The field for next Saturday’s Grade 3, $300,000 Gotham Stakes remained a work in progress a week out, with only four horses considered definite and a few other fringe players under consideration.

The Gotham lost one expected starter on Friday when trainer Wesley Ward said One Fast Cat, a debut winner at Turfway Park on Feb. 4, would not make the race. Though One Fast Cat worked five furlongs in 1:02.60 at Keeneland on Friday, Ward said the horse missed too much training and will now be pointed to the Bay Shore Stakes at Aqueduct on April 3.

As of Friday, the four considered definite for the Gotham are Freedom Fighter, the runner-up in the Grade 2 San Vicente; Highly Motivated, winner of the Nyquist Stakes last November at Keeneland; Capo Kane, winner of the Jerome Stakes and third in the Withers; and Wipe the Slate, a maiden winner who finished last in the Grade 3 Robert Lewis at Santa Anita.