The Latest: Stevens fined $500 for skipping race after win

The Latest: Stevens fined $500 for skipping race after win

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 3:37 p.m. ET

ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) The Latest on the Breeders' Cup (all times local):

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10:50 a.m.

Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens is out $500 after being fined for skipping his mount in the last race at Santa Anita on Friday.

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Stevens rode Beholder to a nose victory in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Distaff and attended the post-race news conference around the same time he was supposed to ride Mr. Roary in the Grade 2 Twilight Derby that closed the 10-race card.

As a result, Stevens was fined by the California Horse Racing Board on Saturday.

He can afford it. By winning the Distaff, Stevens earned $110,000, his 10 percent of the $1.1 million winner's share.

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10:30 a.m.

Shaman Ghost has been scratched from the $6 million Classic at the Breeders' Cup.

The assistant to trainer Jimmy Jerkens says the horse spiked a temperature overnight and didn't eat all his feed, knocking him out of the showcase race of the two-day world championships at Santa Anita.

That means Frank Stronach, who owns Santa Anita Park, won't have a horse in North America's richest race. He owns Shaman Ghost, who was coming off a narrow win in the Woodward at Belmont Park.

The scratch also costs Irad Ortiz Jr. a ride in the big race. However, Jerkens will still saddle Effinex in the Classic. The 5-year-old horse was runner-up last year.

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