Tuesday’s Parx Racing card includes five stakes, two of them preps for the track’s September Grade 1 events, the Cotillion and Pennsylvania Derby.
Sixteen stakes contested in the Mid-Atlantic have been downgraded for 2025 by the American Graded Stakes Committee.
Best Actor, a troubled second last out in the Indiana Derby, avoided traffic Tuesday and delivered an authoritative win in the G3 Smarty Jones at Parx.
Fulsome rallied from the rear to win the G3 Smarty Jones Stakes Tuesday at Parx and perhaps set himself up for bigger challenges.