Sara Elbadwi & Paul Verderosa look ahead at the Go for Wand Stakes at Aqueduct & the Ring the Bell Stakes at Oaklawn.

The 2025 International Conference for the Health, Safety, and Welfare of Jockeys Dec. 11-12 in Hong Kong saw science-based research on rider safety and performance medicine translated to ideas that jockeys can use in their day-to-day routines.

The final installment in the 2025 OwnerView webinar series was held on December 9 and covered industry-wide efforts to support individuals in need. The PDJF, Stable Recovery, the RTCA, and the Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation were in focus.

Next year’s Epsom Derby (G1) will be worth £2 million ($2.675 million) as part of a £6m investment by the Jockey Club (UK) to reinvigorate Epsom and Britain’s premier classic, with the aim of attracting a crowd of 100,000 for the festival by 2030.

The Hanshin Juvenile Fillies (G1) Dec. 14 is the first of three big races for Japanese 2-year-olds with connections hoping to find contenders for next year’s Classics.

Echo Town, winner of the 2020 H. Allen Jerkens Stakes (G1), has been purchased by Tyree Wolesensky and has relocated to her Leadem Farm near Leola, Ark., for the 2026 breeding season.

J. Keeler Johnson handicaps the Los Alamitos Futurity (G2) at Los Alamitos.

Bob Baffert, who has won 14 renditions of the Los Alamitos Futurity (G2), has entered Litmus Test, Provenance, and Blacksmith this year.

A 17-horse field has been entered for the Gran Premio Carlos Pellegrini Internacional (G1) at Hipodromo de San Isidro Dec. 13 in Argentina, part of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series: Win and You’re In.

A review of the 2025 Thoroughbred yearling sales market and an analysis of how the current market compares with heady times during the mid- to late-1980s.