Oaks Updates

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Wait a While, one of the probable favorites for the 132nd Kentucky Oaks, enjoys a bath after galloping 1 1/4 miles Tuesday morning at Churchill Downs.

BALANCE -Amerman Racing Stables LLC's Balance, winner of the Las Virgenes (GI) and Santa Anita Oaks (GI), galloped 1 1/8-miles at Hollywood Park as she continued her preparations for the 132nd Kentucky Oaks.

The daughter of 1995 Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch, the likely favorite for Oaks 132, is scheduled to work Friday at Hollywood Park and then ship to Churchill Downs the following day.

BUSHFIRE - Homewrecker Stable LLC's Bushfire stood in the gate and then galloped 1 ½-miles on the main track at Keeneland with exercise rider Lorina Andersen up.

Trainer Eddie Kenneally plans to work Bushfire Friday or Saturday and then ship to Churchill Downs on Sunday, where she will be stabled in Barn 42.

DIPLOMAT LADY - Charles Cono LLC's Diplomat Lady walked the shedrow at Barn 45 a day after working a half mile in :48.20.

ERMINE - Oxbow Racing LLC's Ermine galloped 1 ½-miles before the renovation break under exercise rider Ronald Savoy.

"She came back bucking and playing," said trainer Ronnie Werner, who had contemplated working the daughter of Exchange Rate this morning but has opted to move the breeze to Thursday.

EX CAELIS - Circle C Group Stables' Ex Caelis jogged early Tuesday morning under exercise rider Jesse Cirillo.

ITTY BITTY PRETTY - STD Racing Stable and Jason Wood's Itty Bitty Pretty, winner of the Santa Ysabel (GIII) and third in the Santa Anita Oaks (GI), galloped 1 ½-miles before the renovation break under exercise rider Luis Rodriguez.

Trainer Doug O'Neill said that Patrick Valenzuela would have the mount on Itty Bitty Pretty in the Oaks and that the filly would work Friday at Churchill Downs.

The filly is stabled in Barn 37 and trainer Paul McGee is overseeing her local training for O'Neill, who is based in Southern California. O'Neill, who was here for the filly's work last Friday, does not plan to return to Louisville until the day of the Oaks.

LEMONS FOREVER - Leon, Willis and Terry Horton and Dallas Stewart's Lemons Forever galloped 1 ¼-miles under exercise rider Pedro Velez at Churchill Downs before the renovation break.

The Lemon Drop Kid filly, the third-place finisher in the Bourbonette Breeders' Cup (GIII), is scheduled to work Saturday.

MISS NORMAN - Greg Norman's Miss Norman, runner-up in the Fantasy (GII), was one of the last horses on the main track Tuesday morning, galloping two miles under exercise rider Amy Peters.

"I always like to gallop my really good horses two miles," said the 46-year-old Norman, who never has had a horse compete at Churchill Downs.

Trainer Karin Long is scheduled to arrive in Louisville on Friday in time to oversee a seven-furlong work Saturday.

PRESS CAMP - Peters Stables LLC, Rancho San Miguel and Matthews Shaver's Press Camp galloped 1 ½-miles at Bay Meadows under exercise rider Sylvester Jimenez.

Trainer William E. Morey said he plans to give Press Camp an easy gallop in the morning and then work her Thursday. The filly is scheduled to ship to Churchill Downs next Tuesday.

QUIET KIM - Chris Houchin's Quiet Kim, runner-up in the Santa Anita Oaks (GI), walked the shedrow at Barn 43 Tuesday morning.

Trainer Bob Hess is scheduled to arrive in Louisville on Wednesday from his California base.

RED CHERRIES SPIN - Naveed Chowhan's Red Cherries Spin galloped two miles under exercise rider Georgia Jackson. If the weather permits, the daughter of With Approval will work over the Churchill Downs turf course on Thursday.

Red Cherries Spin is not nominated to the Kentucky Oaks and would require a payment of $25,000, or five percent of the $500,000 purse, to be made a supplemental entry.

TOP NOTCH LADY - Robert J. Wilson's Top Notch Lady, winner of the Bourbonette Breeders' Cup (GIII) at Turfway Park, walked Tuesday morning.

Trained by Mark Casse, the Sultry Song filly is scheduled to work Thursday with Oaks rider Patrick Husbands coming in from his base at Toronto's Woodbine for the breeze.

WAIT A WHILE/READY TO PLEASE - Arindel Farm's Wait a While, winner of the Davona Dale (GII) and runner-up in the Ashland (GI), galloped 1 ¼-miles on Tuesday for trainer Todd Pletcher. Exercise rider Frederick Buscialle was in the saddle aboard the daughter of Maria's Mon.

James Scatourchio's Ready to Please, winner of the Fantasy (GII), galloped 1 ¼-miles under exercise rider Justin Curran. Pletcher continues to list the daughter of More Than Ready as "unlikely" to run in the Kentucky Oaks.

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