Itsmyluckyday is '110 percent' following first work in seven months

Grade 3 hero Itsmyluckyday bounced out of his first published work in seven months in good shape, leaving trainer Eddie Plesa excited about a 2014

campaign.

"He looks like a million dollars," said Plesa, who trains Itsmyluckyday for

Trilogy Stable and his wife, Laurie. "He came out of the work

110 percent. He's anxious, no question about it. I just have to make sure I have

enough patience for the both of us."

Runner-up in both the Florida Derby and Preakness last year, Itsmyluckyday went an easy three furlongs in

:36

on Tuesday at Palm Meadows, the fastest of 31 horses. His last breeze

came in early June as a lead-up to the June 16 Pegasus at Monmouth Park,

where Itsmyluckyday was pulled up with what was later diagnosed as a pelvic

fracture, ending is three-year-old season.

"I like the way he did what he did," Plesa said of Itsmyluckyday's

move on New Year's Eve. "He did it

in hand, he did it willfully, and he did it without being asked. He just really

couldn't be doing any better.

"I didn't expect it (to be that fast), but it didn't

surprise me. He's just that kind of horse, and he's anxious. He's a good-feeling

horse that's happy to be out on the racetrack doing what he was bred to do. It's

very gratifying to see the way this time off has healed him."