DEL MAR, Calif. – Apprentice jockey Heriberto Figueroa, who tied for the riding title at the Los Alamitos summer meeting last month, escaped serious injury when he was unseated from his mount shortly after the start of Wednesday’s eighth race at Del Mar.

Figueroa was expected to miss his mounts Thursday, according to his agent, Nelson Arroyo, who said the 18-year-old jockey sustained a sore foot in the fall. Figueroa was taken to a local hospital for precautionary examination Wednesday evening, Arroyo said.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Los Alamitos will launch a $100,000 restricted race at 1 1/4 miles during the Los Angeles County Fair meeting next month.

The Los Alamitos Special on Sept. 16 will be restricted to horses that have not won a first-place purse of $50,000 at a mile or over in their career. Track officials are hopeful the race will draw stakes-placed and allowance-class runners.

Sky Promise, the 2-1 morning-line favorite, will break from post 4 in the Grade 3, $200,000 Canadian Derby at Northlands Park on Saturday. The 1 3/8-mile race drew nine horses and will go as the last of 12 races on the final day of Thoroughbred racing at Northlands. There is a $50,000-guaranteed pool for the late pick four.

Two days after owners Krystle and Hutch Holsapple and trainer Justin Johns sold the bargain auction buy Winning Envelope for big money, the same connections sent out another 2-year-old filly, Thunderous Gem, to debut at Arlington.

The Texas Racing Commission has adopted a zero-tolerance policy on clenbuterol, according to agency spokesman Robert Elrod. He said the “prohibition” of the bronchodilator goes into effect Sept. 10.

The Louisiana Racing Commission recently adopted a similar policy for Quarter Horses. It goes into effect Oct. 3.

The penalties for Texas – which covers all breeds – range from a $1,000 fine, 30-day suspension, and loss of purse for a first offense to a $5,000 fine, 120-day suspension, and loss of purse for a third offense, according to Elrod.

Prairie Meadows concluded its 67-day 2018 Thoroughbred meet Aug. 11 with slight declines in total handle, average daily handle, and average handle per race, and a small uptick in average handle per starter.

Mountaineer Casino and Racetrack in West Virginia was forced to cancel race cards on Monday and Tuesday night after an electrical fire at a power station near the racetrack disabled a fiber-optic line running to the facility, according to Jim Colvin, the track’s manager of racing.

Colvin said that the cause of the fire was still under investigation, but whatever the case, the disabling of the fiber-optic line shut down all of the track’s bet-processing operations.

“It totally crippled our tote system,” Colvin said. “We were dead in the water, no tote capability at all.”

Jockey Eddie Martin Jr., who earlier this month hit 4,000 career Thoroughbred wins in North America, will be a regular at the Remington Park meet, which opens Friday night. He also is riding at Retama Park, where he led the standings through Tuesday. The meet at Retama closes Sept. 5.

It was at Retama where Martin hit the milestone on Aug. 15 in a photo in the final race of the night with Spinning Pegasus ($9.80).

“It was pretty awesome,” Martin said. “The good Lord made me wait until the last race.”

High North is headed due south.

The winner of the Iowa Derby, High North is now bound for Louisiana Downs and a start in the Grade 3, $300,000 Super Derby on Sept. 2.

“It’s a good race, a good purse, and it just seemed to fit his schedule well,” said trainer Brad Cox. “We’ve been targeting the race for a while.”

Cox won last year’s Super Derby with Mr. Misunderstood.

High North will be invading from Churchill Downs for Shortleaf Stable. Cox said Florent Geroux would have the mount. Geroux was aboard for the $250,000 Iowa Derby win July 6 at Prairie Meadows.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The 3-year-old Carrick, the upset winner of the Grade 1 Secretariat at Arlington Park on Aug. 11, will take on older males in the Grade 1, $500,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic at Belmont Park on Sept. 29, trainer Tom Morley said this week.

Morley said he preferred the 1 1/2 miles of the Hirsch to the 1 1/8 miles of the Grade 2, $500,000 Hill Prince, a race restricted to 3-year-olds, on Oct. 6.

Morley also noted that the Joe Hirsch is a Win and You’re In race for the Breeders’ Cup Turf.