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The race provided trainer Jason DaCosta with a happy ending to his year. In March, he was suspended 15 days after his trainee, Poker Partner, tested positive for gabapentin in a July 2023 postrace test at Presque Isle Downs.

Tenma is trainer Bob Baffert's eighth consecutive Starlet winner and 11th for him overall, as well as the fourth one owned by Charlie and Susan Chu's Baoma.

It's easy to look back and wonder about "what if?" Yet there are times when a bright future can outweigh all of that. The 3-year-old colt Locked surely fits nicely into that mold.

Craig Bandoroff will receive the award and speak at the 10th annual Jockeys and Jeans fundraising event for the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund at Gulfstream Park Jan. 11.

Trainer Brian Lynch saddled the winners of the Inaugural and Sandpiper Stakes for owner Flying Dutchmen Breeding and Racing.

Age 7 and still at the top of his game, Get Smokin can still win races under various conditions.

For jockey Flavien Prat, it was an unforgettable trifecta. In one fell swoop, he managed to break the record for stakes wins in a year, tie the mark for most graded stakes victories, and come up an intriguing Triple Crown prospect.

Trainer Brad Cox appears well positioned to potentially win a third Kentucky Oaks (G1) in the spring. He trains Immersive, Good Cheer, and Muhimma—winner of the Dec. 7 Demoiselle Stakes (G2) at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Prix de Diane (G1) heroine Sparkling Plenty will depart her native France for the United States after being knocked down to M.V. Magnier for a record-breaking €5 million during the Dec. 7 headline session of the Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale. 

Connie K bowed out a winner Dec. 6 at Oaklawn Park and retired as the winningest Arkansas-bred female of all time with earnings of $620,612.

KimDon Racing's Tizzy in the Sky continued her proficiency over the racing surface at Aqueduct Racetrack by capturing the $200,000 Go for Wand Stakes (G3) Dec. 7 under hot-riding Flavien Prat.

Jockey Flavien Prat tied a stakes record set by Irad Ortiz Jr. in 2022 by winning his 79th stakes race of the year in piloting Tizzy in the Sky to victory in the $200,000 Go for Wand Stakes (G3) Dec. 7 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

The 12-year-old son of More Than Ready, who was sold to the Jockey Club of Turkey in 2019, had been standing at Lane's End for four breeding seasons following the success of his grade 1 daughters Shedaresthedevil and Swiss Skydiver.

Jamaica has a long history in the sport and has been making a strong push to improve its place in the global Thoroughbred landscape. The next step comes Dec. 7 with the $250,000 Mouttet Mile. 

Juveniles will be in the spotlight Dec. 7 at Tampa Bay Downs with nine races comprised entirely of 2-year-olds, including the Inaugural Stakes and Sandpiper Stakes, a pair of six-furlong contests worth $125,000 apiece.

For the second time this autumn, the Kentucky stewards have sanctioned jockey Luan Machado for failing to compete to the wire.

A storm is brewing in Deauville, literally and figuratively. The seaside town is set to be battered by strong winds and Biblical rain Dec. 7, just as Arqana brings the curtain up on the final breeding stock sale of the European calendar. 

Dr. David Lambert was honored Dec. 5 as the recipient of the University of Louisville Equine Industry Program's John W. Galbreath Award for Outstanding Entrepreneurship in the Equine Industry.

Richard Papiese, who, along with his wife Karen, owned horses as Midwest Thoroughbreds, the leading owner in North America annually by victories from 2010-15, died Dec. 4. He was 65.

He dominated the Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1) on Dubai World Cup day and Tuz put up a strikingly similar performance when winning the Al Garhoud Sprint Dec. 6 at Meydan—the feature race of Dubai Racing Carnival meeting three.