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Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert will have three opportunities to win the $300,000-guaranteed Starlet – the final Grade 1 of 2022 for 2-year-old fillies – for a sixth consecutive year Saturday at Los Alamitos.

Faiza, an extremely impressive debut winner Nov. 12 at Del Mar, will be supplemented for $10,000 to the Grade 1, Starlet

Bloodstock editor Joe Nevills selects the first two positions of his 2022-23 All-Value Sire Team: The Team Captain and Turf Sire.

Blue Star Racing announces the arrival of Rushie (Liam’s Map / Conquest Angel, by Colonel John), to their breeding facilities in Scott, La.

Tamaroak Partners’ classy sprinter Bango overcame traffic trouble along the inside rail in midstretch before he shifted out to get a clear run and overhaul leader Sibelius in deep stretch to win Sunday’s 14th running of the $299,750 Bet On Sunshine at Churchill Downs by three-quarters of a length.

Grade 3 winner Proud Emma, a 6-year-old daughter of Include in foal to Charlatan, sold to Jane Lyon’s Summer Wind Equine for $1 million during Wednesday’s third session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Stakes winner Park Avenue, a 4-year-old daughter of Quality Road, sold to Jane Lyon’s Summer Wind Equine for $1.45 million, and Sweet Sami D., who is in foal to Gun Runner and was purchased by Jim and Dana Bernhard’s Pin Oak Stud for $1 million, highlighted today’s second session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Last fall, Goodnight Olive earned her first career victory in a maiden special weight Keeneland Race Course. In the year that followed, the Ghostzapper filly has never lost a race, and she returned to Keeneland victorious on Saturday with a convincing victory in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.

Sparkle Blue surged past the pace-setting Bubble Rock nearing the 16th pole and drew off to score a 2½-length victory in the Valley View

Keeneland has announced that Grade 3 Monmouth Oaks winner Skeptic, a daughter of Tiznow who is in foal to Liam’s Map, has been supplemented to Book 1 of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale on Nov. 7.