Jockey Jose Valdivia Jr. has withdrawn his appeal of a suspension of 10 racing days issued by California stewards for careless riding in a spill-marred race at Del Mar last month.

Jockey Declan Cannon will likely need surgery after fracturing a couple of vertebrae in a spill Sept. 13 at Indiana Grand, agent Tim Hanisch said Sept. 14. He has movement in all his extremities, the agent noted.

Buck Pond Farm stallion Wildcat Red was represented by his first winner Sept. 13, when Wildcat Bill took a $31,500 maiden special weight at Thistledown.

The Keeneland September Sale started Sept. 13 in fine fashion with 95 horses sold, headlined by a knockout American Pharoah filly going for $1.4 million to Northshore Bloodstock, agent for Joe Allen.

A $1.1 million Uncle Mo filly topped the purchases by Courtlandt Farm at the Sept. 13 opening session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Consigned as Hip 89 by Paramount Sales, the filly was the buyer’s top purchase of the day.

Hideyuki Mori comes to the Keeneland September Yearling Sale every year to secure a few yearlings to take home to Japan. He landed three Justify colts Sept. 13 on Day 1 of the sale, with hopes to find more.

Yearling is from family of Holiday Disguise, Naughty New Yorker.

A $1.35 million Into Mischief colt topped a trio of purchases by Ron Winchell of Winchell Thoroughbreds at the Sept. 13 opening session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

Hideyuki Mori comes to the Keeneland September Yearling Sale every year to secure a few yearlings to take home to Japan. Monday’s activity secured three Justify colts for Mori on Day 1 of the sale, with hopes to find more.

Donato Lanni, on behalf of Michael Lund Petersen and Willow Grace Farm, signed the $950,000 ticket for Hip 86, a Medaglia d’Oro filly from the consignment of Claiborne Farm during the opening session of the Keeneland September Sale.