Horse

Rico Suave

3-year-old bay gelding · By Cupid out of Dark Darling (by Ready's Image)

Entered today: Mahoning Valley Race 1

RaceMahoning Valley Race 1

Post time12:15 PM ET

Race type6 Furlongs Dirt · State-Bred Allowance · $36,200 purse

Program / post#6 · post 6

JockeyErik Barbaran

TrainerRichard Zielinski

Weight122 lb

Equipment / medicationLasix

Model win chance12%Fair odds 7-1

Morning line5-113% once the line is scaled to 100%

Morning-line favourite?No

Tier B Form ▼▼ Big drop -18 ↕ Up-and-down figures, 62–85

Pick-sheet marks: notes from the past performances, not proven to beat the odds. How to read them is on the race page.

Model win chance is the card model shown on the race page. The morning-line favourite wins more races than our top-ranked horse (see the record), so read it as a second opinion.

Last three races

Date	Trk	Dist	Class	Finish	Speed fig	Odds	Eq	Trip
10/7	TDN	6f D	sAlw40100n4l	6th/6 -2L	62	1.2-1	b L	Set pressured pace;
9/17	TDN	1m D	sAlw40100n4l	3rd/6 -4L	78	9.2-1	b L	3w;bid;outfinished
8/31	TDN	6f D	sAlw40100n4l	3rd/6	85	4.5-1	b L	Set pace; outfinished

Finish shows position, field size and beaten lengths. Odds are final odds; * = favourite. Trip notes are the chart caller's.

Show full historyHide full history (11 races)

11 starts in our records: 3 won, 0 2nd, 3 3rd.

Date	Race	Distance	Type	Field	Post	Finish	Odds	Jockey	Trainer
10/7/26	Thistledown R8	6 Furlongs Dirt	Allowance	6	1	6th	5-2 ML	Victor Fernandez	Richard Zielinski
9/17/26	Thistledown R8	1 Mile Dirt	Allowance	6	7	3rd	4-1 ML	Victor Fernandez	Richard Zielinski
8/31/26	Thistledown R7	6 Furlongs Dirt	Allowance	6	7	3rd	12-1 ML	Victor Fernandez	Richard Zielinski
7/29/26	Thistledown R5	1 Mile Dirt	Allowance	6	3	3rd	6-1 ML	Victor Fernandez	Richard Zielinski
7/9/26	Thistledown R7	6 Furlongs Dirt	Allowance	6	3	5th	8-1 ML	Victor Fernandez	Richard Zielinski
6/20/26	Thistledown R9	1 1/8 Miles Dirt	Stakes (Daniel Stearns Cleveland Gold Cup S.)	9	2	7th	12-1 ML	Victor Fernandez	Richard Zielinski
4/23/26	Thistledown R8	5 1/2 Furlongs Dirt	Allowance	7	2	Won	9-2 ML	Victor Fernandez	Richard Zielinski
4/2/26	Mahoning Valley R7	6 Furlongs Dirt	Stakes (Howard B. Noonan S.)	9	9	6th	20-1 ML	Victor Fernandez	Richard Zielinski
3/16/26	Mahoning Valley R6	5 1/2 Furlongs Dirt	Allowance	5	1	4th	8-5 ML	Victor Fernandez	Richard Zielinski
12/17/25	Mahoning Valley R1	6 Furlongs Dirt	Allowance	6	4	Won	3-1 ML	Victor Fernandez	Richard Zielinski
11/6/25	Mahoning Valley R5	6 Furlongs Dirt	Maiden special weight	10	8	Won	10-1 ML	Victor Fernandez	Richard Zielinski

From TBredIQ's own results records; may be incomplete before Jul 3, 2023. Matched on name, sire and dam. Finish shows lengths behind the winner where we have the chart; odds are final odds where we have the chart, otherwise the morning line (ML). Past race pages aren't kept on the site, so there's no result link for these races. 3 other entries in our records have no result (usually a scratch, or a race we have no chart for) and are not listed.

Speed figures

Best speed figure
Dirt, fast track	85
Wet track	79
Today's distance on today's surface (last 5 tries in the data)	85

Last figures, newest first: 62 · 78 · 85 · 77 — big drop -18 against the three before

Recent works

Date	Trk	Dist	Time	How	Rank
5/15	TDN	4f	:47.80	breezing	3 of 20
2/25	MVR	4f	:48.40	breezing	4 of 12
10/29	MVR	4f	:49.60	breezing	14 of 25
10/15	TDN	4f	:49.00	breezing	2 of 23
7/28	TDN	4f	:48.20	breezing	2 of 33	from the gate

Rank = where the time placed among horses working the same distance at that track that day.

Record

Record
Career	13 starts: 3 won, 0 2nd, 3 3rd · $80,598
This year	9 starts: 1 won, 0 2nd, 3 3rd · $40,620
Last year	4 starts: 2 won, 0 2nd, 0 3rd · $39,978
At Mahoning Valley	4 starts: 2 won, 0 2nd, 0 3rd · $42,845
At today's distance	7 starts: 2 won, 0 2nd, 1 3rd · $47,154
Wet track	4 starts: 1 won, 0 2nd, 0 3rd · $24,104

Owner: Nancy Lavrich And Ronald Zielinski