The first four finishers in the $100,000 Storm Cat will square off again in the $75,000 Jump Start Stakes on Wednesday at Parx Racing. Ninetyprcentmaddie, the 5-1 victor that day for trainer Butch Reid, will go for his second statebred stakes win in a row after snapping a losing streak that went back to October 2023. “For his sake, as much for anybody else’s sake, he needed to get a little confidence back in himself,” Reid said. “And I think he really has. He’s trained just brilliantly since that start. He’s really back on his toes and looking like he did in times past.” When Ninetyprcentmaddie finished in the money in three straight graded stakes in New York last year, he returned home as one of the best sprinters in the region. He struggled to maintain that form, however, and finished his 2024 campaign without a victory. After similarly lacking efforts going shorter this year, Reid said that he wanted to “shake things up” when he entered the 5-year-old gelding in the Storm Cat at a mile and 70 yards with blinkers on. The added distance and equipment change helped him deliver a vintage performance, in which he dueled even-money favorite Wild Vine to the wire and prevailed by a nose. “You just got to make a change and, hopefully, it’ll work for the best,” Reid said. “It certainly did in this case.” :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. Wild Vine, a 6-year-old gelding trained by Jamie Ness, has lost both of his most recent starts in photo finishes but will carry the best form of his career into a redemptive effort against Ninetyprcentmaddie. Dropline and Houghton Shuffle, the third- and fourth-place finishers in the Storm Cat, also will be rematched against Reid’s gelding. Disco Chick Several trainers in the Jump Start also have contenders in the $75,000 Disco Chick Stakes on Wednesday, but 5-year-old mare Nature’s Candy may give Hugo Padilla the hottest hand in the Parx co-feature. Earlier this month, Padilla brought the 5-year-old mare back from a short layoff in a $55,000 allowance. The mile-long race could have been called on the backstretch, as Nature’s Candy secured an uncontested early lead under jockey Andy Hernandez and powered home to a six-length victory. She earned a 92 Beyer Speed Figure for the performance and defeated Pachelbel, the 3-1 morning-line favorite in the Disco Chick for new trainer Mike Moore. “She’s as ready as she’s ever going to be,” Padilla said of Nature’s Candy. “She’s training amazing, she’s doing very, very good right now. Obviously, that last race was outstanding. I thought she was going to run good, but I didn’t think she was going to run that good.” Slow fractions certainly helped the Uncle Lino mare in her last start, but her work toward a career-best effort is hidden in plain sight throughout her 2025 campaign. Nature’s Candy has not lost in four starts between seven furlongs and a mile and 70 yards on dirt. Only three runners in the Pennsylvania-bred field of nine are coming out of stakes company. Carousel Queen is the lone winner in that group after kicking clear by 5 1/4 lengths in the $100,000 Imply at Parx last time out. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.