NEW ORLEANS – Finite raised her ceiling with a breakout performance winning the Grade 2, $300,000 Rachel Alexandra Stakes on Saturday at Fair Grounds. Finite came into the Rachel Alexandra on a four-race winning streak, including an open-lengths win in the one-turn-mile Rags to Riches last fall at Churchill Downs and a narrow victory there in the Grade 2 Golden Rod, her two-turn debut. She’d won the Silverbulletday Stakes here at Fair Grounds on Jan. 18 by just a neck, but dominated her competition, including champion 2-year-old filly British Idiom, in the Rachel Alexandra. Stalking the pace on the outside, Finite took control of the race at the three-sixteenths pole and ran out to a 4 3/4-length score, earning a 90 Beyer Speed Figure, a career-best by 10 points. :: To stay up to date, follow us on: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter The last two Kentucky Oaks winners, Serengeti Empress in 2019 and Monomoy Girl in 2018, won the Rachel Alexandra. Steve Asmussen, who trains Finite, trained Untapable in 2014 and Summerly in 2005 to win both races, and Finite, with the way she performed Saturday, looked good enough to follow the same path. Asmussen wasted no time after Saturday’s race confirming Finite, a daughter of Munnings and Remit, by Tapit, as an intended starter in the March 21 Fair Grounds Oaks. Asmussen thought Finite really benefitted from running in the Silverbulletday Stakes on Jan. 18, getting back into a racing rhythm after a break of nearly two months following the Golden Rod. British Idiom, champion 2-year-old filly of 2019, lost for the first time in four starts but neither trainer Brad Cox nor jockey Javier Castellano were especially concerned by the defeat. British Idiom raced from sixth place and was wide and got a little tired the final furlong in her first race since winning the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies on Nov. 2. “She ran like a horse that kind of needed a race,” Cox said Sunday morning. “I wasn’t disappointed in her.” Cox isn’t sure where British Idiom will next race. She could run back in the Fair Grounds Oaks or await the Ashland Stakes on April 4 at Keeneland. What transpires at Oaklawn Park with the Cox-trained 3-year-old filly Taraz also will impact how British Idiom is campaigned this spring. ► Silver Dust, who got a 96 Beyer Speed Figure winning the Mineshaft Stakes by three-quarters of a length over Gun It, is a likely starter March 28 in the New Orleans Classic. ► Factor This, who rode an inside turf-speed bias to an upset victory over favored Synchrony in the Fair Grounds Stakes, got a career-best 102 Beyer and will be pointed to the Muniz Memorial on March 21.