Alpha went to the track Thursday morning for what is a routine piece of exercise under rider Rob Massey. "We did the same thing we have been doing, back up to the sixteenth pole and gallop about a mile and three-eighths," McLaughlin said. "He's doing great, continues to train well and ate up well. Everything is going great."
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