OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Dubai Sky, the winner of the Grade 3 Spiral Stakes at Turfway Park on March 21, fractured a cannon bone in a hind leg while galloping Saturday morning at Churchill Downs and is off the Triple Crown trail, trainer Bill Mott said Saturday.

Mott said Dubai Sky underwent surgery Saturday and will miss the remainder of his 3-year-old season.

“He’s out for the rest of the year,” Mott said at Aqueduct, where he was to run Tiz Shea D in the $1 million Wood Memorial. “Dr. Larry Bramlage did surgery already. He’s in recovery.”

Wagering on U.S. races in March was down 12 percent compared with the same month last year, as the number of races held at U.S. tracks plummeted nearly 15 percent, according to figures released by Equibase on Saturday.

Wagering fell from $963.2 million in March 2014 to $847.7 million this March, according to the figures. Because the number of races held during the month declined at an even steeper rate, average wagering per race actually rose 3.2 percent on a month-to-month basis, from $288,629 last March to $297,947 this March.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. – The last four races on the opening-day card of the Keeneland spring meet were canceled Friday after a second round of heavy rain pounded this track amid a tornado watch and lightning strikes.

The first six of 10 races were run without incident, albeit over a track left sloppy by four inches of rain that hit the track overnight and into Friday morning.

Track officials said they have no record of cancellations of any races in the track’s 78-year history, nor could any longtime media members recall so much as one canceled race here.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. – Keeneland bore the brunt of a heavy spring rainstorm Friday, when turf races were forced onto a sloppy main track and conditions were initially miserable for the opening of a 15-day spring meet.

ARCADIA, Calif. – California Chrome, the 2014 Horse of the Year, may have a 2015 campaign that more closely resembles that of a Formula 1 car than a top-class Thoroughbred racehorse.

On Thursday, trainer Art Sherman said California Chrome is likely to have two starts in England in the coming months – the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury on May 16 and the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 17.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – An official at the New York Racing Association and two jockey agents were escorted off the Aqueduct grounds by track security officials and are being investigated by the Queens District Attorney’s office for multiple alleged violations – including possibly tampering with a sports event, according to sources.

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The Texas Racing Commission has notified jockey Roman Chapa that he is facing an additional charge of using an electrical device on a horse in a race at Sam Houston Race Park in 2014, one month after suspending the rider for five years for the same charge.

According to the notification, Chapa is facing an additional five-year suspension for allegedly using an electrical device on Quiet Acceleration in the 2014 Richard King Stakes at Sam Houston. Chapa has been told to appear before the stewards April 16.