Once a graded stakes contender, Call Me Fast seems to have found another way to shine late in his career. In his fourth start at Parx Racing for Jamie Ness, the 6-year-old gelding motored from well back to earn his second straight stakes victory in the $75,000 Kris Kringle on Wednesday. “It’s in there,” Ness said of reviving the gelding’s career at Parx. “He’s got some quality wins, and as long as he's sound, there's no reason he can’t do that again. These horses cycle up and cycle down, and right now, we're on the upward cycle.” Breaking slowly in the field of eight, jockey Mychel Sanchez did not hurry Call Me Fast from sixth, settling 4 1/2 lengths behind. Point Dume, a loose early leader, completed the opening quarter-mile in 23.83 seconds and led by three lengths through a half-mile in 48.01. Wild Vine, Call Me Fast’s stablemate and the 3-2 favorite, stalked in second and had the best shot at Point Dume on the far turn. But Call Me Fast was quick to enter the fray, and Sanchez urged his closer from the back and advanced into second with a three-wide move on the far turn. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. For a brief moment at the top of the stretch, all three contenders ran evenly across the track, but Wild Vine ducked out of contention after being forced to run between horses. Point Dume, with plenty in reserve on the front end, dug in on the inside under Angel Cruz, but the Timothy Kreiser-trained gelding could not weather moves from both of Ness’s runners. Call Me Fast drove past to win by three-quarters of a length, completing the 1 1/16-mile race in 1:46.47 and paying $8 to win. “I had two in the race and Wild Vine pressed the point a little early,” Ness said. “It let Call Me Fast pick up the pieces late.” Wild Vine and jockey Yedsit Hazlewood, forced into tight quarters in the stretch, held on for third, finishing four lengths behind Point Dume. After a 7 1/2-length defeat in his first start for Ness in September, Call Me Fast has rattled off three straight wins at his new home track. Last month, the gelding entered the local stakes ranks and earned a photo-finish victory in the $75,000 Turkey Trot. It is safe to say that he is becoming a dangerous and familiar face.  Blitzen Stakes The $75,000 Blitzen Stakes was largely expected to be contested between two heavily backed horses, and when 6-5 co-favorite Buccherino faded to fourth, Maximus Meridius was quick to take advantage. With an uncontested early lead, the 4-year-old gelding cruised home to pick up another stakes victory at Parx on Wednesday. Coming off a photo-finish victory in the $75,000 Let’s Give Thanks in November, trainer Robert Reid Jr. lamented that his sharp gelding could not shake the habit of letting rivals come back to him in the stretch. He suspected that he might have a similar issue on Wednesday, but no such problem came into play.   In Sanchez’s second stakes victory on the card, the jockey coaxed Maximus Meridius through an opening quarter-mile in 23.14 seconds and half-mile in 46.21. No one in the field of six launched a convincing bid to challenge, allowing the front-runner to easily pull away by 3 3/4 lengths at the wire. The co-favorite, a six-time winner in 10 starts at Parx, completed the seven-furlong sprint in 1:24.43 and paid $4.60 to win.  :: Get the Inside Track with the FREE DRF Morning Line Email Newsletter. Subscribe now.  Buccherino, who entered the Blitzen with six victories in seven starts at Parx, stalked in second in the earlygoing and briefly challenged Maximus Meridius entering the far turn. He seemed more than ready to run on to the wire, as he did to beat Maximus Meridius in the $150,000 Parx Sprint in September, but he unexpectedly flattened out, finishing 12 1/2 lengths behind. Dropline, a 4-year-old gelding trained by Robert Mosco, stalked in fourth early on and advanced to finish second. He finished 6 1/4 lengths ahead of Paradise Valley, a 5-year-old gelding trained by Kathleen DeMasi. Mrs. Claus  Since dramatically improving under the care of trainer Juan Carlos Guerrero, the filly Boutwell Time has made bountiful connections in her new home at Parx Racing. Not only has the 3-year-old come alive for her trainer, but she has also formed a special bond with apprentice jockey Jeriel Catala.   The next chapter between horse and rider unfolded Wednesday, as Boutwell Time and her 21-year-old jockey both won their first stakes race in the $75,000 Mrs. Claus. The trip to the winner’s circle was a common beat in a classic story, a young rider hustling for opportunities and eventually striking gold. Guerrero has been one of Catala’s biggest supporters at Parx. On Tuesday, the trainer gave the Puerto Rican rider his first stakes mount aboard first-time starter Presenceisapresent. The juvenile filly outran her odds to finish second in the $75,000 Miss Behaviour.  Since returning from a layoff in October, Boutwell Time has been ridden exclusively by Catala, getting better and better while working for Guerrero. Once an up-and-coming runner in Kentucky, it took several months for the trainer to get the filly back in winning form. After Catala guided her to back-to-back allowance victories by 19 3/4 lengths this fall, Guerrero decided to let him keep the mount in stakes company. Losing the weight allowance didn’t matter to the trainer. The filly had her rider.  Breaking sixth in the field of nine, Boutwell Time was quick to advance while 3-5 favorite Alani dueled with Not Too Late through an opening quarter-mile in 23.26 seconds. The front-runners continued scrapping through a half-mile in 47.03, at which point Boutwell Time and Catala were already fourth and driving between horses.  The Reid-trained mare Jeanne Marie and her rider, Sanchez, in search of his third stakes victory on the card, made the first move on Alani and took a short lead into the stretch. Alani was game, however, and dug in along the inside despite the early pressure.  As Alani and Jeanne Marie were dueling to the wire, Boutwell Time continued making up ground with fierce determination. Seven lengths ahead of the next runner, his targets were within range and getting closer with every stride. In a final surge, the filly passed both rivals to win by a neck. She completed the seven-furlong sprint in 1:25.76, paying $14 to win. Jeanne Marie prevailed by a half-length for second over Alani, who sustained slightly too much early pressure for trainer Mike Moore. The heavy favorite was 5 1/4 lengths clear of the next finisher. When Boutwell Time first came to Guerrero from Kentucky in the spring, the filly was a nervous wreck, thinner than he would have liked and incapable of running her best race. She is firmly back on track, and her connection with Catala has helped the determined young rider take a massive next step. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.