Golden Sixty, one of Hong Kong’s greatest stars and the highest-earning racehorse of all time, has been retired at the age of 9.

The Jockey Club Oaks Invitational Stakes (G3T) may carry a $350,000 purse and offer graded stakes status to the top finishers, but it also will provide the winner with another prize.

A video version of Jay Hovdey’s Final Turn column from the September 2024 issue of BloodHorse celebrates some of our favorite gray horses.

The Challenge, presented by Gainesway

Gross sales totaled $63,801,000 from 223 yearlings sold at the end of the fourth session of Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale. The average was $286,103.

Highlights from Day 4 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale

Belladonna Racing was the second-leading buyer on Day 4 of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Its purchases included an $825,000 Not This Time colt (Hip 1067), who is half brother to grade 2-placed winner Common Defense.

Spendthrift Farm and Mike Repole’s Repole Stable, who Sept. 9 partnered to purchase Hip 121, a $1.1 million Gun Runner colt, together made two more purchases of colts during the fourth session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

Darley Stallions’ Nyquist was represented by his second seven-figure yearling late on Day 4 of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, with John Stewart’s Resolute Bloodstock going to $1.2 million for the colt (Hip 1114) sold by Indian Creek as agent.

Jockey Dylan Davis has quite a few reasons to look forward to the future.