Jockeys Joao Moreira, Christophe Soumillon among names to watch Dec. 13 at Sha Tin.

Princess Noor, an OBS sale topper earlier this year and grade 1 winner by Not This Time has been retired from racing. She was pulled up in the stretch of the Dec. 5 Starlet Stakes (G1) at Los Alamitos.

Making comparisons can come back to haunt the speaker, but trainer Danny Velazquez didn’t blink at all when some well-known names were attached to a certain 2-year-old gelding named Brooklyn Strong in his barn.

Feeling Mischief took the Sandpiper Stakes in stakes-record time Dec. 5, and Poppy’s Pride won the Inaugural Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs.

The high-class Champs Elysees filly Durance came to the fore Dec. 5 on a day of highly competitive trade at Arqana’s Breeding Stock Sale, making €750,000 to Pursuit of Success.

Robert Hess Sr., a longtime trainer based in Northern California and father of Southern California trainer Robert Hess Jr., died Dec. 5 from COVID-19. He was 86.

Horse racing fans have chosen Authentic, the wire-to-wire victor in both the 2020 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), as the winner of the 2020 Secretariat Vox Populi Award.

The 2-year-old Curlin filly joined her dam, Dreaming of Julia, and her grandam, Dream Rush, to become a third-generation graded stakes winner in the Road to the Kentucky Oaks qualifier Dec. 5 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

The Turf Publicists of America announced Dec. 5 trainer Tom Amoss as the recipient of the Big Sport of Turfdom Award, which recognizes a person who enhances coverage of Thoroughbred racing through cooperation with media and racing publicists.  

Calumet Farm’s True Timber, perched just off two dueling leaders, pounced on the turn and drew off in the stretch for an emphatic victory in the $250,000 Cigar Mile Handicap (G1) at Aqueduct Racetrack Dec. 5.

Making comparisons can come back to haunt the speaker, but trainer Danny Velazquez didn’t blink at all when some well-known names were attached to a certain 2-year-old gelding named Brooklyn Strong in his barn.

Sharp Starr continued her love affair with racing one mile Dec. 5 at Aqueduct Racetrack when she wore down a stubborn Portal Creek in the $100,000 Go for Wand Handicap (G3).

Aaron West, the racing operations manager at Bradley Thoroughbreds, won the Newcomer Award at last month’s Godolphin-sponsored Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards. He spoke to Racing Post about getting started from the ground up.

When the champion mare Monomoy Girl returns to the races in 2021 as a 6-year-old, she will be running for a new owner and targeting one of the year’s top stakes for fillies and mares that will be new to her résumé.

During a special meeting of the New Mexico Racing Commission Dec. 4, the winter/spring meet at Sunland Park that was to begin Dec. 26 was postponed 30 days with the intention to revisit the meet’s status again in January.

When the champion mare Monomoy Girl returns to the races in 2021 as a 6-year-old, she will be running for a new owner and targeting one of the year’s top stakes for fillies and mares that will be new to her résumé.

The scholarship funds will benefit four students in the 2020-21 academic year with the overall goal to help provide equine-related and Veterinary Medical Technology (VMT) majors.

Coady Photography will donate 25% of all sales in December of its 2021 calendar honoring Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) and Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner Authentic to Old Friends Equine.

Mike Smith tested positive Dec. 4 for COVID-19, the Hall of Fame rider said, resulting in him missing two stakes mounts this weekend at Los Alamitos Race Course.

Deputy Minister inbreeding is in the pedigrees of three grade 1 winners by Curlin.