HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Gray Attempt, the winner of the $150,000 Smarty Jones in January at Oaklawn, is not certain to make the Grade 2, $1 million Rebel on March 16, trainer Jinks Fires said Monday.

“We could go in if it would be a really short field,” Fires said Monday.

Gray Attempt finished 11th after a rough go around the first turn in the Southwest here in his last start, and missed training after the race due to filling in an ankle. The horse is back on schedule, but Fires said the ideal plan might be to await the Arkansas Derby.

Among the numerous impacts of the unprecedented suspension of racing at Santa Anita is that trainers of top Kentucky Derby prospects who were scheduled to run in the Grade 2, $500,000 San Felipe Stakes on Saturday are sorting through options while flying blind as to when racing will resume at Santa Anita.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – Kathleen O’Connell has been fighting a nasty cold for about a month now, but as she would readily tell you, it’s better her than one of her horses. As one of many signs of her devotion to her stable, O’Connell has refused to skip a morning or two at either of her winter bases, Gulfstream Park West or Tampa Bay Downs, despite feeling downright miserable.

“No,” she said Wednesday between sets at Tampa, where on Saturday she will saddle Well Defined as a major contender in the track’s annual showcase event, the Grade 2, $400,000 Tampa Bay Derby.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The category is “Road to the Kentucky Derby.” The answer is “Final Jeopardy.” And the question is, “Who is trainer Jason Servis’s second and latest candidate for the $1 million Florida Derby on March 30 at Gulfstream Park?”

Final Jeopardy, a 3-year-old son of Street Sense, put himself in the mix for the Grade 1 Florida Derby with an impressive 3 1/2-length allowance win going a mile here Sunday over a field that included the previously undefeated and highly regarded Soldado.

WHO’S HOT

Jockey Shaun Bridgmohan is out of action after fracturing his collarbone during racing Tuesday at Fair Grounds.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Santa Anita has canceled racing indefinitely to allow track consultant Dennis Moore to inspect the surface, which has been plagued by a rash of equine fatalities in recent months.

Tim Ritvo, the chief operating officer of The Stronach Group, the track’s parent company, said on Tuesday afternoon that racing will not be held at least through Sunday. Ritvo declined to speculate on when racing would resume.

Slightly more than two months after leaving his position as track consultant at Santa Anita, Dennis Moore has resumed his role as a racing surface consultant amidst a rash of fatal breakdowns in recent months at Santa Anita.

Moore was scheduled to be at Santa Anita on Tuesday afternoon to inspect the course “as a precautionary measure,” the track said in a statement.

The announcement of Moore’s return comes hours after the filly Lets Light the Way suffered a fatal injury in morning training, the 21st horse lost since the winter-spring meeting began on Dec. 26.

ARCADIA, Calif. – A filly in the middle of a timed workout Tuesday on the Santa Anita main track suffered a catastrophic injury, the 21^st equine fatality from racing or training since the winter meet began Dec. 26.

Lets Light the Way, a 4-year-old filly trained by Ron McAnally and owned by his wife, Debbie, was working at 7:45 a.m. when the exercise rider pulled her up after the three-eighths pole. She was vanned off the track with an injury McAnally said was a “shattered sesamoid.” Lets Light the Way was euthanized soon after.

Global Campaign had a big excuse for his fifth-place finish under Luis Saez in the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth last Saturday at Gulfstream Park, one that will put an end to his Kentucky Derby dreams.