The Breeders’ Cup and Upper Right Marketing, a retail merchandising company, have signed a multiyear agreement making Upper Right the exclusive Breeders’ Cup retailer for its branded merchandise and apparel, the Breeders’ Cup announced on Thursday.

The trainer Ron Ellis will not be allowed to enter any horses in the 2017 Breeders’ Cup under a formal adoption of a sanction by Breeders’ Cup on Tuesday regarding a positive test for a trace amount of an anabolic steroid after the Ellis-trained Masochistic finished second in the 2016 Sprint.

The 2017 prohibition, announced Tuesday by Breeders' Cup, will also apply to Masochistic under rules Breeders’ Cup adopted several years ago to project a tough stance on the use of medications and drugs in racing.

Masochistic will be disqualified from his second-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, and his trainer, Ron Ellis, faces a potential penalty from the California Horse Racing Board after two separate tests confirmed small amounts of a legal steroid in the horse’s system, Ellis said Monday.

Grade 1, $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile; 1 1/16 miles; Santa Anita; Nov. 5, 2016
(20 Derby qualifying points for a win, 8 for second, 4 for third, 2 for fourth)

Winner: Classic Empire, by Pioneerof the Nile
Trainer: Mark Casse
Jockey: Julien Leparoux
Owner: John Oxley
Beyer Speed Figure: 102

Grade 1, $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, 1 1/16 miles, Santa Anita, Nov. 5, 2016

 (20 Derby qualifying points for a win, 8 for second, 4 for third, 2 for fourth)

 Winner: Classic Empire, by Pioneerof the Nile

 Trainer: Mark Casse

 Jockey: Julien Leparoux

 Owner: John Oxley

 Beyer Speed Figure: 102

DEL MAR, Calif. – The purse for the $1.5 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint has yet to be released, though the other 12 Breeders’ Cup races have had their purses released, the California Horse Racing Board said on Wednesday.

Purses are often held up if there is an issue with a post-race test. Asked if that was the case regarding the Sprint, Mike Marten, a spokesman for the racing board, said, “We cannot comment.”

“We cannot confirm at this time whether or not the purse for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint is being held due to a failed drug test,” Marten said.

Tamarkuz earned a place at stud at his owner’s farm when he won the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Santa Anita on Friday. Three days after the biggest victory of his career, it was announced that he would take up residence at Sheikh Maktoum’s Shadwell Farm in Lexington, Ky., for the 2017 breeding season. The son of Speightstown will stand for a fee of $12,500.

In show business, it’s how you leave ’em that counts – laughing, crying, wanting even more. Last Saturday’s Day 2 of the Breeders’ Cup provided all that and then some.

Brilliant races from Arrogate, California Chrome, Highland Reel, and Tourist marked the day, while Peter Eurton, Phil D’Amato, Seamus Heffernan, and Flavien Prat joined the company of Breeders’ Cup winners.

Craig Bernick of Glen Hill Farm made a tremendous run at the Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge. Heading to the Classic he sat third with $56,042.50. He liked California Chrome, and he was willing to risk his whole bankroll. Still, with two players ahead of him, he had a decision to make: Which pool should he attack?

“I was going to bet it all to place, which in hindsight would have won the tournament,” Bernick said, “but there were a lot of people who were within $20,000 of me and I thought at least one of them would bet everything on Chrome or Arrogate to win.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – The victory by Arrogate in the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday was one of several results last week at Santa Anita that should have a significant impact on the year-end Eclipse Awards.

Arrogate had just one stakes win going into the Classic, in the Travers Stakes, and as brilliant as was that performance, he likely needed do so something equally spectacular to wrest the 3-year-old male title from Nyquist, the Kentucky Derby winner, and Exaggerator, the Preakness winner, both of whom had multiple Grade 1 victories earlier in the year.