The Preakness-winning filly worked four furlongs in 50.67 seconds Monday morning at Saratoga, her first breeze since her record-setting performance in the Grade 1 Mother Goose at Belmont Park on June 27.
With exercise rider Dominic Terry in the irons, Rachel Alexandra hit the Saratoga training track about 5:45 a.m. She went her first quarter in 25 seconds and galloped out five furlongs in 1:05, according to track clockers.
"It was pretty much a normal work back for us, we weren't out to impress anybody," said , assistant to trainer . "She breezed well."
Rachel Alexandra has won all six of her starts this year, including the Kentucky Oaks by 20 1/4 lengths; the Preakness, in which she beat 12 males including Kentucky Derby winner ; and the Mother Goose, which she won by 19 1/4 lengths in a stakes-record time of 1:46.33 for 1 1/8 miles.
Blasi said he did not know if owner Jess Jackson and Asmussen had decided where Rachel Alexandra would make her next start. The most likely options, in chronological order, are the $1 million Delaware Handicap at Delaware Park on July 19, the $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont on July 25, the $1 million Haskell at Monmouth Park on Aug. 2, or the $300,000 Go for Wand at Saratoga against older females the same day as the Haskell.
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