This Week’s Racing Schedule for Radio and TV, as compiled by America’s Best Racing.

Bloodlines do not come much better than being by a Investec Epsom Derby (G1) winner and out of an Investec Epsom Oaks (G1) heroine, and that is the breeding boasted by the 300,000 guineas top lot at Monday’s Tattersalls December Yearling Sale.

With its traditional Winter/Spring Meeting set to begin Saturday, December 26, Santa Anita Park has announced a lucrative Sunshine Bonus, which is intended to attract out-of-state horses throughout the meet, which concludes on June 20.

The graded stakes-placed and black-type winner Curlin’s Honor, from the family of Fappiano, will be standing in Florida for the 2021 breeding season at Pleasant Acres Stallions for fee of $2,500.

A concerted long-term commitment by New Zealand stud masters to improve the depth of the country’s stallion ranks is borne out in next year’s Karaka Yearling Sale.

In a move welcomed with surprise and delight by racing and bookmakers UK prime minister Boris Johnson announced English racecourses will be allowed to start welcoming back limited crowds from next Wednesday, while betting shops can re-open too.

The Equine Sales Company of Louisiana conducted its Open Yearling and Mixed Sale of Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses in Opelousas, La., on Nov. 21.

Former longtime Hermitage Farm manager Thomas E. Shartle—more commonly known as “Shartle” to his friends—died at age 85 on Aug. 16.

The son of English Channel’s success on the turf at Saratoga Race Course will make him especially appealing to Turkish breeders.

Mr. Monomoy, the half brother to champion Monomoy Girl and an early contender for the 2020 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1), has been retired.

While Life Is Good impressed in his first outing on the West Coast, trainer Christophe Clement continued his roll at Aqueduct, with juveniles Brattle House and Straw Into Gold.

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged nearly 80 supplemental entries, including more than 70 horses of racing age, for its upcoming Midlantic December Mixed and Horses of Racing Age Sale.  

Spendthrift Farm’s Into Mischief broke the single-season progeny earnings record for a North American sire set by Gainesway’s Tapit in 2016 when his son Life is Good won his debut at Del Mar Nov. 22. Into Mischief’s earnings now total $19,994,720.

Mr. Monomoy, the half brother to champion Monomoy Girl and an early contender for the 2020 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1), has been retired.

 Churchill Downs Racetrack announced it will invest $10 million to install a new turf course that will widen the running surface and increase the durability to allow increased turf racing throughout the year.

Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement Center in Georgetown, Ky., is proud to welcome multiple graded stakes winner Tom’s Ready.

The $200,000 Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes (G2T) Nov. 27 at Del Mar attracted a full field of 12, plus two also eligible entries, topped by grade 1 winners Arklow and Say the Word.

Funny Guy returned to his winning ways, displaying a devastating turn-of-foot in the final half-furlong to overtake defending winner My Boy Tate in the $97,000 New York Stallion Series Stakes Thunder Rumble division Nov. 22 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Multiple grade 1-winner Mind Control, trained by Gregg Sacco, posted a five-eighths work in 1:01.85 Nov. 22 on the Belmont Park dirt training track in preparation for the Cigar Mile (G1) Dec. 5 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Andrew Wyeth’s Over the Hill brought $109,250, including buyer premium, Nov. 22 to headline the eighth annual Sporting Art Auction, a collaboration between Keeneland and Cross Gate Gallery.