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At the end of the third session, 251 horses had changed hands for gross receipts of $46,167,000, including post-ring sales, up 29% from last year's gross of $35,918,500 during the corresponding session, where 240 horses sold.

A colt by top sire Nyquist claimed honors as the highest-priced weanling of the day when he sold for $600,000 during the second session of Book 2 at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale Nov. 6.

Nyquist, sire of four grade 1 winners in 2025 including Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) winner Nysos, will stand for a fee of $175,000 at Darley's Jonabell Farm in 2026.

Brian Hernandez Jr., who suffered numerous broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and a lacerated liver in a fall at Churchill Downs on Sept. 21, is set to resume riding next week at Louisville, Ky. track.

The Melbourne Cup Carnival concludes Nov. 8 with a trio of group 1 races at Flemington Racecourse: the 1,200-meter (about 6-furlong) Champions Sprint (G1), Champions Mile (G1), and Champions Stakes (G1) at 2,000 meters (1 1/4 miles).

Shisospicy and Bentornato are back in their stalls at Palm Meadows, Gulfstream Park's satellite training facility in Palm Beach County, happy and sound, but the Jose D'Angelo-trained Breeders' Cup winners are hardly going to rest on their laurels.

Drexel Hill, runner-up in the Kentucky Oaks (G1), returns to the starting gate for her first race since the Run for the Lilies in the $300,000 Mother Goose Stakes (G2) Nov. 8 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

When Book 3 begins at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale Nov. 7, a few mares from the families of recent grade 1 winners will be on offer.

In the space of just 13 days, Strictly Business has broken her maiden, finished second in the Wakeful Stakes (G2), and then taken out the VRC Oaks (G1) Nov. 6.

Tattersalls has announced the appointment of Matt Prior to the role of managing director, with fellow associate directors Harvey Bell and Jason Singh being promoted to the Tattersalls board as sales director and marketing director, respectively. 

Keeneland has supplemented 12 horses to the November Horses of Racing Age Sale held Nov. 12 in Lexington. A total of 215 horses now are cataloged to the stand-alone auction, which will begin at noon ET.

Mindframe will stand for an initial fee of $50,000 next year at Claiborne Farm, while Johannes will stand for $10,000. Johannes is part of Claiborne's new "Breed Twice, Breed for Life" incentive program.

The respective King's Plate winners from 2023 and 2024, Paramount Prince and Caitlinhergrtness, swing back into action in separate CA$150,000 graded stakes races Nov. 8 at Woodbine.

Drexel Hill, runner-up in the Kentucky Oaks (G1), returns to the starting gate for her first race since the Run for the Lillies in the $300,000 Mother Goose Stakes (G2) Nov. 8 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

OwnerView announces that the 2025 New Owner of the Year, sponsored by 1/st Racing, is being awarded to Griffin Johnson.

Each one of the 15 horses offered in the first half of D. J. Stable's curated reduction sold during the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale Nov. 4-5, totaling $5,755,000.

Day 2 saw a 52% increase in the gross from last year's corresponding session, with 243 horses changing hands for $48,117,000, including post-ring sales.

Both weanlings were bought by people intending to race them. Randy Hartley bought a Cody's Wish filly for owner/breeder Tom Durant, while Glen Hill Farm's Craig Bernick, bought an Elite Power colt for his mother to race.

The Denali Stud-offered Sapphire Nights received as spectacular an update as any consignment could ask for when the Mitole mare's full sister Shisospicy soared to a victory over males in the Nov. 1 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) at Del Mar.

Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Journalism will race next year before he retires to stud at Coolmore's Ashford Stud, according to Aron Wellman of Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, one of the colt's co-owners.