SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Jockey Luis Saez suffered a dislocated right collarbone and slight fracture of his left wrist as the result of a spill in which he was involved during the running of Wednesday’s $135,000 John’s Call Stakes at Saratoga, according to his agent Kiaran McLaughlin.

It was not immediately known how much time he will miss.

Saez had been booked to ride Kentucky Derby winner Mage in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes, but will definitely miss that assignment. Flavien Prat has been named as Saez's replacement aboard Mage.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Eclipse Award winners Goodnight Olive and Echo Zulu, who finished first and second in last November’s Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, will square off again in Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Ballerina Handicap, among the highlights of the Travers Day undercard.

Echo Zulu, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2021, has won eight of 10 career starts. She comes in off a monster 7 1/4-length victory in the Grade 2 Honorable Miss Handicap here on July 26 for which she earned a career-best 112 Beyer Speed Figure.

Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minn., has canceled the race card scheduled for tonight due to higher than forecasted temperatures, the track said just hours before first post.

Canterbury had already pushed the first post for the eight-race card from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. because of an excessive heat forecast, but conditions worsened in the afternoon. The track said in a release that the new forecasts "could make racing dangerous to both horses and people that work outdoors.”

With 10 wins from 33 starters, trainer Peter Eurton is in the midst of his best Del Mar summer meeting, a level of success that was unexpected.

“No. Not at all,” he said on Wednesday. “No way.”

Through Wednesday, Eurton, 66, was tied for third in the standings with Peter Miller, trailing leader Phil D’Amato (15) and Bob Baffert (12). Eurton had won with 30.3 percent of his starters, second only to Baffert’s 33 percent from 36 starters among the 10 leading trainers.

Trainer Nevada Litfin has been handed a summary suspension by the Canterbury Park board of stewards for conduct detrimental to racing, according to a ruling posted by the Minnesota Racing Commission on Wednesday.

Litfin was cited for an Aug. 16 incident. During the suspension of his license, he is denied access to Minnesota tracks, pending a hearing.   

The ruling reads that Litfin “was observed by commission security engaging in acts detrimental to the integrity of racing.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- When Forte ran in the Belmont Stakes off a 10-week layoff, it was hardly by design. The 2-year-old champion of 2022 was forced to miss the Kentucky Derby and Preakness due to a bruised foot, meaning the Belmont was his first start since the April 1 Florida Derby. He finished a game second.

When Belmont Stakes winner Arcangelo runs in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga -- meeting Forte, Kentucky Derby Mage, Preakness winner National Treasure and three others -- he will do so off an 11-week layoff.

Ellis Park in Henderson, Ky., has moved the entirety of its Friday card to Monday due to the heat wave throttling the Midwest, the track announced Tuesday, a decision that also will shift all of its meet-ending mandatory payouts to the new card.

The Friday card, which was already drawn, includes nine races. First post will be 11:45 a.m. Central on Monday.