Full fields for card with three stakes

Saturday’s card at Parx Racing has three $100,000 stakes: the Jostle for 3-year-old fillies and a pair of seven-furlong Pennsylvania-bred stakes in the Foxy J.G. and the Lyman.

Equally important, the card has 11 races and 111 entrants. The Sunday card has 10 races and 101 entrants. That’s an average of 10 horses per race each day.

“It took a while for things to improve after the herpes quarantine was lifted, but I think we’ve turned a corner,” said Sam Elliott, the director of racing at Parx. “Horses are starting to ship in to run now.”

Favoritism in the Jostle, a 6 1/2-furlong sprint, likely will go to Eighth Wonder, who suffered the first loss of her career May 7 in the Parx Oaks while stretching out to a mile for the first time and returning from a six-month layoff. Trainer Dee Curry said prior to that race that Eighth Wonder might be a little short after remaining in South Carolina over the winter longer than planned since Parx was closed for training while a new safety rail was being installed.

Eighth Wonder went to the lead in the Parx Oaks, set a quick pace, but was run down late by Miss Inclusive, who is 2 for 2 since having blinkers added to her equipment. Last year, Eighth Wonder was never challenged in three sprint starts. The turnback in distance should make her difficult to beat.

In the Foxy J.G., Disco Chick will be a heavy favorite for trainer Mario Serey Jr. Disco Chick has won two open stakes in a row. She was an authoritative winner of the open Skipat Stakes at Pimlico on May 20. Thirteen days earlier, she broke Four Inch Heels’s five-race winning streak in the My Juliet Stakes at Parx.

Trevor McCarthy, who was aboard in the Skipat, will be in to ride. Serey and McCarthy teamed up to win the Open Mind Handicap for New Jersey-breds at Monmouth Park last Monday.

In the Lyman, Roxbury N Overton makes his first start in eight weeks for Ramon Preciado. Roxbury N Overton has won his last three starts – a no-conditions allowance at a mile, a second-level optional race at six furlongs, and a six-furlong statebred allowance.

Roxbury N Overton has turned in three bullet works in his last four drills and looks ready to win his first stakes. Last fall, he was beaten a nose by El Kabeir in a three-horse blanket finish in the City of Laurel Stakes in Maryland.

Duff, part of an Elkstone Group-owned entry, was beaten by two noses in the City of Laurel. This will be his fourth career start at Parx for trainer Ron Potts Jr. He won the statebred Roanoke Stakes last September and the restricted Elser Memorial going 6 1/2 furlongs in the fall of 2014. He finished fourth in the Crowd Pleaser at Parx last July while making the lone turf start of his career.

The other part of the Elkstone entry is Edge of Reality, trained by Graham Motion. He is cross-entered Saturday evening in the $200,000 Mountainview Handicap at Penn National.