Blood-Horse

Despite missing the Breeders' Cup with a fever, the results from the weekend could not dethrone Sovereignty from his top position in the final week of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association's Top Thoroughbred Poll.

Morplay Racing wanted to continue racing its Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) winner Shisospicy. Its partner, Qatar Racing, did not. So Morplay bought them out at Fasig-Tipton's November Sale, where the daughter of Mitole went to $5.2 million.

The first-crop weanling sires lead their sire class by average at Fasig-Tipton's The November Sale.

The dam of undefeated Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) winner Ted Noffey tops Fasig-Tipton's The November Sale Nov. 3. She is in foal to leading sire Not This Time.

The son of leading European sire Lope de Vega is a three-time grade 1 winner who has earned nearly $2 million.

Puca, the dam of Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mage, Belmont Stakes (G1) and Haskell Stakes (G1) victor Dornoch, and Pennsylvania Derby (G1) winner Baeza, sold for $5 million Nov. 3 at Fasig-Tipton's The November Sale. 

Just F Y I, a 4-year-old daughter of Justify, is a multiple grade 1 winner and millionaire. Carrying her first foal, by Into Mischief, she was bought by Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm.

John Stewart, owner and CEO of Resolute Racing, announced that Chelsey Stewart, currently the chief operating officer of Resolute Racing, will assume the role of CEO effective immediately.

The Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale begins Nov. 4 and will run through Nov. 13 in Lexington. A total of 3,085 horses have been cataloged for the eight-day sale that consists of four books.

Book 1 of Keeneland's November Breeding Stock Sale kicks off Nov. 4 in Lexington with three grade 1-winning mares on offer—Kilwin, Lush Lips, and Vahva. All three mares are offered as racing or broodmare prospects.

In this BH monthly interview, Karen M. Johnson profiles young racing personalities.

Susan Naylor's Manny Wah, a grade 1-placed sprinter who won the 2022 Phoenix Stakes (G2) at Keeneland and earned black type placings in 14 other races, will stand in New York in 2026 under the management of Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions.

In the Nov. 3 episode of BloodHorse Monday, we recap Breeders' Cup Saturday and hear from trainer Jose D'Angelo after winning two Breeders' Cup races with Shisospicy and Bentornato.

On Racing

Fasig-Tipton's November Sale, the company's prestigious breeding stock sale, takes place Nov. 3 in Lexington, with some of the highest-quality weanlings, broodmares, and broodmare or racing prospects in North America on offer.

Purchased in May from the Inglis Digital Sale, Regaled has seen steady improvement in the barn of trainer Whit Beckman that led to a third-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1) at Del Mar Nov. 1.

Darley Stallion's Cody's Wish and Juddmonte Farms' Elite Power lead the 2025 first-crop sire class by book quality, as indicated by the Comparable Index and Class Performance Index.

As euphoric as Forever Young's victory in the $7 million Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) may have been, there was one bittersweet moment for trainer Yoshito Yahagi Nov. 1.

Bishops Bay got back to his winning ways Nov. 2 in the $175,000 Forty Niner Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct Racetrack, prevailing by 3/4 of a length over Nelson Avenue, securing him an automatic fees-waived berth into the $500,000 Cigar Mile (G2).

She's Quality (IRE), who fractured her pelvis Nov. 1 in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) at Del Mar, was humanely euthanized overnight after receiving care at San Luis Rey Equine Hospital.