Chester, PA — The 2-year-olds were out in force during a Tuesday morning (June 15) qualifying session at Harrah’s Philadelphia, but a pair of impressive 3-year-olds showed them what they may eventually be aiming for.

Test Of Faith, the 3-year-old Art Major filly who was the fastest 2-year-old in 2020 with a 1:48.4 mile, was a handy winner here in 1:56.1, coming home in :27.4 for driver David Miller, trainer Brett Pelling, and owners Melvin Segal, Kentuckiana Racing Stable, and Eddie Gran. A winner of eight of nine as a freshman, Test Of Faith won her only start in 2021 with an impressive 1:52.1 clocking at Saratoga.

Another top Pelling 3-year-old is Whichwaytothebeach, winner of all four 2021 starts including two PA Stallion Series races and a Reynolds cut, who came home in :55.4-:27.1 for a 1:54 mile. A three-quarter brother to the fast Captain Barbossa, Whichwaytothebeach was guided by Andrew McCarthy for Alan Johnston and John Craig.

Among the 2-year-olds, the fastest miles for pacers of each sex came in the “daily double.”

Quickest of all was the Sweet Lou–Beach Showoff filly Showmeursweetside, who came her own last half uncovered in :56.3-:27.4 to freeze the timer in 1:55.4 for driver Dexter Dunn and trainer Chris Ryder, the latter co-owner with Robert Mondillo and Barry Spak. This filly certainly has a strong maternal side from which to draw as her dam was the first foal of $2.4 million-winner and world champion Put On A Show.

A race earlier, the Sportswriter–Planet Ocean gelding Camealongway lived up to his name, coming from six lengths back at the three-quarters to get the win in 1:56.3, his own last quarter in :27. David Miller drove the Casie Coleman Herlihy miss for West Wins Stable.

Among the trotters, the most advanced was the Bar Hopping–Winbak Maya colt Whiskey Hanover, who crushed his opposition by 19 lengths in 1:59.3, with twin :29.1s on the end for trainer Julie and driver Andy Miller, and the partnership of Andy Miller Stable Inc., Richard Gutnick, Let It Ride Stables Inc., and T L P Stable.

All of the 2-year-olds were making their racetrack debuts.