Rapid Redux to chase U.S. wins record Tuesday at Laurel Park

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Rapid Redux to chase U.S. record Tuesday

Rapid Redux, who broke the record for consecutive wins last month at Mountaineer Park in Chester, W.Va., with his 20th straight victory, will attempt to tie the U.S. record for victories in a calendar year when he starts in Tuesday's sixth race at Laurel Park, a $17,000 starter allowance. Post time will be about 2:55 p.m. Citation holds the single-season record with 19 wins in 20 starts in 1948, the year he captured the Triple Crown. Rapid Redux is 18-for-18 in 2011. The 11/16-mile test, for horses who have started for a claiming price of $5,000 or less in 2010 or 2011, drew six other runners, including Zosogood, a winner of three straight races at Monmouth Park since mid-October. Rapid Redux will start from the rail. "Citation is one of the all-time greats, just to be mentioned in the same sentence is unbelievable," said owner Robert Cole Jr., a Towson native. "The Citation record has stood for more than 60 years so I would like to get a part of that and possibly break it before the end of the month. That record might be more impressive, not that the consecutive record isn't, because how a horse can win 19 races in one calendar year is like going to another galaxy on a space ship. It is beyond imagination." Cole, a Baltimore County native, claimed the son of Pleasantly Perfect at Penn National for $6,250 on October 13, 2010. His winning streak began Dec. 2, 2010, at Penn National. Since then, the gelding has won 21 of 22 races with earnings of $246,694. Cole and trainer David Wells have sent their star to seven different tracks at distances from five-furlongs to 1 1/8 miles, using seven riders. J.D. Acosta, who has been aboard six times during the streak, has the mount. "We are going straight to the lead," Cole said. "He is as fit as he's ever been, and we think he'll carry the speed without a problem." Rapid Redux earned his 19th straight victory at Laurel on Oct. 27 to tie Zenyatta and Peppers Pride in the record book and has three other wins there during the streak.

Thursday: Call Of A Lion won for the seventh time in as many starts this year with a driving score in the seventh race, a $17,000 starter allowance for fillies and mares. Three starts ago, she was victorious in the Maryland Million Distaff Starter Handicap at Laurel Park. … Alberto Delgado capped a 3-for-3 afternoon with a win aboard 69-1 long shot Changing Funds in the fifth race, a $12,000 claimer. Earlier on the card, the 47-year-old won aboard Walkin' Boss ($5.40, first) and One to a Royal ($3.40, fourth). Delgado moved into a tie with Xavier Perez for fifth place in the fall rider standings.

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Terps' Vellano named to Walter Camp second team

Maryland junior defensive tackle Joe Vellano was voted to the Walter Camp All-America second team, the Walter Camp Football Foundation announced Thursday evening. A two-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference choice (second-team in 2010; first-team in 2011), Vellano posted 94 tackles — including 7.5 tackles for loss and 2.5 sacks — four pass breakups and two fumble recoveries this season.

Orioles: Current and former players will host 90 third- and fourth-graders from City Springs Elementary School as part of the 33rd-annual OriolesREACH Holiday Party for Kids from 10:30a.m. to 1p.m. Tuesday at Dave & Buster's in the Arundel Mills mall. The current Orioles will be joined by former players Al Bumbry, Dave Johnson and Larry Sheets. Players will serve lunch, play games with and sign autographs for the students. Johnson will play Santa Claus and deliver gifts donated by the Orioles to each child. Additionally, the Right Side Foundation, the personal charity of right fielder Nick Markakis and his wife, Christina, will provide a copy of the book "The Polar Express" as well as a new baseball glove for each child.

 

 

Men's college basketball: Navy's 5 p.m. game with 10th-ranked Missouri on Saturday will be streamed online at ESPN3.com in addition to being televised by Fox Sports Midwest.

Men's college lacrosse: Salisbury is ranked No. 1 in the Face-Off Yearbook Division III Top 20 preseason rankings from insidelacrosse.com.

D.C. United: Goalkeeper Bill Hamid was called up to the under-23 U.S. men's national team training camp. He will join the U.S. Soccer Federation in Lakewood Ranch, Fla., from Thursday to Dec. 23.

Running: The fourth-annual Maryland Half Marathon to benefit the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center will be held May 6 in the Howard County community of Maple Lawn. New to the 2012 race is Dozer's Dash, an eight-mile race-within-a-race named in honor of Dozer the Dog, a Goldendoodle who made national news after accidentally joining the runners at Mile 5 in the 2011 Maryland Half Marathon. For more information, visit mdhalfmarathon.com … On Jan.9, Running Maryland will air its first broadcast of "The Runaround" on 1300 AM from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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