While Rachel Alexandra continues undergoing treatment for injuries sustained during foaling on Feb. 13, the 7-year-old mare’s foal, a filly by Bernardini, has bonded with her nurse mare at owner Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Farm in Lexington, Ky.

"Nurse mares are never brought into situations that are ideal," a Feb. 16 statement from Stonestreet Farm read. "They must act as a surrogate mother for a foal whose own mother is unable to care for it. In fact, a nurse mare raised Rachel Alexandra when her dam, Lotta Kim, rejected her."

Rachel Alexandra’s foal is being raised by a "professional" Quarter Horse nurse mare named Miss Beutiful Ojos, who has raised foals at Stonestreet in the past.

"It is imperative that they possess good nurse mare characteristics," the statement read. "Miss Beutiful Ojos, or ‘Ojos’ for short, is both very sweet and a great milk producer, two of the most important nurse mare qualities