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The Graham Motion-trained pair of Beach Bomb and No Show Sammy Jo enter Aqueduct Racetrack's $250,000 Long Island Stakes (G3T) as the horses to beat off of notable last-out performances.

Amo Racing's goup 1-winning sprinter Arizona Blaze has been retired from racing and will stand his first season at the Irish National Stud for a fee of €12,500 in 2026.

Trainer Kenny McPeek confirmed Nov. 7 that 2024 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mystik Dan has been officially retired. Fans at Churchill Downs will have one final chance to see the colt Nov. 8 when he parades in the paddock before the fourth race.

Multiple stakes winner and millionaire Bango, the winningest horse in recorded Churchill Downs history with 12 wins under the twin spires, has been retired from racing at age 8, trainer Greg Foley said Nov. 7.

Noted racing journalist and horseman Josh Pons has been named the 19th recipient of the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award, presented by the Ryan family's Castleton Lyons, for excellence in Thoroughbred racing literature published in 2024.

Under the spotlight at this BUDDS auction is memorabilia linked to King Edward VII, legendary horses, jockeys and a royal mistress, Lillie Langtry.

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.

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 Lilies 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.