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Waymark (Liam's Map) made his debut a winning one as he ran to his 3-2 odds here.

At the bell as a blitz for the top spot ensued, the colt watched from the outside up the backstretch. The 2-year-old flexed his muscles with a four-wide move around the far turn and picked up fellow 'Insight' runner High Camp (Instagrand). Blazing down the lane, Waymark aimed for the wire and scored, but High Camp put in a game effort with some late speed of his own. Autobahn (Nyquist), another 'Insight' horse, was fifth.

The winner is a half-brother to Caddo River (Hard Spun), SW & GISP, $838,116. Shortleaf-owned Pangburn, who the farm acquired as a summer yearling from Fasig-Tipton for $130,000 in 2013 and is a half-sister to GSW Eres Tu (Malibu Moon), is also responsible for a yearling colt by Good Magic and a weanling filly by Hard Spun. She visited Charlatan for next spring.

7th-Gulfstream, $40,000, Msw, 12-28, 2yo, 6f, 1:10.87, ft, 1 1/2 lengths.
WAYMARK, c, 2, Liam's Map–Pangburn {SW & MGSP, $338,480}, by Congrats
Sales History: $700,000 Ylg '24 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $24,000.
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O-Windancer Farm; B-Shortleaf Stable (KY); T-Brad H. Cox.

WAYMARK ($5.00) wins on debut at @GulfstreamPark with @Tyler_Gaff in the saddle for @bradcoxracing. The 2YO son of @LanesEndFarms' Liam's Map and half brother to Caddo River is owned by Windancer Farm. pic.twitter.com/PjndUQFcfS

— FanDuel Racing (@FanDuel_Racing) December 28, 2025

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Champion jockey Alberto Delgado, whose Eclipse Award came in 1982 when he was crowned the Champion Apprentice Jockey, has retired from racing.

“It's been coming for a long time,” Delgado said. “Over the years, I retired, but never because I wanted to. [It was] because of injuries, concussions. At some point, I was heavy, so I had to retire and get everything straight. Last year, I kept telling myself this would be my last year, and I had to build myself up for it. I still love it, but at some point you've got to step down. You can't keep this madness going.”

The announcement came shortly after Sunday's second race at Laurel Park. Delgado, a second-generation jockey from Carolina, Puerto Rico, won 245 races during his Eclipse Award-winning season. That year, on Aug. 16, he rode five consecutive winners at Delaware, then drove to Timonium, where he swept the late daily double. Delgado surpassed the 200-win mark in each of the next four years. In 1995, he finished second in the GI Preakness Stakes aboard Oliver's Twist (Horatius) four weeks after he and the colt won the GIII Federico Tesio Stakes.

More recently, during a stint in Southern California in 2013, Delgado rode eventual two-time Horse of the Year California Chrome in five of his first six starts. The Listed Graduation Stakes at Hollywood Park was part of that stretch. He would later be replaced by Victor Espinoza ahead of the Triple Crown bid.

“I worked him for the first time, and I knew he was a super horse,” Delgado said. “I told the owner as soon as I broke his maiden that this horse would win the Derby the next year. He was something amazing.”

Delgado retires with a record of 2,951 wins in 25,534 rides and career earnings of $42,072,982. He earned 115 stakes wins, including 10 graded triumphs, and captured five Maryland Million races. He reports that his next plan is to move into training horses.

“This morning [Sunday], when I woke up, I was tearing up,” Delgado said. “It's funny. I've always made fun of these athletes when they retire. You see the speech, and they're crying. I'm like 'Ah, what a sissy, I can't believe he's crying'. Now, I'm in those shoes, and I know how they feel. It's tough. It's something you've done all your life. All my generation. I was like the Last of the Mohicans. I've got to step aside, and let them do their thing.”

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Bernietakescharge cruises to victory in Sunday’s Bay Ridge for her third stakes win of 2025. Coglianese Photo.

Robert Rosenthal and Brad Bernstein’s homebred Bernietakescharge put a cap on a strong 2025 campaign with a victory in Sunday’s $125,000 Bay Ridge Stakes at Aqueduct.

The 4-year-old daughter of Take Charge Indy collected her third stakes win of the season in the Bay Ridge, adding the 1-mile event to victories in the 1-mile Heavenly Prize against open company in February at Aqueduct and 1 1/8-mile Critical Eye versus New York-breds in June at Saratoga Race Course.

Bernietakescharge, who improved to 4-for-7 in the Bay Ridge, also finished second last time out in the Empire Distaff Stakes at Aqueduct.

Ruben Silvera rode Bernietakescharge to her 2 1/4-length victory over late-running Cupid’s Heart with 6-5 favorite Landed third in the field of seven. Bernietakescharge won in 1:37.77.

“She was training super,” winning trainer Dominick Schettino said. “She ran gutsy today, I’m proud of her. She ran the way she was training. She ran a gutsy race.”

The 2-1 second choice in the field of seven, Bernietakescharge was sent to the front to duel for command with Landed. Those two skipped ahead of the field past the opening quarter-mile in :22.96 over the fast main track.

“I just tried to break good because she likes to be in front; she likes the competition,” said Silvera, who was also aboard for Bernietakescharge’s Empire Distaff runner-up finish. “I put her in the game in the beginning, and she kept running. She’s a good filly.”

Bernietakescharge and Landed continued to battle through the half in :45.59 and the two widened their advantage from the field around the far turn. Landed and Bernietakescharge were stride-for-stride through 6 furlongs in 1:10.05 while Cupid’s Heart altered course to attempt to go around them, but Bernietakescharge dug in gamely to inch past Landed passing the eighth pole.

Bernietakescharge kept Cupid’s Heart at bay and finished clear at the finish. Cupid’s Heart finished three-quarters of a length in front of Landed for the place spot. Landed came to the Bay Ridge for trainer Wesley Ward after scratching out of last week’s My Charmer Stakes at Turfway Park.

“I was worried about her,” Schettino said. “She was in at Turfway, I was hoping she ran there actually. That didn’t happen, but then I told Ruben, ‘you can’t take away from her running style. Landed will probably go, let the best filly win.’ ”

Bernietakescharge is the second foal out of the stakes winning mare Berning Rose, who Schettino trained in 2017 to win the Maid of the Mist Stakes at Belmont Park.

Berning Rose, a daughter of Freud, has also produced multiple stakes winner and $255,750-earner Bernieandtherose, winning mare Berning Honor and the placed 2-year-old Always Dreaming filly Roseberns Dream. Rosenthal and Bernstein are also the breeders of Berning Rose’s yearling colt by four-time leading New York sire Central Banker and breeders with William Entenmann of her weanling New York-bred filly by New York-bred Horse of the Year Americanrevolution

Bernietakescharge is now a winner of seven of 20 starts and with a bankroll to $595,830.

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Night of Thunder gained a richly deserved first title after a season of high achievements. His 31 individual stakes winners worldwide are led by five individual group/grade 1 winners.

Museum Mile capped a busy and successful 3-year-old season with a victory over older foes in the Arima Kinen (G1T) Dec. 28 at Nakayama Racecourse.

BloodHorse has reprised its online year-end survey to ask some of the sport's leading individuals for their opinions on pertinent issues facing the sport.

Securing his first stakes win, Knightsbridge's victory in the $150,000 Mr. Prospector Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream Park Dec. 27 announced him as a threat in future one-turn mile events.

A return on 13 days' rest and a stretch out from a sprint to a route proved insignificant obstacles for Counting Stars, who improved to 3-for-4 in romping in the $150,000 Year's End Stakes Dec. 27 at Oaklawn Park.

Kentucky Derby (G1) and Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Sovereignty is preparing to compete as a 4-year-old, according to Godolphin USA director of bloodstock Michael Banahan.

Montador, which in Portuguese means "assembler," put it all together in notching his first stakes win in the $98,000 Woodchopper Stakes Dec. 27 at Fair Ground Race Course & Slots.

Lovcen employed a striking turn of foot in the final 200 meters to win the Dec. 27 Hopeful Stakes (G1T) for 2-year-olds at Nakayama Racecourse in just his second career start.

BloodHorse has reprised its online year-end survey to ask some of the sport's leading individuals for their opinions on pertinent issues facing the sport.

The Hopeful Stakes (G1T) has been a reliable springboard to glory for Japan's 2-year-olds and usually has a favorite or two set to move ahead, but not this year.

Sandman (Tapit) and La Cara (Street Sense), Grade I winners for dual Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse, each had five-furlong workouts over a fast track Saturday morning at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas.

GI Arkansas Derby winner Sandman, under Cristian Torres, went in :59.60 (1/16). He covered his opening eighth of a mile in :12, a quarter-mile in :24 and three furlongs in :35.80 before galloping out six furlongs in 1:12.40.

Unraced since late August, Sandman has had five published workouts in advance of his yet-to-be determined 4-year-old debut.

“He's great,” said Torres. “He's an easy horse to work with. He did it all on his own. He's a nice horse to ride, so I just put my hands down and he did all the work. He had a target today and he actually liked it. There was a horse that started like five lengths in front of me. When I asked him at the quarter pole, he went on and passed that horse. He's feeling good.”

MGISW La Cara also worked moments after the surface renovation break, clocking five furlongs in 1:00.20 (2/16) under exercise rider Autumn Lavertu, galloping out six furlongs in 1:13, according to clockers.

“Went good and easy,” Caden Arthur, who oversees Casse's Oaklawn division, said. “Just trying to get her a little more fit for the race in February.”

La Cara, who hasn't raced since finishing fifth in the GI Cotilion Stakes Sept. 20, is scheduled to make her 4-year-old debut in the GIII Bayakoa Stakes Feb. 7 at Oaklawn.

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Who says it never rains in Southern California?

Well, for any music trivia buffs in the audience, it was the little-known Albert Hammond who sang those lyrics, but those living in and around metropolitan Los Angeles will confirm that the precipitation came with a vengeance this Christmas week, flooding parts of Interstate 5 and causing power outages and even the (very) odd threat of tornadoes. Nearly two inches of rainfall was recorded at Los Angeles International Airport, breaking a 54-year-old mark, while nearly four inches fell upon Woodland Hills and 2.91 inches in East Pasadena. So far.

While the streets of Pasadena will have dried out ahead of next week's Tournament of Roses Parade, it's a bit more unclear what the underfoot conditions may be like a bit farther to the east at Santa Anita in Arcadia, which plays host to its booming opening day program, wisely pushed back by a couple of days to Dec. 28.

Bob Baffert has five chances for a record-breaking seventh victory in the GI Malibu Stakes, a race he won for the first time with The Factor in 2011. At $3.2 million, Barnes (Into Mischief) was the second-dearest offering at the 2023 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale (to the $4-million Curlin–Beholder colt) and he is likely to go favored in what has become a stallion-making heat. Winner of this the GII San Vicente Stakes over this course and seven-furlong distance at second asking, the bay was a sound third in the GI H. Allen Jerkens Stakes in August at Saratoga and most recently plundered Keeneland's GIII Perryville Stakes Oct. 18 when he was somehow not favored.

Barnes has stablemates either side of him Sunday afternoon. Cornucopian (Into Mischief) was accorded 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard status for a smashing debut score at Oaklawn last February, but was only fourth in the GI Arkansas Derby after getting used up on a suicidal pace and was a very disappointing runner-up in a one-mile Aqueduct allowance when last seen Apr. 27. The $1.1-million Keeneland September grad gets the blinkers off and he and Barnes both drilled six furlongs in 1:12 4/5 on Dec. 20.

'Rising Star' Goal Oriented (Not This Time), twice Grade I-placed going two turns, Madaket Road (Quality Road), second in the GI Woody Stephens Stakes at this specialist trip, and the first-time blinkered and progressive Midland Money (Maclean's Music) round out the Baffert challenge.

California-based 3-year-old fillies have more or less dominated the GI La Brea Stakes, with only Birdatthewire (Summer Bird) and Fair Maiden (Street Boss) launching successful raids in 2015 and 2020, respectively.

The George Weaver-trained Five G (Vekoma) has a fair shot at backing up that every-five-year pattern as she returns to the races for the first time since wiring the GIII Gulfstream Park Oaks back at the end of March. The Gatsas Stable runner has trained nicely at Palm Beach Downs and got a feel for the local strip with an easy four furlongs in :49 flat on Dec. 19. Irad Ortiz, Jr. is in to ride.

Baffert saddles three in the La Brea in search of a 10th victory dating back to Arches of Gold in 1992, but none of the trio is close to a lock. New York-bred Usha (Tiz the Law) was very good at Del Mar this summer, winning her maiden by better than 11 lengths before adding a 5 1/4-length allowance, but she faded tamely to be seventh in the GII Raven Run Stakes at Keeneland Oct. 18. Silent Law (Tiz the Law) set the pace before yielding to Tamara (Bolt d'Oro) in the GIII Chillingworth Stakes Oct. 4, while Brilliantly (Uncle Mo) spots her rivals a world of experience.

On the evidence of her European form for Donnacha O'Brien, Atsila (Ire) (Phoenix of Spain {Ire}) is strictly the one to beat in the GI American Oaks to close the card–providing, that is–that it remains on the rain-softened turf course.

All the bay filly's experience has come in 2025, as she beat the boys to open her account at first asking before besting her peers in the G3 Athasi Stakes at The Curragh in May. She overcame a bit of a slow start to finish third as a 25-1 chance in the G1 Matron Stakes going a mile around Leopardstown Sept. 13 and was a latest sixth in the G1 Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket Oct. 4. An intended runner in the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf, she was one of several vet scratches and is now based in the U.S. with Richard Baltas. She is back with her own age group for the first time since a seventh in the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas in May.

German listed winner and Group 2-placed Namaron (Ger) (Amaron {GB}) adds blinkers and gets Flavien Prat back in the boot for Sunday's GII Mathis Mile, a race that has also attracted Let It Ride Stakes winner and GI Hollywood Derby fourth Tempus Volat (Not This Time). 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard Nysos (Nyquist) and his GI Awesome Again Stakes-winning stable companion Nevada Beach (Omaha Beach) look set to dominate the GII Laffit Pincay, Jr. Stakes in what might be a springboard to valuable Middle East targets, while a wide-open field of 11 is set to load the gate for the GII San Gabriel Stakes.

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Sterling Silver storms through the lane to win Friday’s Rampart Stakes at Gulfstream Park. Coglianese Photo/Ryan Thompson

Sterling Silver ventured back into open company, to South Florida for the first time and came away with a victory in the $125,000 Rampart Stakes Friday at Gulfstream Park.

Mark Anderson’s 6-year-old Cupid mare overcame a wide trip from her outside post in the 1-mile Rampart to win her seventh stakes. Javier Castellano rode Sterling Silver for trainer Anthony Margotta Jr., who took over conditioning the New York-bred mare in November from Bill Mott.

“I just recently got her. This filly has won long, short, sprinting, a mile-and-an-eighth,” Margotta said. “She’s a very versatile mare. You couldn’t ask for a better trip than that. I was comfortable about it the whole way. When they turned for home, I was pretty confident.”

Sent off as the 3-1 second choice in the field of eight behind 6-5 favorite One Magic Philly, Sterling Silver came away well and stayed in the clear on the outside as the field left the chute onto the main track.

Dazzling Move and One Magic Philly dueled through the opening quarter-mile in :24.63 and half in :47.51, just ahead of Necessity, Sterling Silver, Luvumorgan and Claret Beret. Castellano kept Sterling Silver wide on the far turn then guided the multiple New York-bred championship finalist toward the lead approaching the stretch.

Sterling Silver took over just outside the eighth pole, past 7 furlongs in 1:24.54. She widened her advantage from there to win by 1 1/4 lengths from Necessity in 1:37.28 over the fast track. Claret Beret finished third with One Magic Philly fourth.

“Beautiful trip,” Castellano said. “The way I handicapped the race, when the overnight came out, I thought I had a big chance because I had the outside post and all the inside horses had plenty of speed.

“I was really surprised we didn’t go that fast. The first quarter went in 24 and change, so I was laying up close to the pace. She’s doing really good. I (rode) the horse before in New York and she always performed pretty well. It seemed to me to be wide open race and she performed great. She was amazing, the way she blew by the field. She’s a pro.”

Bred by Mallory and Karen Mort and foaled at Gallagher’s Stud in Ghent, Sterling Silver is out of the Distorted Humor mare Sheet Humor. A half-sister to New York-bred Grade 1 winner and 2025 Breeders’ Cup Mile contender Rhetorical, Sterling Silver improved to 11-for-36 with seven seconds and seven thirds and boosted her bankroll to $1,328,226 in the Rampart.

Sterling Silver earned New York-bred championship consideration in the female sprinter category in 2022, 2023 and 2024, along with a finalist nod in the 3-year-old filly division in 2022. She improved to 3-for-8, added the Rampart to victories in the Iroquois Stakes at Aqueduct on Empire Showcase Day in late October and the Biogio’s Rose Stakes at Aqueduct in early April.

A $13,000 purchase by Anderson Acres at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Select Yearling Showcase, Sterling Silver was a $975,000 RNA at this year’s Fasig-Tipton November “Night of the Stars” sale in Kentucky. She breezed four half miles for Margotta at Gulfstream for the Rampart – November 29 and December 6, 13 and 21.

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Doc Sullivan picks up third stakes victory of 2025 in Friday’s Alex M. Robb at Aqueduct. Coglianese Photo.

Doc Sullivan capped a strong second half of 2025 Friday with a victory in the $121,250 Alex M. Robb Stakes for older New York-breds at Aqueduct.

Tristar Farm’s 4-year-old son of Solomini added the Alex M. Robb to wins in the John Morrissey Stakes in late July at Saratoga Race Course and the Thunder Rumble division of the New York Stallion Series Stakes last time out in late November at Aqueduct. Trained by John Ortiz, Doc Sullivan also finished second in the Empire Classic Stakes on Empire Showcase Day and fourth in a pair of graded stakes on the NYRA circuit this summer and fall.

Doc Sullivan, who won the 1-mile Alex M. Robb by a length over Quick to Accuse, made his first start for Ortiz and his brother and assistant David in the Morrissey. Previously trained by Mike Miceli, Doc Sullivan improved to 7-for-20 with six seconds and two thirds while boosting his bankroll to $726,590 in the Alex M. Robb.

“The instructions are usually the same, let him break and rush him out a little bit because we don’t want him to hang too far back,” John Ortiz said. “Once he gets his feet underneath him, he’s push button. You can tell Ricardo [Santana Jr.] stood all the way up and just waited and waited. Had me a little too nervous waiting around too much, but he’s worked this horse several times in the morning for Joel [Rosario], so he knows this horse really well.”

Doc Sullivan and Bank Frenzy vied for favoritism while the field of five warmed up in the paddock, both coming on the track at 4-5 with a minute to post. Gamblers bet Doc Sullivan down to 3-5 by post time, with Bank Frenzy going as the second choice at 7-5 while making his first start for trainer Miguel Clement.

Quick to Accuse came away best and led the field out of the chute with Share the Ludt giving chase to the outside with Doc Sullivan down on the rail. Quick to Accuse clicked off the opening quarter-mile in :23.79 and the half in :47.17.

Ricardo Santana Jr. slid Doc Sullivan to the inside of Share the Ludt heading to the far turn and they were a clear second around the far turn. Quick to Accuse still led by == after 6 furlongs in 1:11.63, with Doc Sullivan starting to cut into the lead and Bank Frenzy inching into third.

Doc Sullivan collared the leader in midstretch and edged away from there to win in 1:37.23 over the fast track. Quick to Accuse, the 8-1 fourth choice, held second with Bank Frenzy third, Locke and Key fourth and Share the Ludt fifth. The Wine Steward and General Banker were scratched.

“This horse is so classy,” Santana said. “I’ve breezed him so many times and every time we breeze him behind [horses] he knows when it’s time to go. I sat behind them and at the three-eighths – I think it was [Share the Ludt] there – and as soon as I got out, he was taking me right there to the leader. He was much the best.”

Bred by Seamus Coughlan and foaled at his Sleepy Hollow Farm about 10 minutes from Saratoga Race Course, Doc Sullivan originally sold for $85,000 at the 2022 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale.

Tristar Farm’s Glen Lostritto acquired the colt as a 2-year-old for $59,000 at the OBS June sale in 2023. He’s out of the Giant’s Causeway mare Queen Frostine and is a half-brother to four-time winner Seaver, 12-time winner and $284,905-earner Fix Me A Sandwich and the 3-year-old New York-bred Lookin At Lee filly Last Of My Kind, who has a win and two thirds in eight starts for $27,422 in earnings.

Solomini, a 10-year-old son of Curlin out of the Storm Cat mare Surf Cat, stands for $7,500 at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs. He came into the day ranked third on the New York general sire list with progeny earnings of nearly $4.1 million.

 

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As Japan's racing establishment ups the image of dirt racing, 3-year-olds Natural Rise and Narukami renew a rivalry in the Tokyo Daishoten (G1) Dec. 29 at Oi Racecourse.

In romping in three of five starts, Knightsbridge has hinted at the promise of becoming a future stakes winner. The future could be now Dec. 27 at Gulfstream Park in the $150,000 Mr. Prospector Stakes (G3).

Regaleira, the only filly in the field, seeks an unprecedented repeat win in the Arima Kinen (G1) Dec. 28 at Nakayama Racecourse.