Cowboy Cool avoids nemesis in Inaugural Stakes
Cowboy Cool will shake multiple stakes winner Concord Fast on Sunday, when he runs in the $35,000 Inaugural at Arapahoe Park in Aurora, Colo. The six-furlong race for 3-year-olds is the first stakes of the meet that opened Friday.
Cowboy Cool has hooked Concord Fast three times, finishing second to that rival in the $100,000 Mine That Bird in February at Sunland and fourth to him in the track’s $100,000 Riley Allison at a mile May 3. The pair also met in the $415,000 Sunland Festival of Racing Stakes, with Concord Fast finishing third to winner Collected and Cowboy Cool eighth in the 1 1/8-mile stakes in March.
Sunday’s cutback in distance would seem to serve Cowboy Cool well as his maiden win came at one turn. Russell Vicchrilli has the mount for owner and trainer Greg Green. Cowboy Cool is a son of Divine Park.
The chief threats appear to be R Dub, a two-time stakes winner last meet at Arapahoe, and Noble Artist, who enters off back-to-back wins at Turf Paradise.