Rampadarat, Simran look to extend good run in Minnesota Made Distaff Sprint

Trainer Roopishwar Rampadarat is having the Canterbury Park meet of his life this summer.

From 2007 to 2017, Rampadarat compiled a Canterbury record of 3 for 111; this season, he has gone 4 for 10.

Rampadarat had one Canterbury stakes win from his last 38 such starters until this season, but is 1 for 1 in 2018. That stakes winner, Simran, accounts for two of Rampadarat’s wins this summer and is back in action in Friday’s second race, the $45,000 Minnesota Made Distaff Sprint.

The six-furlong statebred-restricted race appears to boil down to Simran, a 3-year-old, and the 4-year-old Ta Kela Warning. With the run he’s been on, Rampadarat, whose first Canterbury starters came in 1991, might rate the edge.

The $45,000 Minnesota Made Sprint (race 9) has the 3-year-old Speeding Kid as the 7-5 morning-line favorite. Speeding Kid will be pleased not to run into Mr. Jagermeister, the Minnesota-bred standout who mashed him July 4, but will have to battle other pace players and hold off the capable older horse Fireman Oscar.

◗ Arlington’s featured sixth race Friday will have a good Michele Boyce-trained 3-year-old, be it on turf or Polytrack. For turf, Boyce has Blue Sky Kowboy, who overcame a glacial pace to win a first-level turf allowance June 8. The talented and versatile Devileye is entered for the main track only.