diff --git a/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/TestPhraseQuery.java b/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/TestPhraseQuery.java
index 887cfffa9df..33c6042ab3f 100644
--- a/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/TestPhraseQuery.java
+++ b/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/TestPhraseQuery.java
@@ -596,8 +596,6 @@ public class TestPhraseQuery extends LuceneTestCase {
   }
 
   public void testRandomPhrases() throws Exception {
-    assumeFalse("test runs extremely slow (minutes) with SimpleText", 
-        CodecProvider.getDefaultCodec().equals("SimpleText"));
     Directory dir = newDirectory();
     Analyzer analyzer = new MockAnalyzer();