Bloodhorse.com reported today that Teuflesberg, the three-year-old thoroughbred who was injured in the Grade III Phoenix Stakes earlier this year at Keeneland, will enter stud.

Teuflesberg scored his big win in this year’s Woody Stephens Stakes (gr. II) at seven furlongs in 1:21.49 at Belmont. He also played a part in this year’s memorable running of the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (gr. I) at Keeneland, finishing fourth in a four-horse blanket finish in which subsequent Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner Street Sense was second.

Also this year, Teuflesberg won the Southwest Stakes and placed in four stakes. At 2, he captured the Sugar Bowl Stakes and ran second in the Sanford Stakes (gr. II) at Saratoga.

Teuflesberg is my all-time favorite horse and I was devastated watching him go down on a nationally televised race. I’m glad to see he is recovering well and will be able to live out the rest of his life happy.

Go breed some speedy offspring, Teuflesberg!

From the AP wire today:

Jockey Tammi Piermarini won the first riding title of her career and became just the third female jockey to win a meet title in the 72-year history of Suffolk Downs, which wrapped up its season Saturday.
Piermarini amassed 100 wins from 584 mounts to finish 25 wins ahead of her nearest Suffok competitor, David Amiss. She joins Suzanne Kelly (1980) and Denise Boudrot (1974) as the only women ever to win riding titles at the East Boston oval.

Also, if you’re planning to do some simulcasting this weekend, check out the following stakes races, courtesy again the AP:

SATURDAY, NOV. 17
All American Handicap, 3&up, $150,000, Grade III, 1 1-8M, Golden Gate Fields
Cardinal Handicap, 3&up (f&m), $150,000, Grade III, 1 1-8M (T), Churchill Downs
Autumn Stakes, 3&up, $150,000, Grade III, 1 1-16M, Woodbine
Stuyvesant Handicap, 3&up, $100,000, Grade III, 1 1-8M, Aqueduct
Sharp Cat Stakes, 2yo fillies, $100,000, 1 1-16M, Hollywood Park
SUNDAY, NOV. 18
Colonial Cup Steeplechase Handicap, 4&up, $150,000, Grade I, 2 3-4M (Steeplechase), Camden
Glorious Song Stakes, 2yo fillies, $125,000, 7F, Woodbine
Kennedy Road Stakes, 3&up, $125,000, 6F, Woodbine
Mariah’s Storm Stakes, 3&up (f&m), $100,000, 5F (T), Churchill Downs
Real Quiet Stakes, 2yo, $100,000, 1 1-16M, Hollywood Park
THURSDAY, NOV. 22
Falls City Handicap, 3&up (f&m), $300,000, Grade II, 1 1-8M, Churchill Downs
Hollywood Prevue Stakes, 2yo, $100,000, Grade III, 7F, Hollywood Park
Fall Highweight Handicap, 3&up, $100,000, 6F, Aqueduct

For the curious, here is the NTRA money leaders for jockeys, trainers and thoroughbreds through Nov. 12, courtesy the Associated Press. As usual, forgive the formatting:

Jockey………………………Starts……1st……2nd…..3rd……..Earnings
Garrett Gomez……………..1107…….231…..191…..164……$21,523,981
Robby Albarado…………….1096……218……182…..178……$17,985,332
John Velazquez…………….1042……183……142…..142……$17,105,239
Cornelio Velasquez………..1511……244……187…..210……$15,458,952
Rafael Bejarano…………….1351……220……224…..172……$14,167,797
Ramon Dominguez…………1198……294…..208……184…..$13,970,631
Eibar Coa…………………….1454……255…..235……206…..$12,839,431
Edgar Prado………………….1016…..186…..161……131…..$12,651,050
Kent Desormeaux…………..1022…..192…..171……128……$12,438,102
Javier Castellano……………1036…..156…..164……165……$11,972,031

Trainers……………………….Starts……1st……2nd…….3rd…..Earnings
Todd Pletcher………………..1120…….253…..171…….169….$26,529,207
Steven Asmussen………….1932…….409…..347……..274….$21,398,617
Kiaran McLaughlin………….464………106……77………56…..$12,088,413
Robert Frankel………………493……….114…..99………73……$10,809,437
Doug O’Neill………………….926………141…..122…….134….$10,283,399
William Mott………………….697………142……97……..97……$8,853,115
Scott Lake…………………..2050……..416……381…….306….$8,624,234
Richard Dutrow, Jr………….593………147…..103……..90…..$8,567,703
Bob Baffert…………………..381……….68…….56……..59…..$6,709,572
Gary Contessa……………..1074……..153…..146……164…..$6,610,848

Horses……………………..Starts…..1st……2nd…….3rd………Earnings
Curlin………………………….9……….6………1……….2………$5,102,800
Invasor (ARG)……………….2……….2………0………0……….$3,900,000
Street Sense………………..8……….4………3………0……….$3,205,000
English Channel…………….7………4……….2……..0………..$2,640,000
Hard Spun……………………10…….4……….3……..1……….$2,572,500
Kip Deville…………………….7……..3………1……..1………..$1,965,780
Ginger Punch………………..8………5………2……..1………..$1,827,060
Cloudy’s Knight……………..9………3………3……..1………..$1,762,868
Lahudood (GB)………………5………3………1……..0………..$1,560,500
Lava Man……………………..8……..3………1……..0…………$1,410,000

In this photo provided by Benoit Photo, jockey Garrett Gomez rides Spring Awakening to victory at the Moccasin Stakes, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007 at Hollywood Park, Inglewood, Calif. The win gave Gomez his 71st stakes win of the year, eclipsing Jerry Bailey’s record of 70 set in 2003. (AP Photo/Benoit Photo)

Garrett Gomez won his 71st stakes race this year and passed Jerry Bailey for the most in a year. Gomez rode the 2-year-old filly Spring Awakening to victory in the $100,000 Moccassin Stakes at Hollywood Park.

“At first when they kept telling me about it and telling me about it, I was just going like ‘yeah, yeah, yeah,’” Gomez told Blood-Horse after tying the record on Saturday. “But now that I’m there, it’s a nice feeling to be able to put my name up there with a guy like that (Bailey).”

From the Associated Press: Gomez and Spring Awakening, the heavy favorite in the 7-furlong sprint, sat a comfortable third on the backstretch then dueled with Sindy Jacobson in the homestretch before taking the lead and pulling away for a two-length victory.

“When we turned for home, these two fillies really got to running,” Gomez said. “I couldn’t ask her to run too much faster. Her little legs were going a hundred miles an hour. I didn’t put her in the race, she put herself in the race. She was doing it all on her own.”

Gomez has all but locked up an Eclipse Award, especially after winning two races on the undercard at the Breeders’ Cup. He now has 21.5 million in earnings in 1,107 starts in 2007.

The “King of Chicago” is calling it quits Saturday.

NTRA.com is reporting Mark Guidry will ride Bel Air Beauty in the Mrs. Revere Stakes at Churchill Downs and his 32-year career will be over.

In 1986 Guidry moved from Louisiana to Fairmount Park in Collinsvile, Ill., and then on to the Chicago tracks. He recorded two leading rider titles at Arlington Park, seven at Hawthorne and nine at Sportsman’s.

He was inducted into the Hawthorne Hall of Fame in 1997 and was given a special “Legend in Racing” honor at Arlington this past August.

Guidry has 5,042 career wins and 76 in 2007. He plans to become a racing official after he retires.

Garrett Gomez will have to wait on the record for most stakes race wins in a year after failing to win the War Chant Stakes at Hollywood Park on Wednesday.

Gomez was on the Swiss-bred Karazi, finishing sixth in the nine-horse field.

“We wanted to see if we could get him nice and relaxed,” Gomez told the Associated Press. “Maybe he just doesn’t have that kind of turn of foot. We’ll just go back to the drawing board and see what to do with
him.”

Karazi’s stablemate, Warning Zone, ridden by Jose Valdivia Jr., won the race while Bad Bay took second, and paid over $28 to show.

Any Given Saturday put out to stud

Well, not really much more to report than that. The stud fee, according to the AP, was $40,000. Fellow Breeders’ Cup contender Street Sense went for $75,000 last week.

Any Given Saturday finished sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic and won the Grade II Dwyer Stakes and Grade II Brooklyn Handicap. He finished second to Street Sense in the Tampa Bay Derby in the spring.

Mario Pino reaches 6,000 wins

Mario Pino became the 15th jockey to reach 6,000 wins Wednesday, riding Pass Pay at Laurel Park to a win.

From the AP: Pino, who rode Hard Spun to a second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, reached 5,999 earlier Wednesday aboard Golden Shades before winning atop Pass Play.

“It was more pressure than riding Hard Spun,” Pino said. “I told my wife I felt pressure with these last two winners. I felt butterflies in the Derby, but nothing like this. The pressure was mounting. Once I hit that wire all that emotion just busted out in me.”

Eleven of the 14 members ahead of Pino in the all-time standings are in Racing’s Hall of Fame.

Jockey Garrett Gomez is one win win shy of tying Jerry Bailey’s 2003 record of 70 wins in stakes races.

He’ll get his first chance Wednesday in the War Chant Stakes in what is opening day of Hollywood Park’s 32-day Autumn meet. Gomez will ride Karazi, the morning line favorite, in a one-mile race.

From the Associated Press: “Karazi, a Switzerland-bred son of Arazi, won three of seven starts in France before coming to the United States. He has finished fifth in each of his two starts, but faced strong competition in the La Jolla Handicap at Del Mar and the Oak Tree Derby at Santa Anita.

Karazi drew the inside post and will carry 121 pounds. Among the top challengers figure to be Sahara Heat, who will be ridden by Brice Blanc and carry 123 pounds; Warning Zone, Jose Valdivia Jr., 119 pounds, and Sandwaki, Corey Nakatani, 117 pounds.”

Gomez has earned over $21 million this year, winning 20 percent of his races and finishing in the money 52 percent of the time. He’s run 1,083 races this year.

Gomez will have a chance to redeem himself at this year’s Eclipse Awards after finishing runner-up to Edgar Prado in 2006.

After a lengthy leave from the sports blog, I have returned for a little Kentucky Derby talk. I’m like the Kenny Mayne of DI Sports Wrap-Up.

A full field of 20 horses will once again grace the track at Churchill Downs for the 133rd running of the race. Since the 1984 rule that allowed 20 horses to run, a full field has only run twice: 2005 (Giacamo) and 2006 (Barbaro).

Exercise rider Carmen Rosas runs Kentucky Derby entry Curlin around the Churchill Downs track in Louisville, Ky., on Friday. The 133rd Kentucky Derby will be held today. (AP Photo)

Jockey Robby Albarado will be on Curlin in the No. 2 post position. Curlin is the early favorite at 7-2. Curlin didn’t run his first race until 13 weeks ago, but he won that race and the two since then by a combined 28 lengths.

“We don’t know how good this horse is, but he’s just been dominating,” Churchill Downs oddsmaker Mike Battaglia told the Associated Press in making the colt a slight 7-2 favorite over 4-1 Street Sense.

It’s been 125 years since a horse that skipped his 2-year-old season has won the Derby.

Here are the horses and their post positions:

Exercise rider Derek Sturniolo and Kentucky Derby hopeful Nobiz Like Shobiz are walked off the track at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on Thursday. (AP Photo)

1 Sedgefield 50-1
2 Curlin 7-2
3 Zanjero 30-1
4 Storm in May 30-1
5 Imawildandcrazyguy 50-1
6 Cowtown Cat 20-1
7 Street Sense 4-1
8 Hard Spun 15-1
9 Liquidity 30-1
10 Teuflesberg 30-1
11 Bwana Bull 50-1
12 Nobiz Like Shobiz 8-1
13 Sam P. 20-1
14 Scat Daddy 10-1
15 Tiago 15-1
16 Circular Quay 8-1
17 Stormello 30-1
18 Any Given Saturday 12-1
19 Dominican 20-1
20 Great Hunter 15-1

Weather forecasts look sloppy, and only seven of the 20 horses have raced on a muddy track. If conditions are wet, I like Street Sense as the favorite over Curlin.

My trifecta pick is No Biz like Showbiz, Curlin, and Any Given Saturday.

I’m also partial to Mark Guidry on Imawildandcrazyguy going off at 50-1. Guidry used to dominate Arlington Park in Arlington Heights, Ill., winning two titles there.

According to the AP, Churchill Downs will honor Barbaro before the race in the winner’s circle.

Post time is 5:04 CDT with a $2,210,000 purse. The winner will earn $1,450,000.