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Originally Posted by Kasept

OPTIMIZER – Five-time Preakness winning trainer D. Wayne Lukas sent Bluegrass Hall’s Optimizer to the track as it opened at 6 o’clock for a 1 ½-mile gallop under exercise rider Joel Cano.

Eleventh in the Kentucky Derby, Optimizer will be ridden in the Preakness by Corey Nakatani.

Lukas said Optimizer may work before he vans to Pimlico on Tuesday. Rain is forecast for the Louisville area beginning Saturday night and continuing through the day Sunday.

Lukas did work Bluegrass Hall’s Colonial Empress, a candidate for Friday’s Black-Eyed Susan (G2), a half-mile in :47.80 Saturday morning, the second fastest of 53 works at the distance.

Oh my God. His abuse of that horse is endless.