Clifford J. Grum, a banking executive who owned a sizable string of Thoroughbreds based primarily in the Midwest over the last two decades, died Monday while in hospice care in Lufkin, Texas. He was 82.

Grum campaigned horses mostly in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Kentucky under his familiar green-and-blue silks with his late wife, Janelle, and then with his second wife, Mary, who survives him. Cecil Borel served as his primary trainer until his retirement in 2014, after which Helen Pitts became his trainer.

The apprentice jockey category can be one of the most difficult for Eclipse Awards voters. It is not easy to compare young riders from different circuits, and often the apprentices are not well known beyond their region.

When the three finalists are announced in early January, Lane Luzzi and Luis Ocasio are sure to be among them. Their mounts have earned the most purse money among apprentices, and through Tuesday they led by wins.

Masochistic will be disqualified from his second-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, and his trainer, Ron Ellis, faces a potential penalty from the California Horse Racing Board after two separate tests confirmed small amounts of a legal steroid in the horse’s system, Ellis said Monday.

Old Friends has added Good Lord and Balance of Power to its roster of horses at Kentucky Downs, the south-central Kentucky track where a third branch of the Thoroughbred retirement farm was opened in 2015.

Good Lord, 9, earned $803,305 in a remarkable 84-race career, all for trainer Forrest Kaelin. “It was time to give him a little rest,” said Kaelin. “But he was still 100 percent sound. … A nice little horse. A tough bird, I’ll tell you.”

It’s been a breakthrough year for Aaron West, but the 28-year-old trainer isn’t about to get all high on himself.

“There have been more people to help me in this business than I could ever pay back,” said West.

West entered this week of action at Turfway Park with 50 wins in 2016, a career high. In August, he not only won his first stakes, with an Ohio-bred colt named Jocker Justice, but he and his wife, Ashley, became new landowners. They purchased Cain’s Thoroughbred training center in Russell Springs, Ky., from the estate of trainer Joe Cain and his wife, Peggy.

Jockey Kerwin Clark has some engaging racing stories after more than 40 years in the business. His latest concerns how he hit a milestone of 3,000 North American wins in Thursday night’s ninth race at Delta Downs in Vinton, La.

The feat was achieved on a double disqualification.

Due to extremely cold winter weather, Aqueduct in New York, Turfway Park in Kentucky, and Charles Town in West Virginia canceled their Thursday cards and planned to resume racing Friday.

Former jockey Garrett Gomez was found dead Wednesday, according to a family friend, Jeanette Hughes, who spoke to his daughter Shelby.

“I’ve known Garrett since we were kids. I hope he’s at peace,” Hughes said. “Poor kid.”

Gomez was the victim of apparent drug overdose, according to another person with knowledge of the situation. He was found at a casino hotel near Tucson, Ariz.

Gomez, who would have been 45 on Jan. 1, announced his retirement in June 2015 on Facebook, but he had not ridden since 2013.

Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens will undergo hip replacement surgery before Christmas, a procedure that could put an end to his riding career, he announced in a statement released early Tuesday. Stevens cautioned he was unsure whether he would be able to return to riding in 2017.

According to the statement, released through his wife, Angie Athayde Stevens, Stevens has been fighting a problematic hip in recent months and was hoping to ride through the spring before needing treatment. He underwent tests on Monday that indicated the operation needed to be moved forward.

Forever Unbridled, the multiple Grade 1-winning filly who finished third in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff last month, was to undergo routine minor surgery Tuesday to remove a bone chip from her left-front ankle, trainer Dallas Stewart said.

Forever Unbridled had been stabled with Stewart at Fair Grounds following the Breeders’ Cup but has left for Kentucky, where the surgery will be performed at the Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington. Forever Unbridled turns 5 on Jan. 1, but Stewart said owner Charles Fipke still intends to race her in 2017.