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Countdown to the Crown

Editor's Note: Countdown to the Crown returns for a fifth season online as one of the most comprehensive handicapping analyses of the 3-year-old scene. Posted each Friday from Jan. 8 through the Belmont Stakes, Countdown keeps you apprised of the rising stars in the 3-year-old class from the maiden ranks through the Grade 1 stakes.

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Opinions on handicapping the horses are like ordering off a Chinese takeout menu. Unless you really know what you're talking about, it's best not to say too much and just fire off a number.

1. Saturday might be a good time to kick off a two-prep campaign for the Derby. Last year Mine That Bird made his first start of the year Feb. 28, while the year previous Big Brown kicked things off March 5. Street Sense opened his two-prep slate in 2007 on March 17. Average them together and what do you get for the last three Derby winners? A March 6 return, which just happens to be the date this Saturday.

2. LOOKIN AT LUCKY (Bob Baffert) had his best morning in a more than a month Monday when he drilled 7 furlongs in a racehorse time of 1:25.20 at Santa Anita. Still, Countdown's No. 1 and the reigning juvenile champion will be hard-pressed to find a good spot to return as the San Felipe and Rebel both look like awfully salty spots on the immediate horizon. I would have MUCH preferred to see him ready to run in this weekend's MUCH easier Sham, 9 furlongs or not.

3. If you don't think D. Wayne Lukas is serious about DUBLIN, perhaps you missed Sunday's workout tab at Oaklawn. The Southwest Stakes runner-up wasted no time getting back to work, drilling a bullet half-mile in :48.40, just eight days after his 2010 return rally -- wow! The jury still deliberates whether DUBLIN can be a true, classics-distance kind of runner, but there's no doubt Lukas thinks he has a special racehorse on his hands.

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Tight schedule adds a hurdle for Rachel
NEW ORLEANS - As any handicapper knows by now, Daily Racing Form keeps detailed trainer statistics. First-time starters, claimers, blinkers on, so on and so forth. The shorthand for one category is +180 Days - that is, win percentage with horses returning from a layoff of a half-year or longer. Steve Asmussen bats .170 in +180 Days, a good, solid mark.

Just last weekend, on March 7, an Asmussen-trained filly named Songtress made her first start in more than 20 months and won an allowance race by almost three lengths. This weekend, the spotlight shines ever so brightly on Asmussen's skill at readying a horse after a long layoff, with Rachel Alexandra set to make her first start since the Sept. 5 Woodward Stakes on Saturday at Fair Grounds in the New Orleans Ladies.

When Rachel Alexandra heads to the paddock for Saturday's 1 1/16-mile race, 189 days will have passed since the Woodward. That's plenty of time to prepare a horse to run, especially one who went out of action without an injury. But Rachel's connections gave her plenty of rest and recovery after an arduous 3-year-old campaign, and then encountered roadblocks in the form of bad weather once Rachel resumed training. With Songtress, who began prepping for her comeback at training centers before even returning to the racetrack, Asmussen could tinker and take his time. The same formula might have been employed with Rachel Alexendra, until Zenyatta and the Apple Blossom popped into the picture.

On Jan. 16, Jerry and Ann Moss, owners of Zenyatta, runner-up to Rachel Alexandra in 2009 Horse of the Year voting, officially unretired their champion mare. On Feb. 4, Oaklawn Park announced that the April 3 Apple Blossom would be changed from a stakes to an invitational and would offer a $5 million purse if Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta were to start. Late on Feb. 10, Jess Jackson, Rachel Alexandra's majority owner, issued a press release saying that the Apple Blossom came up too soon for Rachel Alexandra to be properly readied. The next day, the $5 million race was back on, rescheduled for April 9. Rachel Alexandra had a major target. And at the time of the announcement, she had all of two timed workouts.

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"I thought her 2009 campaign, by the end of it, she was just tired," said Asmussen's assistant trainer Scott Blasi, who has spent as much time as anyone with Rachel Alexandra.

After the Woodward, and after the Saratoga meeting ended, Rachel Alexandra remained at Asmussen's Saratoga barn. Gone were the crowds, gone was the pressure.

"The month [after the Woodward] was awesome for her," said Blasi, who stayed behind with the Saratoga string. "No reporters, no cameras. We spent the whole month up there. I'd turn her out in a round pen. She's smart. She figured it out, and she wouldn't want to come in. I'd leave her out there, go eat lunch, I'd come back and she'd be out laying down, sunning. I mean, you talk about a horse that absolutely enjoys her time off, it was her. She'd lay down, she'd roll. I'd take her hay and water."

"In mid-October, we moved back to Churchill, but her time till then was about getting to be a horse," Blasi said. "Her whole disposition changed within three weeks hanging out there."

Back at Churchill, and back into the bustle. The stalls at the track in Louisville housed hundreds more horses than had been stabled at Saratoga. Gone was sunshine on her back and slow afternoons. Rachel Alexandra spent more time in her stall. A saddle soon enough got cinched on, a rider legged up not long after that.

"She was definitely heavier, softer, when she came back," Asmussen said. "We tack-walked for quite a while at first."

After walking around the shed row in Asmussen's Churchill barn for several weeks, Rachel Alexandra on Nov. 23 got her first look at a racetrack since she had been led away from the Woodward winner's circle.

"We took her for a little jog around the track once or twice before we left Churchill for New Orleans," Asmussen said.

Rachel Alexandra came to Fair Grounds on Nov. 27, her connections plotting nothing more than a yet-to-be-determined 2010 comeback race.

"Nothing's scheduled," Asmussen told Daily Racing Form the day Rachel Alexandra arrived at Fair Grounds. "She won't work for a long time."

Rain defined December in New Orleans. The airport measured almost 26 inches of rain during the month, a record, and Rachel Alexandra on several December mornings found herself confined to Asmussen's barn. Between rain in December and freezing conditions during this unusually cold winter, Rachel Alexandra missed between six and eight days of scheduled training, Asmussen said.

On Jan. 20, after a spirited gallop, Asmussen said he still wasn't sure whether Rachel Alexandra could be readied for a start during the Fair Grounds meet.

"It's too early to say yet," Asmussen said.

But Rachel had, from the time she got back into training, given her connections positive vibrations.

"She's definitely not a normal horse in that sense," Asmussen said at the time. "Usually when you get started back with a horse after being off that long, they're a little sloppy and slow at first. She was not like that at all."

On Jan. 31, it was time to let the bear out of her cage, though on a short leash. Her exercise rider, Dominic Terry, let Rachel stretch her legs beyond a gallop or a two-minute lick, and Rachel Alexandra worked a half-mile in 52 seconds.

Rachel came back with another work one week later and has breezed every six days since then, an accelerated schedule. She has hit her marks, but not without impediments. Sloppy conditions on Feb. 12 forced the mildest of five-furlong drills; Rachel was timed in 1:03.80. On Feb. 18, a keyed-up Rachel started her work going faster than intended. On March 2, doing the most serious work of her comeback, Rachel Alexandra worked in company for the first time, with a horse named Depaul. This time, the work started off far too slow. Rachel was timed in 1:13.60, but Asmussen had hoped for something faster.

This is the second winter in three seasons that an Asmussen-trained Horse of the Year has regularly worked out on the Fair Grounds track. Curlin was here in 2008, readying for his trip to Dubai for the World Cup. Blasi spent day after day with Curlin, just like Rachel Alexandra.

"She's a special girl," Blasi said. "She's not as easy as Curlin was. She's more giving, more aggressive in her training, not as patient. But she's the most athletic horse I've ever seen. The way she covers ground. The part we have to work on is getting her to show a little patience."

In her routine gallops, Rachel whizzes around the track at a pace much faster than the typical galloper. She's done that since before she came into the Asmussen barn last May.

"We do a lot of walking, just spend a lot of time with her," Blasi said. "You pay attention to how she starts off into a gallop, do everything you can possibly do to make her understand."

Back at the barn, Blasi leaves Rachel to her groom, Javier Espinoza, and lets her do what she wants. Rachel's no rogue, but she will bite, Blasi said.

"I don't mess with her," he said. "I leave her alone. When she's done, that's it. I let her be a horse."

But it's not all horses whose every move inside their stall is monitored via real-time video in her trainer's office - Rachel Cam. It's not all horses whose routine, no matter how mundane, makes news. Yes: On the one hand, this is another horse coming back from a long layoff for trainer Steve Asmussen. There's a protocol to follow, and Asmussen knows it well. But there's only one reigning Horse of the Year. This year, that horse is Rachel Alexandra. Fully ready or not, it is time for her to run.


'Rachel' cruises through final workout
NEW ORLEANS - Rachel Alexandra put in her final work Monday in preparation for her return to racing in Saturday's New Orleans Ladies, going a half-mile in 49 seconds at the Fair Grounds.

"It was just an easy half, to get along with her," said trainer Steve Asmussen. "She traveled well. She's a beautiful mover. How she runs is what makes her special."

Rachel Alexandra arrived at the track at 6:19, accompanied by assistant Scott Blasi on pony, and walked the wrong way around the track before turning and being let loose.

With regular rider Dominic Terry aboard, Rachel Alexandra jogged toward the half-mile pole, turning slightly, before Terry let her begin to work in earnest. Her splits were 25.20, 37.20 and then a last furlong in 11.80. She galloped out in 1:01.80.

It was her seventh work since Jan. 31 for the 2009 Horse of the Year, who is using the New Orleans Ladies as a prep race for her anticipated meeting with Zenyatta in the April 9 Apple Blossom Handicap at Oaklawn.

With the work sequence finished, thoughts turned to Monday's draw for the New Orleans Ladies.

"It comes into play as it has, to this point, in all of her races," said Asmussen. "We'll worry about that later, though. She got the breeze in, did well, looked good."


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  • 'Rache' will face four foes in return
    NEW ORLEANS - Rachel Alexandra had her final work for Saturday's New Orleans Ladies at Fair Grounds, going a half-mile in 49 seconds there Monday. A few hours later, she drew post 2 in a field of five fillies and mares in the 1 1/16-mile race.

    The work on Monday was her seventh since Jan. 31.

    "It was just an easy half, to get along with her," said trainer Steve Asmussen. "She traveled well. She's a beautiful mover. How she runs is what makes her special."

    Rachel Alexandra arrived at the track at 6:19 a.m., accompanied by assistant trainer Scott Blasi on pony, and walked the wrong way around the track before turning and being turned loose.

    With regular exercise rider Dominic Terry aboard, Rachel Alexandra jogged toward the half-mile pole, turning slightly, before Terry let her begin to work in earnest. Her splits were 25.20 seconds, 37.20, and then a last furlong in 11.80. She galloped out five furlongs in 1:01.80.

    The series of works is meant to have her ready for the New Orleans Ladies, a prep race for her anticipated meeting with Zenyatta in the Apple Blossom Invitational on April 9 at Oaklawn. Zenyatta also runs Saturday, in the Grade 1 Santa Margarita at Santa Anita.

    If Rachel Alexandra is in the form that earned her Horse of the Year honors last year, the competition in the New Orleans Ladies will be left to fight over the spoils on Saturday. But with only six weeks to prepare her for the race, Asmussen wasn't certain about her fitness.

    "She's not 100 percent fit for this, and we're aware of that," he said. "But she's a very physical horse. She is Rachel."

    Rachel Alexandra drew just outside the apparent speed of the race, Fighter Wing, and just inside Zardana, who is a John Shirreffs-trained stablemate of Zenyatta.

    Fighter Wing's trainer, Greg Geier, was the only trainer present at the draw, and he was grinning ear to ear as he noted the post positions.

    "I love my draw, because the front end is the way she wants to run," he said. "I'll be out early, and Rachel will probably be right there, too."

    Zardana is scheduled to arrive Wednesday from Shirreffs's California stable and is capable of applying pace pressure or stalking.

    Leaving from post 4 is Unforgotten, trained by Dallas Stewart. Unforgotten is a closer who finished seventh in the Sunshine Millions Distaff at Gulfstream on Jan. 30 and second at Fair Grounds in the DRF Distaff on Dec. 19.

    Clear Sailing, trained by Glenn Delahoussaye, drew post 5. Clear Sailing has improved in each of her four races and brings a three-race win streak and an undefeated record at Fair Grounds into the race. She'll be looking for the kind of closing trip that saw her get up by a neck in the Pelleteri at Fair Grounds last month.


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    Hollywood cuts stakes purses
    Hollywood Park has made severe cuts to its stakes schedule for the upcoming spring-summer meeting from April 21 to July 18, including reducing the purses of five Grade 1 races.

    The richest race of the meeting will be the Grade 1, $500,000 Hollywood Gold Cup on July 10, a race worth $750,000 last year. The other six Grade 1 races will be worth $250,000. The Gamely Stakes on May 29 and Shoemaker Mile on May 31 are unchanged in value. The American Oaks was cut from $700,000, while the Charles Whittingham Handicap, Triple Bend Handicap, and Vanity Handicap have been cut from $300,000.

    The track is offering 45 stakes worth $5.8 million, down from 49 races worth $8 million in 2009. The reductions were made to stabilize overnight purses, according to Hollywood Park vice president of racing Martin Panza.

    "We've got to put as much money in overnight purses as possible to aid horsemen in these tough economic times," he said in a statement.

    Six stakes run in 2009 will not be offered this year - the Ack Ack Handicap, Gallant Man Stakes, Cinema Handicap, Flawlessly Stakes, Khaled Stakes, and Round Table Handicap.

    Two races have been restored - the Will Rogers Handicap for 3-year-olds on turf and the Grade 3 Jim Murray Handicap over 1 1/2 miles on turf. The Will Rogers serves as a replacement for the Cinema, which was run for 3-year-olds over 1 1/8 miles on turf. Until 2008, both races were offered on the stakes schedule.

    The $150,000 Jim Murray Handicap was not run in 2009.

    The Gold Rush program for California-breds on April 24 is led by the $200,000 Snow Chief Stakes for 3-year-olds, which was worth $250,000 last year. The program will feature nine stakes this year, down from 10 last year.


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