PACK PLAYS, the speedy American sitting second on the list of local-based runners vying for nine Mouttet Mile spots following defending champion RIDEALLDAY’s win-and-you’re-in victory in April’s Ian Levy Cup, gets a sitter in Saturday’s Viceroy Trophy being run at five and a half furlongs instead of the usual mile and an eighth.

PACK PLAYS won two early season races, January’s Eileen Cliggott Memorial and February’s Chairman’s Trophy — six and a half, and seven and a half furlongs, respectively — jumping to 120 points, to which he added 30 by finishing second to December’s Mouttet Mile runner-up, LEGACY ISLE, in last month’s Reggae Trophy at five furlongs straight.

Only GIRVANO, 160 from six starts, has more qualifying points than five-year-old PACK PLAYS, who has never won farther than seven and a half furlongs but factored in the pace of the last two Mouttet Mile events before weakening inside the last furlong.