Street Sense breezes for Blue Grass

Street Sense (inside) is "ready to go" in Saturday's Blue Grass (Stephanie Van Minos and Tom Cooley/Horsephotos.com)

STREET SENSE (Street Cry [Ire]) breezed five furlongs in 1:04 on a

fast track at Churchill Downs on Tuesday in his final workout prior to Saturday's $750,000 Blue Grass S. (G1) at Keeneland.

Calvin Borel, who has ridden Street Sense

in all six of his career starts, including a record 10-length victory in the

Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1), was aboard for the move.

"He started out slow, then picked it up about the three-eighths pole,"

trainer Carl Nafzger said. "He got the last quarter in :23 1/5 and galloped out

strong. He's ready to go."

Street Sense cruised through dawdling early fractions of :14 2/5, :27

3/5 and :40 1/5. He galloped out six furlongs in 1:15 3/5.

"When (Borel) picked him up at the eighth pole, he just went :11 and

change (for the final eighth) and had an :11-and-two (fifths)

gallop-out," Nafzer noted. "He was there, so I think we got what we

wanted."

"He finished up like a champ," Borel added. "It was just a little

maintenance work and this was just what he needed. He was perfect."

Street Sense, last year's champion two-year-old, recorded his second work at

Churchill after spending the winter at the Palm Meadows training center in

Florida. He defeated Any Given Saturday

(Distorted Humor) by a nose in the Tampa Bay Derby (G3) in his seasonal debut on

March 17 at Tampa Bay Downs. The dark bay colt tops the graded earnings list for

the May 5 Kentucky Derby (G1) with $1,332,000.

Hollywood Prevue S. (G3) winner BELGRAVIA (Mr. Greeley), who has not started

since finishing a close fourth in the December 16 Hollywood Futurity (G1),

breezed five furlongs in 1:02 1/5 on Keeneland's Polytrack on Tuesday.

"I am very pleased with his work," trainer Patrick Biancone said.

Biancone had been considering running Belgravia in the Blue Grass but is now

pointing him toward the $325,000 Lexington S. (G2) on April 21 at Keeneland.

"He was blowing a little bit," the conditioner said. "He's not completely fit

yet, so we want to wait a week."