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If the Nov. 30 session of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale was a music festival, it would have been Glastonbury, Leeds and Reading, and Electric Picnic all rolled into one, such was the overabundance of headline acts. Read More

During a Championship Meet at Gulfstream Park in which the spotlight will often be on younger horses, the opening-day emphasis is aptly on juveniles when the South Florida track stages the $75,000 Pulpit Stakes and $75,000 Wait a While Stakes Dec. 3. Read More

Following a successful fall meet at Del Mar, racing in Southern California turns to Los Alamitos Race Course for a seven-day afternoon meet that precedes the winter/spring season at Santa Anita Park. The meet runs from Dec. 3-12. Read More

Sale histories for the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December Mixed Sale to be held Dec. 7 in Timonium, Md. Read More

Gun Runner's full brother Fortune Ticket will stand his first season at stud in 2022 at Anchor & Hope Farm near Port Deposit, Md. Gun Runner recently broke the first-crop progeny earnings record set by Uncle Mo in 2015. Read More

Emerald Downs has announced a new incentive program for claiming horses during the first month and a half of its 52-day race meeting in 2022. Read More

Teddy Grimthorpe, who spent 22 years as Juddmonte racing manager, has said he is "very excited and very honored" to have been appointed as the chairman of the National Stud. He begins his new role on Jan. 1. Read More

Graded stakes winner Fast Boat, 11th in the Nov. 6 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) at Del Mar, has been retired from racing and will be re-trained for a second career as an off-track Thoroughbred by ex-jockey Rosie Napravnik. Read More

Contrail, which must be regarded as one of the hottest new stallion properties in global bloodstock, has been given an opening fee of ¥12 million by Shadai Stallion Station when he begins his new career in 2022. Read More

Thoroughbred racing on the Kentucky circuit shifts from Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., to its sister track Turfway Park, 94 miles to the northeast in Florence, beginning Dec. 2 for the 16-day Holiday Meet.  Read More

This weekend, Dec. 4-5, Marines will be at Aqueduct Racetrack on behalf of Toys for Tots to collect new, unwrapped toys that will be given as holiday gifts to disadvantaged children in the community. Read More

A trio of thirty-something trainers has been elected as newcomers to the Kentucky Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association board with the addition of Jason Barkley, Norm Casse, and Bentley Combs. Read More

The 4-year-old colt is a son of top international sire Dubawi out of a half sister to multiple U.S. and European champion Goldikova. Read More

Lexington native celebrates the history of African Americans in racing through his mixed-media collage style portraits. Read More

The synergy sparked by the creation of Arroyo Vista Farm comes from many California threads. Read More

Proceed, a multiple stakes winner in New Mexico who is now a freshman sire in the state, was represented by his first winner Nov. 29 at Zia Park as his daughter Wileo Proceed broke her maiden by 2 1/4 lengths.  Read More

Few assets possess the global currency of the Thoroughbred pedigree, and an international three-way bidding battle duly saw the well-related Crimson Rock bring 450,000 guineas on day one of the Tattersalls December Mare Sale Nov. 29. Read More

The Dec. 4 $150,000 Mistletoe Stakes at Oaklawn Park could very well be the coming out party for Juddmonte Farm's Amendment Nineteen. Read More

The 2021-22 racing season kicks off at Oaklawn Park Dec. 3 with the inaugural running of the $150,000 Advent Stakes.The six-furlong main track event drew a field of 10 juveniles eyeing a shot at black-type victory. Read More

Whitbury Manor Stud resident and 2021 group-winning sire Adaay is on the move and will relocate to Allevamento di Besnate di Pierantonio near Milan for the 2022 season. Read More

Speedway Stables' Corniche, the probable champion 2-year-old male of 2021, has been sent to WinStar Farm in Kentucky for a freshening in advance of his impending 3-year-old season. Read More

Regally-bred multiple graded stakes-producing mare She's a Winner, the dam of 2006 Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1) winner and stallion Bluegrass Cat, was euthanized Nov. 27 after suffering from colic. She was 25 years old. Read More

There will be an emotional occasion Nov. 30 for young French trainer Charley Rossi, whose first star filly Tiger Tanaka is among the jewels to go through the ring at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale. Read More

John von Stade served as president of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame for 17 years, the longest term in the museum's history. Read More

Send for Me won by seven lengths in her debut at Aqueduct Racetrack, while Cocktail Moments scored a 9 1/4-length win at Churchill Downs. Read More