Rewrite made her open stakes debut a success, capturing the Gaily Gaily Stakes last Sunday on the Aqueduct turf.

The victory brought up warm memories of the late Hall of Fame trainer P.G. Johnson, long a supporter of the New York program.

Rewrite is bred and owned by the Amherst Stable of his daughters, Karen and Kathy Johnson.

Rewrite is one of the last horses bred by their father.

She is the only horse left that is owned by Amherst Stable, which also included their parents P.G. and Mary Kay, both of whom died in 2004.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Keeneland November sale set a record for total receipts, and a highly significant part of the auction's success was the participation of buyers from other countries.

Geoffrey Russell, director of sales for Keeneland, said that a third of the business at the Keeneland September and November sales came from overseas, with buyers from 43 countries making purchases.

The participation of buyers from other countries was especially important this year because of the condition of the U.S. economy.

McCann's Mojave's victory in the $150,000 All American Handicap at Golden Gate Fields on Nov. 17 was not the richest win of the 7-year-old horse's career. The purse was just a fraction of the $1 million Sunshine Millions Classic that McCann's Mojave won in a 33-1 upset at Gulfstream Park last January.

The Grade 3 All American was not his most prestigious victory, a distinction achieved with a victory in the Grade 2 Potrero Grande Breeders' Cup Handicap at Santa Anita in 2004.

Tom and Chris Bowman have reached one high point after another over the past several years with their Maryland-based breeding operation. So it's no surprise that the Bowmans are likely to be listed among the breeders of 2007 Eclipse Award winners.

But hardly anyone would have predicted that it would happen with a steeplechaser.

Medallist, a multiple graded stakes winner, will relocate from Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky., to Maryland's Northview Stallion Station, Three Chimneys announced Tuesday. A 6-year-old Touch Gold horse out of the Grade 1-placed stakes winner Santari, Medallist will stand for $5,000.

"This is a move to give the horse access to a new market in his third and fourth years," said syndicate manager Case Clay, "when a lot of Kentucky-based mares are going to first- and second-year stallions."

Hook and Ladder got his second stakes winner from his first crop of runners when Spanky Fischbein won the $100,000 Great White Way division of the New York Stallion Stakes last Sunday.

A 10-year-old son of Dixieland Band, Hook and Ladder stands at Sequel Stallions New York in Hudson.

He is also the sire of Bongard Stakes winner Big Truck and I Promise, who finished third in the Grade 3 Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.

Additions to Florida's stallion ranks are being announced on a daily basis. Among those being retired to stud duty in 2008 are the stallions Pavarotti and Simon Pure. Both will stand at Hartley/DeRenzo Walmac South. Ocala Stud will stand High Cotton, while Exclusive Quality enters stud at Journeyman Stud.

Pavarotti is a 3-year-old son of A.P. Indy out of Snow Forest, by Woodman. Bought by the partnership of Michael Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier, and Derrick Smith at the Keeneland yearling sales of 2005 for

LEXINGTON, Ky. - With 13 victories in a row, the unbeaten 4-year-old filly Peppers Pride is becoming a legend in New Mexico racing, and owner-breeder Joseph Allen of Abilene, Texas, believes that his racehorse is something special and would like to keep winning races with her.

In her most recent start, Peppers Pride won the New Mexico Cup Championship Fillies and Mares Stakes at Zia Park on Nov. 11. That victory has brought her increasing attention, as she approaches the modern benchmark for consecutive victories in North America.

The year 2007 for Canadian-bred horses will be remembered mostly for the exploits of a trio of Grade 1 winners who made their country's horsepeople proud.

Jambalaya, bred by Gus Schickedanz of Schomberg, Ontario, and raced by Kingfield Farms, became the first Canadian-bred winner of the Arlington Million; Sky Conqueror, owned and bred by Bill Sorokolit, won the Grade 1 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day; and Maryfield, bred and sold by Mike Carroll and John Harvey Jr., won the inaugural running of the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.

Skeedattle Associates, a partnership comprising Willie White, Lou Rehak, and Bob Orndorff, has had many successes in its 16 years of owning Thoroughbreds. Skeedattle has expanded to the breeding side of the business, and within a short time has notched numerous accomplishments, among the most notable coming over the past two weeks at Laurel Park.