DEL MAR, Calif. - Horse owner Jerry Jamgotchian said on Wednesday that former California Horse Racing Board chairman Richard Shapiro got off easy for vandalizing Jamgotchian's car at Hollywood Park in April. Shapiro was sentenced to three years of informal probation.

In a court hearing on Tuesday, Shapiro pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of vandalizing Jamgotchian's car with a key. As part of the court decision, Shapiro, 56, must pay $6,800 in damages to Jamgotchian, a vocal critic of Shapiro and the racing board on a variety of issues in recent years.

A barn at Calder Race Course has been placed under quarantine following the death earlier this week of a horse from the stable of trainer Stanley Ersoff.

According to track officials, the unnamed horse was placed under observation last weekend after demonstrating symptoms of a possible neurological disorder. The horse was euthanized on Monday. Tissue samples were sent to the state laboratory in Tallahassee for examination. Results of those tests were expected back either Friday or Saturday.

DEL MAR, Calif. - California Flag returned from a layoff of more than eight months to win Wednesday's $106,100 Green Flash Handicap at Del Mar, a performance that owner Keith Card and trainer Brian Koriner hopes will lead to a start in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Santa Anita on Nov. 7.

Dan Bork has been named racing secretary for the 2010 Gulfstream Park meeting, replacing Doug Bredar, who served in that capacity this past winter.

Bork, 39, is the son of Bob Bork, president of Sam Houston Park, and the nephew of Bill Bork, president of Penn National Gaming and Racing.

Bork currently serves as racing secretary at Ellis Park, assistant racing secretary at Keeneland, and as a steward at Kentucky Downs.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - As things began to develop in Wednesday's Grade 2 Adirondack Stakes and his Worstcasescenario was chasing the 4-5 favorite, Dashing Debby, through a fast early quarter, trainer Rick Violette thought to himself, "We'll find out how good she is."

When things ended in the $150,000 Adirondack and Worstcasescenario was 4 1/4 lengths ahead of the field, Violette had the answer.

"She's awfully good, awfully good," Violette said. "It's pretty cool."

About 80 valuable trophies, including several Kentucky Derby Gold Cups, were in the process of being moved Wednesday to a Churchill Downs vault to avert possible damage during the massive cleanup that has been undertaken at the Kentucky Derby Museum in the wake of the Aug. 4 flash flood in Louisville, Ky.

Museum officials said the trophy collection includes Derby gold cups won by Flying Ebony (1925), Determine (1954), and Carry Back (1960), along with numerous other gold and silver pieces that are part of the museum's extensive collection.

Del Mar has shown significant gains in average attendance and handle through the first half of the Del Mar meeting, figures helped greatly by running one fewer day per week this year.

Through Sunday, the 20th of 37 days of racing, average attendance was up 11.8 percent, increasing from 16,645 in 2008 to 18,607 this year. Ontrack average handle was up 12.8 percent, rising to $2,389,811 this year, from $2,118,530, according to a statement released by the track.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Saturday's $125,000 Eternal Search came up light in numbers, with just five horses entered, but you won't be hearing any complaints from trainer John LeBlanc, who will send out Moonlit Beauty in search of some black type in the 1 1/16-mile race for Ontario-sired 3-year-old fillies.

"She's coming into the race great," said LeBlanc, who trains the homebred Moonlit Beauty for William Gierkink, father of Daily Racing Form correspondent Ron Gierkink. "I think our filly will run a powerful race."

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Though Better Talk Now finished a solid second in last weekend's Grade 1 Sword Dancer Invitational, trainer Graham Motion couldn't help think that Father Time has finally caught up to the 10-year-old gelding.

"I questioned myself a little as to whether that it was age that he didn't get there," said Motion, whose horse fell two lengths shy of 33-1 shot Telling. "I just question whether he would have got there three years ago. It's in the back of my mind. It's got me thinking."

DEL MAR, Calif.- Richard Shapiro, the former chairman of the California Horse Racing Board, pleaded no contest earlier this week to misdemeanor charges of vandalizing horse owner Jerry Jamgotchian's car with a key at Hollywood Park in April.

At a hearing on Tuesday, Shapiro, 56, was sentenced to three years of informal probation and must pay $6,800 in damages to Jamgotchian, a horse owner and an outspoken critic of Shapiro and the racing board in recent years.