CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SAN MATEO : Track Suspends Son of Doc Severinsen

Racehorse trainer Allen Severinsen, son of bandleader Doc Severinsen, was suspended from the Bay Meadows track in San Mateo after a second horse he trained tested positive for a drug after winning a race. Severinsen, 33, was suspended by the track’s board of stewards, which in September had fined him $750 when another horse he trained tested positive. The suspension will last until Jan. 24, through the rest of the Bay Meadows season. “I don’t know how this could have happened, because we try to be so careful about everything,” Severinsen said. “I’m 100% innocent.” Steward Dennis Nevin said the suspension could have been more severe, but “his story was plausible enough that perhaps this was an error at the barn.”