ARCADIA, Calif. – Taris, purchased for $2.35 million in November, will be sidelined until the second half of 2015 after injuring an ankle during a second-place finish Friday in the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes at Santa Anita.

On Saturday, trainer Simon Callaghan said the injury was diagnosed in the hours after the La Brea, adding Taris will undergo surgery Monday to stabilize her right front ankle. Callaghan described the injury as a non-displaced condylar fracture that will require the insertion of screws to repair the break.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The Red Carpet Handicap last month at Del Mar was such a good race that they’re running it again Saturday at Santa Anita, with six horses from that race, including the top five finishers, meeting in the Grade 3, $100,000 Robert J. Frankel Stakes for older female grass runners.

Three Hearts scored a 29-1 upset in the Red Carpet – formerly known as the Beverly Hills when it was run at Hollywood Park – but even though half of this 12-horse field is the same, there are numerous factors that could produce a different outcome.

Daily Racing Form and Gulfstream Park have announced a new live-bankroll tournament that they will be running in partnership – the $100,000 Raise Your Game Handicapping Challenge at Gulfstream Park on Saturday, Feb. 28, a day highlighted by three graded stakes races.

Brian Swatuk, 65, a former jockey at Woodbine, died Dec. 13 from cancer at an Ontario hospice.

Swatuk won several Canadian classics during his long career, most notably the 1979 Queen’s Plate on Steady Growth. He rode Coryphee to victory in the 1987 Prince of Wales Stakes, and won the 1985 Breeders’ Stakes aboard Crowning Honors. He also won stakes on Dance Smartly, Wilderness Song and Meafara.

Swatuk won 1,074 races between 1976 and 2003. A celebration of his life will take place next year.

The broken right wrist jockey Trevor McCarthy incurred after being thrown from his mount following the second race Saturday at Laurel Park will not require surgery, and he could be back riding in about eight weeks, according to his agent, Scott Silver.

“It was a clean break and didn’t need any surgery,” Silver said. “The break was about an inch above the knuckle you have on your wrist towards the elbow.”

McCarthy’s wrist was placed in a cast. He will see a specialist in eight or nine days and have it X-rayed again, Silver said.

CYPRESS, Calif. - At its monthly meeting at Los Alamitos on Thursday, the California Horse Racing Board discussed creating a rule that would result in the scratch of any horse who has been gelded since his last start if that information is not disseminated to the betting public in a timely fashion,

ETOBICOKE, Ontario — Longtime Woodbine owner Derek Ball died suddenly Dec. 12 at age 65.

With Hugh Galbraith and trainer Dave Cotey, Ball owned Canadian champions Lady Shari and Mine That Bird, who captured the 2009 Kentucky Derby after being sold near the end of his 2-year-old season by the partnership.

A memorial service will be held for Ball from 3 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Oakview Funeral Home at 56 Lakeshore Road West in Oakville, Ontario. Visitation also will be held there Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m.

SHAKOPEE, Minn - The 2015 Canterbury Park 70-day race meet will be the longest since the racetrack reopened in 1995 as Canterbury Park, and reflects the impact of a 2012 cooperative marketing and purse enhancement agreement with the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, owners and operators of Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, that adds $75 million to horsemen purses over 10 years.

A record $13.1 million in purses were paid in 2014 and racetrack management estimates that purses will increase 5 percent in 2015.

Remington Park experienced increases in all average daily handle categories during its 67-date Thoroughbred meet that closed on Sunday, according to figures provided by the Oklahoma City track. 

Remington handled an average of $850,000 a day on its live races from all sources this meet, up 6.5 percent from the corresponding 66-date season in 2013. Of that amount, $779,176 a day was bet on the track’s races at off-site locations, up 8.4 percent. Remington’s ontrack patrons bet an additional $70,823 a day on live racing, up 5.4 percent from 2013.

U.S. legislators have approved a tax break allowing racehorse owners to continue to use a three-year depreciation schedule, a retroactive provision that was being pushed by racing lobbyists.

The provision, which will apply to the 2014 tax year, was one of hundreds of special-interest tax breaks contained in a bill protecting benefits that expired at the end of 2013. The bill extends the tax breaks for one year. Any longer extension would have likely resulted in a veto by President Barack Obama.