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The New York Racing Association was forced to cancel the final eight races of the nine-race card Nov. 30 at Aqueduct Racetrack due to a protest lodged by the jockeys resulting in their refusal to ride.

Taylor Made Sales consigns Porta Fortuna at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale. She highlights Taylor Made's first time back in Newmarket since 2021.

Officials from Jamaica's Mouttet Mile asked jockey Javier Castellano to participate in the Caribbean's largest purse race in 2023 and 2024. But other obligations compelled Castellano to decline their overtures. This year, he couldn't say no.

Libertad produced the biggest performance of his career and one of the most dramatic finishes of The Pinnacles when the 5-year-old entire lunged late to deny Overpass the Winterbottom Stakes.

The world's top-rated horse, Calandagan, was all out to defeat Japan's best, Masquerade Ball, by a head at the end of the 1 1/2 miles of the Japan Cup (G1) Nov. 30 at Tokyo Racecourse.

Bella Ballerina, a half sister to 2023 Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner Pretty Mischievous, is on the Oaks trail herself after a win in the $397,375 Golden Rod Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs Nov. 29.

A dawdling pace in the $301,500 Hollywood Derby (G1T) Nov. 29 at Del Mar turned the race into a test of late acceleration, and Salamis passed with flying colors.

Joining Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) winner Ted Noffey, Further Ado gives Spendthrift Farm two aces heading toward the 2026 Kentucky Derby (G1). Further Ado captured the Nov. 29 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs

The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association Florida Sire Stakes series wrapped up Nov. 29 at Gulfstream Park with a pair of homebreds taking top honors in the two $300,000 stakes for Florida-bred 2-year-olds.

Seabiscuit is considered one of horse racing's greatest longshot stories, so fittingly the $200,000 Seabiscuit Handicap (G2T) at Del Mar Nov. 29 was won by the race's longest shot: Call Sign Seven at 68-1.

Over the four days of selling, 646 lots sold for 37,893,400 guineas (US$52,671,826), down 13% year on year, while the average finished at 58,660 guineas (US$81,537), also down 13%, but the median came in at a record 30,500 guineas (US$42,395).

Group 1 winner Scorthy Champ will be standing at Barton Stud in 2026 as Tom Blain's team adds another aspect to the operation.

Satono Voyage set sail on a voyage that could find him at Churchill Downs in May with a victory Nov. 29 in the first leg of the Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby.

Lush Lips rewarded her new ownership as she landed a hard-fought victory in the Mrs. Revere Stakes (G2T) Nov. 28 at Churchill Downs.

Augustin Stables' homebred Truly Quality became the first horse in a quarter century to win back-to-back runnings of the Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes (G2T) when he rallied to score a 1 3/4-length victory Nov. 28 at Del Mar.

When Magnitude romped by 9 3/4 lengths in the Risen Star Stakes (G2) in February, he looked like a horse poised for racing success at Churchill Downs. That proved the case, except in the Nov. 28 Clark Stakes (G2) rather than the Kentucky Derby (G1).

The British Columbia provincial government told the horse racing industry in a Nov. 25 letter that all slot revenue sharing will end Jan. 31. The lost revenue is expected to hurt racing at Hastings Park and devastate the breeding industry.

Glorious Boy became the first black-type stakes winner for WinStar Farm's freshman sire Independence Hall in being declared the sole winner of the $100,000 Pulpit Stakes at Gulfstream Park Nov. 28.

Coolmore and Juddmonte traded seven-figure blows as a well-related son of Frankel fetched a cool 1.15 million guineas at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale Nov. 28. The sire had the top three lots on the third day of the sale.

Of 13 horses expected to fly into Southern California this week, only one didn't make the trip, according to Del Mar. Flights were grounded due to the FAA grounding MD-11 freighter aircraft for inspections and repairs.