Rachel Alexandra arrives at Belmont for Mother Goose

Rachel Alexandra received a bath after arriving on the Belmont backstretch (NYRA Photos)

Following an uneventful flight from Louisville, Kentucky, Preakness S. (G1)

winner RACHEL ALEXANDRA (Medaglia d'Oro) arrived safely at Belmont Park late

Tuesday afternoon for her next start, Saturday's $300,000 Mother Goose S. (G1).

Accompanied by assistant trainer Scott Blasi, exercise rider Dominic Terry,

the Stonestreet Stables security team, and four other Thoroughbreds, Rachel

Alexandra departed Churchill Downs at noon (EDT) for the 90-minute flight to

Farmingdale, New York, and arrived at trainer Steve Asmussen's barn on the

Belmont Park backstretch by van at about 4:30 p.m.

After a few turns around the shedrow to stretch her legs, and a bath, the

filly was bedded down in stall No. 5 -- the same stall previously occupied by

two-time Horse of the Year Curlin -- at 5:30 p.m.