Rosalind walks shedrow, Sugar Shock visits gate

Rosalind had an easy Sunday following her half-mile move (Lauren Pomeroy/Horsephotos.com)

Rosalind walked the shedrow at
trainer Kenny McPeek’s barn the morning after working a half-mile in :49
2/5 over Churchill Downs’ fast dirt Saturday. The Broken Vow filly, a dead-heat
seven-length winner of Keeneland’s Ashland in her last start, reportedly came out of the work in perfect condition.

“Really good,” stated Mike Kleier,
assistant to McPeek. “She ate up her feed and everything’s good, like she never
even worked.”

Rosalind is scheduled to resume
exercising Monday at 8:30 a.m. (EDT) under the Twin Spires.

“She’ll go back to the track tomorrow
to jog a mile, gallop a mile,” Kleier said.

Trainer Todd Pletcher’s Oaks duo
returned to the racetrack Sunday morning for light jogs following four-furlongs
works at Churchill on Saturday.

Got Lucky (outside) and My Miss Sophia took a spin around Churchill together (Lauren  Pomeroy/Horsephotos.com)

Both
fillies, who were one-two in the Gazelle at Aqueduct on April 5, figure to return to galloping Monday and for the balance of the week leading up
to the Friday classic.

My Miss Sophia, a chestnut by Unbridled’s Song, will have Javier
Castellano aboard in the nine-furlong Oaks. Got Lucky, a dark filly from the
last crop of the stellar stallion A.P. Indy, will have the saddle services
of John Velazquez.

Thank You Marylou walked in trainer Mike Maker’s barn Sunday morning, a day
after working five furlongs in 1:01 at Churchill. The Birdstone miss is no
stranger to stakes, having only ever competed against black-type rivals.

She took her maiden debut as a two-year-old
in the Tippett, a turf sprint at Colonial Downs, before finishing third, placed
second via disqualification, in the Adirondack at Saratoga. As a three-year-old,
Thank You Marylou won the Any Limit at
Gulfstream Park and finished third last out in the Ashland.

Santa Anita Oaks queen Fashion Plate came out of her five-furlong work of 1:00
2/5 over Santa Anita’s fast main track
on Saturday in good order according to trainer Simon Callaghan.

The Old Fashioned filly is scheduled to fly to Louisville, Kentucky, early Monday and will be
ridden in the Oaks by Gary Stevens.

Sugar Shock has been first under the wire in all four of her starts thus far this season (Rickelle Nelson/Horsephotos.com)

Sugar Shock galloped 1 1/2 miles and
visited the starting gate after the Sunday morning renovation break at Churchill
Downs under exercise
rider Seth Van Dyke for trainer Doug Anderson.

“She does not like to load and needs a little encouragement so I want the
gate crew to get to know her,” Anderson said. “Once she is in there, she is
fine.”

Sugar Shock ran twice under the Twin Spires last fall with fifth- and
third-place finishes. At Oaklawn this year, she won four consecutive races,
including the April 5 Fantasy last out, but was disqualified from the Honeybee
victory in her first try around two turns.

“I think the difference is a little more maturity,” Anderson said of the
turnaround. “In her first start, she did not break well and turning for home ran
green. The second time, she was in the one hole and they went :21 and 3 for the
first quarter and for a two-year-old, that’s pretty fast, but she hung on and
only got beat 3 3/4 lengths.”

Three months removed from her initial victory, Anderson is surprised he has
an Oaks contender.

“She has come a long way,” Anderson stated. “I had no idea (she’d be an Oaks
filly). She’s a nice filly and she sure has surprised me.

“I know we have not gotten to the bottom of her. Terry Thompson, who
rode Kiss Moon in the Fantasy, said he made three runs at her and each time she
had a little more.”

Aurelia’s Belle will be only the second Oaks starter for her trainer, Wayne Catalano (Rickelle Nelson/Horsephotos.com)

Trainer Wayne Catalano doesn’t have an explanation for
his success with fillies, but it’s real, and he’s hopeful about adding to it
when he runs Aurelia’s Belle on Friday in the Oaks.

“I would say it’s the way it’s working out,” he said of his record with
fillies. “We’re very lucky in the filly department. We won three Breeders’ Cups,
three different surfaces.”

His Breeders’ Cup winners were Stephanie’s Kitten in the Juvenile Fillies
Turf in 2009, She Be Wild in that same year’s Juvenile
Fillies and Dreaming of Anna in the 2006 Juvenile Fillies.
She Be Wild and Dreaming of Anna won Eclipse Awards as champion two-year-old
fillies.

Aurelia’s Belle, the Bourbonette Oaks winner, will be Catalano’s second Kentucky Oaks starter.
His first was Dreaming of
Anna, who finished sixth in 2007 in what was one of only three non-top three
finishes of her 17-race career.

“Any of those races, like the Kentucky Derby, the
Oaks, all those big races, that’s why we’re here every morning for seven days a
week,” said Catalano, a 57-year-old New Orleans native. “That’s what we get up
to go do. It keeps us going. It would mean a lot to me, win the Oaks.”

Unbridled Forever will try to emulate her dam, 2006 Oaks upsetter Lemons Forever, on Friday (Rickelle Nelson/Horsephotos.com)

Trainer Dallas Stewart said he can’t compare the way Unbridled Forever is going into this Oaks with the way her dam, Lemons
Forever, went into the Oaks in 2006.

“That was a long time ago,” said Stewart, who won the Oaks with 47-1
shot Lemons Forever. “This filly here, I like the way she’s worked here, trained
here, won here, so, I mean, she’ll be ready for battle Friday and see what
happens.”

Unbridled Forever, third in the Fair Grounds Oaks following victory in the
Silverbulletday, galloped Sunday under exercise rider Pedro Velez. She’ll be racing
Friday over her home track, where she broke her maiden in her second start as a
two-year-old.

“Whether that’s an advantage or not, who knows?” Stewart mused. “But it looks
like she likes the track. The main thing is, it seems like she’s doing well.
She’s very healthy, knock on wood. She’s into the feed tub. She’s into her
training. She had a good work coming into the race.

“That’s all you can ask for, training a horse. There’s really no other secret
recipe.”