Rapid Redux is entered to race!
Rapid Redux, the remarkable five-year-old gelding who has won eleven straight races, goes for win number twelve tonight at Mountaineer Casino Racetrack & Resort!
The race – which is the ninth on the card -- is a one-mile starter allowance race, and Rapid Redux is the 2-5 morning line favorite. Here are the entries:
| Post Position | Horse | Morning Line Odds |
| 1 | Gift of Valor | 30-1 |
| 2 | Senor Rutledge | 3-1 |
| 3 | Kaufman | 20-1 |
| 4 | Rapid Redux | 2-5 |
| 5 | Access to the City | 30-1 |
| 6 | Mr. Keeper | 12-1 |
| 7 | Mandu Genius | 10-1 |
The only horse considered to have even a mild chance at upsetting Rapid Redux is Senor Rutledge, a four-year-old gelding who has won four of his six starts this year. But last time out, he could only manage a fourth-place finish in a claiming race. And two starts back, he was beaten seven lengths by Rapid Redux.
Garden Dancer is entered too!
Also entered to race this week is Garden Dancer, a nine-year-old gelding who has had a successful year thus far. A veteran of 58 starts, he has made eight alone this year, winning three and finishing second once. On May 26th, he is scheduled to head to post as the 7-2 third choice in a field of six claimers racing 5-1/2 furlongs at River Downs.
Here are the entries:
| Post Position | Horse | Morning Line Odds |
| 1 | Cucina Nick | 5-2 |
| 2 | Garden Dancer | 7-2 |
| 3 | Quick American | 2-1 |
| 4 | Gold Album | 5-1 |
| 5 | Rhode to Silence | 20-1 |
| 6 | Del Mar Storm | 9-2 |
The morning line favorite is Quick American, an eleven-year-old gelding who has made an incredible 101 starts. This year, he has made seven starts, winning one and placing in two others. Truly remarkable.
And finally, a notable workout!
Presious Passion, the amazing front-running turf marathoner who ran one of the gamest races in Breeders’ Cup history when second in the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Turf, recently returned to the work tab after a lengthy hiatus. He had not breezed since finishing fifth in the Sunshine Millions Turf Stakes on January 29th, and I was beginning to wonder if anything was seriously wrong with him. But happily, he breezed five furlongs in 1:03 2/5 at Monmouth Park on May 14th and one-mile in 1:48 flat on May 22nd. One has to wonder if he is perhaps gearing up for another run at the United Nations Handicap in July, a race he has won twice before.
-Keelerman
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