LEXINGTON, Ky. - Races from Churchill Downs in Louisville will be shown live on the flagship network of TVG throughout the remainder of the track’s September meet, the two parties confirmed Thursday.

The agreement between the two competitors is an indication that their sometimes acrimonious relationship may be mellowing.

However, officials for the two companies declined to comment on the agreement, aside from noting that Churchill’s races will be shown live on TVG1 for the remaining 11 days of live racing at the iconic track.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Roadster became the second major defection from the 2-year-old division Tuesday morning at Santa Anita.

Trainer Bob Baffert said Roadster, impressive debut winner before he finished third as the favorite in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity on Sept. 3, will be out of training for 60 days. “No Breeders’ Cup for Roadster,” Baffert said. “He’s not going to run for a while.”

Danny Keene had debated a racing comeback for his millionaire Texas Chrome, but said he recently decided against it. Texas Chrome will stand his second season at stud this coming year, at a new facility Keene has built for the horse in Hot Springs, Ark.

“I don’t think I’ll run him,” Keene said. “I woke up the other morning and I thought, ‘It’s not worth it.’ I’m looking forward to his babies hitting the ground in late January and early February.”

Keene bred a number of mares to Texas Chrome.

The California Horse Racing Board recently overturned a hearing officer’s proposed decision that would have altered the order of finish of a $71,510 race at Santa Anita in 2017 because the winning owner had been suspended.

Multiple Grade 1 winner Mor Spirit has officially been retired and will enter stud in 2019 at Spendthrift Farm, that operation announced in a Sunday release.

Mor Spirit, by Eskendereya, is best known for his 6 1/4-length score over Sharp Azteca in the 2017 Metropolitan Handicap, for which he earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 117. He made only one start after that, finishing eighth in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile at Del Mar.

Longtime Hastings trainer Dave Dahl died last Sunday. Dahl, 72, also worked as a security guard in the winner’s enclosure at Hastings.

In 2010, he heroically prevented others from getting hurt when he took the brunt of a loose horse that barreled into the winner’s enclosure at full speed.

Dahl was seriously injured, however, and never fully recovered physically. His positive demeanor when he returned to the track a year later was always on full display, though.

After announcing earlier in the morning via Twitter that its 10-race Sunday card was still on, officials at Kentucky Downs announced shortly after 8 a.m. Central that the card has been postponed in its entirety to Wednesday.

Rain that pounded other areas around the track finally found its way here in the early morning, and there was no sign of a letup, making racing today unfeasible.

Daily Racing Form will reprint past performances for the postponed Sunday card in its Wednesday editions.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The person shot by a San Diego County Sheriff’s Department officer at Del Mar on Sunday after allegedly firing a gun near a crowd of people outside the admission gates was reported in stable condition and “is expected to survive,” the department said in a release Monday morning.

The person was identified Monday as Daniel Elizarraras, 22, of Escondido, a city in northern San Diego County that is approximately 18 miles northeast of Del Mar.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Chad Brown had long ago wrapped up his second Saratoga trainer’s title. The only question was whether the local boy could establish a record for wins.

That question was answered in Saturday’s sixth race when the 2-year-old Spirit Animal rallied for a 1 1/4-length victory in a maiden turf race, giving Brown his 41st victory of the meet, the most any trainer has had at Saratoga. On Monday Saratoga will conclude its 150th race meeting.

Parimutuel futures wagering on 23 individual interests and a field entry in both the Breeders’ Cup Classic and Breeders’ Cup Distaff will open on Friday and close on Sunday evening, the Breeders’ Cup announced on Wednesday.

The two pools will open nine weeks before the Nov. 2-3 Breeders’ Cup, to be held this year at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Accelerate, the runaway winner of last weekend’s Pacific Classic at Del Mar, is listed as the 4-1 morning-line favorite in the Classic, and Monomoy Girl, the winner of the Kentucky Oaks, is listed as the 7-2 favorite in the Distaff.