By FullCardReports.com

When jockey Abel Castellano went down in a spill Sunday he was taken to North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York. He will be sidelined indefinitely with a broken collarbone, the jockey’s agent, Kevin Meyocks announced on Tuesday morning. With 17 wins, Castellano was 10th in the standings for the Aqueduct meet, from November 29th through Sunday, March 4th and will resume riding in Florida after he heals.

New York-based trainer Trainer Richard E. Dutrow reached the 1,000-win mark with KIP DEVILLE'S hard-fought neck victory in Saturday’s Grade 1 Frank E. Kilroe Mile Handicap at Santa Anita. Dutrow’s milestone victory was accomplished from 4,003 starters for an impressive 25% win rate. Dutrow’s runners have won 92 stakes and 38 graded stakes and earned more than $42 million in purses. Dutrow began working with horses as an assistant to his father, the late Richard E. Dutrow Sr., before starting his own training career in the late 1990s.

On February 24th, the New York Racing Association barred horses shipping in from Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Delaware because of a Virginia outbreak of herpesvirus, a highly contagious neurological disease. The ban will be re-evaluated Wednesday by Dr. Anthony Verderosa, NYRA's chief examining veterinarian. Sweating out the ban is Bowie, Maryland-based trainer Robert Bailes who intends to ship MINT SLEWLEP in for Saturday's Grade 3 Gotham Stakes. MINT SLEWLEP has not run since breaking his maiden at Laurel in October. He came out of the race with bucked shins and has been working steadily all winter at Bowie for the comeback.

Just four weeks remain for racing on the Aqueduct inner track. The main track is scheduled for racing beginning Wednesday, April 4th with turf racing to follow shortly thereafter. Another harbinger of spring is the shift this Wednesday to a 1 p.m. first post.