Road trip.

The weekend of Lenny continues.

Great to see a packed Parx house yesterday. Having not visited the Bensalem
facility this century, was surprised to see the large casino structure on what
used to be a vacant hill adjacent to the racetrack; always had assumed the
casino was housed in the racetrack structure.

Appreciated the free parking and lack of admission fee. Immediately found a
spot near a bank of TVs and a bevy of barmaids while I waited for the later
races.

Race 7 Another Ramsey/Maker/Kitten winner, Pa Bred Granny's Kitten. The one to
watch from this race might be I'll Call, from Carlos Martin. I'll Call set out
on the lead and continued along very well once collared by Granny. I'll Call
is winless in 2015-2016, formful now and in need of the right spot.

Race 8 Super Saver's expensive kin took this ungraded stake under confident
handling by Bejarano.

Race 9 Noholdingback Bear and Mind Your Biscuits, both out of the Kings Bishop
at the Spa, took the top two spots. NHB Bear now has a stakes win on dirt to
add to his two synthetic stake wins. Do not know if either of these two is a
BC Sprint contender.

Race 10 She's undefeated and the fans love her. The chart says she took the
lead without coaxing and drew off in handy fashion. Again.

Race 11 Its a Chad Chad World as Brownzilla captured his third stakes race in
about 90 minutes, with previous wins at Laurel and Belmont. The chart on this
one describes Connect as passing rivals on the inside, as Castellano probably
recognized that most riders were avoiding said inside all day.

Gun Runner may have hung slightly under Geroux, but I am beginning to respect
GR as one of the few consistent 3YOs in this crop; he seems to have fired in
all of his 3YO races.

The California contingent had no real impact. Cupid is apparently strictly one
dimensional; he needed to outbreak Awesome Slew and was not able to.
Exaggerator and Nyquist both no factored off questionable preparations; the
former had one workout since his Travers bust and the latter had a series of
mile long breezes after his Haskell retreat.

While wandering around the facilities, I saw Maggie Wolfendale, apparently on
loan to Parx for the big day. She was nice enough to chat with me for a minute
or two. Personable and very knowledgeable about all facets of the racing
industry, after speaking with her you hope NYRA recognizes her potential
beyond her excellent paddock skills.

Also during my wanderings through the crowd of children of all ages, I started
longing for a place to sit. Out of the corner of my eye I spotted a familiar
looking New York Giants beach chair. "No, it couldn't be" I thought to myself.
Upon closer inspection, the hand lettering on the chair said "Bill Spillane".
I plopped down in the chair and soon was joined by Uncle Bill and Rocky
(Mathcapper), who had set up a small T-generate beachhead at Parx.

Stopped for dinner at a hoagie place on the way out of town, and came close to
regurgitating said hoagie numerous times while listening to the most recent
Mets debacle on the ride home.

Since I am not a huge Derby person, best five weeks of racing coming up now:
Graded stake racing returns to Belmont for two big weekends, Keeneland and
Santa Anita open, BC on the horizon.