Fastest workouts

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Rachel Alexandra's final workout for the Ky Oaks was smoking fast. A bullet 46.40

Hal Wiggins was standing at the gap by the clockers’ stand early Tuesday morning and trainer D. Wayne Lukas rode up on his pony.

“Hey Hal, your filly got a ‘2’ on the ‘Rag’ sheet yesterday,” Lukas said, referring to the :46.40 half-mile work put in by Wiggins’ Rachel Alexandra on Monday.

“But I didn’t get a dollar for it,” Wiggins said with a laugh. “She’s got to do it in the afternoon.”

"I thought she went too fast, but Calvin swears she does that every time," trainer Hal Wiggins said. "That is what she did at Oaklawn Park before the Fantasy [Stakes (G2)]; she worked in [:47.60], but that's just the way she is. I am glad to have one that can go that fast."

Rachel Alexandra spent the morning out of the intermittent showers and walked the shedrow.

“Everything looks good,” Wiggins said of the daughter of Medaglia d’Oro, who will break from post position six. “She got a little tired and I may walk her again tomorrow.”

Churchill clockers caught Rachel Alexandra in fractions of :11.60, :23.20, :34.80 during the breeze. She galloped out five furlongs in :58.40 and six furlongs in 1:10.60.

They didn't run any races that Monday ... but they ran on Tuesday .. and a horse who won a 6f dirt race in 1:12.11 got a 74 Beyer.

Thus, assuming the track was as fast Monday morning as it was Tuesday afternoon (impossible to know) Rachel Alexandra's "gallop out" time of 1:10.60 in her final Oaks work would have been the equivlant of a 98 Beyer.

That's just sick!!