ARCADIA, Calif. – Apprentice jockey Ty Kennedy moved from California to Oklahoma last month and said on Wednesday that he is evaluating whether to continue his riding career.

Kennedy, 20, said he has fought weight issues in recent months.

“I kept getting bigger,” he said. “I grew an inch and put on some weight. I’ve come home to rest up. I’m waiting to see what will happen.”

Kennedy said he is galloping horses at Will Rogers Downs, with the hope that he can resume riding this spring at Prairie Meadows in Altoona, Iowa.

ARCADIA, Calif. – A quarter crack is likely to prevent the three-time stakes winner Toews On Ice from starting in Monday’s $200,000 San Vicente Stakes for 3-year-olds at Santa Anita.

Trainer Bob Baffert said on Wednesday that Toews On Ice “missed training time” recently. The colt has had one recorded workout since a sixth-place finish as the 3-5 favorite in the Smarty Jones Stakes at Oaklawn Park on Jan. 18. Toews On Ice worked six furlongs from the gate in 1:14.20 on Feb. 5.

“Right now, I would say no,” Baffert said regarding a start for Toews On Ice on Monday.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Turf standout Lochte will be getting a few months off after having a three-race win streak snapped when finishing fourth as the favorite in the Grade 2 Fort Lauderdale here at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 9.

“He’s been going at it real hard for a while now,” said trainer Marcus Vitali. “He’s earned some downtime. I’ll probably do the same for Valid [the Donn runner-up] after he runs one more time at this meet.”

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The main story line in the Royal Delta Stakes at Gulfstream Park will focus on whether Sandiva can make the same remarkable turf-to-dirt transition pulled off recently by her Al Shaqab Racing stablemate Mshawish.

There are opposing trainers who will do their best to foil that. One is Dale Romans, who will send out Gamblers Rose as one of the longer shots in the Grade 2, $200,000 Royal Delta, which will be run Saturday as the only graded race here between now and Fountain of Youth Day on Feb. 27.

Parx Racing had been scheduled to reopen for training on Thursday but that will not be possible after the area received 2 to 3 inches of snow early Wednesday. The snow melted quickly and the surface became too wet for track superintendent Gerard Weipert to make necessary repairs to the base of the track along the inner rail, according to Sam Elliott, the director of racing at Parx.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – The multiple Grade 2 winner Departing has been highweighted at 122 pounds for the $100,000 Essex Handicap on Saturday at Oaklawn, but he instead will run on turf at Fair Grounds, trainer Al Stall Jr. said Monday.

“He breezed here at Fair Grounds on Sunday,” said Stall.

Stall said Departing is being pointed for the Grade 3, $125,000 Fair Grounds Handicap on Feb. 20. The horse won the Grade 2 Firecracker on the grass in June at Churchill Downs. Earlier at this Oaklawn meet, Departing was second by a head in the $100,000 Fifth Season.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Matt King Coal, an impressive maiden winner last fall at Belmont, returned to the work tab Sunday for the first time in 10 weeks, breezing a half-mile in 49.93 seconds in company over the training track. He galloped out five furlongs in 1:02.19 and six furlongs in 1:15.10.

If he continues to train like this, Matt King Coal could run in the Grade 3, $400,000 Gotham on March 5, trainer Linda Rice said.

Allow Masquerade an easy lead, and she’s not easy to run down on the Fair Grounds turf course. Hooked and cooked Jan. 17 in the Marie Krantz Memorial, Masquerade, dropped in for a $62,500 claiming price in a turf route that’s also open to third-level allowance runners, could shake loose and back up the pace under Florent Geroux in Thursday’s featured eighth race.

If not Masquerade on the lead, then her trainer, Mike Stidham, has an off-the-pace contender in Zubi Zubi Zu. Treaty Oak, another Krantz dropper, also is in with a chance.

Shotgun Kowboy, the winner of the Grade 3 Oklahoma Derby and seventh last out in the Grade 1 Clark Handicap at Churchill last fall, could make his 4-year-old debut Feb. 20 in the Grade 3, $125,000 Mineshaft Handicap.

C.R. Trout bred and owns Shotgun Kowboy and trained him through the Clark Handicap, but Shotgun Kowboy now is being handled by Bret Calhoun, who has him stabled with his string at the Evangeline Training Center, where Shotgun Kowboy on Saturday worked five furlongs in 1:03.60.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Two horses coming off big performances Saturday at Gulfstream Park, Donn Handicap winner Mshawish and Lady Shipman, who cruised to victory as the odds-on favorite in the Ladies’ Turf Sprint, will be heading to Dubai for their next starts, while it appears that Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap winner Lukes Alley will not.