The Rapid Challenge

The Rapid Challenge

Eastern Kentucky – If people are looking for a place to run their 2 YO’s they might well look at stakes races as there are a plethora of them.  Since most people take the traditional approach of running a horse through their conditions, stakes races are woefully under filled.  The Rapid Challenge Stakes is one of those.  Only four horses took advantage of the small field size, big purse money, and used the race as an opportunity to build stakes points.  The Rapid Challenge was named after a 9 YO mare by Danzig who won five races including one stake.  She is the dam of three foals to race of which two are winners.  Here is the field for the $85,000 race for 2 YO fillies.  It will be run at 7 1/2 furlongs over the turf course.  The weather system over the area is supposed to stick around for the weekend and the course should be rated as “Good”.

On the hedge will be Lite Comet (19/1) by Argo’s Quest.  She won at first asking in a maiden claim for $2,500 on the turf and seemed to have plenty left in the tank.  She was then entered in an allowance race over the main track but she didn’t care for it and ran up the track.  Knocked out by the effort she was sent to the auction where she ended up at CPU Farms.

Cappucity (23/1) is a first time starter by Cappuchino and will be saddled by Locomotion.  Not much to go on here but word is she has been training well and has thrown some bullet works.

Post three will hold another first time starter, Class Reunion (4/5) a rangy filly by Langfuhr.  She is trained by Caveat and she too, is being talked about by those in the know, as maybe a ‘good one’.  Barring accidents we will know more after Saturday’s race.

One of the reasons the Super group is so successful is that they can always be counted on to find the easy spots for their bunch of well-bred babies.  Not only do the horses get stakes experience but the group has a chance to learn a lot about their horses.  Super5 will do just that when their Smarty Jones filly, Eraticus (3/5) parades to the post Saturday afternoon.  She has won two of her four starts and has never been beaten on the turf.  Not only that, she holds the top speed figure in the race by some 20 points.  She should be a lock here, but it is an off track and 2 YO’s seldom do what is expected.

Kudos’ to these smart trainers and I wish I had looked for a race such as this for my babies.  Good Luck!