This week’s On Tap features four graded events, including the second-biggest races from Delaware and Monmouth, and two Top Midlantic-bred Poll runners.
Trainer Chuck Lawrence has dreamed of winning the G2 Delaware Oaks. Saturday he’ll try to spread some Pixie Dust over the weekend feature.
Claiming activity dropped substantially, plus the Midlantic Claiming 7, in our Claimbox report.
Joint Return is the lukewarm 5-2 favorite in Saturday’s Grade 2 Delaware Oaks, which has drawn four from the Black-Eyed Susan, including runner-up Vero Amore.
An accomplished group of sophomore sprinters will tackle Delaware Park’s Oh Say Stakes on Saturday on the Delaware Oaks undercard.
Vegas No Show, a two-time stake winner in 2013, is the morning line favorite for Saturday’s Carl Hanford Memorial Stakes in the four year-old’s 2014 debut.
A full field is slated to run in Saturday’s Robert Dick Memorial at Delaware Park, and Graham Motion will have two shots at a seventh win in the event.
Stake winners and top Midlantic-breds, in our weekend RaceBrief.
Delaware Park starter Bobby Syndor has 42 years of experience on the gate crew. Yet he says he’s still learning every day, which may be why he’s succeeded.
Rodney Dangerfield said that he went to a fight and a hockey game broke out. Replace “hockey game” with “horse race,” and you have the week in horse racing.