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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Nine racehorses, six trainers, and two jockeys account for the 17 finalists that will comprise the National Museum of Racing’s 2024 Hall of Fame ballot, as chosen by the Museum’s Hall of Fame Nominating Committee. The finalists are racehorses Blind Luck, Game On Dude, Gio Ponti, Gun Runner, Havre de Grace, Justify, Kona Gold, Lady Eli, and Rags to Riches; trainers Christophe Clement, Kiaran P. McLaughlin, H. Graham Motion, Doug F. O’Neill, John W. Sadler, and Joh...

Keeneland’s 80th November Breeding Stock Sale concluded Thursday with solid results, which were driven by demand for quality from an internationally diverse buying bench that produced 12 seven-figure horses.

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.

Keeneland has cataloged 3,569 horses for its 80th November Breeding Stock Sale, which will begin Wednesday, Nov. 8.

Multiple Grade 1 winner Country Grammer, the third-leading North American earner of all time, has been retired and will stand the 2024 breeding season at WinStar Farm.

A field of 11, including three 3-year-olds facing older runners, contests a wide-open FanDuel Racing Pacific Classic Saturday at Del Mar.

Trainer John Shirreffs’ colt, who has raced just once since being scratched from the Kentucky Derby, joins morning-line favorite Geaux Rocket Ride and Arabian Knight in the 11-horse field.

Case Clay Thoroughbred Management will consign Puca, who is carrying a full sibling to 2023 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve winner Mage, and Grade 1 winner and millionaire Dalika (GER), in foal to Horse of the Year Flightline for her first offspring, in a two-mare consignment at Keeneland’s November Breeding Stock Sale on Wednesday, Nov. 8.

Siena Farm co-founder Anthony Manganaro passed away at his home in Saratoga Springs on Sunday at the age of 79.

A partnership headed up by Leonard and Lois Green's D. J. Stables started off the proceedings with some fireworks during Tuesday's session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearling Sale, placing the final bid on a share in prominent sire Not This Time for $2 million.