Grade 2 winner Stonetastic challenges streaking Disco Chick
A $60,000, no-conditions allowance sprint for fillies and mares at Parx Racing on Sunday will match Humana Distaff runner-up Stonetastic vs. Disco Chick, a winner of three straight stakes.
The seven-furlong race also includes Four Inch Heels, who finished second by three-quarters of a length to Disco Chick in the My Juliet Stakes while returning from a five-month layoff, and She’s Hot Wired and Love Came to Town, the first- and third-place finishers in the Open Mind Handicap at Monmouth Park.
Stonetastic, trained by Kelly Breen, sprinted clear in the Grade 1 Humana Distaff on Kentucky Derby Day at Churchill Downs. She couldn’t keep pace with Taris in the stretch but held second by two lengths over Enchanting Lady. Taris, based at Santa Anita, is 8 for 13 in her career.
Stonetastic, 5, is a two-time Grade 2 winner. She won the Inside Information Stakes at Gulfstream Park in March and the Prioress at Saratoga in 2014. In her lone start at Parx, Stonetastic won a third-level optional race last September by 15 3/4 lengths.
Breen has given the mount to Frankie Pennington, the leading rider at Parx.
Disco Chick is on a roll for trainer Mario Serey Jr. She won the My Juliet at Parx on May 7 and has since won the Skipat at Pimlico by eight lengths and the Pennsylvania-bred Foxy J G at Parx by six lengths. It will be interesting to see how her early speed stacks up with that of Stonetastic.
Trainer John Servis claimed Four Inch heels for $25,000 out of a winning effort in September. She rattled off four straight wins before being given time off in December. She was favored over Disco Chick in the My Juliet and was getting to her at the finish of that six-furlong race.
She’s Hot Wired finished fifth, beaten 2 1/4 lengths, in the My Juliet and then went to Monmouth, where she beat Love Came to Town by a neck in the Open Mind, a six-furlong race for New Jersey-breds.
The six-horse field is completed by Bound, a winner of 7 of 19 races who will be making her first start since December.