Breeders' Cup Ltd. has notified the Thoroughbred Racing and Protective Bureau that it will not use its services for security during the two-day event at Churchill Downs on Nov. 4-5 this year, according to officials with the organizations.

Breeders' Cup has decided to take its security operation "in-house," according to Chris Scherf, the executive vice president of the Thoroughbred Racing Associations, which operates the protective bureau. The bureau's "big-event team" had provided security services for the Breeders' Cup since 2005, Scherf said.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Here Comes Ben, winner of last year’s Grade 1 Forego Stakes at Saratoga, has been retired. Owners Marianne and Brandon Chase and trainer Charlie Lopresti haven’t finalized stud plans yet for the 5-year-old Street Cry horse.

Here Comes Ben won the Kelly’s Landing Stakes this year for the second consecutive time but had not returned to his Grade 1 form in 2011, and his retirement was expected. He most recently finished fourth in Saratoga’s July 22 James Marvin Stakes.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – After a half-century in racing, most of them as a trainer, Charles “Scooter” Dickey sent out all of five winners in 2007 and two in 2008. His career arc wasn’t arcing very high in his sunset years, and with his wife, Dana, struggling at home with a debilitating disease, the prospects for reviving a stagnant career were dim.

“Times were pretty tough,” said Dickey, a 70-year-old native of Kansas who said he got a nickname that stuck because he scooted and didn’t crawl as a baby.

Recently elected to The Jockey Club, the California resident is a prominent owner and breeder and founded CARMA, the California Retirement Management Account, which assists and retrains retired racehorses in California.

Birthdate: Oct. 4, 1944, in Yorkshire, England

Family: sons Harris, Patrick; daughter, Erin

The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame has selected Joe Palmer and Russ Harris to be added to its Joe Hirsch Media Roll of Honor, the museum announced on Thursday.

Palmer, a native of Lexington, Ky., who died in 1952, was an associate editor of the Blood-Horse and, subsequently, the racing writer for the New York Herald Tribune. His column, "Views of the Turf," was syndicated and also appeared in the Blood-Horse and Lexington Herald-Leader.  He wrote several books on racing, and a collection of his columns was published in the book "This Was Racing."

The Jockeys’ Guild is coordinating a crucial, nationwide fund-raiser for Jacky Martin, the prominent Quarter Horse rider paralyzed from the neck down in a recent spill, on Oct. 8. The organization is asking both Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred jockeys from around the country to donate a losing mount fee that day, with the funds to be set aside for Martin’s medical costs.

Cable network HBO released a new trailer for its horse racing drama "Luck," which is set to air in January 2012 after filming this year at Santa Anita and other locations. The show stars Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte and is the creation of writer David Milch ("Deadwood") and director Michael Mann ("Miami Vice").

The Illinois Racing Board's annual racing dates hearing, scheduled for Tuesday morning in Chicago, has an added layer of urgency this year, with Arlington Park arguing that Hawthorne Race Course should not run a spring meet in 2012 in order to enhance Arlington's  racing season.

Saturday, Sept. 24

Belmont -- Gallant Bloom Handicap

MIAMI -  Champion sprinter Big Drama turned in perhaps his best work yet in preparation for next Saturday's Grade 1 Vosburgh when cruising an easy half-mile in 48.18 seconds under jockey Daniel Centeno shortly after the renovation break Saturday at Calder.