Heading into Saturday’s Cactus Rich Stakes, a 7-furlong event for 2-year-old Florida-breds presented by the Florida Racing Club as part of their Florida Sire Series of stakes races, Red My remains undefeated from five starts. He’s the co-favorite at 3\/1 in the 8-horse field and a good candidate to concentrate on when trying to figure out the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Heading into the Cactus Rich Red My Ride<\/strong> also remains something of an enigma. He won his $2,000 claiming race debut for the Gabor racing group and has won four straight starter allowance races for Round 2 Racing Stables since that time. He earned a 64 speed figure in that February debut race, then speed figures in the fifties for each of his first three starter allowance victories. Now those were easy, wide-margin victories leaving one to wonder if there might be more in the tank. Well, there was. In his most recent start the son of Gunnevera won a 7 1\/2-furlong heat by 2 1\/2-lengths while earning a speed figure of 88, tops in this field. Based on that, what could go wrong in the Cactus Rich?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Heading into Saturday’s race, Red My Ride has defeated a total of 12 horses for his new connections, nine of those boasting of CPU ownership. Worldclass’ Bahamian Mischief<\/strong> has defeated 14 horses in his two most recent races, all well-meant non-cpu horses. His latest win came at the Cactus Rich distance as he continues to improve with each race. His stakes winning dam did her best running at longer distances, suggesting he could stretch out in the future. Bahamian Mischief is the co-favorite here and has a solid shot to pull down the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Heading into the gate just outside Bahamian Mischief will be the third betting favorite, Haack’s Llenin Eduardo<\/strong>. While Bahamian Mischief has early speed, Llenin Eduardo really has early speed, having led at the first three calls in each of his three races. The son of First Dude earned a 78 speed figure in late July when finishing third in an n2l allowance race. Given Red My Ride’s adaptable running style, it seems unlikely a speed duel of any kind will bother that rival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Heading into the Cactus Rich with the longest layoff of the previously raced horses is Canyongate’s Creve Coeur<\/strong>. The gelded son of now Kentucky-based Girvin. ran second in early June when last out, finishing in nearly a dead heat but just ahead of Llenin Eduardo. In his lone career win, he earned a 76 speed figure in early April, implying he has the talent to get the job done Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Heading into the Cactus Rich having raced in the Oblivious Nation Stakes — the opening leg of this series — is only Bobthehat’s This Index Card<\/strong>. The son of Roadster rallied in the stretch to finish fourth in that race, earning a speed figure of 80 and might appreciate the extra furlong here. He’s 9\/2 on the morning line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Heading into this race Craterus’ Lane Alert <\/strong>remains a maiden after two starts but is fancied enough by the track racing secretary to be assigned morning line odds of 6\/1. Another son of freshman Florida sire Roadster, Lane Alert finished second when last out, earning a speed figure of 73. He gave ground late in that race and cuts back a half furlong in distance for this race but will need to improve to hit the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Heading into the Cactus Rich also from one of Craterus’ stables is Teqster<\/strong>, a 32\/1 longshot in this field. The son of Leinster has a top speed figure of 61 and enters this of a hot race win at the Cactus Rich distance in which he notched a 54 speed figure. Seems to be here to mainly soak up some points in the Florida Racing Club’s contest associated with these Florida Sire Series races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Heading into his first career start in the Cactus Rich is Alphonso’s Amob.<\/strong> He’s a son of Bismarck Tullio, scratch bred, with A. P. Warrior and Alysheba underneath. He’s the longest of shots in this race at 38\/1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Red My Ride might be the real deal or he might not. We might find out Saturday, or we might not. I’m going to pick him on top though. After that I’ll use Creve Coeur, Bahamian Mischief, and This Index Card to fill out the trifecta. As for the Florida Racing Club residency entrants Bahamian Mischief, and This Index Card should battle it out, just ahead of Lane Alert, with Amob and Teqster in a private battle. Currently, Bobthehat leads in the residency contest but Craterus has a good chance to improve his position this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Florida Sire Series for Florida breds concludes September 30, with a 1 1\/16-mile race for each of juvenile fillies and open company and a one mile race for 3-year-olds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Heading into Saturday’s Cactus Rich Stakes, a 7-furlong event for 2-year-old Florida-breds presented by the Florida Racing Club as part<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63835,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63833\/revisions\/63835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}