Carribean Caper’s perfect record is on the line Tuesday in the $150,000 Seeking the Pearl Stakes, her first start in a 2022 season that has been anything but perfect. Carribean Caper didn’t race at age 2, and during her 3-year-old campaign in 2021 went 5 for 5, winning the Audubon Oaks at Ellis Park and the Grade 3 Dogwood at Churchill Downs before calling it a year. Al Stall, who trains the Speightstown filly for Columbine Stable, had Carribean Caper going good at Fair Grounds this past winter, and she was set to run in the Roxelana Stakes on April 30 at Churchill. But Carribean Caper suffered an occurrence of tying up, full-body muscle cramping, the week of the race and had to be scratched. “She had the tying-up episodes, and we had to back off on her, gave her 45 days,” Stall said. “She’s come back nice and fresh.” :: Bet the races with a $200 First Deposit Match and FREE Formulator PPs! Join DRF Bets. Carribean Caper, Colby Hernandez in to ride, is well drawn on the outside of a nine-horse field in the seven-furlong Seeking the Pearl, the first of four $150,000 stakes races – two on dirt, two on turf – that are part of an excellent nine-race program at Colonial Downs. Undefeated career notwithstanding, Carribean Caper is one of several contenders in the Seeking the Pearl. Cheetara won the race last year and is back to face Carribean Caper on Tuesday. “She’s training very well, but this race is stronger than last year’s for sure,” said Cheetara’s trainer, Ignacio Correas. Cheetara is 2 for 2 on fast tracks this season and 0 for 2 on wet surfaces, including a fading third in the Alma North on July 16 at Laurel Park. “She doesn’t like the mud” Correas said. “Her two worst races in America were in the mud. We’re making some little equipment changes with her. I think there is a lot of speed in the race; maybe we can go from off the pace.” The quickest of the pace players might be Edie Meeny Miny Mo, who won the Regret last out at Monmouth Park but faces a tough journey as a front-runner breaking from post 2. The mare inside her is Fille d’Esprit, who rates a chance at a minor upset. She’d run well over wet dirt at Laurel, but was hapless as a 2-1 shot in the sloppy Alma North, finishing a distant last of five. As for Carribean Caper, she’s won at four tracks and has three seven-furlong victories, and Stall points out that she’s not truly coming back from an 11-month layoff. “We had a lot of miles on her before the summer break,” he said. “She should be fine here. It’s not like we’re starting from scratch.” Didia might be any kind Of the 23 horses entered in Tuesday’s two grass stakes, the Old Nelson for fillies and mares and the Buckland for 3-year-olds and up, none is as interesting as Didia. Didia is one of 13 in the Old Nelson, carded for 1 1/16 miles, and after winning her North American debut at a generous 7-2 on July 18 at Colonial, Didia might once again offer an appealing betting opportunity. Trained by Correas for Merriebelle Stable, Didia, by Orpen, had star quality racing in Argentina, the land of her birth. She won Group 1 races last fall by open lengths in her two starts before being exported to North America, and Didia, while considered a 4-year-old on Northern Hemisphere time, doesn’t hit her actual fourth birthday until October. That means she’s a filly with upside, and Didia showed class and willingness in her allowance race win last month at Colonial. Shuffled back after racing close to the early leaders, Didia had to rally into a walking pace to get up by one length over the pacesetter. “Nothing in that race went as expected for her,” Correas said. “That race showed what kind of filly she is even if things don’t go her way.” Didia’s Argentine Group 1s came going 1 1/4 miles. She won at 1 1/16 miles last month, but the Old Nelson trip is short of her best. “Longer is better, but she’s doing great,” said Correas, who took Didia back to Keeneland with him following her Colonial win. “She’s still a very young 4-year-old filly. She has a lot more to do, and usually South American horses, when they do good here the first year, they do great the second year.” Didia does have an outside draw, post 10, and will be ridden by Correas’s current go-to jockey Vincent Cheminaud. Drawn even wider is She Can’t Sing, who breaks from post 12 under Jareth Loveberry. She Can’t Sing, trained by Chris Block for Lothenbach Stables, has turned her career around since being switched to turf routes earlier this year. She struggled finishing fifth over the Churchill turf in the Grade 3 Modesty in May, but has won three two-turn grass stakes this season. Cheermeister will try to wire the Old Nelson from the rail. Market Rumor also will take betting action. :: DRF Bets members get FREE DRF Past Performances - Formulator or Classic. Join now! Block and Loveberry stand a good chance of landing the 1 1/8-mile Buckland with Captivating Moon, though the 7-year-old gelding hardly is the most reliable winner. He hasn’t won since February 2021, but has run well at 1 1/8 miles and on Tuesday makes the third start of his form cycle. The Buckland pace scenario looks murky, to say the least. Roadster appears to be the most likely leader, but the 6-year-old horse, long plagued by foot issues, has made precisely none of his 15 career starts on grass. Eons is the defending Buckland champion but needed a peak performance running over good going and closing into a strong pace to get up last summer. Just Might eyes repeat Trainer Michelle Lovell was to run a possible star in 2-year-old Damon’s Mound in the Saratoga Special on Saturday. Tuesday, she has one of her old stable stars in Just Might going turf to dirt in the $150,000 Chesapeake, a six-furlong dash. Just Might won the 2021 Chesapeake by a head over Mucho, who is back for another try Tuesday. No North American Thoroughbred during 2021 won as many stakes as Just Might, who notched seven such victories. Just Might’s lone win in his last five starts came in his only dirt race during that span. Besides the string of slightly subpar performances, there’s the fact Just Might failed to take up his customary position on the lead July 18 in the Van Clief Stakes at Colonial. The gelding wound up with a poor trip in a performance that can be forgiven, but six furlongs always has stretched Just Might’s distance limits and others hold more appeal Tuesday. Beren has been in sharp form all year and comes off a win over similar competition in the De Francis Memorial at Laurel. That race was contested over a wet track, but Beren has run equally well on dry dirt during 2022. The Chesapeake could unfold at an intemperate tempo, which would make Surveillance an attractive price play. Surveillance made great strides over the winter at Fair Grounds, plateaued in the spring, but took another step forward July 24 rallying for third in an Ellis Park sprint stakes. He might have one more notch of improvement left for Tuesday’s contest.