Redatory goes for sweep on turf

Redatory and his trainer, Allen Dupuy, will be chasing different triples in Friday night’s $50,000 Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame Stakes at Retama Park near San Antonio.

Redatory is looking to complete a sweep of the state’s three Texas-bred turf stakes for 3-year-olds and up in the 1 1/16-mile race, which drew 11. In March, he captured the $50,000 Richard King on the Texas Champions program at Sam Houston, and in his most recent start Redatory won the $50,000 Assault on July 14, Stars of Texas Day, at Lone Star Park.

Dupuy, meanwhile, is looking for his third win in the Hall of Fame Stakes. His first win in the race came as a jockey aboard Chief Three Sox in 2000. Dupuy then won the race as a trainer in 2015 with Special U.F.O. Redatory could go favored to give him a third win in the Hall of Fame.

The race will share a card with the $50,000 Fiesta Mile, a turf race for fillies and mares bred in Texas. The races complement inductions into the Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame. There will be a trackside gala as Retama enshrines Alysheba, Streakin Six, John Adger, Keith and Marilyn Asmussen, Johnny Cox, Ted Keefer, and Bob and Janice McNair.

Redatory will bring the field’s best last-race Beyer Speed Figure, an 81, into the Texas Hall of Fame. He earned it for a three-length win in the Assault, a mile turf race he won in 1:35.39. Redatory tracked the pace in third before taking over and increasing his advantage to the wire. Rudy Guerra was aboard and again has the mount from post 2.

“He’s really a speedy kind of horse,” Dupuy said. “He likes to sit second, third. There’s not a lot of speed in that race. I’d rather see him stalking something, but I don’t think it makes much difference to him.”

Redatory, who is a three-time stakes winner, is a son of Oratory. He is the most accomplished horse Dupuy, a 62-year-old who retired from riding in 2003, has had during his training career launched the same year.

“He’s the boss,” Dupuy said. “He’s not intimidated by much. When you’re walking him, he walks with a swag. He’s proud of himself.”

Redatory races for his breeder, James Wessell.

The chief threat could be Right Lane Lukasz, the third-place finisher in the Assault who is coming off an allowance win Aug. 14 at Retama.

Corluna and Shes Our Fastest get a rematch in the Fiesta Mile. In June, Corluna won the $50,000 Lane’s End Stallion Scholarship by a neck over Shes Our Fastest at Lone Star. Shes Our Fastest returned to capture the track’s $50,000 Valor Farm Stakes.