MIAMI – Gulfstream Park has begun withholding its simulcast signal and those of any other tracks distributed by the Monarch Content Management Co., including Santa Anita, from neighboring Calder Racecourse. Gulfstream Park and Calder are located approximately eight miles apart and have been racing in conflict with one another since July 1.

FORT ERIE, Ontario – Heading into the final two days of the 2013 meeting, Fort Erie was delivered a knockout blow by the Ontario government Friday.

As horsemen here awaited a decision on a 2014 season, hopefully before this meeting ends Tuesday, they received notice that Fort Erie would not be a beneficiary of a $400 million injection into the racing industry, mainly for purses.

The disappointment among horsemen and management was evident.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The pick six paid $14,467 to 124 ticketholders at Santa Anita on Thursday after a three-day pick six carryover of $575,466 from last weekend led to heightened interest in the bet.

Bettors added $2,279,941 to the pool on Thursday.

The winners of the pick six races were Danderek ($4), For Emma ($10.20), Miss Well Molded ($8), Cat Burglar ($7.60), Arctic North ($13.20), and Make More Money ($4.20).

Consolation tickets with five of those winners paid $160.

Richard Mandella likes to think of himself as a man of the world. Or at least a man of the Thoroughbred racing world. The California native has run horses in the Orient, the Middle East, and South America. He has won major races in New York, Florida, Kentucky, and Chicago. Clearly, traveling never comes up as an issue.

Golden Gate Fields is offering a $1,000 prize during its upcoming fall meeting with an online handicapping contest it calls ShowVivor.

Fans must pick one horse that shows (finishes first, second or third) each day during the 36-day fall meeting, which opens Thursday, Oct. 17. Fans continue to play in the sudden-death contest until they fail to pick a horse that shows.

The player who survives the most racing days will win the ShowVivor winner-take-all prize of $1,000.

ELMONT,  N.Y. - Honor Code, runner-up to Havana in last Saturday’s Grade 1 Champagne at Belmont Park, will skip the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita on Nov. 2 and train up to the Grade 2, $400,000 Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct on Nov. 30, trainer Shug McGaughey said Thursday.

McGaughey said the decision was made Wednesday afternoon following a discussion between himself and Will Farish, managing partner of Lane’s End Racing, which co-owns the colt with Dell Ridge Farm.

With a potential championship on the line, Flower Bowl winner Laughing is likely to be supplemented to the Breeders’ Cup for $100,000 to run in the $2 million Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 2, trainer Alan Goldberg said Tuesday.

Perfect in four starts this year, all in graded company, Laughing could join one of the better casts for a Breeders’ Cup race this year, one that also is expected to include Beverly D. winner Dank and top Southern California-based mares Tiz Flirtatious and Marketing Mix.

The Grade 3, $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot that produced three starters for this year’s Kentucky Derby will again serve as the high point of the Delta Downs meet that opens Friday night. The 88-date season in Vinton, La., will continue through March 15.

One day after Jorge Navarro took the trainer’s title at Monmouth Park in New Jersey, he began serving a 60-day suspension under a consent order he reached with Florida regulators over six positives for the painkiller flunixin during the 2011-12 meet at Tampa Bay Downs.

The suspension began on Monday, one day after Navarro locked up the trainer’s title with 47 wins at Monmouth and 18 months after the close of Tampa’s 2011-12 meet.

The field for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf seemed close to being set before being thrown a big curve, one that directly affects the $2 million BC Juvenile Fillies.

That’s because the talented filly My Conquestadory showed so much ability in her win in the Grade 1 Alcibiades at Keeneland that the filly once thought destined for the Juvenile Fillies Turf may run in the Juvenile Fillies.