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On Racing

Godolphin set a single-season record in earnings as the leading owner for the fifth consecutive year, and Irad Ortiz Jr. established a single-season record as the leading jockey by earnings according to final statistics released Jan. 2 by Equibase.

Opportune black type awaits some of the five fillies and mares contesting the $100,000 Las Flores Stakes (G3) Jan. 4 at Santa Anita Park.

Nearly may have punched his ticket to the $250,000 Holy Bull Stakes (G3) Jan. 31, putting away favored Confessional in midstretch and pulling clear to a 5-length victory in a first-level allowance optional claiming race at Gulfstream Park.

Sara Elbadwi & Paul Verderosa look ahead at the Jerome Stakes & the Busanda Stakes at Aqueduct.

Keeneland announced Jan. 2 three horses in the third round of supplements to the 2026 January Horses of All Ages Sale Jan. 12-13.

Prominent equine veterinarian Dr. Bryan Boone died Dec. 31, 2025, after an 8 1/2-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 62.

Diane Crump, the pioneering Thoroughbred jockey whose riding breakthroughs set the stage for generations of female riders, died Jan. 1 at an inpatient hospice facility in Winchester, Va. She was 77.

Multiple grade 1 winner Muth sired his first reported foal Jan. 1 at Gainesway, where the stallion stands for $30,000.