Darley Stallion’s Cody’s Wish and Juddmonte Farms’ Elite Power lead the 2025 first-crop sire class by book quality, as indicated by the Comparable Index and Class Performance Index.

As euphoric as Forever Young’s victory in the $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) may have been, there was one bittersweet moment for trainer Yoshito Yahagi Nov. 1.

Bishops Bay got back to his winning ways Nov. 2 in the $175,000 Forty Niner Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct Racetrack, prevailing by 3/4 of a length over Nelson Avenue, securing him an automatic fees-waived berth into the $500,000 Cigar Mile (G2).

She’s Quality (IRE), who fractured her pelvis Nov. 1 in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) at Del Mar, was humanely euthanized overnight after receiving care at San Luis Rey Equine Hospital.

Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott admits he remains unsure how Parchment Party will handle Flemington Racecourse’s turf surface when he becomes the first American-trained runner to contest the Melbourne Cup (G1) Nov. 4. 

Keeneland announced Nov. 2 that Super Simple, dam of Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) winner, Super Corredora, has been supplemented to the November Breeding Stock Sale. She is in foal to grade 1 winner and $2.4 million earner Gunite.

As Ethical Diamond dazzled at Del Mar to give Willie Mullins his first Breeders’ Cup success in the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1T) Nov. 1, the man who has known the 5-year-old since he was a foal, Michael O’Meara, was sitting thunderstruck.

Report from Japan

Flavien Prat knows not to get too excited about that day’s rides. But the racing gods shone down on him Nov. 2 as he set an Aqueduct record with seven wins, including a photo in the Red Smith (G2T).

Masquerade Ball and Museum Mile, the two 3-year-olds in the field, showed their elders how it’s done in the Tenno Sho (Autumn) (G1) Nov. 2 at Tokyo Racecourse, finishing first and second.