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French basketball stars Tony Parker and Nicolas Batum have joined forces to buy Normandy stud farm Haras de Quetieville. Parker, a former San Antonio Spur player, is part-owner of two smart juveniles.

Grade 1 winner Girvin tops the roster at $6,000.

Multiple graded stakes-winning Crazy Beautiful will return to more familiar surroundings on the dirt track as part of an eight-horse field of 3-year-olds fillies competing at 1 1/8 miles in the grade 3, $200,000 Comely Nov. 26 at Aqueduct.

The exceptional Juddmonte mare has traded in the winner’s circle for a quiet life at the farm. Enable, carrying a foal by leading European stallion Kingman, is set to deliver in January at Banstead Manor Stud in Newmarket, UK.

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William Haggas hopes Addeybb is “over the worst” after an infection left him fearing the star globetrotter might never race again.

The Nov. 22 Tattersalls December Yearling Sale provides a final shop window in the calendar for some of the biggest names in the game.

Dubai World Cup (G1) hero Mystic Guide has returned to the track for training four months after undergoing surgery to remove a chip from the colt’s right knee.