Today's Edition

Exaggerator (Curlin), ridden and trained respectively by Louisiana-born brothers Kent and Keith Desormeaux, gave the pair quite the welcome home present Saturday as he came through at 4-5 odds in the $1-million GIII Delta Downs Jackpot. GI Champagne S. runner-up Sunny Ridge (Holy Bull) was a game second, beaten just a neck, while longshot Harlan Punch (Harlan's Holiday) made a menacing move before settling for third. A second-up winner sprinting at Del Mar in July, the dark bay found a seam and powered through to take the GII Saratoga Special...

By Emma Berry and Daithi Harvey The headline session of the two-day Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale was once again a showcase for the Aga Khan bloodlines, with an in-foal mare and a filly in training filling Saturday's top two slots. Ebeyina (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}) (lot 1368), a winner last year on debut at three for Dermot Weld, hails from the black-type-laden family that has produced the Queen's G1 Ascot Gold Cup winner Estimate (Ire) (Monsun {Ger}) and her half-sister, the Irish champion 3-year-old Ebadiyla (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), who...

The bettors had virtually handed Saturday's GIII Delta Downs Princess S. to local My Trusty Cat S. romper La Appassionata (Bernardini), but Jet Black Magic (Hold Me Back)--third in that same heat--had other ideas. Let go at 9-1, the Carl Moore Management colorbearer catapulted past the heavy chalk in the lane en route to a 4 1/4-length score. Above Fashion (Paddy O'Prado), second in the My Trusty Cat, rounded out the trifecta. "I'm a little surprised," admitted winning conditioner Bret Calhoun. "[La Appassionata] showed she was an awful nice filly...

Red Cadeaux (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}--Artisia {Ire}, by Peintre Celebre), who gained legions of fans the world over with a remarkable three runner-up efforts in the G1 Melbourne Cup, has succumbed to complications from his injuries suffered in this year's running of the race that stops a nation. After first announcing that they would attempt to allow the injury to his near-side fetlock to heal on its own, a decision was made soon after to repair the damage surgically. Reports over the next two weeks were nearly all positive as...

Unbeaten WinStar Farm homebred Speightster (Speightstown--Dance Swiftly, by Danzig), sidelined since having an ankle chip removed this summer, is expected to re-join Hall of Famer Bill Mott's Florida string at Payson Park Dec. 1. The chestnut, tabbed as a 'TDN Rising Star' following a sparkling seven-length graduation at first asking at Keeneland Apr. 17, followed a sharp first-level allowance victory at Belmont in early June with a 2 1/2-length decision over 2014 GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile hero Texas Red (Afleet Alex) when last seen in the GIII Dwyer S. in...

Exaggerator (Curlin) headlines a field of 10 sophomores set to line up in Saturday's lucrative $1-million GIII Delta Jackpot. A second-out Del Mar maiden winner in July, he overcame some traffic trouble to annex the GII Saratoga Special S. the following month before a brief freshening. The Keith Desormeaux pupil returned to complete the exacta in Keeneland's GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity S. Oct. 3, and was fourth after a pocket trip in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Oct. 31. Sunny Ridge (Holy Bull) took Monmouth's one-mile Sapling S. in his...

The elimination of Hollywood Park from the southern California racing circuit has resulted in the shifting of some noteworthy stakes races over the past two years, but the most important change for 2016 may imperil a pair of Grade I races for 2-year-olds that have been run for decades in late December. Brad McKinzie, the general manager of Los Alamitos Race Course, put the industry on notice at Thursday's California Horse Racing Board meeting that his track does not intend to run the GI Los Alamitos Futurity or the GI...

After sitting out the major summer events for 3-year-olds, 'TDN Rising Star' and MGISW Dortmund (Big Brown) is locked and loaded to close out the season with an exclamation point. The handsome chestnut, a facile winner over four rivals in his return to action in Santa Anita's Big Bear S. Oct. 24 (video), will line up next in Churchill's GI Clark H. Nov. 27 and is also "penciled in" for the GI Malibu S. at Santa Anita Dec. 26, according to owner Kaleem Shah. The $140,000 EASMAY juvenile purchase has...

Even before he had runners there was a sales-ring buzz about Zoffany (Ire), and those early hopes proved justified with the young son of Dansili (GB) holding an unassailable lead at the head of the European first-crop sires' table with 30 winners to his name. Two of his sons held top-five places at Goffs Thursday, including the session's leading foal (lot 824), the first produce of the High Chaparral (Ire) mare Far Away Eyes (Ire), offered by Seskin Stud. Jamie Railton saw off allcomers at €150,000 for a pinhooking syndicate...

While many of the top horses and barns are beginning to wind down a bit in preparation for the Championship meet at Gulfstream, the Kiaran McLaughlin barn, which is enjoying one of its most successful seasons, continues to charge full steam ahead. Undefeated "TDN Rising Star" Marking (Bernardini), a son of MGISW Seventh Street (Street Cry {Ire}) was one of several McLaughlin pupils on the worktab at Belmont Wednesday morning. The bay, who captured both his Belmont debut Sept. 23 and a one-mile Aqueduct allowance Nov. 4 by open lengths, breezed...

Brian Lynch has taken over training duties on popular four-time Grade I winner Private Zone (Macho Uno). The Good Friends Stable LLC colorbearer was previously campaigned by conditioner Jorge Navarro in 2015, highlighted by a powerful win in the GI Forego S. at Saratoga this summer and a game runner-up finish behind Runhappy (Super Saver) in the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint at Keeneland most recently Oct. 31. A four-furlong breeze this weekend at Palm Meadows will likely determine whether or not Private Zone defends his title in the upcoming GI...

As the Goffs November Foal Sale cranked up another gear on Wednesday, the six-figure barrier was breached for the first time when a son of Lope De Vega (Ire) (lot 551) found favor at €105,000. Manister House Stud's Luke Barry was the bold bidder for the May foal out of the proven producer Charmgoer (Nureyev), the dam of French listed winner Beringoer (Fr) (Bering) among her seven winners from nine previous foals. But it wasn't just the female family--which includes Charmgoer's Grade I-winning half-brothers Dare And Go (Alydar) and Go...