OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Bishops Bay, winner of the Grade 3 Forty Niner Stakes on Nov. 2, will be strongly considered for the Grade 2, $500,000 Cigar Mile here on Dec. 6, trainer Brad Cox said.

Bishops Bay, who won the Forty Niner by three-quarters of a length over Nelson Avenue, is now 2 for 2 going a one-turn mile at Aqueduct having also captured the Grade 3 Westchester here in the spring. Overall, Bishops Bay is 8 for 12 with victories in the Grade 3 Salvator Mile at Monmouth and the American Pharoah Stakes at Oaklawn.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Gezora, the 9-1 winner of the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Del Mar for trainer Francis-Henri Graffard, will be transferred to Chad Brown and have a 4-year-old campaign stateside.

Gezora is getting a 30-day break at Dell Ridge Farm in Lexington, Ky., before she joins Brown’s stable at Payson Park in Florida. Gezora is owned by Peter Brant, one of Brown’s main clients.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Book’em Danno, the multiple Grade 1 stakes-winning New Jersey-bred, will soon be joining trainer Derek Ryan’s stable at Tampa Bay Downs to begin preparing for his 5-year-old campaign.

Ryan, speaking Friday morning at Belmont Park, where he has a few horses stabled, said Book’em Danno is currently on a farm in Ocala “chilling” and getting some exercise on a treadmill. Ryan said while he doesn’t anticipate having Book’em Danno ready in time for a trip to Saudi Arabia in February, he didn’t rule out a trip to Dubai for the Golden Shaheen on March 28.

Trainer Justin Nixon has been waiting some time to give Sheilahs Warcloud a chance around two turns. After 13 straight starts at a mile or shorter, the 4-year-old filly will stretch out to 1 1/16 miles as a lively contender in the $100,000 Thirty Eight Go Go Stakes on Sunday at Laurel Park.

“It just hasn’t shaken out that we’ve been able to do it,” Nixon said of an attempt around two turns. “So, you know, we tried to enter in [a conditioned allowance] this weekend and it didn’t go, so we used this as a backup plan and here we are.”

LEXINGTON, Ky. – A hot weanling market has been one of the drivers of double-digit gains in key economic indicators at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.

So, just how hot is it?

“Scalding,” Denali Stud’s Conrad Bandoroff said. “The demand for yearlings and the demand for weanlings is voracious.”

Bandoroff spoke after a Denali-consigned Gun Runner colt sold for $2.2 million to rank among Keeneland November’s all-time leading weanling prices.

The mini turf festival at Churchill Downs this week continues Sunday with the featured seventh race, a third-level allowance with a $100,000 claiming option carded for one mile on grass.

This comes one day after the River City Stakes, a 1 1/8-mile grass race for older horses, and two days after Churchill filled a fourth-level allowance for older turf milers.

Immersive never really got untracked this year after winning an Eclipse Award as champion 2-year-old filly of 2024. And Good Cheer had a quiet second half of her 3-year-old campaign after capturing the Kentucky Oaks. But both fillies will race on next year at age 4, trainer Brad Cox said this week.

She Feels Pretty, who should be named champion female turf horse of 2025, stands ready, willing, and able to race as a 5-year-old in 2026. Whether that happens, however, has yet to be decided.

Turf Paradise in Phoenix opens its 102-day live racing season Monday with a new operator and general manager hoping to usher in a new era in Arizona racing.

The final two stakes races of the Finger Lakes season take place on Monday, with the $45,000 Shesastonecoldfox Stakes and $45,000 Tin Cup Chalice Stakes. Two juveniles from these fields of seven and nine, respectively, will come away with their first stakes victories – and will join the races’ namesakes as stakes-winning 2-year-olds at the Farmington, N.Y., track.