INGLEWOOD. Calif. - It was not going to take much for the 2-year-old filly Eblouissante to reach favorite’s status in trainer John Shirreffs’s barn. Eblouissante is a half-sister to Zenyatta, the 2010 Horse of the Year.

By Bernardini and owned by breeder Eric Kronfeld, Eblouissante arrived last Wednesday and began light training on Thursday.

“Everybody’s excited,” Shirreffs said last week.

Zenyatta did not start until November of her 3-year-old season. Considering Eblouissante just arrived, she may not run until 3, either.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Bench Points is likely to make his next start outside of California after extending his unbeaten streak in one-turn races to five in Sunday’s $100,000 Laz Barrera Stakes.

Trainer Tim Yakteen said he intends to keep Bench Points around one turn and racing within the 3-year-old division. In the short term, that could result in a start in a race such as the $200,000 Carry Back Stakes over six furlongs at Calder on July 9.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – This was supposed to be St Trinians’s year to rise to the top of the older female division in California.

When trainer Mike Mitchell turned her out last summer, citing the need for a break, St Trinians had finished second to Zenyatta in the Grade 1 Vanity Handicap at Hollywood Park in June. Mitchell cancelled the rest of the 2010 season and began focusing on 2011, knowing that Zenyatta would be retired.

AUBURN, Wash. – You Me and Ema B splashed to a front-running victory Sunday in the $50,000 Hastings Handicap at Emerald Downs, affirming her status as a burgeoning star in the local filly and mare division and giving Margo Lloyd her first stakes victory in more than 20 years as a trainer.

“It feels wonderful,” said, Lloyd, 63, who took out her first license in 1985 at Longacres and has trained a small string of horses on and off ever since. “I was a nervous wreck.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jockey Shaun Bridgmohan enjoyed a sensational afternoon at Churchill Downs by riding half of the winners on a 10-race Sunday card, including four in a row.

Bridgmohan took the lead atop the standings at the spring meet with his five-win day. His victories started with Cash Refund ($7) in the third race, a $59,800 allowance that served as the feature race of the day. Bridgmohan then reeled off triumphs aboard Dubai’s Connection ($3.20) in the fourth, New Bay ($25.20) in the fifth, Costly ($5.60) in the sixth, and Nowhere to Hide ($6.60) in the eighth.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – With owner Ahmed Zayat watching from the grandstand, Kentucky Derby runner-up Nehro breezed a half-mile in 50.80 seconds over a sloppy Churchill Downs racetrack early Monday morning, leaving Zayat trying to decide whether to send the colt to the $1 million Preakness.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Drosselmeyer became the first Belmont Stakes winner in more than a decade to win a race in his 4-year-old season, gutting out a neck victory over stablemate Birdrun in Sunday’s $60,000 One Count Stakes at Belmont Park.

C C’s Pal came into Sunday’s $75,000 Monmouth Beach Stakes with a tendency to settle for minor awards, picking up four seconds and a pair of thirds in her previous seven starts, all in stakes.

Under pressure from two other rivals in deep stretch, however, C C’s Pal refused to give in, even after being passed, and prevailed by a nose in a three-horse photo at Monmouth Park.

INGLEWOOD, Calif.-The day after Bench Points finished seventh in the Santa Anita Derby last month, ending any plan for a start in the Triple Crown, trainer Tim Yakteen redirected the gelding’s career back to one-turn stakes.

As expected, No Hesitation was named the 2010 horse of the year in Alberta at the Night of Champions dinner held at Northlands Park on Saturday night.

Trained by Jim Meyaard, No Hesitation dominated the local 3-year-old division. He won all five of his starts at Northlands in 2010, including the Grade 3 Canadian Derby with usual rider Rico Walcott aboard.  He is owned by Barbara Side.

Meyaard also trains Alywyn, who was voted the top older filly or mare. Racing for Side Management Ltd. Alywyn won four races ,including the City of Edmonton Handicap and Duchess of York.