It’s a canter!
Rappers Lil Wayne and Lil Yachty, Puerto Rican singer Rau Alejandro and thoroughbred tycoon Glen Saugenstein are part of the horse racing syndicate Run Fast Racing.
And Page Six has learned that most horse owners’ dream of competing in a Triple Crown race has already been achieved.
On Thursday, it was confirmed that their stallion, Vitruvian Man, will run in next weekend’s Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in New York.
The horse is trained by Doug O’Neill and has won one race in six races.
“He’s always shown a lot of talent, just been a little slow to bounce back,” O’Neill told the Daily Racing Form. “He practices well.”
Jockey Antonio Fres, who finished third in the Santa Anita Derby riding Vitruvian Man (named after Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting of a four-armed man), will take the reins again on June 6 in the $2 million race.
The group also has an app called Run Fast Racing that, for a $100 monthly subscription, gives users prizes if Vitruvian Man or any of the 17 other horses owned by the syndicate win a race.
Additionally, the app says subscribers will get access to an owner’s box, horse naming rights, jockey selection input, and more.
Last year, RFR’s Sixhoofsevenhoof (a play on Lil Wayne’s song “Six Foot Seven Foot”) and Punto Forty (named after one of Alejandro’s songs) won at Los Alamitos. Both horses were trained by O’Neill and jockey by Fres.
