Daily Racing Form chief photographer Barbara Livingston looks back at 2022.

Trainer Orlando Noda will fight a 90-day suspension and $5,000 fine handed him by the New York State Gaming Commission for alleged mistreatment of a horse during training hours at Saratoga during the 2021 meet.

Attorney Drew Mollica, on behalf of Noda, filed an Article 78 last week and received a stay and temporary restraining order from a state Supreme Court judge in Schenectady, N.Y., that will enable Noda to continue to train until the case is heard.

The penalties also required Noda to undergo anger-management training before he could get his license reinstated.

OZONE PARK, N.Y - Dylan Davis finished 2022 as the leading New York Racing Association rider with 186 wins for his first year-long title on this circuit.

Davis’s final win came on Amadeus Music in Saturday’s fifth race at Aqueduct, which turned out to be the final NYRA race of 2022. The last four races on Saturday’s card were canceled due to fog, which created visibility issues.

OZONE PARK, N.Y - The final four races of Saturday’s Aqueduct card were canceled due to fog, which caused visibility issues for the stewards.

Braulio Baeza Jr., the steward for the New York State Gaming Commission, said he sent cameramen out to the track with handheld cameras, but it didn’t alleviate the issues. The first five races were in the fog - with only the final sixteenth of a mile visible - but conditions were worsening.

“We couldn’t see,” Baeza said.

Golden Gate Fields canceled its Saturday racing program before dawn because of excessive overnight rain, track general manager David Duggan said.

Duggan cited localized flooding as a primary reason. Rainfall in the 24 hours ending at 6 a.m. on Saturday ranged from one to two inches in the area surrounding Golden Gate Fields, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s website. Heavy rain was forecast through Saturday.

“We’ve prepared for this,” Duggan said. “The track has got nowhere to drain.”

Code of Honor, a six-time graded stakes winner including Grade 1 successes in the Travers and Jockey Club Gold Cup in 2019, was euthanized on Dec. 23 after an irreparable bout of colic, Lane’s End Farm announced Monday. He was 6.

Code of Honor, a son of Noble Mission trained by Shug McGaughey, won seven of 20 starts and earned $2,981,320 for William S. Farish, head of Lane’s End.

At 2, Code of Honor won his career debut at Saratoga then finished second to Complexity in the Grade 1 Champagne, a race in which Code of Honor stumbled at the start.

Dale Capuano, a perennial leading trainer in the Mid-Atlantic region, has announced his retirement, effective on Jan. 1.

Capuano, 60, has 3,661 wins at present, 22nd on the all-time list. Capuano topped the year-end win standings in Maryland on eight occasions (1991, 1997-1998, 2000-2004) and captured 31 training titles at the major Maryland tracks.

The American Graded Stakes Committee on Thursday approved a request by Churchill Downs Inc. to allow the company to run Arlington Park's signature stakes -- the Grade 1 Arlington Million and Beverly D. and the Grade 2 Secretariat Stakes -- at its Colonial Downs property in 2023 while retaining their current grades.

Last Friday, the Graded Stakes Committee conferred grades on 440 stakes races, but deferred the grading on the three stakes due to their being relocated.

On Monday, federal lawmakers inserted a one-paragraph amendment into an omnibus spending bill in an attempt to cement the constitutionality of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority and allow the organization to take over drug testing and medication enforcement in most U.S. racing jurisdictions.

On Tuesday, two U.S. senators announced they are trying to strip that amendment from the spending bill.

Ray Kerrison, who covered horse racing for the New York Post for most of his nearly four decades as a journalist in the U.S., died on Sunday, according to family members and his former newspaper. Kerrison was 92.

Kerrison, a native of Australia, worked at the Post as a horse racing reporter and then a columnist from 1977-2013, retiring at the age of 83. He was known for his tenacity in pursuing stories, his work ethic, and his genteel manner.