‘Rachel’ Gallops, All Set For Mother Goose
Preakness (gr. I) and Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) winner Rachel Alexandra galloped about a mile and a quarter on Belmont’s fast main track early June 26, well in advance of a 9:30 a.m. EDT downpour.
Today racing’s hottest star will be a
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Preakness (gr. I) and Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) winner Rachel Alexandra galloped about a mile and a quarter on Belmont’s fast main track early June 26, well in advance of a 9:30 a.m. EDT downpour.
Today racing’s hottest star will be a heavy favorite against four rivals in the $300,000 Mother Goose Stakes (gr. I). Admission is free for all women and pink bracelets with Rachel Alexandra’s name will be given away to the first 10,000 customers in support of owner Jess Jackson’s decision to donate a percentage of the filly’s future earnings to the Susan G. Komen “Race for the Cure” for breast cancer.
“We send her out with the second set,” trainer Steve Asmussen said. “We don’t want her to be a guinea pig and we don’t want to send her out there when the track’s all torn up.”
The Mother Goose will be the second start that Asmussen has trained Rachel Alexandra for and already he is completely enamored with everything the daughter of Medaglia d’Oro does
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