PARX PICKS AND HORSES TO WATCH: JUNE 30
Parx Racing has an 11-race card on tap for this afternoon. Post time for the opener is 12:55p.m., and we’ve got Parx picks. The day starts with a carryover of $84,987 in the jackpot pick-5.
How’d we do last time at Parx?
| RACE NUMBER | CONTENDERS | COMMENTS |
| Race 9 | 7-2-5-3 | Favored #7 Hit the Woah (5-2) could be a pretty tough out in this spot. The Christophe Clement trainee is dropping out of stakes company — she’s stakes-placed and last out, though seventh, was beaten less than two lengths in a Grade 3 contest — and returning to the dirt, on which she’s posted her only win. She’ll get Lasix for the first time and is showing four works since her last race, in mid-May. This one shapes up to have some pace, which should aid her running style… Maybe the light bulb’s now on for #2 Kirtan (6-1). It took her nine tries, but she graduated last out with ease, winning by over seven lengths; the runner-up won next out… #5 Gambit’s Girl (4-1) figures to be part of the pace in this contest and has run good races against similar — but she has a troubling habit of gacking up leads late… Tough outing last time on a good track for #3 Assume Control (6-1), but two back she won like a good thing against starter allowance foes… |
| Race 10 | 4-6-3-2 | All #4 Prince of Rain (5-1) has done in his brief career is run good races: two wins and three seconds from five starts, including a good local try when second to next-out winner Geebert. Let’s see if he can keep moving forward here… The drop into claiming company seems to have been a positive for #6 Halite (7-2); he posted an easy win two back and returned with a strong performance when second in a Pimlico allowance behind Air Token, a stakes winner who followed that up with a second in stakes company… That was a stinker last out, but we’re inclined to give #3 Hibachi (6-1) another shot in this contest. His better efforts should compete… The speedy #2 First Citizen (9-5) figures to try to take them all the way for the leading trainer Ness and jockey Silvera… |
HOTTEST JOCKEYS AT PARX
| RANK | JOCKEY | PTS |
| 1 | Correa Julio | 129 |
| 2 | Silvera Ruben | 119 |
| 3 | Rivera Luis D | 117 |
| 4 | Carmouche Kendrick | 99 |
| 5 | Lopez Paco | 97 |
HOTTEST TRAINERS AT PARX
| RANK | TRAINER | PTS |
| 1 | Ness Jamie | 152 |
| 2 | Mercedes Pedro | 142 |
| 3 | Guerrero J Guadalupe | 135 |
| 4 | Farro Patricia | 86 |
| 5 | Brown Jr Howard R | 75 |
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