In notching his 11th victory of the year in the $75,000 Let’s Give Thanks Stakes at Parx on Wednesday, Spikezone passed Tennessee Moon in the race for North America’s “winningest” horse of 2024. Trained by Jamie Ness, speedy Spikezone immediately went to the lead under jockey Mychel Sanchez and set an opening fraction of 22.77 seconds while clear of the field. Racing in the two-path on the turn, Spikezone was confronted by a rail-skimming One More Scoop after a half-mile clocking of 45.76. One More Scoop was briefly placed in tight quarters turning into the stretch, and rallied gamely up the fence, but couldn’t get to Spikezone, who completed the 6 1/2 furlongs over fast going in 1:17.08. One More Scoop finished a length behind with Capo three back in third. Witty, Debit Card, Veeson, and Depoli completed the order of finish. :: Bet the races with a $200 First Deposit Match + FREE All Access PPs! Join DRF Bets. Angkor and Windsor Gold scratched. A claim of foul by Andrew Wolfsont, the rider of One More Scoop, against Sanchez for interference at the top of the stretch was not allowed by the stewards. Odds-on favorite Spikezone returned $2.80 as he earned his sixth consecutive win. This year, the 5-year-old Speightster gelding won 11 of 14 starts. Overall, he boasts 14 wins for lifetime earnings of $481,422. Bred in Florida by Bishop Racing, Spikezone is owned by Troy Johnson, Charles Lo, and Ness’s Jagger Inc. A $2,500 short yearling, Spikezone was purchased for $19,000 as a yearling, and has made 23 of his 24 starts for Ness. Claimed away from the barn for $50,000 out of a winning effort at Parx on Nov. 16, 2022, he was reclaimed for $40,000 twenty-seven days later. “We got him since he was a baby,” Ness told Daily Racing Form earlier in the week. “He had some injuries. He’s a super-fast horse and runs the turns well.” Discussing the winning streak, Ness noted that Spikezone was “eligible for a lot of starters and stuff like that, so we’ve been able to spot him really good,” The Let’s Give Thanks was Spikezone’s first stakes appearance. Crab Daddy rallies to take Pennsylvania Nursery Crab Daddy took advantage of a pace collapse and a ground-saving ride from Ruben Silvera to upset the $100,000 Pennsylvania Nursery for 2-year-old statebreds at seven furlongs. Based in Maryland with trainer Linda Albert, Crab Daddy finished second at 45-1 odds in his career debut when protected for the waiver exception in a maiden race at Laurel on Nov. 9. On paper, Crab Daddy faced a tall task with The Boy’s Warrior, unbeaten from three starts including two Pennsylvania-bred stakes, a prohibitive favorite. The Boy’s Warrior didn’t break very well from his rail draw and rushed up under jockey Frankie Pennington to set swift fractions of 22.58 and 45.46 seconds while pushed from the outside by Crab Daddy. For a brief instant on the turn, it appeared Crab Daddy was done as Baby Dukes loomed outside the favorite. Those two engaged in a heated head-to-head battle to the sixteenth pole before Crab Daddy re-rallied along the inside to win by 3 3/4 lengths over The Boy’s Warrior with Baby Dukes another nose back in third. Next came Ballad of Warrior and first-time starter Byrde of War. Reelin N Dealin scratched. Crab Daddy stopped the clock in 1:25.15 and returned $27 as the third choice in the wagering. A homebred owned by Brian Schartz, Crab Daddy is by Uncle Lino from the family of multiple Grade 1-winning dirt sprinter Silver Wagon. :: Bet with the Best! Get FREE All-Access PPs and Weekly Cashback when you wager on DRF Bets. Warrior Johny takes Turkey Trot A little class relief went a long way for odds-on favorite Warrior Johny in the $75,000 Turkey Trot Stakes for 3-year-olds and upward at one mile 70 yards. After rolling through his third-level allowance condition at Saratoga during the summer, trainer Phil Bauer tried the big boys with his 5-year-old gelded son of Cairo Prince with mediocre results. A ninth-place finish in the Grade 1 Whitney was followed by a fifth-place try in the Grade 2 Charles Town Classic, and another fifth in the Grade 2 Lukas Classic at Churchill Downs. “A horse like him, at some point you get to feeling sorry for them,” Bauer told Daily Racing Form earlier this week. “They’re running their races, they’re trying hard, but trying to find them a winning spot is hard to do.” Warrior Johny prepped by finishing fourth in a high-level allowance on turf at Churchill earlier in the month, but finally found his winning spot in the Turkey Trot. Piloted by Jaime Torres, he saved ground in midpack as Concealed Carry and Movisitor set fractions of 23.22 and 46.69 seconds. Torres angled Warrior Johny to the outside on the backstretch, and commenced a three-wide sweeping bid to confront Concealed Carry after a six-furlong clocking of 1:11.85. Locally based Concealed Carry tried hard, but Warrior Johny had too much momentum under the wire, prevailing by 2 3/4 lengths in 1:37.83. Concealed Carry was another seven lengths ahead of third-place runner Ninetyprcentmaddie. Then came Supreme Being, Eloquist, and Movisitor. Irish Cork unseated jockey Pennington on the track. Both horse and rider appeared uninjured. Seven’s Eleven scratched. Warrior Johny returned $3.20 in notching his fifth victory. Bred by Mr. and Mrs. William Pape, Warrior Johny sold for $30,000 as a short yearling, went for $200,000 eight months later, then was a $290,000 buyback as a 2-year-old in training. A half-brother to Grade 2-placed dirt sprinter Los Ojitos and stakes-placed dirt sprinter Lucky Girasol, Warrior Johny is out of Grade 3-placed synthetic router Warrior Girl. Warrior Johny has banked $534,528. Beach Daze upsets Cornucopia Beach Daze pulled off an upset with a stalk-and-pounce effort in the $75,000 Cornucopia for fillies and mares at 6 1/2 furlongs. Ridden by Adam Bowman for trainer Farrel Mann, Beach Daze settled three wide as Talk to the Judge set fractions of 22.95 and 46.65 seconds, while prompted from the outside by favored Speedy Traveler. Speedy Traveler loomed briefly in between rivals, but Bowman had Beach Daze in full flight, and they surged passed the two pacesetters in upper stretch before holding off Confirmed Star’s determined late charge by 1 1/4 lengths in 1:17.75. Speedy Traveler was another three-quarters behind in third. Then came Early Edition and Talk to the Judge. Bourbon Bon Bay, Snow Lake, Disco Ebo ,and Patty Brown Eyes scratched. Beach Daze returned $22.60 to win. Bred in New Jersey by Lenny and Beth Rera, Beach Daze is owned by All in Racing Stables and J P S Stable. The 5-year-old mare by Blofeld was claimed by those connections for $10,000 out of her second lifetime start, a runner-up effort in a dime maiden claimer at Parx on Nov. 15, 2021. Beach Daze was stakes-placed at Parx in 2022, captured the statebred Smart N Classy at Monmouth last year, and had placed in two stakes races earlier this year. She has won 8 of 30 starts for career earnings of $436,260. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.