mount, Scarlet Gilia, may have clipped heels with another horse while turning for the stretch, but videotapes proved inconclusive…Jockey Eibar Coa was released from Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Fla., on Saturday after doctors determined he was uninjured during a spill in the second race at Calder Racecourse. Coa was taken to the hospital for a precautionary examination after he was unseated from his mount, Bolero Type, nearing the finish line. Bolero Type was also uninjured in the incident.