Over the last five years, Graham Motion has trained 16 different fillies and mares to win graded turf stakes and only half as many colts and geldings. For now, that balance has shifted. Four-year-old gelding Cruise the Nile landed the Henry Clark Stakes last weekend at Laurel Park. He’s unbeaten in four grass races and a winter allowance winner over rising grass star Burnham Square, and he’s not nearly as accomplished as the 4-year-old colt Test Score and the 5-year-old horse One Stripe. That pair ran one-two, separated by a neck, in the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Turf on Jan. 24. One Stripe ran back April 10 at Keeneland, rallying strongly to miss slow-paced wire-to-wire winner Zulu Kingdom by three-quarters of a length in the Grade 1 Maker’s Mark Mile. Test Score won’t race at Keeneland but has been training there toward his first post-Pegasus start, the $1.5 million Turf Classic on May 2 at Churchill Downs. Motion said he freshened Test Score into the spring because the horse raced eight times as a 3-year-old, winning the Grade 1 Belmont Derby at Saratoga, the Grade 3 Transylvania at Keeneland, and the Grade 2 Twilight Derby at Santa Anita. Trouble might have cost him victory, too, in the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby, where he ran third. Test Score, generally a disinterested work horse, breezed an easy half-mile on grass in company with Soleil Volant on April 14. “He just kind of does what he needs to do,” Motion said. “He’s a lovely horse. He’s filled out some more.” :: Keeneland Spring Meet! Get DRF Past Performances, picks, news, and more. One Stripe, a multiple Group 1 winner in his native South Africa, came to Motion last summer. For lack of options, Motion ran him first out in the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile, where One Stripe checked in a mild fifth. One Stripe prefers a stalking or closing trip, yet he wound up leading the Breeders’ Cup Mile before fading to last. “That was a complete disaster. We kind of had to regroup, but I think he showed he’s very legitimate the other day,” Motion said. Connections will consider two spots for One Stripe – the Shoemaker Mile on May 25 at Santa Anita and the 1 3/16-mile Manhattan on June 6 at Saratoga. Motion still has fillies and mares, too. While the South African import Beach Bomb has been retired, the South African import Gimme Another is about a week away from her first breeze since capturing the Grade 2 John Mabee in September at Del Mar. The Ireland-bred filly Laurelin is ready to launch her 4-year-old campaign, either in the Beaugay on May 3 at Aqueduct or the Gallorette on May 16 at Pimlico. Laurelin won her first five starts, including the Grade 2 Saratoga Oaks, before finishing second in the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup and in the Jockey Club Oaks on Nov. 15. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.