Is Shawnee Slade on the Road to Paradise?

Shawnee Slade will try to remain perfect in 2004 when she races nine other mares in tonight’s $15,000 Paradise Beach Handicap.

Trained by Adan Farias for owner Beatrice Perez, the 4-year-old daughter of Red Hot Rhythm is unbeaten in three starts this year at three distances.

She won by a nose going 300 yards, the distance of the Paradise Beach, on Jan. 17; came back to win by a neck at 350 yards on Feb. 5, then shortened to 220 and won by a head on Feb. 29.

No worse than third in her last nine outings, Shawnee Slade, who will be ridden by Rodrigo Aceves, will break from the outside post.

The picks: 1. Gold Blood. 2. Don’t Ignore Her. 3. Party Train. 4. Rate Me Royal. 5. A Lady With Rhythm. 6. Balance Sheet. 7. Wired To Fly. 8. All Virtue. 9. Shawnee Slade. 10. The Royal Bet.

Four! Marmet Too, Magnum Jess and Wired To Fly in the seventh, All Virtue and Rodania Arbi in the eighth, Yak Ity Yak Go, That Lovely Day and Shawnee Slade in the ninth and The Royal Bet in the 10th.

Shots in the dark: Richardsawesomestar adds the blinkers in the second. Rotary Delight debuts for trainer Jose Antonio Flores in the fourth.

Post time: 7:15 p.m.

On the Net: For entries and results from Los Alamitos, visit: latimes.com/horseracing