Trainer Frank Brothers said that Bruce Lunsford's Madcap Escapade, the unbeaten winner of the Ashland (GI), was doing well on the day after a sharp work at Churchill Downs.

The daughter of Hennessy breezed four furlongs in a sizzling :46 on Thursday, the fastest of 65 works at the distance. Brothers said that Madcap Escapade would have one more work late next week before her expected run in the Kentucky Oaks on April 30.

Jockey Edgar Prado will bid for his second consecutive Kentucky Oaks victory aboard Buckram Oak Farm's Last Song. Trainer Carl Nafzger said Friday that Prado, who scored his first Oaks victory in 2003 aboard Bird Town, had landed the mount on the daughter of Unbridled's Song. Prado was in the irons when Last Song won the Bonnie Miss (GII) at Gulfstream Park, but Robby Albarado rode Nafzger's filly in a third-place finish in the Ashland.

Tony Schuler's Tee's Pearl, winner of the $75,000 Instant Racing Breeders' Cup at Oaklawn Park, is not being pointed toward the Kentucky Oaks. Trainer Lynn Whiting said the daughter of 1992 Kentucky Derby winner Lil E. Tee would likely be pointed toward the 7 ½-furlong La Troienne (GIII) on April 29.

Trainer Bob Baffert said that Thomas Van Meter II's Victory U.S.A., a romping winner in the Stonerside Beaumont (GIII) at Keeneland, would work at Churchill Downs on Sunday.

Wertheimer Farm's Halfbridled, the unbeaten 2-year-old filly champion of 2003 but winless in two starts as a 3-year-old, was scheduled to arrive at Churchill Downs early Friday afternoon following a short van ride from Keeneland.

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