Victory Way Leads Smarty Jones Field

[Wandering Eyes]

Wygod Equine's Victory Way (City of Light) leads a nine-horse field in Parx's Tuesday feature, the GIII Smarty Jones S. A winner of two of his three starts, the homebred's only defeat came in when narrowly third in the seven furlong GIII Bayshore S. at Aqueduct Apr. 8.

To get the win, the Bill Mott trainee will have to take on another homebred in Salute the Stars (Candy Ride {Arg}) for Gary and Mary West. Riding a three-race win streak, including the Pegasus S. at Monmouth at this distance over GII Louisiana Derby winner Kingsbarns (Uncle Mo), he ran out of gas in the step up in class when seventh last out in the GI TVG.com Haskell S.

Another lightly-raced entry is Army Times (Into Mischief) for Peter Brant and trainer Chad Brown. Entered off a 6 1/4-length win facing allowance horses at Monmouth July 22, he steps up into graded-stakes company for the first time Tuesday.

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