Saturday’s Tax Free Shopping Distaff at Delaware Park may run through 3-time champ Galiana. If not there’s an opening for Papa’s Forest, trained by Joe Sharp.
Trainer Larry Jones brings a live pair to Saturday’s DTHA Governors Day Stakes, though Tim Ritchey’s Ain’t Got Time is favored.
Though trainer Jamie Ness split with his main owner 18 months ago, he’s back in familiar territory now: atop the Delaware Park trainer standings.
Total handle in the mid-Atlantic region fell 25 percent in August versus July, and the daily average was off by nearly five percent.
Talented You Know Too was beaten by a lung infection last out. Saturday she’ll try to make amends in the G1 Spinaway for trainer Michael Gorham.
Jockey Gabriel Saez’s career took off when he was riding at Delaware Park for trainer Larry Jones. He’s returned full circle this year, and success is following.
Mister Nofty, a 16-1 outsider, registered the first stakes win of his career in front-running fashion in yesterday’s Buddy Delp Memorial at Delaware Park.
Trainer Keith Nations was doing fine on the California fair circuit in 2013, when he decided to head East. That meant a total rebuild of his racing outfit.
A proposal to allow Delaware Park’s signal to be used in New Jersey’s exchange wagering site got a positive reception — but no action — from the Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission.
Yesterday and Today highlights the best of yesterday’s mid-Atlantic racing and looks ahead to today’s action.