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Precise Performance Goes Long Again In Strong DEL Handicap
We’re back at DEL this weekend for one of the biggest races of the meet, the $500.000 DEL Handicap, for fillies and mares. When this race first appeared on the schedule in 2006, it had a $1,000.000 purse associated with it, but would lose $250.000 in 2010, and then sunk all the way to $400.000 last year, so at least we can say the purse is going in the right direction.
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Matamata Scratches Out a Hard Fought DEL Oaks Victory
A couple of scratches left us with just four horses for the DEL Oaks, and in a close race on a track listed as good, it would be Matamata picking up the win for Smokey Stover.
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Letters By The Way Wins Kent Stakes in Dominant Fashion
This April, Wood Duck Stables moved Letters By The Bay back to the turf, a surface he only had one career start on, a race he had won. It has certainly proven to be the right decision, as this horse is now a perfect 4-for-4 while running on the grass.
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Saturday Khartoum Gets It Done Again, Wins Foster
At eight years old, Saturday Khartoum would have an excuse if his form started to decline, but that isn’t anywhere close to happening right now. In the Foster Handicap, which was the 41st start of his career, this gelding came from off the pace to beat a strong field at the Grade 2 Foster.
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Field of Six for Kent Stakes
Part of the action at DEL on Saturday will be the 17th running of the Kent Stakes, a Grade 3 event for three olds on the turf. It is a race that was once held in much higher regard, going for a $500.000 purse for it’s first two years, but then the reductions began happening. The low point would be $150.000.
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Sister Crespi the Likely Favorite in DEL Oaks
This Saturday, we get to enjoy some racing from DEL as a field of six fillies goes to post for the 17th running of the DEL Oaks. This has never been a race to attract a large field for some reason, as in checking the field sizes for the last ten years, either five or six horses were entered.
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Time for a Gold Cup Rematch in Foster
Some of the top older horses in the game are headed to CD this weekend for the 20th running of the Foster. Valuable points for the BC Classic are available for the top four finishers, and looking to pick up the winner’s share again will be Charleys Latte.
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Wood Duck Stables Raises the Bar in Soggy Crowd Pleaser
It was a rainy day in the northeast today, and PRX would not be spared from mother nature. The wet weather left the turf course as soft. That would be great news for the longest shot on the board, Barr, as the gelding would go off at odds of nearly 11/1.
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Let’s Give Tellcharlieitsforyou The Wild Applause
None of the horses in the Wild Applause had a resume that made them stand out over any of the other ones. It was a field of six hopefuls looking to advance their career. Tellcharlieitsforyou had hit the board in each of her six starts, and came out of an allowance with a higher purse than this race.
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It’s A Dead Heat in The Mother Goose
While the headliner for the race would be Exactly, the KYO winner, it would be the two that started on each side of her in the gate that would steal the show from her as Venezia and Ask Forfree Delivery would finish in a dead heat.
