Although the Breeders’ Cup is more than eight months away, set for Oct. 30-31 at Keeneland, one would not have guessed it by looking at the Wednesday work tab in Kentucky. Three top performers from the 2014 Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita – BC Juvenile Turf winner Hootenanny, Juvenile Turf runner-up Luck of the Kitten, and Juvenile Fillies runner-up Sunset Glow – breezed Wednesday morning at Turfway Park for trainer Wesley Ward. Hootenanny and Sunset Glow both went a half-mile in 49.80 seconds on Turfway’s Polytrack, and Luck of the Kitten covered the same distance in 50.60. These were their first published works of 2015. In recent years, such high-caliber horses rarely have stepped foot at Turfway, save perhaps for the Spiral Stakes or Bourbonette Oaks, the two graded stakes still run there. It has been a different story this winter due to Ward keeping a high-quality string of horses at Keeneland and shipping them to Turfway to breeze. There previously had been little need for Ward or any other trainer based at Keeneland to do that when Keeneland’s main track was synthetic and remained open in the winter, but with Keeneland replacing its main track with dirt, the five-furlong Polytrack training track at Keeneland has been the only option for winter training there. :: ROAD TO THE KENTUCKY DERBY: Prep races, point standings, replays Not wanting to work his horses around the tight turns on the training track, Ward sent this trio on a van from Keeneland to Turfway to breeze Wednesday, just as he had earlier this winter, when he began preparing The Great War for a successful 3-year-old debut in the 96Rock Stakes. Hootenanny, Luck of the Kitten, and Sunset Glow are being considered for races overseas in late spring or early summer after kicking off their seasons with races in the U.S., Ward said. Hootenanny and Sunset Glow both have overseas experience, with the former having won the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot and later running second in the Group 3 Albany Stakes during that same prestigious meet. A couple of months later, Hootenanny placed second in a Group 1 in France. Meanwhile, Luck of the Kitten is a homebred owned by Ken and Sarah Ramsey, and being by their stallion, Kitten’s Joy, any success in Europe would increase the growing worldwide popularity of their stud. Sunset Glow, the winner of the Grade 2 Sorrento and the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante last summer on Polytrack at Del Mar, most likely will point to the Grade 3 Appalachian at a mile on turf April 12 at Keeneland, though Ward called the March 21 Bourbonette Oaks at Turfway, a Grade 3, $150,000, one-mile race on Polytrack, another option if she comes along quickly in her training. The Great War remains on target for the Feb. 28 John Battaglia Stakes, the final prep before the March 21 Spiral at Turfway. “He’s doing awesome,” Ward said. Hootenanny and Luck of the Kitten are being pointed for returns at Keeneland.