CYPRESS, Calif. – Trainer Jorge Gutierrez has been fined $500 after one of his runners at Del Mar in July tested positive for two anti-inflammatory medications – phenylbutazone and flunixin.

Trainers are not allowed to administer more than one anti-inflammatory medication, according to California Horse Racing Board regulations.

According to a ruling published Sunday by Los Alamitos stewards, the positives were found in a post-race test taken from Stole My ‘Art, who finished last of eight in a race for $12,500 claimers on July 23.

CYPRESS, Calif. – Jockey Martin Garcia, sidelined by back issues for most of this month, hopes to resume riding by the start of the Santa Anita autumn meeting on Sept. 29, the jockey and his agent said on Wednesday.

Garcia, who won the $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Collected on Aug. 19, has not ridden since Sept. 3. He was booked to ride the closing-day program at Del Mar on Sept. 4, but did not ride because of back pain.

CYPRESS, Calif. – The conditions of Saturday’s $100,000 Barretts Debutante Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Los Alamitos are proving very attractive for owner Tyler Seltzer and trainer Ian Kruljac.

They plan to start Exuberance, who was third at Del Mar on Aug. 26 in her only start. Exuberance was purchased for $100,000 at the Barretts select sale of 2-year-olds in training at Del Mar last March, which made her eligible for Saturday’s race. The Debutante, run at 6 1/2 furlongs, is restricted to fillies offered at a Barretts-conducted sale.

ELMONT, N.Y. – By the Moon and Highway Star, separated by a head in the Grade 1 Ballerina at Saratoga on Aug. 26, could meet again in the Grade 2, $300,000 Gallant Bloom Handicap at Belmont Park on Sept. 24.

Trainer Michelle Nevin said she and owner Samantha Siegel “haven’t decided yet” whether to use the Gallant Bloom as a stepping-stone for By the Moon to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint. Last year, By the Moon finished second in the Ballerina and went straight to the Filly and Mare Sprint, where she finished fifth, beaten three lengths.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Jimmy Toner has eschewed the conservative approach he was going to take with Defiant Honor and has decided to run her in Saturday’s Grade 2, $400,000 Sands Point Stakes, the first graded event of the Belmont Park fall meet.

Defiant Honor won the $100,000 Riskaverse Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 24. Afterward, Toner said he would likely wait for a race like the Pebbles on Nov. 14, a non-graded $200,000 stakes at one mile. The Sands Point is at 1 1/8 miles.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Tapwrit, the Belmont Stakes winner, came out of his fourth-place finish in the Travers Stakes on Aug 26 with an injured right front foot that will sideline him for the immediate future and potentially could end his 3-year-old season, co-owner Aron Wellman said Wednesday.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – A funeral will be held Thursday for Woodbine outrider and exercise rider Darren Fortune, who died in a training accident last Friday at age 43.

Visitation will be from 12-1 p.m. at the Newediuk Funeral Home, Kipling Chapel, at 2058 Kipling Ave. in Toronto. The funeral will follow there from 1-2 p.m.

Fortune was the main exercise rider for trainer Nick Gonzalez, and was an outrider who worked for Woodbine during the races.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Four years ago, it was raw and unshaped. Now, the September meet at Churchill Downs has found a rhythm and purpose as a meet of intrigue and importance.

An 11-day stand that includes eight stakes and a bolstered purse structure begins Friday under the twin spires, and unlike in 2013 – the first year Churchill assumed dates long held by Turfway Park – it’s a meet standing proudly on its own after initially trying to find its legs like a newborn foal.

“Every September gets a little better than the previous one,” said Churchill racing secretary Ben Huffman.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Among the new faces at the September meet is trainer Robertino Diodoro, who has been active this year in Southern California and New York while maintaining a sizable Midwest string that went from Oaklawn to Canterbury Park and Prairie Meadows and now to Churchill for the first time.

The Canadian-born Diodoro, 43, entered this week tied for fourth in North America in wins (148) and is on pace to surpass his career high in stable earnings, set last year with more than $4.6 million.

Big World possible for Spinster

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The final Saturday of the Churchill Downs meet, Sept. 30, is one to look forward to, especially with the Grade 3 Ack Ack shaping up with such a good matchup.

Tom’s Ready, Warrior’s Club, and The Player are the known prospects for the Ack Ack, a one-turn mile that serves as a lead-in to the Nov. 3 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Del Mar.