C W Prize might have to reel in Wildatlanticstorm to win the $50,000 Highland Ice for the second year in a row Monday at Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla. At least that’s one take on the six-furlong race for 3-year-olds and up. There are other ways to read the race, which drew a diverse field of nine. Many are coming out of strong races at Oaklawn Park, where Spankster and Rexford faced a tough Bourbon Bash in the Commodore overnight stakes on Jan. 3. Mi Saturday and Coalcowboy both are coming off allowance wins at Remington Park, and Stage Left leads the field in pedigree power as a half-brother to $13.9 million earner Midnight Bisou. But much of the focus will be on C W Prize and Wildatlanticstorm, the co-highweights at 126 pounds. C W Prize is cutting back in distance from a pair of two-turn starts at Remington, one a win in a mile allowance Dec. 5 and the other a third-place finish in the Jeffrey Hawk Memorial. C W Prize raced with the leaders in both starts, but could find himself bidding from off the pace at a sprint distance, which he did three starts ago when he won the Silver Goblin at 6 1/2 furlongs at Remington. C W Prize will break from post 5 with Richard Eramia named to ride for Bryan Hawk and trainer Joe Offolter. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. C W Prize’s target through the lane could be Wildatlanticstorm, who will start from the rail under Elvin Gonzalez. Wildatlanticstorm is seeking to win his third straight race, in a streak that began Aug. 3, when he won an allowance at this distance at Prairie Meadows. He covered the distance in a blazing 1:08.80 and proceeded to win the track’s Dan Johnson Sprint in his most recent start on Sept. 27. Wildatlanticstorm has the speed to hold his position from the rail, and based on the fractions of the races he exits, he figures to be quite prominent. He will be looking for his fifth career stakes win and goes for a hot family as his dam, Imsortaspecial, had another of her offspring win a stakes this fall when Imamidnightspecial captured the Useeit at Remington. Ray Ashford Jr. trains Iowa-bred Wildatlanticstorm for breeder James Jorgensen. C W Prize’s stablemate Mi Saturday is a speed horse who could push Wildatlanticstorm. He is moving back into open company after winning back-to-back allowances for Oklahoma-breds at Remington by a combined margin of 9 3/4 lengths. Mi Saturday will start from post 9, with Walter De La Cruz up for Hawk and Offolter. Rexford finished third in the $100,000 Zia Park Sprint two races back and a repeat of that effort would put him in the hunt in the Highland Ice. The winner of the race, Usually Wrong, popped a Beyer Speed Figure of 101 a start later in an allowance at Fair Grounds and was to have run back at the track Saturday in the Duncan Kenner. Ryvit, who was second in the Zia Sprint, came back to win a Remington Park allowance with ease in his next start and on Sunday was to have run in the Ft. Bliss Stakes at Sunland. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.