ARCADIA, Calif. – Secret Circle, who won the $2 million Golden Shaheen in Dubai on March 28, resumed exercise at Santa Anita on Friday and could return to racing in early June in New York, trainer Bob Baffert said.

Baffert said Secret Circle is a candidate for the $250,000 True North Stakes at six furlongs at Belmont Park on June 5.

Secret Circle returned to Southern California last weekend, having been quarantined in Chicago following his return to the United States from Dubai. Baffert said Secret Circle showed enthusiasm in exercise Friday.

One day into the Lone Star meet trainer Bret Calhoun is batting .800. He won four races with five starters at Lone Star Park on the track’s opening night Thursday, including the $50,000 Premiere Stakes with Wagson.

Calhoun, a longtime Lone Star regular who captured training titles in 2010 and 2011, took the daily double when Adrianne G followed Wagon’s meet-opening victory in the second race. He then picked up additional wins with Yuppie Girl in the fourth and Gom Jabbar in the sixth.

Only Joedini in race 5 failed to win, running sixth.

ARCADIA, Calif. – California Chrome was back to exercising in England on Friday, nearly two weeks after a second-place finish in the $10 million Dubai World Cup in the United Arab Emirates.

Trainer Art Sherman said on Friday that he had been in contact with trainer Rae Guest, who is housing the 2014 Horse of the Year at his stable in Newmarket, England, in advance of scheduled starts in the Group 1 Lockinge Stakes at Newbury on May 16 and the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 17.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Few people are going to be watching the results of the Arkansas Derby more closely than Nick Zito.

The Hall of Fame trainer is dead set on getting Frammento into the lineup for the 141st Kentucky Derby on May 2 but will need a little help in the points standings for that to happen.

“The bottom line is he’s a mile-and-a-quarter horse,” Zito said. “That’s what he’s going to be best at.”

For a champion with 10 wins in 11 starts, Shared Belief has had to do a lot of convincing on his journey to the top of the Thoroughbred rankings in North America.

At first, he was regarded as a synthetic-track horse. Then he missed the 2014 Triple Crown with a foot injury, losing the opportunity to face the best of his division.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Alexander Patykewich finished the 2014 Woodbine season with just one horse in his barn but now returns from the Gulfstream Park meet with three after a productive winter from stable star Skylander Girl.

Skylander Girl made three starts at Gulfstream during the winter, highlighted by a runner-up effort to Singapore Cup winner Parranda in the Grade 3 Marshua’s River Stakes on Jan. 10. Skylander Girl is now at Woodbine preparing for the Grade 3 Whimsical Stakes here April 18.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Grade 3 Selene Stakes winner Paladin Bay is back in training at Woodbine after missing the second half of the 2014 season with bone bruising.

Trainer Harold Ladouceur said the injury occurred after Paladin Bay ran third in the Bison City Stakes on July 13 and that she might have been able to return before the end of the year.

“We could have probably tried after six weeks off, but it was so late in the season, and I didn’t want to ship her anywhere, so we decided to take the rest of the year off,” he said.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Sheer Drama, the runaway winner of the Grade 2 Royal Delta Stakes here March 21, turned in the work of the morning at Gulfstream Park on Friday. The homebred daughter of Burning Roma cruised through a half-mile in 48.57 seconds, completing her final quarter in 23.97 while finishing in hand and into a stiff headwind. She galloped out five furlongs in 1:01.54 and pulled up six panels in 1:15.72.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Patrick Husbands and Luis Contreras had quite the battle atop the Woodbine jockey standings toward the end of last season, but they might have some company this season as former New York jockey Alan Garcia joins the Woodbine colony this year.

Garcia, a winner of 1,449 career races, recently has been riding on the Kentucky circuit while also spending the summers at Saratoga. Garcia said he’s fully committed to Woodbine for the duration of the 2015 season.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – D. Wayne Lukas made an impression on a teenage Bob Baffert decades ago when Lukas shipped several horses into a Sonoita, Ariz., track about 30 miles from Baffert’s home. Lukas was an established Quarter Horse trainer and was invading for trials for a futurity.

“It was big time,” recalled Baffert. “He rolled in with all these good 2-year-olds, a first-class operation. He was the guy. Wayne’s always been bigger than life. He’s always been the bar of racing.”