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The 2019 champion 2-year-old colt will stand at Eclipse Thoroughbred Training and Sports Therapy in California's Santa Ynez Valley.

After a tight battle with Ryan Moore, James McDonald has won the 2024 World's Best Jockey title. The New Zealand-born, Australia-based jockey also won the World's Best Jockey Award in 2022. 

A barn at Hollywood Gaming at Mahoning Valley Race Course remained under quarantine through the morning of Nov. 27 for a confirmed case of strangles.

Jay Hovdey is the author of Well Armed: A Thoroughbred of Destiny.

A perfect three-for-three at Del Mar, Formidable Man will go up against a field that includes New York invaders Donegal Momentum and Carson's Run.

Grade 1 winner Volatile was represented by his first stakes winner Nov. 26 when the 2-year-old filly Reliable Source romped in the $100,000 Zia Park Princess Stakes.

A five-win day at Aqueduct Racetrack Nov. 23 that included a stakes victory earned Manny Franco honors as the Nov. 18-24 Jockey of the Week.

Dollars & Sense looks at FanDuel's recent purchase of naming rights for regional sports networks and a possible benefit of added exposure for racing.

The leading European first season sire by winners to runners as well as black-type performers, the Haras d’Etreham sire has already produced group winners that include Misunderstood, that was also placed in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère (G1).

Maiden Watch: Week of Nov. 18-Nov. 24

Well Armed: A Thoroughbred of Destiny, is a book located somewhere on the non-fiction spectrum between unbelievable and inspirational.

Fittingly this year on Thanksgiving, Nov. 28—just as the weather across much of the United States is turning cooler, resulting in horses and horsemen headed south—Gulfstream Park begins its elite season, the Championship Meet.

Three is the magic number for trainer Phil D'Amato at Del Mar Nov. 29 as he sends a trio of runners to the post in an attempt to win his third $200,000 Hollywood Turf Cup (G2T).

The average price went up by 8% year-on-year to 12,085gns, while the median was up 13 points at 9,000gns, having been 8,000gns 12 months ago. Turnover dropped by 12% to 1,341,500gns.

Other women have taken the rostrum elsewhere in the world. In May 2014 Stephanie Grentell auctioneered at the Inglis Scone Yearling Sale in Australia, while Aurelie Branere took charge of selling during the Arqana Autumn Sale the following year.

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

The 2024 Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association's Florida Sire Stakes series comes to a close Nov. 30 at Gulfstream Park with a pair of $300,000, 1 1/16-mile races for juveniles that attracted high-quality favorites. 

One of the favorites for this spring's Golden Slipper Stakes (G1), group 3 winner King Kirk, died in a swimming pool accident following a fourth placing in a Randwick trial.

With winter fast approaching, Old Friends announces its HayRaiser fundraiser campaign to help raise funds to support their herd of over 270 horses.

Connections of Goliath have renewed the call for geldings to be permitted to run in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (G1) after confirming that the talented 4-year-old will not run again before an ambitious international campaign next year.