Get Happy Mister puts perfect Arapahoe record on line in Front Range

Get Happy Mister will put his perfect Arapahoe Park record on the line Sunday, when he moves back into open company in search of his seventh win at the Aurora, Colo., track. He is part of a 10-horse field for the $40,000 Front Range Stakes.

The Front Range, a seven-furlong race for 3-year-olds and up, also drew Wally Van, who sports a 10-for-19 record at Arapahoe; Hezamazing, who has won 11 of 22 starts at the track; and Lady Contender, a multiple stakes-winning mare.

Get Happy Mister rolled through a perfect season at Arapahoe as a 2-year-old in 2012, when he won three stakes in four starts at the track, including the $100,000 Gold Rush Futurity over open company by 9 1/4 lengths. Get Happy Mister did not race at Arapahoe last year at 3 but has won both of his races at the track this season – an allowance over statebreds and the $43,000 Aspen Stakes, also restricted to horses bred in Colorado.

Get Happy Mister has a good deal of natural speed, and he could either show the way on the move from six furlongs to seven panels or perhaps track Unbridled Giant, who breaks to his inside. Mike Ziegler has the mount on Get Happy Mister, who will start from post 7. The horse, who is 7 for 10 in his career with earnings of $214,672, races for Annette Bishop and is trained by Kenneth “Butch” Gleason.

Wally Van is a Colorado-bred who defeated open company when he captured the $40,000 Arapahoe Park Sprint in his last start June 1. The 9-year-old Hezamazing is the defending champ in the Front Range.