Brendan Walsh, who shared the 2025 Spring Meet training title with Brad Cox, has his runners positioned for a fast start to this year’s 15-day Keeneland Spring Meet, which begins Friday.

Two of those runners, Clicquot and Imaginationthelady, will be making their 2026 debuts after closing their 2025 campaigns with fourth-place finishes in the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Del Mar.

“Clicquot worked nice yesterday,” Walsh said of the :48.20 half-mile breeze. “The (7-furlong Resolute Racing) Madison (G1) on Saturday is a good place to come back.”

Winner of the Indiana Oaks (G3) and the Cotillion (G1), Clicquot finished fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1). She is owned by the partnership of X-Men Racing, Madaket Stables, SF Racing and Blue Horseshoe Racing.

Mark Dobbin’s Imaginationthelady, winner of last fall’s Jessamine (G2) Presented by Keeneland Sales, worked a half-mile in :51 on the grass Sunday morning preparation for Saturday’s Appalachian (G2) Presented by Japan Racing Association. She had finished fourth of 12 in the John Deere Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) to close 2025.

Imaginationthelady is expected to be joined in the Appalachian starting gate by stablemate Lion Lake (IRE), who is owned by Emcee Stable. Lion Lake won the Herecomesthebride (G3) at Gulfstream Park in her most recent start and worked a half-mile on the turf in :51.20 Sunday morning here.

Also working on the grass for Walsh was JDT Racing’s Vasy (IRE). Winner of Gulfstream’s Colonel Liam (L) in his most recent start, Vasy breezed a half-mile in :51.20 for Friday’s UK HealthCare Transylvania (G3).

Walsh, who won seven Keeneland stakes in 2025, also plans to run Dawn and Ike Thrash’s Carson Street, in Friday’s first stakes race, the 7-furlong Lafayette (L). Carson Street would be cutting back to one turn after running third in the Lecomte (G3) and fifth in the Risen Star (G2) at Fair Grounds this winter. Carson Street worked a half-mile in :48.60 on the main track Sunday morning.