Next up is a low-priced favourite in the Greenwood Cup

Anna Thorpedo The 3-year-old mare leader and expected heavy favorite in the $1 million Cotillion Stakes (G1) at Parx Racingwon’t be the only low-priced public option taking place on September 21 at the Bensalem, Pa. racetrack.

Dirt Marathon Expert Next is priced even lower in the $200,000 1 1/2-mile Greenwood Cup (G3) on dirt. The winner of 25 Greenwood Cup races last year, Next has won six straight races, including the four-horse Birdstone Stakes at Saratoga Race Track by 22 1/4 lengths at odds of 1-20 on August 4.

Parx Racing somehow managed to find nine competitors to enter the Greenwood Cup and run against him, although scratches could knock some of them out of the race. Some of them have entered, such as Suigo StarThe fifth-place finisher for the $5,000 prize two starts ago appears to have been beaten.

Even proven, ranked racehorses are often outpaced by Next, who hasn’t lost since the spring of 2023. Doug Cowans trains the 6-year-old colt of Not this time to owner Michael Foster, who claimed him for $62,500 in April 2022. He has had 9 of 11 since then.

Magic Michael , Great Vernon And Truculent leading the opposition in the Greenwood Cup.

Foster, Cowans enjoy claiming success with ban

Foster and Cowans run another horse in the race following the Greenwood Cup, the $300,000 Parx Dirt Mile, which Ban is their representative. In two starts since being selected from an $80,000 option grant claimant on Kentucky Oaks Day at Churchill DownsHe won the Michael G. Schaefer Memorial Award at the Indianapolis Horseshoe and ran second to RA “Cowboy” Jones at Ellis Park.

Edgar Morales is on board.

Repo Rocks , Adero , Coastal Mission And Movie star are the other competitors in the one mile race competing around two corners.

Turf Monster Over Pulled

The $250,000 Turf Monster Stakes (G3T) has attracted an oversubscribed crowd for a five-furlong race on the turf despite criticism of the track this summer led by Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Association president Bob Hutt and a suspension of racing on it from late August until this week. A review of the track by the Department of Horse Racing Safety and Integrity and other officials earlier this month noted that the depressions had been filled with growing medium, even though the track was “significantly lacking in moisture” at the time. Track officials attributed this to the track’s irrigation system being broken at the time. Parx officials told HISA that the track was back in operation on September 4 and the track has been aerated.

Top entries include Soup Mission , Jean Valjean And Register who won the Parx Dash on August 24, but was marred by a major Causes Trouble incident.