Breeders’ Cup has entered into an agreement with a website specializing in predicting the winners of awards ceremonies such as the Emmys and Oscars to promote its 2013 event, scheduled for Nov. 1-2 at Santa Anita Park in Southern California.

Luis Saez did not carry or use an electrical device when riding Will Take Charge to victory in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga Racecourse in New York on Aug. 24, and the accusation against the jockey by trainer Eric Guillot was “wholly unsubstantiated,” the New York Gaming Commission said in a report released on Friday following a month-long investigation.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The stakes debut of the unbeaten 3-year-old Declassify will have to wait for another weekend.

On Friday, trainer Bob Baffert scratched Declassify from Saturday’s $250,000 Santa Anita Sprint Championship in favor of a start in a $54,000 allowance race Sunday over six furlongs. Baffert said the easier allowance race had greater appeal than the Grade 1 Santa Anita Sprint Championship.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Woodbine Entertainment Group will introduce a new wager, the Jackpot Hi 5, beginning with Wednesday’s Thoroughbred program.

The Jackpot Hi 5, with a 20-cent minimum and a 15 percent takeout, will require bettors to select the first five finishers in exact order on the last race of the card.

Churchill Downs in Louisville has requested 12 September live-racing dates for the second consecutive year, according to documents released on Friday by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.

Churchill has asked the commission to approve the dates as part of a 74-date 2014 schedule, including 38 dates in the spring and 24 dates for the track’s traditional fall meet. Churchill also requested four optional days in September, to be run if track officials believe conditions warrant it.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. – Jorge Ortega, a groom at Canterbury Park, died Monday at Hennepin County Medical Center from injuries sustained in an accident while saddling a horse Sept. 12.

Ortega, 56, was handling Demidoffs Prospect, trained and owned by Mohamed El Deeb, when the horse reared, pushing Ortega into a wall. Ortega, of Laredo, Texas, is survived by a wife and daughter.

When you fall off your horse, get right back up and ride. What jockey hasn’t heard this maxim hundreds of times before even making it into the starting gate for a real race?

Dealing with danger is an integral part of Thoroughbred racing. Jockeys who ride scared don’t ride for long. But when the compulsion to immediately get back in the saddle after a serious spill trumps long-term concerns about safety, no one wins.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the owner of Godolphin and the leader of Dubai, directed one of his wives to investigate details of a shipment of unlicensed veterinary products after they were seized from a private government jet registered in Dubai at a British airport on May 3, the British Guardian reported on Tuesday.

The Chandelier last Saturday at Santa Anita helped sort out the West Coast’s crop of 2-year-old fillies, with the first three finishers -- Secret Compass, She’s a Tiger, and Fascinating -- finishing more than 18 lengths clear of the rest of the field. The trio is scheduled to advance to the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, which will be run at Santa Anita on Nov. 2.

The close finish of Saturday’s Grade 1 Vosburgh at Belmont Park was pretty much a mirror image of the overall picture in the sprint division this season, with little separating the leading contenders for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint in the weeks leading up to the event.