The sprint filly Cy Fair struck her targets all summer and fall, with a victory in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint securing her spot as an Eclipse Award finalist.
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The Oak Leaf Stakes, a prominent event for 2-year-old fillies at Santa Anita, has been won by Eclipse Award divisional champion fillies It’s in the Air (1978), Landaluce (1982), Pleasant Stage (1991), Phone Chatter (1993), Chilukki (1999), Halfbridled (2003), Sweet Catomine (2004), Stardom Bound (2008), and Songbird (2015). But its winners also have gone on to good things beyond their 2-year-old campaigns.
For Baeza, success as a 3-year-old runs in the family.
Baeza, a half-brother to 2023 Kentucky Derby winner Mage and 2024 Belmont Stakes winner Dornoch, carried on the family tradition of Grade 1 success as a 3-year-old when he captured the Pennsylvania Derby. That win, combined with third-place finishes in the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve and the Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets, in addition to three additional graded stakes placings, earned Baeza a nod as a finalist for the Eclipse Award in the 3-year-old male division.
Gstaad, a town in southern Switzerland, is described as a popular destination amongst high society and the international jet set.
In 2025, Gstaad, the 2-year-old colt bred in England, was a popular horse amongst bettors and raced productively, if not always successfully, on the international stage.
Sovereignty, the dual-classic winner, Thorpedo Anna, the 2024 Horse of the Year, and 12 of the 14 winners of Breeders’ Cup races were among those announced Sunday as finalists for Eclipse Awards, which honor the 2025 champions of Thoroughbred racing.
Poor weather continues to plague Santa Anita’s winter meeting.
The track canceled racing for the second consecutive day on Sunday because of a forecast of rain through the day, according to an early morning statement.
The loss of Sunday’s program is the sixth day of racing canceled because of wet conditions in slightly more than a week. Racing was canceled on Dec. 26-27 and on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday earlier this week because of extensive rain.
A replacement program was held last Monday. Wednesday’s program was intended to be a makeup program.
Diane Crump, who became the first woman to compete as a jockey in the United States and paved the way for the generations that would follow her in the saddle, died Thursday night, according to a social-media post from her family. Crump, who had been diagnosed with brain cancer in October of last year, was 77.
Irad Ortiz Jr. and Flavien Prat became the first two jockeys to surpass the $40 million mark in purse earnings for a single year in 2025, but it was Ortiz finishing as the year-end leader by the slimmest of margins.
Ortiz, who had 1,631 mounts, earned $40,497,847 in purses, while Prat, who rode 1,256 horses, finished with $40,496,178. Prat made a late run at Ortiz, winning three races Wednesday at Aqueduct but did not accrue sufficient earnings in his last two rides to pass him.
Barnes, the winner of two graded stakes for 3-year-old sprinters in 2025, has been retired to stud at Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa Farm in Paris, Ky., the farm announced on Monday.
Barnes will stand for $15,000, according to the statement.
By Into Mischief, Barnes won 3 of 7 starts and earned $557,750. He was entered in Sunday’s Grade 1 Malibu Stakes at seven furlongs for 3-year-olds at Santa Anita, but was withdrawn because of a “setback,” trainer Bob Baffert said over the weekend.
Sun, 12/28/2025 - 13:09
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Trainer Kevin Bond, the subject of an investigation by the New York Racing Association after an antisemitic post appeared on a Facebook group page earlier this month, won Sunday’s first race at Aqueduct with the New York-bred maiden Bodegas.
Bodegas was Bond’s first starter since the post attributed to him appeared on a Facebook group page that he says he does not follow. The comment was in response to a post about the death of Hollywood actor/director Rob Reiner on Dec. 15.