Rapid Redux
| Rapid Redux | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Pleasantly Perfect |
| Grandsire | Pleasant Colony |
| Dam | Thiscatsforcaryl |
| Damsire | Storm Cat |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | 2006 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | Fortress Pacific Equine, LLC |
| Owner | Robert Cole, Jr. |
| Trainer | David J. Wells |
| Record | 42: 28-1-1 |
| Earnings | $361,609 |
| Awards | |
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Secretariat Vox Populi Award 2011 The Maryland Horse Industry Board Touch of Class Award (2012) |
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| Honours | |
| The Eclipse Special Award 2011 | |
| Last updated on Jan, 2012 | |
Rapid Redux (foaled in Kentucky on February 24, 2006) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse by Pleasantly Perfect out of the mare Thiscatsforcaryl by Storm Cat. The winter-born gelding is Pleasantly Perfect's first runner. In 2012 Rapid Redux set the American record of 22 straight race wins without a loss.
As a two-year-old at Keeneland Sales's September 2007 auctions, Rapid Redux was sold for $85,000. His best finish at two was a distant third in the three-horse Tyro Stakes at Monmouth Park. By three, he was running in Claiming races.
Robert Cole, a Baltimore County native, claimed Rapid Redux at Penn National for $6,250 on October 13, 2010. The horse's win streak began on December 2, 2010, at the same track.
Trained by David J. Wells (based at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Pennsylvania), Rapid Redux has now won races at seven different tracks at distances from five furlongs to 1 1/8 miles, using seven riders during the streak.
Rapid Redux won 19 straight races in 2011, continuing his streak that began in 2010 and reached 22 races in a row in January 2012. The gelding's running style is to get quickly in front and stay there.
The chestnut gelding has equaled Citation's modern-day United States record by winning 19 races in a single season. He has also equaled the record of Pepper's Pride and Zenyatta. But while Citation was an American Triple Crown winner and is now in the Hall of Fame, Zenyatta ran in graded stakes races for all but her first two starts, and Pepper's Pride won in stakes races (though only in her birth state of New Mexico), Rapid Redux's accomplishments came in starter allowance races.
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