DEL MAR, Calif. – Mixto came out of his Pacific Classic upset in top shape and will train into the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 2 at Del Mar, trainer Doug O’Neill confirmed Sunday morning.

Meanwhile, the fourth-place finish by Pacific Classic favorite Dr. Venkman knocked him from BC Classic consideration, though the BC Dirt Mile is possible. Plans are pending for Pacific Classic two-three finishers Full Serrano and Reincarnate, as well as Ultra Power, who delivered the highest-rated victory on the Saturday card at Del Mar. Ultra Power romped in an allowance.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Javier Castellano said he will be out at least two weeks with “a little fracture” in his right hand as a result of the spill he was involved in during the running of Friday’s Saranac Stakes at Saratoga, the jockey told Daily Racing Form on Saturday afternoon.

An attorney for Michael Galvin, a longtime racetrack veterinarian on the New York Racing Association circuit, has contended that the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority violated its rules on public disclosure when it posted a notice on its website this week charging that Galvin failed to submit veterinary reports on hundreds of horses he treated, in violation of HISA’s rules.

Leonard Riggio, the founder of the Barnes & Noble book-selling chain and a horse owner and board member of the New York Racing Association, died on Tuesday of complications of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a statement from his family. Riggio was 83.

Michael Galvin, a longtime racetrack veterinarian on the New York Racing Association circuit, has been charged by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority with failing to provide the organization with treatment records for hundreds of horses, according to a notice posted on HISA’s website.

NFL star Travis Kelce has entered minority Thoroughbred ownership via the Team Valor International partnership, that outfit announced Tuesday.

Team Valor said in a release on Aug. 27 that the Zoldan family and Kelce have acquired a “significant share” of Team Valor’s own interest in the 3-year-old gelding Swift Delivery, who the partnership co-owns with Gary Barber. Team Valor said Swift Delivery will be entered in this Saturday’s $125,000 Toronto Cup on the Woodbine turf.

Trainer Kenny McPeek and the connections of his horses will be honored this year with the Mr. Fitz Award for “typifying the spirit of racing,” the administrators of the award, the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters, announced Tuesday.

Law-enforcement officers in Henderson, Ky., are investigating the overnight discovery of two men found dead in the dormitories on the backstretch of Ellis Park, the sheriff’s office said on Tuesday morning.

Officers were called to the track early Tuesday morning to respond to an “unconscious subject” on the backstretch who was later found dead “in his apartment on the backside of Ellis Park.” When directed to a person the dead person had been seen with earlier in the night, they found another man “deceased in his apartment.”

A man who was found on the backstretch of Mahoning Valley Racecourse in Youngstown, Ohio, with three banned substances in his possession has been suspended six years by the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit, according to a ruling posted on the HIWU website.

The man, who was identified as Gabriel Hilardo Rivera, was observed hiding a “black tackle box” behind the tire of a vehicle on Mahoning Valley’s backstretch by HIWU investigators on March 27. The tackle box contained “various injectable medications, needles, and syringes,” the investigators said in a report.