Brown has solid trio for Dr. James Penny Memorial

The Grade 3 Dr. James Penny Memorial, a 1 1/16-mile turf race for fillies and mares on Tuesday, has attracted a salty field of 10. Not surprisingly, Chad Brown, who dominates this division, trains three of the entrants, all of whom figure prominently.

The $200,000 Penny is the first graded stakes of the Parx season. It will be followed by the Grade 3 Parx Dash on Saturday and six graded races in September, topped by the Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby and Grade 1 Cotillion.

Fourstar Crook has won seven races in a row for Brown, including three consecutive New York-bred stakes. She likely will be the second betting choice behind stablemate Elysea’s World. It’s not out of the question that Brown’s third entrant, Light In Paris, could be the third choice in the field.

Elysea’s World enters off a third-place finish as the even-money favorite in the Grade 3 Gallorette on the Preakness card at Pimlico. Her late run was compromised in the 1 1/16-mile race when the opening six furlongs were timed in a glacial 1:14.31.

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The final five-sixteenths went in 30.04 seconds, which made it difficult to close ground over the “good” course. The first two finishers, including Cambodia, who also is entered in the Penny, were forwardly placed throughout.

Prior to the Gallorette, Elysea’s World finished second in the Grade 2 Hillsborough at Tampa Bay Downs and the Grade 3 Suwannee River at Gulfstream Park to Dickinson, who would go on to win the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley at Keeneland in her next start.

While there is not a lot of early speed in the Penny Memorial, the pace should be more realistic than in the Gallorette.

Irad Ortiz Jr., the leading rider at Belmont Park, will be at Parx to ride Elysea’s World.

It took Fourstar Crook four tries to win her maiden, but she has not been beaten in seven starts since that October 2015 race. She went 4 for 4 last year and on May 29 won the Mount Vernon at Belmont to begin her 5-year-old campaign. Joe Bravo picks up the mount.

Light In Paris broke through with her first stakes win in the Plenty of Grace at Belmont on April 15 and most recently finished second in the Grade 3 Eatontown to Grand Jete, a Juddmonte Farms runner who is 2 for 2 for Brown since being sent to the U.S. from France. Manny Franco rides Light In Paris.

Although Cambodia did get a nice setup in the Gallorette for trainer Tom Proctor, she could work out another good trip here under Florent Geroux.

Light Up Our World finished second to the Brown-trained Off Limits in a second-level allowance at Belmont on June 1. She was steadied early in that one-mile turf race, her first start in eight months, and is eligible to take a step forward Tuesday. Trainer Arnaud Delacour has given the mount to Tyler Conner.