WORKOUT 4-26-2010

On Monday morning April 26, 2010 at about 6:15am, with regular rider Dominic Terry aboard, Rachel Alexandra bucked and played before breezing four furlongs in 0:49.87 over a sloppy track at Churchill Downs in Louisville Kentucky. She set fractional times of  13.37 for the first furlong, 25.78 for the quarter mile, :37.80 for 3 furlongs, and galloped out five furlongs in 1:03.56. She went her last quarter in a whopping 24.09 under a tight hold from her rider.

“I thought Dominic did an excellent job with her,” Asmussen said. “Turning around she was obviously feeling really good and he got her to settle down loping down the backside. She broke into it smooth and she was very fluid, straight to the wire. I can’t tell you how excited we are about the prospects of Friday. The level of excitement for Friday, it's definitely there," said Steve Asmussen, "I am very, very pleased with her. She's doing very well."

Asmussen said putting Rachel Alexandra back on her old schedule has been the key to getting her ready for her second start of the year.

"After trying to rush her back and seeing how it didn't work, Mr. Jackson and the whole team thought we should get her back on her once a week schedule and see how that went," said Asmussen. "Her last two works before we left the Fair Grounds were not what we've come to expect from Rachel, but the three works she had before this morning were what we have come to expect."