Blood-Horse

At a time when 2-year-olds are focusing on the preps for the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Kentucky Oaks (G1), the 5-year-old Bishops Bay is facing a prep of his own.

A stallion share in leading European sire Siyouni headlines the entries for the Tattersalls Online December Sale which takes place Dec. 10-11

Jokestar, much improved this year as a 4-year-old, battles Tosen Wish and seven others in the CA$150,000 Valedictory Stakes (G3) Dec. 6. Dresden Row will not contest this lengthy 1 1/2-mile race.

Tattersalls brought the curtain down on this year's December Mares Sale to a positive set of market indicators. Despite the sale being trimmed from four days to three, an 11% cut in cataloged lots, turnover was down just 2% at 81,583,515 guineas.

The collection is comprised of more than 400 trophies, including eight Triple Crown race trophies won by Whitney family-owned runners.

The sales of Patonga, Celestial Bling (AU$225,00), and Grinzinger Champ (AU$115,000) brought the number of AU$100,000-plus transactions on Inglis Digital this year to 125. The December (Early) Sale grossed AU$2,884,600.

The Munnings gelding makes his graded stakes debut in the Elite Power Stakes (G3) Dec. 6 at Aqueduct Racetrack. Leading his five rivals is Tom Fool (G3) winner Full Moon Madness, the lone graded stakes winner in the field for the 6-furlong race.

A rare chance to be tested around two turns at a 1 1/8-mile distance awaits a large field of a dozen 2-year-olds in the Dec. 6 Remsen Stakes (G2) at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Irad Ortiz Jr. is Jockey of the Week for Nov. 24-30. In addition to winning six stakes races and 16 races overall, the five-time Eclipse Award winner earned his first leading rider title at Churchill Downs.

James McDonald has won the Longines World's Best Jockey title for the second consecutive year and third time in the last four years.

After fervent bidding came to an end with a price tag of the equivalent of $6.3 million to be paid by Coolmore, Porta Fortuna was the second-highest-priced sale through two days at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale.

Barnavara adds a new chapter to her tale the evening of Dec. 2 as she topped the second session of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale at a cool 4.8 million guineas ($6.672 million, 1 guinea=$1.39).

Danny Gargan will send out Champagne Stakes (G1) runner-up Talkin to face Chad Brown's $1.9 million debut winner Paladin in the Remsen Stakes (G2), a battle among juveniles traveling a two-turn, 1 1/8-mile distance on dirt for the first time.

Indiana Thoroughbred Alliance's Charity Auction preview opens Dec. 2, with bidding going live December 9 at 8 a.m. ET and a rolling close beginning at 4 p.m. on Dec. 11

Foxwoode Farm, southeast of Charles Town, W. Va., is getting established as a Thoroughbred breeding and foaling farm.

Second-year sire Global Campaign was acquired by an owner in Seoul identified as Arion, while the Korea Thoroughbred Breeders' Association more recently acquired fourth-year sire Mor Spirit.

New York's final marquee Saturday of racing for 2025 is coming up Dec. 6, with four graded stakes on the calendar at Aqueduct Racetrack topped by the Cigar Mile Handicap (G2) for older horses.

Maiden Watch: Week of Nov. 24-30

After notching his first United States victory Nov. 28, top Brazilian jockey Dylan Machado is embracing the challenge of riding in North America. He will join his brother Luan at Turfway Park for the upcoming meet.

The superb miler Hawk Wing has died at age 26 due to colic, according to reports in Japan. The son of Woodman won the National Stakes (G1) as a juvenile, and went on to score group 1 wins at ages 3 and 4.