Classic sire Daredevil has arrived back in Turkey to continue his stud career after standing in Kentucky for the past four seasons, the Turkish Jockey Club has revealed.

For the second time this fall, jockey Luan Machado was sanctioned by Kentucky stewards for failing to urge his mount through to the finish line in a race.

Machado was riding Hold My Bourbon in an allowance race on Nov. 28 at Churchill Downs, and the duo held a 2 1/2-length lead in midstretch. With Machado hand-riding to the wire, Lightline, under Flavien Prat, rallied down the center of the track to nail them by a neck at the wire.

Lightline, sent off as the second choice, returned $9.30 for the win. Hold My Bourbon went off at odds of 7.64-to-1.

Richard Papiese, principal in Midwest Thoroughbreds, North America’s leading owner by wins from 2010 through 2015, died on Dec. 4 in northwest Indiana.

Papiese, 65, for several years had been afflicted with multiple systems atrophy, MSA, a rare and fatal degenerative neurologic condition.

Papiese and his wife, Karen, founded, owned, and ran Midwest Custom Case, a successful store-fixture manufacturing company based in University Park, Il.

Famed equestrian and longtime thoroughbred trainer Rodney Jenkins died in his sleep Thursday, Dec. 5, at age 80.

Jenkins retired from the American show ring as the sport’s winningest rider and was inducted into the Show Jumping Hall of Fame in 1999. He rode on 10 winning Nations Cups teams between 1973 and 1987 and earned two silver medals in the 1987 Pan American Games as a member of the U.S. Equestrian Team. 

Paco Lopez, the jockey who was provisionally suspended on Wednesday, one day after he struck a horse with a whip after a race, has announced that he will take time off from riding “to seek appropriate counseling and work on myself,” the rider said in a social media post on Thursday.

Aqueduct has canceled its Thursday card due to forecasted high winds scheduled to impact the New York City area, the New York Racing Association announced.

The National Weather Service is calling for sustained high winds Thursday with gusts approaching 50 miles per hour. As of Thursday morning, the New York City area was under a high wind advisory.

Aqueduct was to remain open for simulcasting and live racing was scheduled to resume Friday with an eight-race card beginning at 12:10 p.m.

The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority has issued a provisional suspension of the jockey Paco Lopez after video showed him whipping a horse in the neck after the fifth race at Park Racing outside of Philadelphia on Tuesday.

In the video, Lopez can be seen high in the stirrups while slowing a horse, the 2-year-old colt National Law, before heading back to the winner’s circle. He suddenly raises the whip high over his shoulder and brings the cord of the whip down on the right side of the horse’s neck.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. -- The New York Racing Association has scheduled 200 racing dates in 2025, 49 of which will take place at Saratoga.

The 200 dates are five more than were scheduled in 2024.

Aqueduct’s winter meet will consist of 49 programs from Jan. 1 through March 30. Aside from a card on New Year’s Day, which falls on a Wednesday, racing for the most part will be conducted four days a week (Thursdays through Sundays) in January and February. Starting March 7, there will be three-day race weeks, Fridays through Sundays, through the end of the month.

Dale Romans, the Kentucky native who has served on the board of the Kentucky Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association for more than 30 years, has been elected president of the organization, taking a position that has been held by trainer Rick Hiles for 24 years.

Barnes, a first-out winner from the barn of Triple Crown titan Bob Baffert, was made the 13-1 individual favorite in the second Kentucky Derby pool, behind the perennial top choice in the early pools, the field entry, which closed at 9-5.

Barnes, a $3.2 million 2-year-old purchase, won his debut at Churchill Downs on Nov. 27 by a head. It was the first win by a Baffert-trained horse at Churchill since he was banned by the track shortly after the 2021 Kentucky Derby. The ban was lifted this summer. Baffert has won the Derby a record six times.