True to Tradition, a Grade 2 stakes winner during a long career which has seen him win 13 races and $842,225, will try to prove his gas tank hasn’t hit empty when he returns from a three-month layoff Tuesday in a 5 1/2-furlong sprint for horses who have started for a claiming price of $12,500 or less since 2010 in the finale of a six-race, all-turf card at Atlantic City.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – This week last year, Eddie Kenneally was busy talking about Santiva, the first Kentucky Derby starter of his training career, but no such business occupies him this week. The memory of Santiva running sixth in the 2011 Derby is a faded one, especially since the colt has yet to win a race since being pulled from Kenneally’s care following a distant eighth-place finish in the Belmont Stakes.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – After a relatively quiet week, activity picked up to a frenetic pace at Churchill Downs on Saturday morning with four Kentucky Derby hopefuls working within a five-minute span immediately after the renovation break. Overall, seven of the prospective 20-horse Derby field breezed around the country on Saturday, including Hansen at the nearby Trackside training center, Alpha at Belmont Park, and Done Talking at Laurel Park.

LEXINGTON, Ky.  – Racing for the second time in 15 days, Point of Entry surged to the lead in midstretch of Friday’s Grade 2 Elkhorn Stakes on the turf at Keeneland to post his first stakes win, beating an accomplished field of eight runners.

A son of Dynaformer bred and owned by the Phipps Stable, Point of Entry ($13.20) ran the 1 1/2 miles on the firm turf in time of 2:29.45, beating the 15-1 outsider Tahoe Lake by 1 1/2 lengths. Simmard, the second choice, was three-quarters of a length back in third.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Acclamation, the champion older male of 2011, was withdrawn from Friday’s Grade 3 Inglewood Handicap at Betfair Hollywood Park on the afternoon of the race after trainer Don Warren said he was unhappy with the way the 6-year-old cooled out after a gallop at Santa Anita on Thursday.

Warren said that precautionary X-rays taken of one of Acclamation’s ankles on Friday morning showed no damage, but that the decision was made to scratch from the Inglewood. Acclamation would have been heavily favored in the Inglewood, run over 1 1/8 miles on turf.

Jockey Patrick Valenzuela was winless with two mounts on Thursday’s program, his first rides since returning from a four-month retirement.

Valenzuela finished eighth aboard Family and Friends in a maiden claimer and fifth on Jilly Baylee in a maiden special weight race for 2-year-old fillies.

“I felt like I won a race today,” Valenzuela said. “I’m back and I’m feeling good.”

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – Shotgun Willis will attempt to become the fourth next-out winner to emerge from a recent Oaklawn race on Sunday, when he runs in a seven-furlong, first-level optional $18,000 claimer at Lone Star Park.

AUBURN, Wash. – D’honorable One, expected to be a factor in the 3-year-old stakes picture this summer at Emerald Downs, will make his first local start of 2012 in Sunday’s co-featured eighth race, a no-conditons allowance at six furlongs.

D’honorable One has made four career starts for owner Heidi Nelson. He was a smashing maiden winner at Emerald last July, finished third as the betting favorite in a stakes race in his first try against winners, and then captured a first-level optional claimer at Golden Gate in February following a six-month layoff.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A desire to avoid the unpredictable spring weather in Kentucky has kept a fair share of Derby horses away from Churchill Downs so far this year, and this weekend, plus the results next week, might tell the tale over who made the better choice.

A significant rainstorm was forecast for the weekend here at Churchill Downs, most notably Saturday, when Union Rags headed the list of Derby horses scheduled to work. His trainer, Michael Matz, said Friday morning he was willing to wait a day until Sunday, but he was hoping to go full speed ahead Saturday morning.

AUBURN, Wash. -- El Gran Bebe, a revelation on the grass in Northern California, and Cat On Base, who held Emerald Downs’ s 5 1/2-furlong track record for all of eight days after running 1:01.37 in his last start, are the horses to beat in Sunday’s co-featured ninth race, a second-level optional $25,000 claimer at six furlongs. First post is 2 p.m. Pacific.