Horse Racing News on May 18, 2011

Toby's Corner, upset winner of the Wood Memorial who was forced to miss the Kentucky Derby due to lameness in his right hind leg, was to begin walking under tack on Thursday at trainer Graham Motion's barn at the Fair Hill Training Center.

The trainer of the third-place finisher in the Grade 1 Vinery Madison Stakes on April 14 at Keeneland Racecourse has filed an appeal of a complaint that the second-place finisher should not have been allowed to start.

Graham Motion has had a few things to do this week. Making raceday accommodations for family and friends. Dodging the raindrops that keep falling at his Fair Hill training base.

Animal Kingdom, winner of the 2011 Kentucky Derby, will break from post 11 as the 2-1 morning line favorite for the $1 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course May 21.