Servis looks to pick up where he left off at Belmont

Trainer Jason Servis hit at a .452 win percentage at the Belmont spring/summer meet, and he looks like he could kick off the Belmont fall meet with similar success.

Servis will send out two starters on Friday’s opening-day card, including Miz Mayhem in the featured $100,000 Christiecat Stakes for 3-year-old fillies going six furlongs on the turf. Belmont’s fall meet runs 36 days through Oct. 28.

Miz Mayhem will be making her first start for Servis after winning five consecutive turf sprints for trainer Eddie Plesa, Servis’s brother-in-law. Plesa is based in South Florida and sent Servis this horse a couple of weeks ago. Miz Mayhem was credited with a half-mile workout Monday at Monmouth Park in 51.80 seconds.

All of Miz Mayhem’s victories have come at five to 5 1/2 furlongs. The Christiecat is run at six.

“I asked [Plesa] if he thought she could go three-quarters,” Servis said. “He said, ‘Yeah, I don’t think it’ll be a problem. He sent her to me and said ‘Train her like you own her.’ ”

Actually, Miz Mayhem is owned by Laurie Plesa, Eddie’s wife and Servis’s sister.

“I can’t screw this up,” Servis said.

The Christiecat, which will go as race 8 on a nine-race card that begins at 1:30 p.m., drew a field of 10 for turf and one main-track-only entrant.

Broadway Run, who won the Coronation Cup on July 30 at Saratoga, worked three furlongs in 38.35 on Monday morning over the Oklahoma turf course for trainer John Terranova.

Five horses Broadway Run defeated in the Coronation Cup are back in the Christiecat field, including Lady Suebee, Tesora, Closer Still, Mominou, and Factorofwon.

Kitten’s Covergirl, Souper Striking, and Streetlady complete the field.

On Saturday, Servis plans to send out World of Trouble and Reed Kan in the $100,000 Allied Forces for 3-year-old males on turf.

World of Trouble is coming off 1 3/4-length victory in the Quick Call Stakes at Saratoga in his turf debut, beating stablemate Fig Jelly, who will miss this race due to a temperature.

Rounding out the Allied Forces field will be Colonel Tom, Dirty, Gidu, Like What I See, Totally Boss, and Weather Report.