Princess Grace on Comeback Trail in Penny Memorial

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Princess Grace wins the 2021 Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf Stakes at Kentucky Downs

Last year, the Dr. James Penny Memorial Stakes (G3T) at Parx Racing served as the 4-year-old debut for John and Susan Moore's Princess Grace . The daughter of Karakontie   rallied to a neck score in the 2021 edition, using the 1 1/16 mile turf contest as a springboard for two further graded stakes victories in the Yellow Ribbon Handicap (G2T) and Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf Stakes (G3T). 

However, Princess Grace iswinless in her last three starts for trainer Michael Stidham coming into this year's July 12 Dr. James Penny Memorial and she'll need to find that top form again in order to beat Kentucky shipper Flirting Bridge  and multiple New York-bred stakes winner Classic Lady . In her only effort in 2022, in the June 18 Eatontown Stakes (G3T) at Monmouth Park, Princess Grace bobbled at the start and raced keenly when rated behind a slow pace, fading to finish last in the field of seven, the worst performance of her 10-start career. 

Princess Grace is reunited with jockey Florent Geroux Tuesday, who piloted the mare to her triumph at Kentucky Downs last fall. 

John Hailey and Ciara Hogan's Flirting Bridge, group 3-placed in Ireland, made an eye-catching first start in North America with an impressive last-to-first victory May 29 at Churchill Downs. Trained by Brendan Walsh, the Camelot  filly can contend on the class hike from first-level allowance competition. 

Classic Lady vans down from New York for trainer Christophe Clement. The two-time stakes winner enters off a nose defeat in the May 30 Mount Vernon Stakes against state-bred company at Belmont Park.

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Entries: Dr. James Penny Memorial S. (G3T)

Parx Racing, Tuesday, July 12, 2022, Race 10

  • Grade IIIT
  • 1 1/16m
  • Turf
  • $200,000
  • 3 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
  • 5:10 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Love in the Air (PA)Keeneland Sales Graduate Paco Lopez 122 John C. Servis 6/1
2 2Flashndynamite (FL) Ruben Silvera 122 Michael M. Moore 12/1
3 3Princess Grace (KY) Florent Geroux 122 Michael Stidham 9/5
4 4Flirting Bridge (IRE) Julien R. Leparoux 122 Brendan P. Walsh 9/2
5 5Classic Lady (NY) Joel Rosario 122 Christophe Clement 4/1
6 6Sweet Willemina (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Frankie Pennington 122 Scott A. Lake 3/1
7 7Fed Policy (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Angel Castillo 122 Josue Arce 15/1
8 8Runaway Rumour (NY) Luis Cardenas 122 Jorge R. Abreu 6/1
9 9Tic Tic Tic Boom (KY) Frankie Pennington 122 Alan Bedard 12/1