For most trainers during this period of time, it is business as usual early in the day. Trainer Joe Holloway is no exception as we contacted him on Tuesday morning at Gaitway Farms. "I've got a few more miles to go. I'll call you back," said Holloway while touring the oval with the 3-year-old Discoforadollar. "I had her ready to go qualify at Dover Downs on a Wednesday but they shut everything down on the Monday," said Holloway of the filly by American Ideal that suffered a stress fracture as a juvenile but has come back nicely this year. "I think she could be something." While unraced, there is enough pedigree to support Holloway’s belief in the $80,000 Lexington Selected yearling from 2018. Discoforadollar is the second foal from Eighthunrdolarbill, a Bettor's Delight mare with $362K in career earnings. The dam is also a full sister to the rugged $1 million-winning mare Medusa, as well as last year’s standout juvenile in Ontario by the name of Alicorn. Another of Holloway's 2019 2-year-olds returning from an injury is the Father Patrick-sired Stay Close. A winner in a division of the Kindergarten series early in the season at The Meadowlands, Stay Close would take a 1:54 3/5 record and finish second in a Peter Haughton elimination race. He ended his season the following week with an off-the-board performance in the final. "He's suffered a broken hock," said Holloway, explaining the shortened campaign. Stay Close would be ready to qualify, if there was such a thing, in the first week of May. "I've trained him in 1:57 and he feels good so far," said Holloway. Stay Close is a half-brother to the 2016 Hambletonian finalist Milligan’s School. The 4-year-old mare Zero Tolerance is approaching $1 million in career earnings after impressive 2- and 3-year-old campaigns in New York and beyond. Holloway lamented how last year ended for the daughter of Heston Blue Chip. "She bled in those last few starts," Holloway said. "Before that, she never put in a bad race." Zero Tolerance has been 21 times first or second in just 27 career starts heading into 2020, giving Holloway, along with owners Marty Granoff and Ted Gewertz, plenty of reason for optimism this year. "It's a difficult transition but I think she's up to it," said Holloway of tackling older mares. While Holloway's 3-year-olds and older are ready to go once tracks open, his 2-year-olds are still about a month or more away. The Hall of Fame conditioner, responsible for some of the sport’s elite performers, such as Jenna’s Beach Boy and She’s A Great Lady, conditioned two of the fastest performers the sport has seen over the last 10 years. The world champion Shebestingin took a 1:47 mark at The Red Mile in 2013.  Her stablemate in Holloway's stable that year was the 2-year-old Always B Miki, who years later would go on to become the all-time fastest horse in harness history with a 1:46 mark, also at The Red Mile. In 2020, Holloway may have the best of both worlds in a colt named Perfect Sting, the third foal of Shebestingin from the first crop of Always B Miki. "I think he looks more like Shebestingin at this point," said Holloway. Perfect Sting is a homebred of Marty Granoff's Val D’Or Farms along with George Segal's Brittany Farms LLC. "I was glad they gave me the horse to train," said Holloway. "I promised George (Segal) that we wouldn’t baby race him until the end of June." Right now, Perfect String is part of a pair of Always B Miki-sired colts that Holloway is high on. The other half is Texas Miki, a $120,000 yearling purchase that's the first foal from the half-million-dollar-winning Momas Got A Gun. The dam is a full sister to a pair of sub-1:50 performers in Limelight Beach and Manhattan Beach. Holloway also has a few pacing fillies that he’s expecting good things from, but he preferred to let those remain nameless. "You find out what they’re made of the first time they get tired," said Holloway, who has been around long enough to understand how the best training 2-year-olds don’t always live up to expectations. At the same time, the trainer has a long history of developing champion horses and there’s a good chance a few of the 15 in his stable could be headed in that direction.