Jockeys Victor Carrasco and Jose Ferrer were seriously injured in an ugly-looking spill in the third race at Delaware Park on Thursday and face lengthy recoveries. Five of the seven runners in the field either fell or lost their riders nearing the far turn of the one-mile turf race for restricted $25,000 claiming fillies and mares.

Carrasco and Ferrer were transported to the Christiana Medical Center near Delaware Park.

Carrasco broke the fibula and tibia in his lower right leg in two places, according to his agent, Tom Stift. He was scheduled for surgery Friday afternoon.

Stewards at Laurel Park in Maryland have cited “mitigating circumstances” in ruling that trainer Dale Capuano should not be fined or suspended after a horse he trained tested positive for a trace amount of cocaine after winning a race at the track in July.

The ruling, dated Aug. 31, states that an employee of Capuano’s barn was asked to provide a urine sample because of “his past history and the drug in question,” but the employee refused. However, the employee said he was in possession of cocaine at the time the horse ran, according to the ruling.

Trainer Jorge Navarro was going to enter several horses in the Grade 3, $250,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash on Saturday at Laurel Park but did not after officials from The Stronach Group, which owns the track, decided he would not be allowed to race there.

Stewards at Indiana Grand told trainer Jorge Navarro on Tuesday morning he would be denied an Indiana trainer’s license if he applied for one.

Navarro, who has been based in New Jersey, never has run a horse in Indiana before and thus has no license in the state. Navarro entered the mare Duchess of Duke to run in the $100,000 Merrillville Stakes on Wednesday, and as things stand the horse will be scratched.

An incident involving Navarro and one of his owners at Monmouth Park precipitated the Indiana stewards’ decision.

Delta Downs announced Wednesday it was cancelling eight stakes races for 2017 including the $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot and the $500,000 Delta Downs Princess Stakes.

Delta said the economic impact from Hurricane Harvey spurred the stakes cancellation, which includes races in October and November worth $2.3 million. Delta is located in Vinton, La., not far from the Texas border. Owned by Boyd Gaming, Delta operates a casino that generates a significant portion of purse money.

Juan Vazquez, the mid-Atlantic-based trainer who has had a rash of medication positives over the past five years, has been suspended for 30 days by the board of stewards at Suffolk Downs in Massachusetts for a positive of a corticosteroid.

The suspension is scheduled to run from Sept. 6 to Oct. 5, according to a copy of the ruling provided by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. Suffolk Downs, which has held six live race dates this year, separated by a month, is scheduled to hold its last weekend of live racing on Sept. 30-Oct. 1.

Delta Downs is considering the elimination of eight stakes races in October and November, including the track’s signature race, the $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot.

Delta is located in Vinton, La., close to the Texas border and part of an area hard hit by Hurricane Harvey. Delta relies on the Houston metropolitan area, which experienced catastrophic damage from Harvey, for much of its business, and a decline in casino revenues since the hurricane has compromised the purse fund for Delta’s upcoming 2017-2018 race meeting.

The Texas Racing Commission has upheld the summary suspensions it handed down to three Quarter Horse trainers in June for positives for the banned antidepressant nomifensine, according to records of the commission released Saturday.

Canadian champion and classic winner Shillelagh Slew was euthanized earlier this summer in Cyprus, where he resided at stud, after an infection became too severe to treat. He was 14.

The son of Chief Seattle stood at P.C. Palmas Stud Farm in the southeastern European island nation since being exported from the U.S. in 2009. He has sired 50 foals since 2010, according to Cyprus Turf Club records.

The opening-day card at Kentucky Downs, scheduled for Saturday, has been postponed until Wednesday because of hazardous weather conditions, track officials announced Friday morning. The 10-race card will not be redrawn and is being moved in its entirety to Wednesday.