With the conclusion of the 2005 Delaware Park meet last weekend, it's time for a look back at the notable people and events from a year of horse racing.

•Jockey of the year: DelPark-based Jeremy Rose gained prominence nationally with his winning rides on Afleet Alex in the Preakness and Belmont Stakes. He handled himself with style and class in dealing with the national media and had another strong season at DelPark.

The Cigar Mile is the centerpiece of the Big A's stakes-heavy HolidayFest weekend.

It begins Thursday with the $100,000 Fall Highweight Handicap and continues Friday with the Grade 2, $150,000 Top Flight Handicap for fillies and mares.

In addition to the Cigar Mile on Saturday, the Big A offers a pair of Grade 2, $200,000 juvenile stakes: the Remsen and the Demoiselle for fillies.

An unintended abbreviated week for the NYRA Analysis owing to computer problems, whereby analyses for the G3 Stuyvesant and Valley Stream failed to appear. Win bettors didn't miss much. Maybe not so exacta players. Here's what happened.

On Saturday, we offered a win play on West Virginia at 4-1 and an exacta key box with Aggadan and Evening Attire. West Virginia finished second at 4-1, completing a $42.60 exacta with Evening Attire. (Aggadan was third).

Jockey John Velazquez attained the highest mark in yearly purses ever won by a North American-based jockey with his third-place finish aboard India in the $105,200 Valley Stream Stakes Sunday at Aqueduct. Through Nov. 20, last year's Eclipse Award-winning jockey has $23,356,456 in purse earnings.

Velazquez's six mounts at Aqueduct produced total purse earnings of $39,078, including $10,792 from India in his final ride of the afternoon. Velazquez started the day $37,582 off Jerry Bailey's purse-earnings mark of $23,354,960 set in 2003.

Delaware shipper Miraculous Miss swept by the spent leaders in deep stretch to win the $105,200 Valley Stream (gr. III) for 2-year-old fillies at Aqueduct going away Sunday, upsetting the odds-on favorite India.

Miraculous Miss, trained by co-owner Steve Klesaris, remained unbeaten in three starts while winning her first stakes race at odds of 9-1.

Under a patient ride from Ramon Dominguez, Miraculous Miss, a daughter of Mr. Greeley, trailed the field into the stretch of the six-furlong event after hitting the gate at the start and being outrun early.

Who says horse racing is in trouble? Coming off a record breaking handle of over $122 million at the Breeders’ Cup this year, bettors put it down with both hands and fists and deposited $5,698,493 to set a Churchill record on the Pick Six last Saturday. The highest total wagered on a single day into the Pick Six is the $5,889,712 fired into a Santa Anita pool in 2004.