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BBA Ireland paid $2.1 million for the 10-year-old Galileo (IRE) mare White Hot (IRE), the dam of 2021 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) winner Pizza Bianca who is in foal to leading sire Into Mischief, to record the highest price of today’s Book 1 opening session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Dreaming of Julia, dam of Grade 1 winner Malathaat and Grade 2 winner Julia Shining, was named the 2022 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year at the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association/Kentucky Owners and Breeders Kentucky-Bred Awards Dinner, held Wednesday evening in Lexington, Ky.

Florida-based Thoroughbred breeding facility, Pleasant Acres Stallions, announces the arrival of the graded stakes winning son of Tapit, Magic on Tap, for the 2023 breeding season with a $5,000 fee. There are a limited number of lifetime breeding rights available.

Sponsored by: Channel Cat after winning the Grade 1 Man o War at Belmont Park. Calumet Farm homebred Channel Cat and his trainer, Jack Sisterson, are no strangers to springing upsets in graded stakes. The duo will look to add another exclamation mark to their collective ledgers in Saturdays Grade 2, $250,000 Bowling Green, an 11-furlong inner-turf test for older horses, at Saratoga Race Course. Channel Cat, who is one of three sons of English Channel entered for Saturdays 63rd renewa...

Sponsored by: Channel Cat (No. 5) hits the wire a nose to the good of Gufo in the Man o War Providing an encore for a Kentucky Oaks-Kentucky Derby sweep is a tall order, but Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez was up to the challenge, piloting Channel Cat to the lead at every point of call and fending off 3-2 favorite Gufos furious late charge in the final jumps to hang on for a gate-to-wire victory by a nose in Saturdays Grade 1, $700,000 Man o War for 4-years-olds and up going 1 3/8 ...