Rainbow Heir blazes to Jersey Shore victory

Rainbow Heir burned up the track while making his stakes bow in the Jersey Shore (William Osborn/Equi-Photo)

New Farm’s homebred Rainbow Heir grabbed command of Thursday’s Grade 3,
$116,000

Jersey Shore at Monmouth Park and never looked back en route to a
scintillating five-length score under jockey Elvis Trujillo.

“He got out really quick,” trainer Ben Perkins Jr. said. “He relaxed
afterwards and as soon as Elvis got clear he was kind of just sitting and
waiting. He’s an excellent horse and he has a similar body and has the same
disposition as Wildcat Heir, both are really relaxed and lightning fast.”

Sent off the 6-5 favorite against his five rivals, the Wildcat Heir sophomore
set blistering splits of :21 4/5 and :44 3/5 while pressured by Whiskey Romeo to
his outside. Amarish was biding his time just in behind on the rail before
moving up to split the duo rounding the turn. As Whiskey Romeo faded, Amarish
put in his run but Rainbow Heir simply shifted into another gear and drew off to
finish six furlongs on the fast main track in 1:09 2/5.

“I knew I had a speed horse to the outside of me (Whiskey Romeo) and we were
head-to-head for about the first five jumps,” Trujillo explained. “My horse
broke so good that we were able to make the lead and when the other horse sat
back just a little bit I thought ‘Slow it down as much as possible.’ In the
stretch, I asked him, he switched leads and that was it. He’s just really good.”