ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Bob Tiller continued his early-season tear here Wednesday night, saddling three winners to bring his total to 13 through the first 19 days of the Woodbine meeting.

Tiller sent out Yolie ($2.60), Executive Producer ($5.90), and Knocker ($6.90) to record his second hat trick of the meeting and increase his lead atop the trainer standings.

"Winning's a great thing," Tiller said in his office here Thursday morning. "That's what we're here for."

Tiller's training philosophy may be simple in theory, but it is much less so in practice.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - It's hard to say which horse was more impressive last weekend at Hastings, True Metropolitan in the George Royal Stakes on Saturday or Monashee in the Brighouse Belles on Sunday.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Fourty Niners Son, the winner of the Grade 2 San Luis Rey Handicap at Santa Anita in March, was not entered for Saturday's $250,000 Jim Murray Memorial Handicap at Hollywood Park after suffering an injury, trainer Neil Drysdale said on Wednesday.

A two-time stakes winner, Fourty Niners Son was expected to be favored in the Grade 2 Murray, which is run over 1 1/2 miles on turf.

"We'll pass the race," said Drysdale. "He just had a little minor setback."

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - In his first day back at work, Calvin Borel got a reception worthy of royalty. Still aglow from the first Kentucky Derby victory of his 25-year riding career, Borel got several rounds of applause from a smattering of Churchill Downs regulars before riding in the first race Wednesday.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Quiet Resolve, Canada's Horse of the Year in 2000, and Jammed Lovely, the filly who defeated males in the 1967 Queen's Plate, are among this year's Thoroughbred nominees for induction into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.

The Canadian Horse Racing's Hall of Fame has submitted a list of eight candidates, four horses and four people, to the 16 members of the election committee.

Voters can choose up to three of the four nominees in each category. To be eligible for induction, a nominee must receive 12 of the 16 votes, or 75 percent.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Invasor, the defending Horse of the Year, breezed four furlongs in 50.84 seconds Wednesday morning at Belmont Park, his first timed workout since winning the Dubai World Cup on March 31.

"He's doing great," trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said. "Just an easy half-mile."

Invasor is pointing to the Grade 1, $400,000 Suburban Handicap here on June 30. Invasor won the Suburban last year, one of four Grade 1 victories he recorded en route to Horse of the Year honors.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Twilight Meteor, a stakes winner over Keeneland's Polytrack surface last fall, remains on target for an appearance in the $1 million Queen's Plate here at Woodbine on June 24.

Todd Pletcher, who trains Twilight Meteor for Peachtree Stable, said the colt is not scheduled to race at Woodbine prior to the Queen's Plate.

"The most likely scenario for him would be the Straight Deal, at Belmont on May 19," said Pletcher.

The $65,000 Straight Deal is an overnight stakes for 3-year-olds at one mile on turf.

Jockey Carlos Gonzalez is known as an excellent rider from the starting gate, and what he does for a horse he did for himself during the opening weekend at Louisiana Downs. Gonzalez won six races from 18 mounts at the Bossier City, La., track last Friday and Saturday to establish a two-win lead in the standings over Jeff Burningham.

AUBURN, Wash. - Starbird Road is named for a thoroughfare about a mile or two from Emerald Downs, but trainer Sharon Ross has always called him Star Man.

In the wake of Starbird Road's authoritative victory in last Sunday's six-furlong Seattle Handicap, his nickname seems by far the more appropriate of his two monikers. What else but a star is a horse who wins five races in a row, including a trio of stakes, to improve his career mark to 10 wins from 18 starts for $175,720 in earnings?

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - For trainer Steve Asmussen, the derby doings have been good this year. At the top of the list is Curlin, who finished third in the Kentucky Derby after winning last month's Grade 2, $1 million Arkansas Derby. And this weekend, Asmussen has his sights set on another derby. He plans to start Reporting for Duty, Forty Grams, and Takedown in the Grade 3, $300,000 Lone Star Derby on Saturday.

"It's a good spot," he said. "They all deserve it. They deserve the chance for different reasons."