After a sharp wire-to-wire Tapeta score at Gulfstream Park in which he lit up the board at $39, Raydar Control returned in a $65,000 allowance test at five furlongs over the all-weather surface and was sent off at odds of 3/5 under new sensation Diego Herrera. But the 4-year-old Bahamian Squall gelding was pinched at the break and wound up trailing in seventh and last down the backstretch.

Herrera let Raydar roll nearing the turn and the gelding bred by D. Michelle Landry cruised past the pack while five wide, and he took a short lead into the stretch. From there, as announcer Pete Aiello boomed “Raydar Control is so much the best it isn’t funny,” he won by three-quarters of a length, clocked in 1:00.01 and paying $3.40.

Raydar Control has now won three of his last four, and the check for $39,000 shot his earnings up to $94,988 on a record of 4-1-1 in 9 starts, with $81,128 coming this year.