Richard's Boy may be considered for Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint

ARCADIA, Calif. – This may be a busy autumn for Richard’s Boy, a four-time stakes winner trained by Peter Miller.

Saturday at Santa Anita, Richard’s Boy is scheduled to start in the $100,000 California Flag Handicap for statebreds at about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course. If the gelding runs well, he will be pre-entered on Monday for the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar on Nov. 4, Miller said in a text message on Wednesday.

Owned by Rockingham Ranch, Richard’s Boy is part of a projected field of seven in the California Flag. The field is expected to be led by Tribalist, who won the Green Flash Handicap at Del Mar on Aug. 19 and was second by a neck to BC Mile hopeful Mr. Roary in the Grade 3 Eddie D Stakes on the hillside turf course on Sept. 29.

Other projected runners are B Squared, California Diamond, Dr. Troutman, El Tovar, and Gold Rush Dancer. Gold Rush Dancer won the Grade 3 Longacres Mile at Emerald Downs on Aug. 13 and was sixth as the even-money favorite in the E.B. Johnston Stakes for California-breds at a mile on dirt at Los Alamitos on Sept. 9.