George R. “Rusty” Arnold, the Kentucky-based trainer, will have to disperse his horses during a 90-day suspension recently handed down by Kentucky’s stewards for two positives for the banned drug ractopamine dating from 2016, according to the stewards’ ruling and the trainer.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Mourinho may be making his first start on a wet track Monday, when he will be the probable favorite in the Grade 3, $500,000 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park.

“The only time he gets his feet wet is on the wash rack,” joked his Southern California-based trainer, Bob Baffert.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Apprentice jockey Franklin Ceballos has been suspended three days from Feb. 23-25 for failing to ride Stole My ‘Art to the finish of the eighth race at Santa Anita on Feb. 11.

In a ruling issued Thursday, the board of stewards ruled that Ceballos’s action cost his mount a better placing. Stole My ‘Art finished sixth in a $6,250 claiming race at a mile, missing fifth place by a half-length. He was passed by Liar’s Smoker for fifth place in the final furlong.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Dalmore’s emphatic win in an optional claimer at Santa Anita on Thursday has trainer Keith Desormeaux thinking of starting him in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap on March 10.

In his first start since July, Dalmore ($11.80) led throughout Thursday’s race at 1 1/16 miles under jockey Kent Desormeux to win by 8 1/2 lengths over Cat Burglar.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Pubilius Syrus won the Eddie Logan Stakes at a mile on turf at Santa Anita on Dec. 29 even though the distance may not have been the best fit.

“He’s a mile and a quarter horse,” trainer Vladimir Cerin said.

NEW ORLEANS – Tiger Moth, who won the Houston Ladies Classic on Jan. 28 with a career-best performance, will make her next start March 17 in the Azeri Stakes at Oaklawn with an eye toward the Grade 1 Apple Blossom there, trainer Brad Cox said.

Retirement had been considered for the 6-year-old Tiger Moth.

“She’s not been bred, and we’re pointing toward the Azeri,” he said.

Tom’s d’Etat back to work

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Conquest Big E, runner-up to Tommy Macho in the Jan. 27 Fred Hooper at Gulfstream, sharpened for his next start in the Grade 3, $100,000 Hal’s Hope when blowing out a half-mile here Friday in 47.81 seconds for trainer Donna Hurtak.

Leading jockey Luis Saez has picked up the mount on Conquest Big E for the one-mile Hal’s Hope, the richest of three stakes here next Saturday (Feb. 24). A pair of $75,000 turf sprints, the Texas Glitter and Melody of Colors, also will be featured.

NEW ORLEANS – Trainer Brad Cox’s ever-advancing racing stable has attracted a new client of international renown – Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms.

Cox, who entering Friday’s races was the leading trainer at Fair Grounds with 33 wins and at Oaklawn with 12, has been training a handful of Juddmonte horses since last fall. The first to arrive and the first to race was the 4-year-old Speed Gun, who made an eye-catching debut Tuesday at Fair Grounds, leading all the way in a two-turn turf maiden race that he won by 5 1/4 lengths under Florent Geroux.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Todd Pletcher has to decide where to get started on the Derby trail with Magnum Moon, whose two-length victory Thursday in a two-turn allowance at Tampa Bay Downs kept the colt unbeaten and untested in two starts.

NEW ORLEANS – The champion older dirt female of 2017, Forever Unbridled, turned in a major workout Friday at Fair Grounds as she prepares for the Dubai World Cup on March 31.

Working solo through dense fog just after 6 a.m., Forever Unbridled was timed in 1:12.40 for six furlongs by trainer Dallas Stewart. He had the 6-year-old mare going out seven furlongs in 1:25 and a mile in 1:40.20.

“She worked real good,” said Stewart. “Went her last half in 47 and 2.”