Horse Racing News by Ron Mitchell

The Jockeys' Guild has reached an agreement with Parx Racing, resolving their dispute in a manner that will not alter the current on-track accident policy at the Pennsylvania track.
The California Horse Racing Board has suspended trainer Genaro Vallejo for 180 days and fined $5,000 after a horse under his care tested positive for the Class 3 medication Promazine, a metabolite of Acepromazine.
Ralph M. Evans' Upstart, winner of the Lambholm South Holy Bull Stakes, has been installed the 8-5 favorite in the eight-horse field entered for the Feb. 21, $400,000 Besilu Stables Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
Kaleem Shah's Bayern, winner of the 2014 Breeders' Cup Classic, has recovered from a hind foot abscess and worked Feb. 16 at Santa Anita Park.
A winter storm has led Oaklawn Park to cancel its Feb. 16 Presidents' Day card that included the $300,000 Southwest Stakes. The Southwest, part of Oaklawn's series of prep races for the Arkansas Derby, will be rescheduled for the Feb. 21-22 weekend.
Richard C. Pell's Calculator, fifth on the Kentucky Derby points list, will miss the Triple Crown due to an undisclosed injury.
Texas jockey Roman Chapa is facing felony criminal charges related to race-fixing following allegations that he carried an electrical shock device in a winning race at Sam Houston Race Park Jan. 17 in Houston.
Jockey Roman Chapa has been summarily suspended by Texas Horse Racing Commission stewards pending an investigation into his winning ride aboard Quiet Acceleration in a stakes race Jan. 17 at Sam Houston Race Park.
A circuit court judge has ruled John Veitch, the former chief state steward for Thoroughbred racing in Kentucky, was improperly dismissed from his position in November 2011 and has ordered him reinstated with back wages.
Calculator, a 15-1 morning line shot seeking his first career win, has been scratched out of the Nov. 1 Sentient Jets Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita Park.
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