Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer has suffered a setback in his legal bid to try to get a ban lifted at Santa Anita, site of the Breeders’ Cup event in two weeks. On Wednesday, a Los Angeles County judge denied Hollendorfer’s motion for a temporary restraining order that would have prevented Santa Anita from keeping the ban in place. Although Hollendorfer had earlier this year prevailed in a similar suit in San Diego County, the Wednesday ruling by Judge Mary Strobel is the second time in the past two months that a motion for a restraining order has been denied. In September, an Alameda County judge had denied a similar motion in reference to a ban at Golden Gate Fields. Drew Couto, the attorney representing Hollendorfer, said on Thursday that he will now file a motion for preliminary injunction seeking to get the Santa Anita ban lifted. That motion will not carry the same urgency as the motion for the temporary restraining order. Santa Anita, owned by The Stronach Group, banned Hollendorfer on June 22 when a horse he trained suffered a catastrophic injury while training at the track. At the time, Santa Anita was under intense scrutiny from some quarters due to a spate of fatal injuries at the track’s winter-spring meet, which had gotten underway on Dec. 26 of the previous year. The horse who died on June 22 was the fourth horse trained by Hollendorder to have suffered a fatal injury at the meet. Del Mar followed The Stronach Group’s action with its own ban, but a court ruled in Hollendorfer’s favor shortly after its meet opened, allowing him to run horses at the track. The ban at Golden Gate, also owned by The Stronach Group, was put in place on the same day as the Santa Anita ban, but the track did not open for live racing until Aug. 15. Hollendorfer, who has been inducted into racing’s Hall of Fame, has won 7,635 races in his career. He has been mostly based in Northern California during his decades of training. Hollendorfer is the trainer of Vasilika, a multiple graded stakes winner who is a candidate for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, which will be held on Nov. 2 at Santa Anita. He also trains Danuska’s My Girl, who is under consideration for the Filly and Mare Sprint. Technically, Breeders’ Cup controls the rules of racing for its event, not the host track, so a decision on whether to allow Hollendorfer to enter and run horses rests with that organization. But on Thursday, Breeders’ Cup continued to be non-committal about whether Hollendorfer runners would be allowed to run. “The Breeders’ Cup does not comment on the status of potential 2019 World Championship entries or starters,” said a statement from the organization’s spokesman, Jim Gluckson. Couto said that Breeders’ Cup officials have not communicated any policy to Hollendorfer regarding his status, but said that event-related payments on behalf of the horses have been accepted by the organization since the ban was put in place in June.