Via Sistina produced a dominant display to score a remarkable 12th triumph at the highest level when successfully defending her crown in the Champions Stakes (G1) Nov. 8 on a wet, windy and unseasonably cold day at Flemington.

Brian Hernandez Jr., who suffered numerous broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and a lacerated liver in a fall at Churchill Downs on Sept. 21, is set to resume riding next week at Louisville, Ky. track.

After the cancellation of racing Oct. 30-31, Aqueduct Racetrack will add a Nov. 12 card and additional races to other cards throughout November.

Maiden Watch: Week of Oct. 27-Nov. 2

Jockey Flavien Prat is Jockey of the Week after two wins at the Breeders' Cup at Del Mar and seven wins on the Nov. 2 card at Aqueduct.

A stellar line-up will contest the 2025 Longines International Jockeys' Championship at Happy Valley Racecourse Dec. 10, including five previous winners—Ryan Moore, Zac Purton, Mickael Barzalona, Joao Moreira and Christophe Lemaire.

Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Journalism will race next year before he retires to stud at Coolmore's Ashford Stud, according to Aron Wellman of Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, one of the colt's co-owners.

Drexel Hill, runner-up in the Kentucky Oaks (G1), returns to the starting gate for her first race since the Run for the Lilies in the $300,000 Mother Goose Stakes (G2) Nov. 8 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

The respective King's Plate winners from 2023 and 2024, Paramount Prince and Caitlinhergrtness, swing back into action in separate CA$150,000 graded stakes races Nov. 8 at Woodbine.

In the space of just 13 days, Strictly Business has broken her maiden, finished second in the Wakeful Stakes (G2), and then taken out the VRC Oaks (G1) Nov. 6.