Rosalind walks shedrow, Sugar Shock visits gate

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," staed 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.

My Miss Sophia, who drilled in tandem with Got Lucky in an equal time of

:49 2/5 during the Derby/Oaks training period the day before, came out with the

conditioner's 7:10 a.m. set and jogged a mile under Humberto Zamora. Earlier,

Got Lucky and Isabelle Bourez did their mile jog with barnmates at 6:40.

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.

In other Oaks news:

Trainer Bob Baffert said Ria Antonia, who galloped 1 1/2 miles

Saturday morning at Churchill, will have her final work for the Oaks Monday morning.

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."

Calvin Borel will have the mount in the Oaks.

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."

Aurelia's Belle galloped Sunday under

exercise rider Calamity Compton.

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."

Empress of Midway jogged one mile after the morning renovation break at Churchill Downs

under exercise rider Humberto Gomez for trainer Doug O'Neill. As of early Sunday afternoon, no

rider had been confirmed on the Empire Maker filly by O'Neill, who is scheduled to

arrive from California on Thursday.

Fiftyshadesofgold jogged a mile early Sunday morning under exercise

rider Sara Escudero for trainer Bret Calhoun. The gray daughter

of My Golden Song finished second,

beaten 7 3/4 lengths by Untapable, in the Fair Grounds Oaks in her most

recent start, and Calhoun was asked about how to make up that deficit.

"You don't," Calhoun said. "(Untapable is) by

far the best three-year-old filly in the country and maybe the best three-year-old

period. But things happen in a race.

Sometimes you don't get the trip. I don't see anybody beating her, but you've

got no shot if you are in the barn."

Calhoun said a decision likely would

come Monday on whether Fiftyshadesofgold would run in the Oaks or the Grade 3,

$175,000 Eight Belles on the same day.

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