Bensalem, PA – Pennsylvania-bred Fenton Forever made his career debut a winning one on Monday with a bold front-running victory under Jorge Vargas, Jr. for trainer Tyler Servis. The victory was an emotional one for the team behind the promising colt.
A homebred for Desmond Wynter’s Wynter Racing, the two-year-old son of Pat on the Back is named in honor of John Fenton, a mainstay on the Parx backstretch community who passed away in June of 2021. The colt is also a half-brother to stakes-placed Gray Lightning.
“I am very proud of the horse and even happier for the ownership,” said Tyler Servis. “He is still a little green but was very impressive first time going one mile and a sixteenth. Most likely we will point for the PA-bred/PA-sired stakes race in December but we will let him tell us if he is ready for that.”
On Tuesday at Parx, trainer Jamie Ness extended his lead in the trainer standings with three wins on the ten-race card. He teamed up with leading jockey Mychel Sanchez to win the fifth race with Time to Cruise and then took the eighth race with Paco Lopez and Get Set. In the ninth race, veteran eight-year-old gelding It’s Game Time notched his eighteenth career victory with Frankie Pennington in the irons.
Ness also captured Wednesday’s featured allowance/optional claiming race with Irish Exit. The five-year-old son of Run Away and Hide dueled on the lead before pulling away to earn his twelfth career victory under Reuben Silvera.
The win was the second of four winners on the day for Silvera who won the opener aboard Khozy Colby for Daniel Velazquez, the seventh race aboard Kakao for Angel Sanchez-Pinero and teamed up again with Ness to take the finale with Nifty.
Through Wednesday’s card, Ness tops the trainer standings with 142 wins.
There will be a mandatory distribution of the Philly Big 5 on Wednesday, November 27. The sequence will include the last five races on the card.