Trainer Karl Broberg, who was fined $20,000 in a case of mistaken horse identity in Oklahoma, said Wednesday he has paid the fine. Broberg had been debating whether to appeal a ruling handed down Tuesday by the Remington Park board of stewards. The case involved two races in September at Remington. “I just went ahead and reluctantly paid the fine this morning,” Broberg said. “It wasn’t worth the fight, and it wasn’t worth being talked about anymore. It just needs to be done and over with.” Broberg, who leads all trainers in wins this year in North America, was not suspended. The stewards last week disqualified the Broberg trainees Collateral Kitten and Onemorefastdance from their placings and purse earnings in the races Sept. 4 and Sept. 16. The mix-up came to light following the Sept. 16 race, in which Collateral Kitten was listed as the official winner of the fifth race but Onemorefastdance actually ran. The mistake was found in the test barn. In the eighth race Sept. 4, Onemorefastdance was listed as the fourth-place finisher, but Collateral Kitten actually ran, according to the ruling provided by the Oklahoma Racing Commission. The owners of both horses pleaded no contest. There were two identifiers in the case, and both were suspended for seven days, according to the commission. Broberg said the identifying tattoos of the two horses had similar endings, one in 970 and the other 910. “Unfortunately, the 970 looked exactly like the 910, which allowed us to make such a careless, foolish mistake,” he said. There also was an identifying mistake on the Coggins test of one of the horses, according to the ruling. Broberg was fined $10,000 each on two separate counts in the case, falling under rules concerning “horses ineligible to start in a race” and “trainer responsibility.” He said he had debated appealing the ruling in part because of the precedent concerning fine size. During his hearing, he said he cited two cases of mistaken horse identity in Oklahoma in which the fine to each trainer was $1,500. Broberg said the wrong horse ran twice in one of those cases.