Nobody Listens Speaks Up in Parx Dash
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Nobody Listens wins the Parx Dash at Parx Racing
Nobody Listens , already a stakes winner on dirt and synthetic this year, added a turf stakes to his growing resume with a convincing half-length win in the Aug. 22 $100,000 Parx Dash Stakes going five furlongs at Parx Racing.
The 5-year-old gray or roan Conveyance gelding is based at Horseshoe Indianapolis, where he won his previous two starts for trainer Tim Eggleston and owners Matt Kwiatkowski, Jason Kaylor, and Roger Browning. He won the restricted Brickyard Handicap there on dirt in July and started his season with a win against open company in the Big Daddy Stakes on Turfway Park's Tapeta in March.
Under Luis Saez, the second-leading rider at the Saratoga Race Course meet, in town on a dark day at the Spa, Nobody Listens sat comfortably behind dueling leaders Just Jeremy and Yes I am Free , who sped through opening fractions of :23.03 and :46.52. As those two engaged in a throwdown through the stretch, replete with repeated bumping, Saez and Nobody Listens inched closer and closer in their own sustained drive. The three of them were on even terms at the sixteenth pole, with Nobody Listens finally seizing the lead on the outside and edging forward by a half-length at the wire. The final time was :58.83.
Just Jeremy crossed the wire in second but was disqualified to third for initiating the bumping with Yes I am Free, who was promoted to official runner-up. Favored Alogon was never in the mix and managed only a mild rally to get fifth in the field of eight.
Nobody Listens, out of the Chapel Royal mare Royalesque , returned $7.80 while bettering his record to 13-7-1 in 25 starts. Four of Royalesque's five foals to race have been winners, with Nobody Listens the first stakes winner. Her most recent is an unnamed 2-year-old colt by Bucchero purchased by Splash Stables at the 2022 OBS Winter Mixed Sale.