INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Indian Blessing, the champion female sprinter of 2008, was given a clean bill of health after undergoing a battery of tests earlier this week, trainer Bob Baffert said Wednesday.

The tests were prompted by her fourth-place finish in the minor Desert Stormer Handicap at Hollywood Park this past Sunday, the first time that Indian Blessing had finished worse than second in her 14-race career.

Even though the tests revealed no injuries or illnesses, Baffert said that Indian Blessing will continue to be monitored closely.

A veteran of 22 years in the saddle, former jockey David Brown has made an immediate impact as a trainer since shipping his string of 20 Quarter Horses to Canterbury Park. Brown saddled four winners from his first five starters at the meeting, including the impressive track-record performance by Whirling Cleat in the Skip Zimmerman Memorial Stakes this month.

The finals for next month's rich D.S. "Shine" Young Futurity were set last week, with the filly trials on Wednesday and the colts and geldings qualifier on Thursday. The two divisions of the $100,000-added futurity will anchor Louisiana Legends Night on July 4, an 11-race all-stakes card is exclusively for Louisiana-breds that is the meet's biggest evening.

ELMONT, N.Y. - A Grade 1 victory is the only thing missing from Criticism's resume. But before she attempts to check that off her list later this summer, Criticism will shoot for her third consecutive Grade 2 stakes win when she heads a field of eight entered to run in Saturday's $250,000 New York Stakes at Belmont Park.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - In both stakes races contested at Hastings last weekend, the best horse - and they were both favored - didn't win. A poor start and a wide trip cost Tommy Danzigger the colts and geldings division of the $55,434 CTHS Sales Stakes for 3-year-olds on Sunday.

Ookster should have won the fillies division on Saturday, and she gained a lot of respect for her very game second-place finish.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - There appears to be a serious women's movement under way in the trainers' ranks at Louisiana Downs these days. Michelle Lovell has won with 6 of her first 12 starters during the first month of the current stand, and Pam Simpson begins this week tied with Charles Hukill atop the standings with nine victories.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainers Roger Attfield and Mark Frostad certainly are no strangers to success in the Queen's Plate.

Attfield sent out Not Bourbon for his record-equaling eighth Queen's Plate victory last year, while Frostad has saddled three Queen's Plate winners, the latest being Dancethruthedawn in 2001.

On Sunday, Frostad will be sending out the Plate Trial winner, Eye of the Leopard, while Attfield will counter with Plate Trial third Rapid Release in what should prove to be a competitive renewal of the $1 million race for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Jonesboro might have been bred in Kentucky and named for a city in Arkansas, but he has made himself at home in Texas. Based at Lone Star Park for the first time in his career, he is a picture of health and happiness heading into his next assignment, the Grade 2, $300,000 Cornhusker Breeders' Cup at Prairie Meadows on June 27.

"For whatever reasons, he's really thriving right now," said Randy Morse, who trains Jonesboro for Michael Langford.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Presious Passion showed heart and determination in winning the Monmouth Stakes on Saturday.

More importantly, the 6-year-old gelding showed trainer Mary Hartmann he is ready for a title defense in the Grade 1 United Nations Stakes on the turf, July 4 at Monmouth Park.

Seemingly about to fade on the final turn after holding a commanding early lead, Presious Passion battled back to pull out a nose victory.

"He looked beat," Hartmann said. "He came out of it in good shape, ate up."

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - As if the name "Block" wasn't already synonymous with Illinois-bred racing.

On Wednesday, Arlington Park drew the six Illinois-bred stakes races that make up the Prairie State Festival here Saturday, and "Block" is all over the place. Trainer Chris Block entered 10 horses in the six $100,000 stakes, eight of them owned or co-owned by his family's partnership, Team Block.