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Florent Geroux did not ride very much on Sunday and Monday of Fourth of July weekend but he made the most of his time.After winning the Grade 1, $300,000 United Nations with World Approval on Sunday at Monmouth Park in his lone start of the day, Geroux traveled Monday to Parx Racing, where he won the Grade 3, $200,000 Dr. James Penny Memorial on Zipessa for trainer Michael Stidham. In his only other Monday mount, Geroux finished second in a $25,000 maiden-claiming race at Parx.Mondays trip to Parx, was Gerouxs first since last September, when he won the Grade 1, $1 million Cotillion on Im a Chatterbox.Geroux put Zipessa on the lead while keeping a tight hold in the Penny Memorial, a 1-1/16-mile turf race for fillies and mares. Zipessa set comfortable fractions of 24.37, 48.72, and 1:12.36 on an open advantage over the firm course, then was not seriously challenged in the stretch while picking up the pace to score by two lengths over 2-1 second choice Tuttipaesi.Zipessa was timed for a mile in 1:35.62 and came home in 5.80 seconds to complete the distance in 1:41.42. The victory was the fourth from seven starts for Zipessa, a 4-year-old daughter of City Zip, and her first stakes win. She paid $7.20 as the third betting choice in the seven-horse field. She more than doubled her career earnings to $227,850.Tuttipaesi was restrained early and was a bit keen on the backstretch. She stayed to the inside into the stretch and finished well. It was 1-1/4 lengths back to Tiger Ride in third.Tammy the Torpedo, the 17-10 favorite, stalked Zipessa to the stretch but lacked a closing response and was nipped for third by a neck by Tiger Ride. Mike Quick Womens Jersey . 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Now, in order to keep pace in the National League wild card race, the Mets will need one of their increasing number of rookie starters to outperform a Washington Nationals veteran.The Mets will host the Nationals in the second game of a three-game series Saturday night at Citi Field. Washington won the opener, when its own rookie starter, A.J. Cole, earned his first career win by tossing six solid innings in a 4-1 victory over New York and All-Star right-hander Noah Syndergaard.The Mets (69-66), who remained two games behind the St. Louis Cardinals in the race for the second NL wild card by virtue of the Cardinals 3-2 loss to the Cincinnati Reds, are scheduled to send rookie right-hander Robert Gsellman to the mound Saturday night.Gsellman, who lost his first major league start last Sunday after he gave up four runs in six-plus innings in a 5-1 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies, has a simple yet imposing task in his second start: Be as good or better than Nationals right-hander Tanner Roark, who ranks seventh in the NL in ERA with a 2.87 mark.Roark earned the win in his most recent start last Monday, when he tossed seven scoreless innings in a 4-0 victory over the Phillies. He has given up one run or fewer in five of his nine starts since the Alll-Star Break.ddddddddddddRight behind Roark on the NL ERA leaderboard is teammate Max Scherzer (2.89 ERA), who is scheduled to start Sunday nights series finale against another Mets rookie right-hander, Seth Lugo.But Gsellman and Lugo have combined to go 3-2 with a 2.96 ERA in their last five appearances (four starts) dating back to Aug. 19, which has Mets manager Terry Collins confident they are up to the task of keeping New York in the race.Theyre not afraid, theyre not intimidated by the situation, Collins said Wednesday. The only way youre going to learn how to get through this is to be in it, and we plan on being in it for a long time. So its nice to have guys with that experience.The Nationals (79-55), who are cruising to October with a season-high 10 1/2-game lead over the Mets in the NL East, are developing pitchers in a pennant race too. Cole was assisted Friday night by fellow rookie right-hander Koda Glover, who preserved what was then a 2-1 lead by striking out Jose Reyes to strand two runners on in the seventh before retiring both batters he faced in the eighth.Weve got a ways to go and the pressure cookers about to mount, Nationals manager Dusty Baker said. So well see. You keep doing the job and well keep putting you out there. ' ' '