The Jockey Club has announced a freeze on prize money for 2025 while warning that trading performance at its 15 tracks could lead to a review.

The catalog features broodmares and broodmare prospects, newly turned yearlings, horses of racing age, stallions, and stallion prospects. Graded stakes-placed fillies on offer include Ain’t Broke, Amidst Waves, and Movie Moxy.

The publisher has shared an excerpt of the new book by Jay Hovdey, “Well Armed: A Thoroughbred of Destiny,” with readers of BloodHorse Daily.

Dollars & Sense with Frank Angst

Dr. Mark Dedomenico, who reached racing’s heights on the track as an owner of 2010 champion filly Blind Luck and off the track with the Pegasus Training and Rehabilitation Center near his Redmond, Wash., home, died Dec. 7. He was 87.

The 8-year-old son of Distorted Humor won the Longacres Mile Stakes in 2023-24 and retires with more than $900,000 in earnings.

Jonathan Thomas sent out three graded stakes winners in one week for Augustin Stables to complete a stellar Del Mar Turf Festival.

Set-Hut’s Touchuponastar looks to solidify his place as a Louisiana-bred legend Dec. 14 when he targets a third victory in the $150,000 Louisiana Champions Day Classic Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots.

Cruz Ramirez was bred in Kentucky by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings and is out of the mare Ragtime Hope. She is a half sister to Secret Circle, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) and Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1).

Zarak is the sire of 16% stakes winners or placed horses from his whole production to date. Zarak has notably sired Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1) winner Metropolitan, as well as group 1 winners Haya Zark and Zagrey.