Blood-Horse

At a time when 2-year-olds are focusing on the preps for the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Kentucky Oaks (G1), the 5-year-old Bishops Bay is facing a prep of his own.

Brotha Keny parlayed a recent stakes victory into a payday for his connections in the Inglis Digital USA December Sale. His $550,000 hammer price was the highest in the online auction platform's history, and propelled a record gross of $869,250.

At a time when 2-year-olds are focusing on the preps for the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Kentucky Oaks (G1), the 5-year-old Bishops Bay is facing a prep of his own.

A stallion share in leading European sire Siyouni headlines the entries for the Tattersalls Online December Sale which takes place Dec. 10-11

Jokestar, much improved this year as a 4-year-old, battles Tosen Wish and seven others in the CA$150,000 Valedictory Stakes (G3) Dec. 6. Dresden Row will not contest this lengthy 1 1/2-mile race.

Tattersalls brought the curtain down on this year's December Mares Sale to a positive set of market indicators. Despite the sale being trimmed from four days to three, an 11% cut in cataloged lots, turnover was down just 2% at 81,583,515 guineas.

The collection is comprised of more than 400 trophies, including eight Triple Crown race trophies won by Whitney family-owned runners.

The sales of Patonga, Celestial Bling (AU$225,00), and Grinzinger Champ (AU$115,000) brought the number of AU$100,000-plus transactions on Inglis Digital this year to 125. The December (Early) Sale grossed AU$2,884,600.

The Munnings gelding makes his graded stakes debut in the Elite Power Stakes (G3) Dec. 6 at Aqueduct Racetrack. Leading his five rivals is Tom Fool (G3) winner Full Moon Madness, the lone graded stakes winner in the field for the 6-furlong race.

A rare chance to be tested around two turns at a 1 1/8-mile distance awaits a large field of a dozen 2-year-olds in the Dec. 6 Remsen Stakes (G2) at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Irad Ortiz Jr. is Jockey of the Week for Nov. 24-30. In addition to winning six stakes races and 16 races overall, the five-time Eclipse Award winner earned his first leading rider title at Churchill Downs.

James McDonald has won the Longines World's Best Jockey title for the second consecutive year and third time in the last four years.