Catch My Drift tries to remain perfect for red-hot trainer Brown

Trainer Chad Brown’s record this year at Parx Racing has gone from very good to amazing to darn near unbelievable. His starters have won 12 of the 13 starts they have made at Parx. In his only loss, his starter finished second.

Brown’s run at Parx began March 17 and will be put to the test again on Tuesday, when Catch My Drift runs in the eighth race, a first-level allowance race at a mile and 70 yards. Brown won with his first five Parx starters this year, finished second on May 25, and has since won seven straight.

Catch My Drift is part of Brown’s current Parx win streak. A 3-year-old daughter of Pioneerof the Nile, she won a maiden race in her career debut on June 8 even though the effort was not without a few anxious moments.

Catch My Drift was a bit reluctant to load in the gate for the mile-and-70-yard race, broke a full step slow, and was last into the first turn. Jockey Kendrick Carmouche gave her a heady ride by staying on the rail thereafter and she rallied in the stretch to post a three-quarter-length win.

A number of her Tuesday rivals enter off Beyer Speed Figures higher than the 64 she earned, and she’ll have to show better gate skills to keep her record perfect Tuesday.

Her chief rivals include:

◗ Primo Via is a 5-year-old mare with 8 wins in 44 career starts. In her last five starts at this level, she has finished second four times and third once.

◗ Flynnie is a 6-year-old mare who has been the runner-up in second-level Pennsylvania-bred allowance races in her last two starts while earning Beyers in the low 80s.

◗ Maker’s Mika is a 3-year-old who just won her maiden. She will be stretching out in distance after beginning her career in two sprints.