Prior to his time with Chad Brown, Combs ran his own barn from 2017 to early 2024 after working his way up to assistant trainer for Dallas Stewart.

Meanwhile, Mohaather, the Sussex Stakes (G1)-winning miler turned leading first-crop sire, will command a fee of £15,000, back up to his 2023 level after having been £12,500 this year.

Changes to the stop-race protocol have been called for by those involved in a race Nov. 9 at Chelmsford in which horses narrowly avoided colliding with a set of starting stalls left stranded on the track by a malfunctioning tractor.

Her dam, Zero Gravity, will be offered in foal to Chaldean, a group 1-winning son of Frankel. She will be consigned by Ed Player’s Whatton Manor Stud.

The Newsells Park Stud roster has been unveiled for 2025, with newcomer Isaac Shelby joining the team of Nathaniel, Without Parole, and A’Ali.

Her dam Zero Gravity will be offered in foal to Chaldean, the group 1 winning son of Frankel. She will be consigned by Ed Player’s Whatton Manor Stud.

Wallace W. “Wally” Hartwig, who with his wife Janet ran Tower Farm in Somonauk, Ill., from 1974-2020, died Nov. 7 in Sandwich, Ill. He was 79. 

The 2025 Iroquois Steeplechase, sponsored by Bank of America, returns for its 84th anniversary, as tickets officially went on sale on Nov. 1.

The Kentucky Supreme Court, reversing lower court rulings, ordered that damages be awarded in a lawsuit filed by two owners against a Thoroughbred sale consignor.

He purchases nine horses Nov. 10 for a total of $390,000, with a focus on broodmares for his clients.