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Liguria shipped west to win the Jimmy Durante Stakes (G3T) for trainer Chad Brown while local contender Turn On The Jets took the Stormy Liberal Stakes for Phil D'Amato.

A blizzard of seven-figure bids blew around an icy Deauville Dec. 3 as seven lots brought €1,000,0000 or more during a drama-filled session at the Arqana Breeding Stock Sale. 

NYRA announced Dec. 3 the successful installation of a Tapeta Footings synthetic surface at the Belmont Park pony track. The renovation of the pony track is an element of the ongoing campaign to modernize the Belmont Park facility.

After a close defeat when second in the Twilight Derby (G2T) earlier this fall in Southern California, Speaking Scout did one better in the $400,000 Hollywood Derby (G1T) at Del Mar Dec. 3, defeating Spycatcher and Wit.

A little over a month after scoring an explosive victory in the Bowman Mill Stakes during the Keeneland fall meet, jockey Chantal Sutherland and Super Chow did it again in the $50,000 Inaugural Stakes Dec. 3 at Tampa Bay Downs.

Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. secured a record 77th stakes win in a single season in North America when he guided Dr B to an easy victory in the Go for Wand Stakes (G3) for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up Dec. 3 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

In partnership with e Five Racing, Stonestreet Farm had an elite juvenile in 2017 with Good Magic, that year's champion 2-year-old male. Wth West Paces Racing, Stonestreet now owns one of his best sons, Dubyuhnell, winner of the Remsen (G2).

Coming from off the pace Dec. 3 at Aqueduct Racetrack, Julia Shining fought through the sloppy main track to take the Demoiselle Stakes (G2) two years after her older sister Malathaat.

The California Horse Racing Board announced Dec. 3 that Matriarch (G1T) entrant Wakanaka will not be allowed to compete in the Dec. 4 race at Del Mar.

The 6-year-old son of Stay Thirsty eked out the win over Get Her Number and White Abarrio in a photo finish that put his sheer determination and heart on display in the final start of his career.

Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux will be permitted to ride at all 1/ST Racing tracks, including Santa Anita Park, according to a statement released by the company Dec. 2.

The Horseman's Benevolent & Protective Association of Alberta has announced the following programs to eligible participants in 2023, including the Alberta-bred program, Alberta-sired program, and the mare incentive purchase program.

As a result of elevated risk from potential indirect transmission, barns 36 and 38 have been placed under quarantine to restrict those horses from having contact with the general population amid six cases of EHV-1 at Churchill Downs.

A Lexington judge ordered sanctions against two lawyers she found lacked a reasonable basis to continue prosecution of a purported class action based on veterinarians' admitted falsification of radiograph dates for equine sales at Keeneland.

En un final en el que la separación del primero al último fue de apenas cinco cuerpos, el zaino Speaking Scout atropelló a tiempo para llevarse los honores en el Hollywood Derby (G1, $400,000), importante competencia para tresañeros disputada en distancia de 1 1/8 millas sobre grama en Del Mar.

The 20-cent Rainbow pick six begins at Del Mar on Sunday with a carryover of $513,149 from Saturday’s program.

After finishing a well-beaten second behind Clovisconnection in the $66,200 Golden Nugget Stakes at six furlongs at Golden Gate Fields on Nov. 12, Passarando started at a mile for the first time in Saturday’s $77,250 Gold Rush Stakes at Golden Gate Fields. The 2-year-old gelding handled his first start around two turns without difficulty, closing from ninth in a field of 10 to win by 1 1/4 lengths over 65-1 Chase the Chaos

A disappointment in late October, Speaking Scout was the star 3-year-old at Del Mar on Saturday, closing from ninth to win his Grade 1 debut in the $402,500 Hollywood Derby.

Liguria emprendió un sostenido remate desde la curva lejana y dio fácil cuenta de sus rivales en plena recta final para imponerse en el Jimmy Durante S. (G3, $100,000), carrera de una milla sobre grama para potrancas dosañeras que se disputó el sábado en Del Mar.

Speaking Scout came running late to upset the GI Hollywood Derby Saturday at Del Mar. Cold on the board at 8-1, the gelding broke well from the 10-hole, but was content to race near the back as longshot Evan Harlan (Temple City) carved out opening splits of :24.51 and :49.86. Asked for more approaching the far turn, the bay launched a powerful four-wide rally in the lane, forging clear late to score. Spycatcher held second over Wit.

Fourth in both the GIII Kent S. and Bald Eagle Derby this summer, Speaking Scout could only manage seventh in the GIII Dueling Grounds Derby Sept. 5. A decisive winner of the Hawthorne Derby Oct. 1, he came up a half-length short of Cabo Spirit last out in the GII Twilight Derby at Santa Anita Oct. 29.

Pedigree Notes:

Speaking Scout is the second Grade I winner and fifth graded scorer for Mr Speaker. A daughter of SW It's Over, SP Miss Scout failed to get in foal to Cross Traffic for 2020, but had a Laugh Track filly in 2021. She did not get in foal to Runaway Ghost for 2022 and was bred back to that stallion this year.

Saturday, Del Mar
HOLLYWOOD DERBY-GI, $402,500, Del Mar, 12-3, 3yo, 1 1/8mT, 1:49.34, fm.
1–SPEAKING SCOUT, 122, g, 3, by Mr Speaker
               1st Dam: Miss Scout (SP), by Pleasant Tap
               2nd Dam: It's Over, by Stop the Music
               3rd Dam: Terminal Blush, by Silent Screen
1ST GRADED STAKES WIN, 1ST GRADE I WIN. ($10,000 Wlg
'19 KEENOV; $3,000 Ylg '20 OBSOCT). O-Eclipse
Thoroughbred Partners; B-Mike Abraham (KY); T-H. Graham
Motion; J-Juan J. Hernandez. $240,000. Lifetime Record:
14-4-4-0, $500,668. Werk Nick Rating: A.
Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree
or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Spycatcher, 122, c, 3, Noble Mission (GB)–Monique's
Candy, by Candy Ride (Arg). 1ST G1 BLACK TYPE. ($220,000
2yo '21 OBSAPR). O-Muir Hut Stables, LLC; B-St. Elias
Stables, LLC (KY); T-Mark Glatt. $80,000.
3–Wit, 122, c, 3, Practical Joke–Numero d'Oro, by Medaglia
d'Oro. ($575,000 Ylg '20 KEESEP). O-Repole Stable, St. Elias
Stable, & Gainesway Stable (Antony Beck); B-Rosilyn Polan
(KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher. $48,000.
Margins: 3/4, NO, 1 1/4. Odds: 8.20, 33.90, 1.90.
Also Ran: Handy Dandy, Cabo Spirit, St Anthony, Evan Harlan, Script, Clutch Hitter, Celestial City. Scratched: War At Sea.
Click for the Equibase.com chart or the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

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