LEXINGTON, Ky. - When Elliott Walden quit training to work as racing manager for WinStar Farm in the summer of 2005, he was skeptical about having young horses broken and trained in Kentucky in the winter.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Todd Pletcher reports that Eskendereya is doing very well after his eye-catching performance in last Saturday's Grade 1 Wood Memorial and is back galloping over his winter base at the Palm Meadows training center.

"Visually, it sure looked like the race wouldn't have taken anything out of him, but sometimes you never can tell how a race like that might affect a horse," Pletcher said Thursday. "But so far everything seems good."

Trainer Roger Attfield headed into the current season with the long-term favorite for the Queen's Plate in Hollinger, who was undefeated in four starts and Canada's champion 2-year-old.

But Attfield could have another ace up his sleeve as Mobilizer, a Stronach Stable homebred, finished a game third when he made his first career start in a 1 1/16-mile maiden race at Keeneland on Thursday.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Field Commission is ready for his first action of the season in Sunday's six-furlong Jacques Cartier Stakes at Woodbine.

Canada's champion sprinter in 2009, Field Commission spent the winter on majority owner Ed Seltzer's farm near Ocala, Fla., and checked back into Woodbine last week.

"He worked a bunch of times down there," said Danny Vella, who trains Field Commission and also is part-owner of the Ontario-bred 5-year-old horse. "He came here pretty much ready to run."

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Pulsion is having blinkers removed for the Arkansas Derby here at Oaklawn Park on Saturday, but he obviously still retains plenty of speed. He was sent out Friday morning for a quick workout, and sped three furlongs for trainer Patrick Biancone.

Track clockers had Pulsion in 35 seconds, breezing, but Biancone had him slightly faster, and galloping out a half-mile in 48 seconds.

Pulsion had a similar three-furlong breeze the day before his last start, the Florida Derby, in which he finished sixth after setting or forcing the early pace.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - The Apple Blossom is not scheduled to be run until 6:30 p.m. local time on Friday, so in order to keep Zenyatta from getting too wound up waiting for the late post, she was taken to the track at Oaklawn Park shortly before 8:30 a.m. Friday in order to take a one-lap jog around the track.

"Just wanted to get her out, let her think she's done something," said Zenyatta's trainer, John Shirreffs.

Heavily favored Coyote Legend appeared to be running on fumes Thursday night in the 14th running of the Premiere Stakes at Lone Star Park, the kickoff race of the track's spring/summer meet. But for a classy, multiple stakes winner like Coyote Legend, fumes were enough.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Total Bull overcame an awkward start and an unforeseen trip to capture his stakes debut in the for older horses on Thursday at Oaklawn Park.

Under jockey Calvin Borel, Total Bull ($4) held off the late run of Flying Private to win by a diminishing half-length in 1:44.00 for 1 1/16 miles on the fast main track. Cryptolight was another 3 3/4 lengths back in third.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Dr. Zic led every step of the to register a 15-1 upset and spoil the return of Eclipse champion Informed Decision on a chilly Thursday afternoon at Keeneland.

With Kent Desormeaux riding for trainer Joan Scott, Dr. Zic broke quickly to make an open lead in the seven-furlong Madison, with Witty and Informed Decision stalking from a couple of lengths back.

Twelve Pack Shelly, a first-time starter, shaved more than a second off the Laurel Park track record for 4 1/2 furlongs in the first race of the season for 2-year-olds in Maryland on Thursday afternoon.

A daughter of Deputy Storm trained by John Salzman Jr., Twelve Pack Shelly ($3) cruised to a 10 3/4-length victory in the maiden race, covering the distance in 50.83 seconds.

The previous record of 52.11 was set in last season's first race for 2-year-olds by another Salzman-trained filly, Gator Prowl. Her time broke a 45-year-old record for the distance.