ELMONT, N.Y. – Red Carpet Ready would have been the favorite and horse to beat in the $150,000 Jersey Girl Stakes had racing not been canceled Thursday at Belmont Park due to unhealthy air quality. But in light of those circumstances, trainer Rusty Arnold opted not to re-enter her when the six-furlong dash for 3-year-old fillies was redrawn Thursday to be run as part of Sunday’s 11-race program. “She’s fine. If they had run the race today, she would have run,” Arnold emphasized late Thursday afternoon. “But once they canceled, I was just having too many bad vibes. I mean originally she was supposed to have run at Churchill. When that changed, we decided to bring her to New York to run instead of going to Ellis Park. She vanned here Tuesday, walked Wednesday, we couldn’t train today, and who knows if she would have been able to train tomorrow either, which would have meant three days without going to the track. I just didn’t think I’d be bringing her into the race the right way if we ran her Sunday, so I just decided to put her on a van and bring her back home.” Red Carpet Ready, who upset the previously undefeated and odds-on favorite Munnys Gold in the Grade 2 Eight Belles on May 6 at Churchill Downs, departed Belmont Park at 4 p.m. Thursday and was scheduled to be back at Keeneland early Friday morning, according to Arnold. :: Get ready for summer racing with a DRF Formulator Quarterly PP plan “Everything I guessed for her this weekend was wrong, but then who would ever think a smoke out from a fire in Canada would force racing to be canceled in New York,” Arnold continued. “I understand completely why the track decided to cancel the card. It’s a natural disaster, and there’s just nothing we can do about it. For me, there were just too many negatives and not enough positives to run her Sunday. And she’s been really, really good and really, really special to us. I just didn’t want to take the chance. So we’ll go home, regroup, get her ready, and bring her back for the Victory Ride next month.” The Grade 3 Victory Ride will be decided here at 6 1/2 furlongs on July 8. Five of the seven fillies originally entered for the Jersey Girl were entered back for Sunday, including Chocolate Gelato, who now figures to go postward the prohibitive favorite in the absence of Red Carpet Ready. The Parx Racing-based Girl Trouble also was not re-entered when the race was redrawn Thursday. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.