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Songbird Captures Cotillion, Collect Wins PA Derby at Parx
Story, photos by Lou Perri Parx Racing featured The Cotillion, a race featuring top fillies including Songbird, winner of her first 10 starts, and Cathryn Sophoa, who won her first Stakes race by 16 lengths, and the Pennsylvania Derby, in which winner of the Kentucky Derby, Myquist, and of the Preakness, Exaggeration, were featured. In the Cotillion, Songbird, owned by Wilmington native, Rick Porter, a car dealership, continued her winning streak, beating Cathryn Sophia, by almost six lengths, and Carina Mia by another six lengths. In the Derby, 12-1 Connect connected to take the Derby for owner Paul Pompo, of Warren, New Jersey, and owner of a Brooklyn-based trucking business, and trained…