Guanare, a winner of three straight races at Aqueduct and Laurel Park, headlines Tuesday’s $75,000 City of Brotherly Love Stakes at Parx Racing. The City of Brotherly Love, for three-year-olds, is one of two added-money events on the card as Parx kicks off its 2024 stakes action.

The Main Line, for three-year-old fillies, and City of Brotherly Love are carded as the eighth and ninth races on a 10-race program. Post time for the first is 12:05 p.m.

Guanare, trained in New York by Rick Dutrow, has won three straight since losing in his first career race. After graduating in maiden claiming company, he easily bested starter allowance foes before cruising to a nearly-three-length win in the Spectacular Bid Stakes at Laurel Park.

In that race, which scratched down to three, Guanare, a Runhappy colt owned by P & G Stables LLC, went off at odds of 3-10 and gradually pulled away in the lane to defeat two-time stakes winner Sweet Soddy J.

Romero Maragh has the return mount on a horse who is 8-5 on the morning ilne.

While the field also includes the top three from a local February allowance – Just Step On It, Le Vin, and Lonesome Boy – one other runner of note is Pennsylvania Nursery winner Capo (6-1), owned and trained by Jacinto Solis. Solis claimed the Peace and Justice gelding out of his maiden win, against $20,000 rivals at Churchill Downs, last November.

In the Nursery, he stalked the pace before wearing down leader Twilight Dancer to win by a nose, with the runner-up nearly three clear of the rest. The fifth-place finisher that day, Uncle Heavy, returned to win the Wait for It Stakes over the Parx strip in late December before pulling a 9-1 upset in the Grade 3 Withers that has him in the hunt for a spot in the Kentucky Derby.

Though his last, in allowance company, was disappointing, there’s still plenty of room for improvement. Kendrick Carmouche, who has just two mounts on the card, has the return engagement.

American War Hero (9-2) and Facenda (6-1) are scratched.

Carmouche’s other mount comes one race prior, in the Main Line. He’ll ride morning line favorite Experimental (5-2), trained by Chad Brown for Klaravich Stables. A Practical Joke filly, she graduated last time out at second asking in the snow at Aqueduct.

Second favorite Aoife’s Magic (7-2) ran March 2 in the Busher and is scratched here. So, too, is Phabulous Phoebe (5-1).

Trainer Butch Reid has an intriguing pair in this spot. Kiss for Luck (9-2) won an allowance last out for her second career victory. She’s a half-sister to 2020 champion two-year-old filly Vequist and will have Abner Adorno up. And Mychel Sanchez will ride Cash Is King and LC Racing’s Jeanne Marie (8-1), who won at second asking but has not raced since July.

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