Steve Asmussen, the second-winningest trainer of all time and the trainer of horses who won three consecutive titles as Horse of the Year, again will not be on the final ballot for this year’s Hall of Fame pending investigations by racing authorities in Kentucky and New York, the Hall of Fame announced Tuesday.

Total betting on the 13 Breeders’ Cup races held at Santa Anita on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 was $135.5 million, the Breeders’ Cup said Wednesday after adding in the money wagered on the races from international locations.

The Breeders’ Cup said the total, which includes separate-pool wagers, was up 1.1 percent compared with total handle on the same 13 races held on the two days of the event last year. The Breeders’ Cup dropped a race, the Marathon, from its lineup this year. Handle on the Marathon was $4.8 million last year.

Hardest Core’s journey to California for the Breeders’ Cup Turf did not turn out as planned. He ended up too close to a hot pace, took the lead five furlongs from home, and was swallowed by the pack in upper stretch.

The good news is that he came out of the race in fine shape and will race again as a 5-year-old. As a matter of fact, as a gelding, he should have a lot of racing in front of him.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Now what?

That’s the question Eclipse Award voters will be asking over the next two months after a Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday at Santa Anita that had the promise of emphatically deciding both Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old male, but ended in controversy.

Preliminary all-sources handle on the 13 Breeders’ Cup races held this year at Santa Anita on Friday and Saturday was $127.8 million, according to charts of the races, down 5.7 percent compared with betting last year of $135.5 million on 14 races, when the betting figures were juiced by a carryover in the pick five.

SOUTH OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Two-time Grade 1 winner Artemis Agrotera will race next year as a 4-year-old, according to trainer Mike Hushion.

Artemis Agrotera impressively won the Ballerina over older rivals at Saratoga this year. As a 2-year-old in 2013, she won the Frizette at Belmont Park.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The future for Bobby’s Kitten, the winner of Saturday’s $920,000 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Santa Anita, will focus on the 2015 BC Mile at Keeneland in October, with consideration for an international journey to England for the Royal Ascot meeting in June.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Even with an extra hour to sleep on it on Saturday night, emotions were still raw at Santa Anita on Sunday morning regarding the controversial Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday, in which Bayern prevailed and then survived a stewards’ inquiry focusing on his actions at the start.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Main Sequence is likely to be rested for the remainder of the year with a trip to Dubai in March an early season target in 2015.

Trainer Graham Motion said on Sunday that Main Sequence emerged from his gutty win in the $2,760,000 BC Turf at Santa Anita on Saturday in good shape, and that the $5 million Dubai Sheema Classic at Meydan Racecourse in March has more appeal than races in Japan and Hong Kong in coming weeks.

ARCADIA, Calif .- Steward Scott Chaney spoke for 20 minutes at a press conference in the Santa Anita press box on Sunday morning, discussing the decision not to alter the order of finish in Saturday’s $4.6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic after race winner Bayern drifted to the inside shortly after the start and collided with race favorite Shared Belief.

The stewards focused their decision on whether Shared Belief was cost a placing when he was bumped by Bayern or when he checked behind Toast of New York in the opening quarter-mile.