As part of the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance’s month-long Holiday Giving Campaign, Hidden Brook Farm has pledged to match all donations up to $1,000 made to the TAA on Dec. 5, 2022.

Cody’s Wish, the talented 4-year-old colt who shares an endearing bond with teenager Cody Dorman, has been voted the winner of the 2022 Secretariat Vox Populi Award.

The saga of Speed Boat Beach motored on Dec. 4, when the brilliantly fast colt showed a dimension of a different kind in capturing the $100,000 Cecil B. DeMille Stakes (G3T) at Del Mar.

After the giddy highs of Day One, trade returned to a more familiar level Dec. 4 at the Arqana Breeding Stock Sale. The market was led by the €175,000 Shahnameh, who went to an online bid from Michael Donohoe of BBA Ireland.

Regal Glory closed out a memorable 2022 campaign in breathtaking fashion with an easy victory in the Dec. 4 $400,000 Matriarch Stakes (G1T) at Del Mar.

After a frenzied rush by Who’s the Star to catch up to Wentru in the Dec. 4 Valedictory Stakes (G3) at Woodbine, the two dead-heated in the 1 1/2-mile event for 3-year-olds and up.

Day 2 review of the Arqana Vente d’Elevage

Flying P Stable’s Impazible Donna returned Dec. 4 from a three-month layoff to capture the $125,000 NYSSS Staten Island, a seven-furlong sprint for eligible New York-sired fillies and mares 3 years old and up, at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Stonestreet Stables scored a double Dec. 3 with juvenile winners Julia Shining in the Demoiselle Stakes (G2) and Dubyuhnell in the Remsen Stakes (G2) at Aqueduct. Both homebreds have put Barbara Banke on the early trail to the first weekend in May.

Brilliant Travers Stakes (G1) winner Epicenter, who suffered a career-ending injury in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), is making a good recovery. He will stand at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud for 2023 at a fee of $45,000.