After chasing Midcourt in second throughout in the Native Diver Stakes (G3) a year ago, Extra Hope got the jump out of the gate Nov. 21 and led from there to the finish line to win the $98,000 nine-furlong event at Del Mar.

Leading Western Australian owner-breeder Bob Peters, husband-wife training duo Grant and Alana Williams and popular rider William Pike combined Nov. 21 to take Perth’s oldest group 1 race, the Railway Stakes (G1), for the third straight year.

After a 3-year-old season interrupted by a leg infection and colitis, the grade 1-placed Gouverneur Morris is walking soundly in preparation for a 4-year-old campaign in 2021 that will likely begin in the spring.

Trainer Mark Glatt registered a major milestone when he rung up the 1,000th victory of his career Nov. 20 at Del Mar with the speedy gelding Zestful in a nine-furlong allowance affair.

Multiple stakes winner Funny Guy will receive a cutback in distance while seeking a third stakes triumph of the year in the Nov. 22 Thunder Rumble division of the New York Stallion Stakes Series for 3 year olds and up at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Denny Andrews and Northern Dawn Stables’ homebred Red River Rebel defied his odds in the featured CA$100,400 (US$76,806) Frost King Stakes, scoring a maiden-breaking victory Nov. 20 at Woodbine.

For the first time in its 14-year history, the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award has gone to a multi-collaborative effort. The 2019 winner is “Better Lucky Than Good: Tall Tales and Straight Talk from the Backside of the Track.”

Santa Anita Park will raise the daily overnight purse distribution 10% for the 2020-21 season, which begins Dec. 26.  The increase will bring the average daily purse money available to horsemen to over $533,000.

Caracaro, a grade 1-placed 3-year-old colt by top-class sire Uncle Mo, has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Pope McLean’s Crestwood Farm in Lexington in 2021. He will stand his first year at stud for $6,500 live foal stands and nurse.

Nine 2-year-olds, including impressive first-time winner Haddassah, are set to contest in the Nov. 22 Grey Stakes (G3) at Woodbine, on a card that also includes the Mazarine Stakes (G3) for 2-year-old fillies.

Ghaiyyath has been crowned Cartier Horse of the Year following his scintillating flat season that included triumphs in the Coronation Cup (G1), Coral-Eclipse (G1), and Juddmonte International (G1).

Mehmas has sired 47 individual winners and four at stakes level, headed by Middle Park Stakes (G1) winner Supremacy.

A trio of group 2 races Nov. 22 at Sha Tin Racecourse will go a long way toward determining the fields for the Longines Hong Kong International Races three weeks down the road.

Part owner Peter Tighe admitted that time was running out for Winx to be served this spring, with the champion mare appearing far more likely to return to the breeding barn in 2021.

1/ST announced today the appointment of Paul Williams to Chief Executive Officer, 1/ST TECHNOLOGY and to Chief Technology Officer, 1/ST.

The son of War Front will stand for $3,500 in 2021.

In her past two starts, Gran Alegria won the Yasuda Kinen (G1) at one mile at Tokyo Racecourse in June and the 1,200-meter (about six-furlong) Sprinters Stakes (G1) at Nakayama Oct. 4.

Simsir, making his first start for the local connections, barely held off a pair of top international raiders to win the second running of the Bahrain International Trophy Nov. 20 by a desperate neck.

The Kennedy Road Stakes (G2) and Bessarabian Stakes (G2) share top billing.

Multiple stakes winner Funny Guy will receive a cutback in distance while seeking a third stakes triumph of the year in the Nov. 22 Thunder Rumble division of the New York Stallion Stakes Series for 3 year olds and up at Aqueduct Racetrack.