Rene Allard, a harness trainer who was indicted in 2020 alongside dozens of other racing participants, was sentenced Wednesday to 27 months in prison on a felony charge of drug adulteration and misbranding.

Trainer Juan Vazquez, already serving a suspension from the Pennsylvania Horse Racing Commission that lasts until January 2025, will have to serve another 14-day penalty from the New York Gaming Commission if and when he returns.

Vazquez was suspended 14 days by the New York regulatory body for the finding of the therapeutic drug Albuterol, a bronchodilator, in the post-race samples of Esor, who won a maiden $20,000 claiming race on Dec. 30, 2021, at Aqueduct.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Champion trainer Chad Brown on Monday pleaded guilty to harassment in the second degree, a violation, and a lesser charge than the “obstruction of breathing” charge, a misdemeanor, levied against him for a domestic disturbance incident at his Saratoga home last August.

Mandy Minger, a former executive with Daily Racing Form, has been hired as the director of communications for the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, HISA announced on Monday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The official six-furlong fractional time for Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Classic has been amended from 1.09.62 to 1:09.27 but no other times for the race will be affected, including the final time of 2:00.05, Equibase announced on Tuesday.

Equibase said that it amended the fractional time after conducting a “comprehensive video review to verify the accuracy” of the six-furlong time.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Goodnight Olive and Elite Power not only won their respective Breeders’ Cup races, the Filly and Mare Sprint and the Sprint, in impressive fashion Saturday at Keeneland, they did so having come into the day with remarkably identical résumés.

Led by Flightline’s spectacular victory in Saturday’s $6 million Classic, the results of some Breeders’ Cup races last Friday and Saturday at Keeneland helped clearly define champions in certain divisions. But in light of the dominant performances of European-based turf runners in the Breeders’ Cup, other divisions seem to lack a clear standout in the race for year-end Eclipse Awards.

Ramon “Mike” Hernandez, a trainer mostly on the New York circuit for 37 years, died Sunday due to complications from a stroke, according to his daughter Cathy Hagney. He was 99.

Hernandez loved the track - in particular Saratoga - so much so that Hagney and some members of her family brought Hernandez’s body Sunday afternoon to Saratoga Racecourse and barn 76, where Hernandez had been stabled for years before his retirement in 2011.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - While a tweet from her owner made it sound as though Malathaat would be retired from racing, and trainer Todd Pletcher anticipates that to happen, Pletcher said Sunday morning he has not yet received official confirmation.

Malathaat won a stirring renewal of the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff on Saturday at Keeneland, getting her nose on the wire first over Blue Stripe, who was second by a nose over Clairiere.

“I’d be 99 percent sure that she’ll be retired, but before the race I asked that question and it was not for sure,” Pletcher said Sunday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Epicenter, the 3-year-old who was pulled up midway down the backstretch during the running of Saturday’s $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland, underwent successful surgery Sunday morning to repair his injured right foreleg and, while he will be retired from racing, the prognosis is good for him to be a stallion, trainer Steve Asmussen said.