Coffee Clique, Testa Rossi headline Penny Memorial

Graded stakes winners Coffee Clique (Medaglia d'Oro) and Testa Rossi (Dr

Fong) each seek to halt losing streaks in Saturday's $200,000

Dr. James

Penny Memorial H. (G3) at Parx Racing, a 1 1/16-mile grass event for fillies

and mares.

Coffee Clique, who went three-for-three in an abbreviated 2014 campaign with

wins in the Just a Game (G1) and Churchill Distaff Turf Mile (G2), has dropped

her first three outings this year. Third in the March 28 Honey Fox (G2)

following a layoff of more than nine months, she was subsequently second and

sixth, respectively, when defending her Distaff Turf Mile and Just a Game

titles.

Testa Rossi, who has not crossed the wire first since taking the 2014 Florida

Oaks (G3), was elevated to first in the January 31 Endeavour (G3), also at Tampa

Bay Downs, but was fourth in the Santa Ana (G2) and fifth in the Beaugay (G3) in

her two most recent starts for trainer Chad Brown.

Another mare with a graded win to her credit is the five-year-old Nellie

Cashman (Mineshaft), who took the 2013 Virginia Oaks (G3). Fourth in the Penny

Memorial last year, she took the $100,000 Dahlia at Pimlico in mid-April and was

most recent fifth in the $82,000 Miss Liberty at Monmouth Park.