Girl Trouble won three of six starts as a two-year-old, as well as her three-year-old debut in the January 3 Parx Futurity, before tasting defeat in her last two outings. She is the 8-5 morning line favorite.

Girl Trouble, by Grade 1-placed sprinter Fast Anna, was beaten 2 ½ lengths when third as the favorite in her prior start, the one-mile, 70-yard Main Line March 6 over her home track of Parx, just a nose out of second. Under jockey Paco Lopez, they broke from the rail and raced in tight quarters behind horses early before being tipped outside in the stretch.

“I wasn’t real satisfied with the ride that the jock gave her last time but we talked about it and he actually apologized for it,” trainer Robert E. ‘Butch’ Reid Jr. said. “I thought she should have been on the lead in that race and he kind of took her back off a real slow pace and once he started to let her run she got in a little bit of a jackpot. Not taking anything away from the winner, but I think we would have been a lot closer with a better trip.”

The New Jersey-bred Girl Trouble has never finished worse than third in nine career starts, four of them wins, including three straight from November to January capped by the six-furlong Future Stars Filly and seven-furlong Parx Juvenile. Favored in each of her last five races, she ran second to Interpolate in the Feb. 5 Ruthless at Aqueduct.

“She doesn’t run a bad one, and at all different distances, too. I’m still not sure she’s a dyed-in-the-wool route of ground horse. She maybe more middle distance, seven-eighths to a flat mile, but we’re going to go ahead and take our chances here. She certainly did well enough last time to go ahead and give her another opportunity,” Reid said.

Lopez gets the return call from Post 3.

Bred in New Jersey by Gregory J. Kilka and Bright View Farm, Girl Trouble is out of the unraced Ghostzapper mare Adorabella. She was a $15,000 purchase at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall yearling sale in Timonium.

“She’s a real solid filly,” Reid said. “We went to the sales looking for what we thought would be a solid Jersey-bred, so she’s outraced any expectations we’ve had for her so far.”