Six Point Rack's first stakes run to come in California Cup Derby

ARCADIA, Calif. – Six Point Rack is expected to make his stakes debut in the $250,000 California Cup Derby at Santa Anita on Jan. 28 after winning a maiden race Thursday for 2-year-old statebreds.

With his bloodlines, there are high hopes that Six Point Rack will soon become a stakes winner. The colt is a full brother to the active four-time stakes winner Luckarack, who has earned $608,387. He is also a half-brother to Tamarando, the winner of the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity in 2013 who earned $715,078; a half-brother to the stakes winner U’narack, who earned $194,080; a half-brother to Tamarack Smarty, who was stakes-placed and earned $284,296; and a full brother to the stakes-placed Pulmarack, who earned $226,097.

“The whole family is good,” trainer Mike Puype said Thursday. “It takes them a couple of races to warm up.”

Six Point Rack races for owners and breeders Larry and Marianne Williams. The colt was seventh, fifth, and seventh in his three starts before his breakthrough win Thursday, all against California-bred maidens. Six Point Rack ($21.80) won the one-mile maiden race by 1 3/4 lengths, racing on the outside of a speed duel and taking the lead on the turn.

“He’s starting to learn,” Puype said. “When he got to the outside, it was done.”