Rowdy Rascal is the kind of horse that touts himself, and it’s an easy read. He gets rowdy! And horseplayers should know Rowdy Rascal has been raising the roof at Remington Park in advance of Friday night’s $50,000 Oklahoma Stallion Stakes. “It’s been hard to keep him on the ground,” said Boyd Caster, who trains the multiple stakes winner for JT Stables. The Oklahoma Stallion Stakes is for 3-year-olds by eligible stallions. It will be run over seven furlongs and shares a card with its $50,000 counterpart, the Oklahoma Stallion Fillies. Rowdy Rascal is part of a five-horse field that includes Kaleo, who was second in the Will Rogers Stakes in May; Little Drama, who was a debut winner at Belmont Park in 2021; and Lava Bomb, who is 2 for 2 against Oklahoma-breds. “It’s a tough race,” Caster said. “You can make a statement for all five of them.” :: Bet the races with a $200 First Deposit Match and FREE Formulator PPs! Join DRF Bets. Rowdy Rascal exits a third-place finish to Iowa Derby winner Ain’t Life Grand in the $100,000 Iowa Stallion on July 23 at Prairie Meadows. Since then, Rowdy Rascal shows a sharp trio of five-furlong works at his Remington base. “I think this horse is coming into this race pretty good,” Caster said. “He’s a lot of fun. His name fits him to a T. He’s just rowdy. He’s a big feeler – gets on the walker and he bucks and rears up. You get on his back, just walking, he’s liable to jump straight up like a billy goat. He’s not a mean horse. He’s real friendly. He’s like a Dennis the Menace. That’s just him.” Caster was not seeing as much playfulness from Rowdy Rascal this spring at Will Rogers, where the horse won an allowance in his 3-year-old debut in April but finished third and fourth in his other appearances at the meet. “He wasn’t himself,” Caster said. “When he’s firing on all cylinders, you can’t hardly keep him on the ground. When he was up at Claremore, he just didn’t like that surface. He likes Remington.” It was at the Remington meet a year ago that Rowdy Rascal came to hand, winning a maiden special weight, the $100,000 Oklahoma Classics Juvenile at six furlongs, and the $75,000 Don McNeill at a mile. He will be making his first start at seven furlongs Friday when he breaks from post 5 under Floyd Wethey Jr. “I think he’ll like it,” Caster said. “He’s coming off a race at Prairie Meadows where he caught a bear in Ain’t Life Grand. The last jump he was head-bobbed for second. He’s in a good spot. We’ll see how he likes the seven-eighths.” The race goes as the third. The fifth features the fillies division, which drew six runners. The field includes Hit’s Pricey Legacy, the winner of last year’s Slide Show at Remington, who is making her first start since running third in the track’s Trapeze last December. Also set to start are the first three finishers from the Cinema at Will Rogers – Fightingtemptation, Smokin’ Okie, and Kachina.