LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The mutuel field has closed as an odds-on favorite in Pool 1 of the 2015 Kentucky Derby Future Wager, with Dortmund the heaviest-backed individual interest.

When closing Sunday at 6 p.m. Eastern, the field, the 24th or “all others” option, was 3-5, the lowest price ever in the 17-year history of Churchill Downs offering parimutuel futures. Then came Dortmund (9-1), American Pharoah (12-1), Texas Red (14-1), and Carpe Diem (15-1). The other 19 separately listed horses are 27-1 or higher, with five of them 99-1 and above.

Strapping Groom, the winner of the Grade 1 Forego at Saratoga in 2013, suffered a broken bone behind his right knee and will not race again, but he could have a career as a stallion, trainer David Jacobson said Sunday.

Strapping Groom was injured when he fell past the finish line after finishing sixth in Saturday night’s $200,000 Fabulous Strike Handicap at Penn National. Strapping Groom was vanned back to New York in the early hours of Sunday morning and was then vanned from Aqueduct to the Ruffian Equine Medical Center across the street from Belmont Park.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Looking fresh, fit, and, if you got too close to him, quite dangerous, California Chrome was in fine condition at Del Mar on Sunday morning, the day after he made a successful move to the turf when capturing the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby.

“He came out of the race real good,” trainer Art Sherman said as California Chrome was being walked Sunday morning. “His knees and ankles are nice and tight. I couldn’t be happier.”

RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. -- Dr. Jack K. Robbins, one of the sport’s true Renaissance men and patriarch of an influential racing family, died late Saturday afternoon at his home in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., after a battle with the effects of pulmonary and respiratory disease. He was 93.

Jockey Richard Eramia is expected to be sidelined about two weeks after dislocating his shoulder Saturday at Fair Grounds in New Orleans, according to his agent, Rick Mocklin.

Eramia was injured after the fourth race and was off his mounts for the remainder of the card. He was treated at Tulane University Hospital and was released Saturday, said Mocklin.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Kaigun, the winner of Friday’s Grade 2 Seabiscuit Handicap at Del Mar, will be pointed to two big one-mile races on turf at Santa Anita in early 2015, trainer Mark Casse said Saturday.

“We’ll give him a tad of a break, and he’ll stay at Santa Anita,” Casse said.

Kaigun will be pointed for the $200,000 Arcadia Stakes on Jan. 31 and the $400,000 Frank Kilroe Mile on March 7.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The 2014 stakes winners Imperative and Soi Phet will start in stakes in Japan in December.

Imperative, the winner of the $1.5 million Charles Town Classic in West Virginia in April, arrived in Japan this week for the $1,665,172 Champions Cup at Chukyo Racecourse in Nagoya, trainer George Papaprodromou said.

The Champions Cup was previously known as the Japan Cup Dirt. The race is run over about 1 1/8 miles on a left-handed track.

Trainer Henry Dominguez is serving a 60-day suspension for a TCO2, or total carbon dioxide, overage, he said Friday. Dominguez began his suspension Nov. 22, and it runs through Jan. 20. A call to both the New Mexico Racing Commission and the Zia Park stewards was not returned by press time Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and an afternoon when there was no racing at Zia.

Dominguez said a horse from a 2013 Sunland Park race had the TCO2 overage, and he appealed the ruling.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Belle Gallantey, the multiple Grade 1 winner who sold for $750,000 at the Fasig-Tipton November auction this month, is back with trainer Rudy Rodriguez and could run again as early as Jan. 1 in the $100,000 Affectionately Stakes at Aqueduct.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The biggest win of Discreet Marq’s career came here at Del Mar in the summer of 2013 in the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks, so it only made sense that after a campaign in New York and Kentucky this year, she was sent west again for her final start of 2014 in the Grade 1, $300,000 Matriarch Stakes on Sunday.

Sunday marks the final day of this successful, and brief, 15-day fall meeting at Del Mar. The Matriarch drew a field of eight, though trainer Mark Casse said his intention was to run Lexie Lou on Saturday in the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby.