Ben's Cat wins third consecutive Parx Dash

Tightend Touchdown got shuffled back a little on the far turn as Sharp

Sensation seized control on the outside, completing the half-mile in :44 2/5,

but the latter could not sustain the advantage for long. Bold Thunder moved

forward to stick a head in front in the stretch drive, but Tightend Touchdown

was prominent again and accelerating toward the front after turning for home.

Marchman also loomed a danger in midstretch as he advanced to challenge, and

Ben's Cat was cranking up his rally on the far outside.

The outcome was in doubt until the final strides. Ben's Cat kept finding more

to prevail in heroic fashion, surging late to just get up on the wire, and the

hard-knocking veteran stopped the teletimer in :56 3/5 on the firm turf.

Sent off the 5-2 third choice, the winner paid $7.40.

Tightend Touchdown just missed as the 5-2 favorite, and 5-2 second choice

Marchman was extremely game as well. It was a 1 1/2-length gap back to Bold

Thunder in fourth, and Sharp Sensation, Stormofthecentury, Mongolian Saturday,

This Ain't No Bull and Atlantic Seaboard completed the order of finish. Quality

Lass was scratched.

Owned and bred in Maryland by Leatherbury, Ben's Cat rates a legendary turf

sprinter. He's been campaigned mostly at Midlantic tracks, compiling seven

stakes wins at both Laurel and Pimlico, five stakes victories at Parx and three at

Penn National. That includes four Grade 3 victories.

By Parker's Storm Cat, Ben's Cat is out of the multiple stakes-placed Thirty

Eight Paces mare Twofox, who is a full sister to Grade 2 queen Thirty Eight Go

Go and a half-sister to Grade 3 winner Notches Trace. Also in the family are

Grade 3 scorers Ah Day and Laser Lane.

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