New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program has announced that Churchill Downs will match all Giving Tuesday donations to the program, up to $20,000, in support of Thoroughbred and Standardbred racehorse aftercare.
Avenue Bloodstock's Mark McStay did just as the mare is named, Act Now, in seeing the bidding to $610,000 on Day 6 of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale to acquire the mare in foal to City of Light.
Based on how he exits a Nov. 18 workout, grade 2 winner Senor Buscador could be heading cross country with the Dec. 2 Cigar Mile Handicap (G2) and the Jan. 27 Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1) as possible targets.
The concluding session of Book 3, Nov. 12, at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale ticked along to a workmanlike pace, with the KatieRich Farms consigned mare, Taking Aim, topping the day's action at $270,000.
During the Book 4 opening session at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale Nov. 13, Straight Line Equine Sales brings forward six weanlings by Kentucky-based first-year sires, Beau Liam, Independence Hall, Rock Your World, and Lexitonian.
Brede Weg carried the banner for 3-year-old fillies in winning the Queen Elizabeth II Cup (G1) Nov. 12 at Kyoto Racecourse.