Fifteen jockeys have been suspended in West Virginia after submitting “falsified” physical examination documents in order to ride at Mountaineer Park, according to rulings and officials of the state’s racing commission.

Fourteen of the riders were given 15-day suspensions. Another rider, Eddie Jurado, was suspended 210 days for providing the other riders with the falsified documents, according to Joe Moore, the executive director of the West Virginia Racing Commission.

Santa Anita will run sprints at about 6 1/2 furlongs on its hillside turf course this fall for the first time since March 2019, the track announced Wednesday.

The course will be used for four stakes, including the Grade 2 Eddie D Stakes on the Oct. 1 opening-day program, and for a limited number of allowance races.

Friday’s eight-race card at Monmouth Park is light on quality but heavy on horses racing after being claimed by trainer Douglas Nunn.

Nunn entered horses in four races – Tiz Herself in race 2, a nonwinners-of-two claiming sprint; Gleaming Sword in race 5, a $16,000 maiden claimer; Don’t Losemymoney in race 6, a first-level allowance with a $16,000 claiming option; and Curlin’s Thrill, a main-track-only entrant in race 7, a nonwinners-of-four conditioned claimer.

While Double Thunder won the $200,000 Sapling Stakes on Saturday, earning a 73 Beyer Speed Figure and a start next month in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland, another 2-year-old at Monmouth caught the eye last weekend.

That was Affable Monarch, a colt bred to run long who stormed home from the back of the pack to win a maiden sprint, race 4 on Monday, by more than six lengths, going away. Affable Monarch got a modest Beyer of 60 but made a stronger visual impression and might better suit route racing than sprints.

When Runup travels 12 miles west by van from the Thoroughbred Training Center on the northeast side of Lexington, Ky., to Keeneland for the Alcibiades Stakes, it will seem like no travel at all to the 2-year-old filly.

Kj Desparado, the winner of the $3 All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs on Monday, may not be done for the season.

The Texas Classic Futurity at Lone Star Park, which has trials on Nov. 6 and a $1 million final on Nov. 27, is on the schedule for the Arizona-bred gelding, who recovered quickly from Monday’s 440-yard race.

“He’s very happy,” trainer Wes Giles said on Tuesday. “He acts like he’s ready to go again.”

Dr. J. David Richardson, a surgeon who bred and raced horses for nearly five decades while serving in various capacities in the Thoroughbred industry, died on Tuesday in a hospital in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., after being admitted with pneumonia following a COVID-19 diagnosis, according to associates. Richardson was 76.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Tripoli and Tizamagician, the one-two finishers in the Pacific Classic, both worked a half-mile on Monday at Del Mar and got identical times of 48.80 seconds.

Both are candidates for the Grade 1, $300,000 Awesome Again at Santa Anita on Oct. 2.

Tripoli, trained by John Sadler, earned an automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup Classic Nov. 6 at Del Mar owing to his Pacific Classic victory.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Laurel River’s runaway victory in his two-turn debut in a first-level allowance going one mile on Monday at Del Mar could earn him a berth in the Grade 1, $300,000 Awesome Again Oct. 2 at Santa Anita, trainer Bob Baffert said Tuesday.

“I think I’ll nominate him to the Awesome Again,” Baffert said. “He needed to go long. He’s not very big, so I had kept him short, but his work before this race was phenomenal. He woke up.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – The victory by Pinehurst in the Del Mar Futurity on Monday, the belief that Murray is far better than he showed in that race, and the emergence of runaway maiden winner Corniche on Saturday gives trainer Bob Baffert a number of top 2-year-old male prospects heading into the fall.

Trying to get those horses – and perhaps talented maidens like Enbarr and Rhetoric – to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Nov. 5 at Del Mar will require Baffert to look beyond the obvious California-based prep, the Grade 1, $300,000 American Pharoah, on Oct. 1 at Santa Anita.