Tacitus, third most recently in the Jockey Club Gold Cup behind Code of Honor and Vino Rosso, will get the rest of the year off and will miss the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic on Nov. 2 at Santa Anita, trainer Bill Mott said Tuesday.

Tacitus is scheduled to remain in training next year at age 4.

"We're going to give him some time, let him grow," said Mott, who trains Tacitus, a colt by Tapit, for his owner and breeder, Juddmonte Farms.

Gouverneur Morris, runner-up to Maxfield as the favorite in last Saturday’s Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland, will not run in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita on Nov. 1, Barry Irwin, president of co-owner Team Valor, said Tuesday.

Instead, Gouverneur Morris is being turned out at WinStar Farm and will be aimed at a 3-year-old campaign. WinStar's racing operation co-owns the colt.

Richard Lundy, who trained such outstanding runners as Blushing John, Carr de Naskra, and Opening Verse, died from esophageal cancer on Saturday at his home in Waynesville, Ohio. He was 71.

World of Trouble, a Grade 1 winner on both dirt and turf this year, has been retired and will enter stud at Hill 'n' Dale Farm a year earlier than planned. 

Hill 'n' Dale announced in June that it had acquired the rights to the 4-year-old colt, who was campaigned by Michael Dubb, Madaket Stables, and Bethlehem Stables, and said that the partnership would continue to race the horse through 2020. However, the son of Hill 'n' Dale stallion Kantharos was sidelined over the summer, and with the Breeders' Cup and other major targets off the table, it was opted to retire him.

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Reigning Eclipse Award champion turf male Stormy Liberal, winless in five starts this year, is regrouping as he heads home to California for his final prep before he attempts to win a third consecutive edition of the Grade 1, $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint. He will run Friday in the Grade 2, $200,000 Eddie D Stakes, which will have a different look at five furlongs than the 6 1/2 furlongs Stormy Liberal won the race at last year.

CHICAGO – The bomb dropped last week at the annual Illinois Racing Board dates awards meeting turned out to be a dud.

After essentially threatening to pull Arlington’s racetrack operator’s license at its Sept. 17 dates-award meeting and convening a special committee to investigate Churchill Downs Inc.’s decision not to apply for a casino license at Arlington, the IRB on Tuesday unanimously approved the 2020 racing schedule that had been submitted before the regularly scheduled meeting.

Michael Veitch, a long-time racing reporter and author of three racing books, has been named the historian of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the institution announced on Tuesday.

Veitch, who chairs the Hall of Fame Historic Review Committee and is a former trustee, will replace Allan Carter, who retired earlier this year after serving as the historian since 2003.

Maximum Security will be forced to scratch from Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Pennsylvania Derby at Parx and will most likely miss the Breeders’ Cup as well after suffering from a severe case of colic and a displacement of the large colon, trainer Jason Servis said Tuesday.

On Monday afternoon, a few hours after returning to Monmouth Park from Parx, where he had shipped by van for a workout over the main track, Maximum Security was rushed to the Mid-Atlantic Equine Clinic in Ringoes, N.J., where he was diagnosed and treated by Dr. Janik Gasiorowski.

Michael Wrona, who has called races at every major California track and at a handful of other tracks in the U.S., will be the racecaller for the upcoming Grants Pass Downs meet in Oregon, the track announced on Monday.

Wrona, a native of Australia, will be the first racecaller under the new management of TMB Racing, a company owned by Grants Pass native Travis Boersma, the founder of the Dutch Bros. coffee company. Live racing begins on Sept. 22 for a 14-day live meet, running on Sundays and Mondays through Nov. 4.