The $61,000 in net winnings from a sixth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge by Daily Racing Form handicapper Matt Bernier will be donated to the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, DRF announced Wednesday.

Voters in Colorado on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would have allowed Arapahoe Park to add slot machines and table games, voting down the measure by a margin of 72 percent to 27 percent.

Although Arapahoe officials had said that the measure was critical to the long-term future of racing in the state, track officials said after the vote that Arapahoe, located just outside of Denver, had no plans to close.

Herman Sarkowsky, who owned champion Phone Chatter and Grade 1 stakes winners Dixie Chatter and Dixie Union, died Sunday after an illness, the family announced.

Sarkowsky was 89. He was a pillar in the sports community in the Northwest, part of the ownership that founded the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers and NFL’s Seattle Seahawks. Sarkowsky was the general partner of the Seahawks from 1975 to 1982.

Preliminary all-sources handle on the 13 Breeders’ Cup races held this year at Santa Anita on Friday and Saturday was $127.8 million, according to charts of the races, down 5.7 percent compared with betting last year of $135.5 million on 14 races, when the betting figures were juiced by a carryover in the pick five.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Boosted by massive betting interest on Sunday’s closing-day program, mutuel handle increased at the 25-day autumn meeting at Santa Anita, which included Breeders’ Cup races on Friday and Saturday.

The track released limited business data Sunday evening. According to the statement, ontrack handle increased 3 percent for the meeting, while all-sources handle, including simulcast and account wagering, rose 4 percent from a comparable meeting in 2013.

Attendance figures were not released.

ARCADIA, Calif.- The pick six paid $115,418 at Santa Anita on Sunday on a day when interest in the bet was the highest of the year following a seven-figure carryover from Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup program.

The winner of Sunday’s pick six races were Dortmund ($4.20), Lady Lake ($55.40), Lamazone ($29.40), Global Hottie ($7.60), Filimbi ($5.20), and Cautious Giant ($15.40). Dortmund and Filimbi were favored. Global Hottie was the second choice in the eighth race.

SOUTH OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Two-time Grade 1 winner Artemis Agrotera will race next year as a 4-year-old, according to trainer Mike Hushion.

Artemis Agrotera impressively won the Ballerina over older rivals at Saratoga this year. As a 2-year-old in 2013, she won the Frizette at Belmont Park.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The future for Bobby’s Kitten, the winner of Saturday’s $920,000 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Santa Anita, will focus on the 2015 BC Mile at Keeneland in October, with consideration for an international journey to England for the Royal Ascot meeting in June.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Even with an extra hour to sleep on it on Saturday night, emotions were still raw at Santa Anita on Sunday morning regarding the controversial Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday, in which Bayern prevailed and then survived a stewards’ inquiry focusing on his actions at the start.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Main Sequence is likely to be rested for the remainder of the year with a trip to Dubai in March an early season target in 2015.

Trainer Graham Motion said on Sunday that Main Sequence emerged from his gutty win in the $2,760,000 BC Turf at Santa Anita on Saturday in good shape, and that the $5 million Dubai Sheema Classic at Meydan Racecourse in March has more appeal than races in Japan and Hong Kong in coming weeks.