NEW ORLEANS – Not to get all misty-eyed, but there was a time when a trainer could expect to run an improving, developing horse through logically spaced allowance conditions.

Newly crowned Eclipse Award winner Hansen is expected to make his 3-year-old debut in the one-mile, Grade 3 Holy Bull on Jan. 29. The race closed with 52 nominations, but as of Monday, Bork said only four of those appear committed to the event, a group that along with Hansen includes Algorithms, Consortium, and My Adonis.

Trainer Stanley Gold, who guided Awesome Feather to her Eclipse Award-winning campaign in 2010, said he is considering the Holy Bull for Fort Loudon who has not started since finishing a wide-running seventh behind Hansen in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.

The $300,000 Florida Sunshine Millions Distaff attracted only a dozen nominations, led by the undefeated, 2010 Eclipse Award winner Awesome Feather, who won the first five starts of her career in south Florida at Calder but has never raced at Gulfstream. Awesome Feather ran just twice in 2011, capping the brief campaign with her easy victory in the Grade 1 Gazelle.

Nominations have been released for the Florida Sunshine Millions card on Jan. 28, and from the looks of things, it should be a very special day.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – The first-, second-, and fourth-place finishers from Monday’s Smarty Jones at Oaklawn Park were not the only 3-year-olds to put themselves in the Grade 3, $250,000 Southwest Stakes picture over opening weekend in Hot Springs. The winners of a couple of overnight races last Saturday and Sunday are also mulling starts in the first of the meet’s two graded preps for the Grade 1, $1 million Arkansas Derby.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Just 12 hours after being named the 2011 3-year-old champion at Monday’s Eclipse Awards dinner, Animal Kingdom turned in his first workout since arriving in south Florida when going a very easy half-mile in 53.44 seconds over the Palm Meadows turf course Tuesday morning.

The dogs were out more than 100 feet on the inner course, according to the official track clocker.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Money makes the mare go, and it prompts a quick turnaround for Bourbonstreetgirl, who figures to be a slight favorite over Pennsylvania invader Love Contract in Thursday’s $75,000 Biogio’s Rose overnight stakes at a mile and 70 yards. Four others entered the Biogio’s Rose, restricted to 3-year-old fillies that have started for a claiming price.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The feature race at Santa Anita on Thursday is the second, an allowance race for California-bred 3-year-old fillies. The feature for bettors is a pick six carryover of $107,326.

Thursday’s pick six covers the third through eighth races. The first two races have six horses, followed by fields of 8, 11, 8, and 10. The temporary rails on turf will be set 30 feet from the permanent rail for Thursday’s card.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Eternal Ruler did not win his 3-year-old finale. But considering what the two horses that defeated him accomplished in their next starts, it bodes well for Eternal Ruler’s chances when he finally returns against a full and well-matched field of first-level allowance horses going one mile on the turf in Thursday’s $53,500 feature at Gulfstream Park.

The Bob Baffert-trained Ellafitz will attempt to win her third consecutive stakes in the $200,000 Santa Maria Stakes over 1 1/16 miles on Feb. 18 at Santa Anita.

Last Sunday, Ellafitz won the minor Paseana Handicap over a mile by 4 1/4 lengths. She won the Grade 2 Bayakoa Handicap at Hollywood Park in December.

“She’s changed so much,” Baffert said. “She’s matured and filled out.”

Later this year, Ellafitz could race against Zazu, a Grade 1 stakes winner in 2011 who arrived at trainer John Sadler’s stable on Monday after an autumn break.