Cibelli will have two chances in My Frenchman

Trainer Jane Cibelli will have two chances, Super Spender and Amelia’s Wild Ride, both looking to add another stakes victory to their resumes when they load side-by-side in Saturday’s $60,000 My Frenchman Stakes, going five and a half furlongs on the Monmouth Park turf.

Super Spender battled gamely down the stretch in his latest outing against allowance optional claiming rivals on June 23 at Monmouth, finishing second behind stakes victor Pool Winner. Antonio Gallardo was aboard that day and will get the call again in the My Frenchman.

“He has been doing very well,” said Cibelli. “This horse was use to breaking and taking back right away. Last race, I told Gallardo to give him a tap and get into the race more and he ran really well. I expect him to sit a little closer to the pace Saturday.”

The 5-year-old by Super Saver out of the Shawklit Won mare Annie’s Apple last found the winner’s circle in December when he rallied late to get up in time to score a neck victory in the Claiming Crown Canterbury Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

Owned by Goodwood Racing V, the gelding worked once to get ready for his next start. That breeze came on July 12 when he went four furlongs in :49 2/5 over a fast Monmouth main track.

Breaking just to the outside of Super Spender will be Amelia’s Wild Ride who enters off a 10th place in the Grade 3 Parx Dash on July 8. Abel Jimenez rode him at Parx and will be aboard again Saturday.

Prior to that start, he has hit the board in four straight races including a win in the Sunshine Millions Turf Sprint.

The 6-year-old horse by D’Wildcat won his lone graded stakes in the 2015 edition of the Grade 3 Woodford Stakes at Keeneland in gate-to-wire fashion.

“He’s another one who has been doing good,” said Cibelli. “He has a similar running style to Super Spender, but will probably be a little further back. She didn’t use too much in her last race and should run a really good race off just two weeks.”

For either one of Cibelli’s pair to get to the winners’ circle Saturday, they’ll have to take down three other stakes winner including Take Cover, for Alan Goldberg, who won last year’s Pennsylvania Governors Cup at Penn National and Everything Lovely, out of Kathleen Demasi’s barn, who scored a gate-to-wire victory in the The Very One Stakes on the Preakness undercard.