Horses climbing through allowance conditions inevitably hit a wall at some point, but Majorca has not met his match just yet. The 4-year-old gelding has won three straight races at Laurel Park and will ship to Parx Racing for a $52,000 allowance on Monday. “It was October or November when we first turned him out, just a small turnout in the ring,” trainer Danny Eubanks said. “We have a round pen at the track that we were using. We’d been going real slow with him, took it easy jogging, easy galloping. I’ve got a really good rider, and she kept telling me this is a nice horse. Now we’re finding out, race by race, how good he is.” Majorca is one of nine older males entered in the 1 1/16-mile feature, a stiff field that should challenge handicappers in the second-to-last leg of the Philly Big 5. Parx will offer a mandatory distribution for the 50-cent jackpot wager, which will begin in the sixth race. Originally trained by Todd Pletcher, Majorca went winless in his first six starts in New York and Florida, but he got right to business off a seven-month break at Laurel. In his first start for Annette Eubanks, Dan’s mother, he kicked clear to win a $25,000 maiden-claiming race in March, giving the veteran trainer her 500th career victory. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. “I was training the horse, as well, prior” to formally switching trainers, Danny Eubanks said. “That was a horse where we were trying to get my mom to 500 wins. I didn’t want to switch anybody until I got her there.” Training Majorca under his name in two starts since, Danny Eubanks has maintained tepid expectations while pushing his gelding into allowance company. But instead of cowering against tougher rivals, he has only gotten better, all while stretching out in distance. In his first start against winners in April, he dueled early and found another gear on the far turn and won by three lengths. On the Black-Eyed Susan undercard in May, he tried 1 1/16 miles and cleared a second-level allowance field by 3 1/4 lengths, earning a career-best 87 Beyer Speed Figure. “The first one was a heck of a surprise, and I was pretty psyched on that, and they gave him a nice little speed figure,” Eubanks said. “And then he came back on [Black-Eyed Susan] Day, and they were rolling fast up front, and he was right there with them and trying for home. I saw him kick clear by about three lengths, and I was like, ‘They’re not going to catch this guy.’ ” Majorca has vied for the early lead in all three of his wins and should be prominent in the early going Monday. At 5-1 on the morning line, he will start as the third choice behind Surfside Moon, the 2-1 favorite trained by Brittany Russell. Though he finished third behind Majorca last month, he also holds a class edge, having finished in the money in the $250,000 Withers and $150,000 Federico Tesio for trainer Chuck Lawrence last year. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.