ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Kazushi Kimura won his second straight Woodbine riding title when the 132-day meet wrapped up Sunday.

Kazushi Kimura, who took the last week of the meet off, won 152 races from 755 rides, and his mounts earned a meet-leading $8.9 million.

Rafael Hernandez ranked second with 122 wins. He missed the last two days of the meet after suffering broken ribs in a spill Friday.

Hernandez’s win on Fashionably Fab in Friday’s Shady Well Stakes made him the meet’s leading stakes-winning jockey by a 16-15 margin over Kimura.

Highly promising 2-year-old colt Extra Anejo has been taken out of training because of an injury, trainer Steve Asmussen reported on Sunday. 

Asmussen and the colt’s owner, Winchell Thoroughbreds, had hoped to make the Gun Runner Stakes on Dec. 26 at Fair Grounds with Extra Anejo, but a relatively minor injury has forced a change in plans. 

“He has a small chip in a hind ankle. It’s not ideal timing. The prognosis is good, but it’s not the timing anybody wants,” Asmussen said. 

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas was nursing five freshly fractured ribs on Thursday, but the pain could not dampen his excitement about Secret Oath.

The Kentucky Oaks winner, Secret Oath is set to return to the races next year at 4. She is in light training and will likely resume racing in March at Oaklawn.

“What we’ve done is a little bit of a tentative plan - penciled in, not in stone,” Lukas said Thursday. “We’re pointing her for the Azeri and the Apple Blossom. That will be her two outs here. We’ve got some time in front of us.”

Midnight Stroll, the Delaware Oaks winner, was credited with a six-furlong move in 1:14.60 Friday morning over the Belmont Park training track. She is preparing for a start in the Grade 1 La Break Stakes at Santa Anita on Dec. 26.

Midnight Stroll, working on the inside of Union Lake, went from the half-mile pole to the wire 48.70 seconds with a final quarter of 23.85 seconds. She went out five furlongs in 1:01.93 and six furlongs in 1:14.60.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – After initially planning to wait until the Withers Stakes on Feb. 4 to run Arctic Arrogance again, trainer Linda Rice said this week she is now strongly considering running the Grade 2 Remsen runner-up in the $150,000 Jerome Stakes here on Jan. 7.

“I’m going to point to the Jerome,” Rice said Thursday. “Two months is too much time. I’ll the let horse make the decision, how he’s doing at the time. If I feel like he needs more time between races, I can wait for the Withers.”

Run Classic worked a half-mile in 48.20 seconds Thursday at Fair Grounds and is scheduled to return to stakes competition later this month for the first time since the Louisiana Derby in March 2021.

A glance at the Fair Grounds jockey standings the morning of Dec. 9 makes you look twice. Deshawn Parker, Alexander Castillo, and Jareth Loveberry occupy positions in the top five.

Gander, a four-time New-York bred champion gelding who was a fan favorite for his desire and durability, died Wednesday at Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater, N.Y., due to complications from old age. He was 26.

Gander, owned by brothers Mike and Ted Gatsas, raced 60 times in a career that began in 1998 and lasted through July 2004 before he suffered a career-ending injury in a workout at Saratoga. Gander won 15 races, including six stakes topped by the Grade 2 Meadowlands Cup in 2001, and earned $1,824,011. He still ranks as the 12th all-time leading New York-bred money earner.

Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez was fined $4,017 and suspended one day for striking Mind Control seven times with his whip, one over the limit set forth by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, in winning the Grade 1, $750,000 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct on Dec. 3.

Mind Control won the Cigar Mile by a head over Get Her Number in a spirited stretch duel that also included White Abarrio, who was beaten a half-length in third.

Topped by its usual trio of races for 3-year-olds hoping to jump on the Triple Crown trail, the New York Racing Association will offer 25 stakes worth $3.2 million at the 2023 Aqueduct winter meet that runs from Jan. 1 through March 26.