ARCADIA, Calif. – Even without live racing, parts of Santa Anita were packed over the weekend.

Last week, with terrifying wildfires striking areas near the track, Santa Anita opened its parking lot as a staging ground for power company vehicles. Last Friday, another section of the parking lot became a massive donation center after officials from the nearby city of Pasadena asked track executives if space was available.

Santa Anita general manager Nate Newby said the reaction from track officials was swift.

“We said, ‘Absolutely,’ ” Newby said.

Redistricting, runner-up in the Grade 2 Seabiscuit Handicap at Del Mar on Nov. 30, will not make the $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf on Jan. 25, Brown said.

“He had a minor setback,” Brown said. “He’s going to be fine but now I’m considering taking my time and starting his season possibly in a race like the [Muniz Memorial Classic].”

The Grade 2, $300,000 Muniz is run at Fair Grounds on March 22.

Sierra Leone, the Breeders’ Cup Classic winner and finalist for the Eclipse Award in the 3-year-old male division, had his second work in a week on Sunday, going a half-mile in 50.60 seconds at Payson Park.

Brown said he has liked what he’s seen thus farm from Sierra Leone since he resumed training and is pointing the colt toward the $20 million Saudi Cup in Riyadh on Feb. 22.

Chancer McPatrick, the two-time Grade 1 winning 2-year-old, emerged from the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile last November with a couple of issues that will delay his return to the races at 3, but trainer Chad Brown still has hopes of getting him on the Kentucky Derby trail.

Brown said that Chancer McPatrick had “a tiny flake” surgically removed from a front ankle shortly after his sixth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, a race from which he also came out of with a quarter crack on a hind foot.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Kendrick Carmouche, the leading jockey through the first two weeks of Aqueduct’s winter meet, will serve a three-day suspension for his ride aboard Frizzante in Saturday’s sixth race at Aqueduct.

Carmouche waived his right of appeal and will serve the days on Jan. 19, 23, and 24.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Sand Devil, the impressive 3-year-old New York-bred who has won both of his starts, could stay with statebreds for his next start in the $125,000 Damon Runyon Stakes on Feb. 8, trainer Linda Rice said. Rice had previously mentioned the $250,000 Withers Stakes going 1 1/8 miles on Feb. 1 as potential next target for the colt.

“I’m leaning Damon Runyon-Gotham,” Rice said, referring to the Grade 3, $300,000 Gotham run at one mile on March 1.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Last Saturday, trainer Dominick Schettino sent out the New York-bred Bernietakescharge and pulled off a 16-1 upset Saturday in an open-company allowance race at Aqueduct.

This Saturday, Schettino will send out Bernieandtherose, the younger half-sister to Bernietakescharge, in hopes of pulling off an upset in the $100,000 Busanda Stakes at Aqueduct.

The Busanda, at 1 1/8 miles, drew a field of nine, though two horses are cross-entered in other spots. The top five finishers in the Busanda earn qualifying points (20-10-6-4-2) toward the Kentucky Oaks.