The Neu -Delaware -Derby emphasizes the schedule for the race of the Delaware Park Horse Racing

It is time to withdraw the curtain on 88^TH Live full blood race in Delaware Park.

On May 14th, the first of eight races that are planned at the start of 75 live racing days until October 11th, a field with nine horses will go into the post at 12.35 p.m.

Many familiar faces will return among the jockeys and coaches who are supposed to compete, but there are some schedule changes and a new operational race that should give the Stanton Oval a certain amount of excitement.

Racing plan

The race will take place weekly for most of the meeting on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, although there will be no races on May 15th.

Friday races will also take place on May 30th, June 6th and 13th and every Friday from July 4 to August 15 – two Sunday tickets – on September 14th and 28th.

The first postal period will be 12:35 on every race.

Big new race: the Delaware Derby

It will not keep up with the big one in Kentucky, but Delaware Park throws with a new race that could attract some of the horses that ran on May 3 in America's most famous races, in this case a derby – in the ring.

The first 200,000 dollar delaware derby will take place on Saturday, June 14th, as part of a card with class III, $ 300,000 Delaware Oaks, a 1 1/16 milestone test for 3-year-old Fillies, which is traditionally the second largest race on the route.

The 1 1/16 miles delayer derby could possibly attract some colts that ran in the Kentucky Derby and/or in Preakness, who was able to see a victory in Delaware as a jumping board for larger 3-year summer destinations such as Haskell-Stakes in Monmouth Park or in the Travers Stakes in Saratoga in August.

The route will have several advertising campaigns on the Delaware Derby Day, including T-shirt and hat advertising gifts, during the supplies, during the supplies, a derby and bonnet hat competition, a special cocktails in Delaware themes that are served in memorial cups, and Kids activities, including pony trips, balloon sculptures and facial leaves in Gruve.

Delaware Handicap moves to fall

The Delaware Handicap of Class III, which was traditionally managed in early July, will be controversial on Sunday, September 28th. The largest race on the route will have a wallet of 400,000 US dollars.

The Delcap was shortened for the second time in its 88-year history to 1 ° C. The race was known as a rarely long distance for stut foals and mare-in every year, but from 1951 to 2022.

The Delaware Park officers shortened the race to 1 3/16 miles two years ago and cut another 16^TH of a mile this year.

The new date and the new distance could position the Delaware Handicap as a preparatory race for the Breeders' Cup Distaffer, which is also 1 ⅛ miles and on November 1st later on November 1st in del Mar in South California.

Leading trainer returns

The race for the leading trainer can end on the opening day of the meeting.

Jamie Ness has won in the past 10 years and a total of 12 times. He entered five of the eight races on May 14th, while no other coach has occurred.

“We have been doing this for 25 years and have slowed this up,” Ness told Delaware Park Racing Information Coordinator Chris Sobocinski. “We are in a region where I have strings on several routes and can still manage properly. Delaware Park is the central place, which is why it is pretty much our home base.”

Ness has won almost 25 percent in Delaware Park in Delaware Park with an average payout of $ 5.50. Last year, his entries won for both the dirt and the lawn prices with 30 percent. He won 49 percent of cases with favorites, 23 percent with 2-year-olds, 31% with 3-year-olds and 28% with girls and applicants.

In other words, every time he sends out, pay attention.

Don't sleep on this trainer

Greg Compton does not have the sheer number of horses to compete with Ness, but he ended a career high in the Delaware Park coaching classification last year and returned to Stanton after fifth place after he returns at the ultra-competitive meeting in the Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

“We should come to Delaware with 40 to 50 horses, which we believe will help the program from top to bottom,” said Compton to Sobocinski.

Compton has the potential to have two strong entries – Kinzie Queen and G Ws girls – in the Delaware Oaks. He also trains Auto Glide, who won the 175,000 dollar battery park in Delaware Park last year in Delaware Park.

Other prominent trainers who will compete in Stanton this year are Edward Allard, Lynn Ashby, Brett Brinkman, Keri Brion, Gary Capuano, Gary Contessa, Cathal Lynch, Graham Motion, Kerri Raven, McLean Robertson, Andrew Simoff, Michael Stidham and Karin Wagner.

To see jockeys

Five of the seven top finishers in last year's Jockey classification – Jaime Rodriguez, Julio Hernandez, Carol Cedeno, Jose Batista and Daniel Centeno – are to drive at least once on the opening card.

Seeing a new driver is Martin Chuan, who ended 14^TH With 13 winners in the Oaklawn Park this spring and recently at Laurel and Penn National.

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