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Delaware Park will offer 116 days of live thoroughbred racing at the Stanton oval in 2010 with the meet starting on May 1 and concluding on November 6. The schedule for Delaware Park's 73rd season of exciting live racing was recently approved by the Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission.
Live racing will be held on Saturdays, Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Thursday live racing will be added from July 15th through August 26rd.
Delaware Park's premier races, the Delaware Oaks (Gr. II) and the Delaware Handicap (Gr. II), will be held on July 10 and July 17, respectively.
Delaware Park Announces 2010 Highlights,
$3.125 Million Stakes Schedule
Wilmington, Del., January 28, 2010 — Delaware Park is gearing up for the start of an action-packed live racing season with the announcement of its 2010 stakes schedule. Two premier races, the $750,000-guaranteed Grade II Delaware Handicap and the Grade II Delaware Oaks, will highlight the 22-race, $3.125 million stakes schedule this year.
The 73rd renewal of the Delaware Handicap will be run on Sat., July 17. The 1 ¼-mile classic for fillies and mares is the highlight of the Delaware Handicap Day card, which will also include the $200,000 Grade III Robert G. Dick Memorial Stakes (includes $50,000 from the B.C.) and the $100,000 R.R.M. Carpenter Jr. Memorial Stakes. Both of the supporting feature races on the Delaware Handicap Day card honor former chairmen of the Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission.
The $250,000 Delaware Handicap purse reduction allows for the addition of a pair of $125,000 stake races to be run later in the season – the Sweet & Sassy Stakes on Oct. 23 and the Brandywine Stakes on Oct. 30.
Additionally this season, the fillies will take center stage in the 59th renewal of the 1 1/16-mile $250,000 Grade II Delaware Oaks. The supporting features on the Delaware Oaks Day card are the $100,000 Barbaro Stakes and the $100,000 Sussex Stakes.
The 1 1/16-mile Barbaro Stakes honors the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner who notched his maiden victory at Delaware Park in his October 2005 career debut. The 1 1/16-mile Sussex Stakes, on the turf, is one of four stakes being brought back to the stakes schedule, which was last run in 2007.
The other three stakes brought back to the stakes schedule, which were all last run in 2008, are the 1 1/16-mile Go For Wand Stakes for 3-year-old fillies to be run on June 5, the 6-furlong Sweet and Sassy Stakes for fillies and mares, and the 1 1/16-mile Brandywine Stakes for 3-year-olds and upward.
Although both the Susan’s Girl Stakes and the Light Hearted Stakes have been dropped from the stakes program, two more stakes are scheduled to be run this year, resulting in a total of 22 stakes, compared to 20 last year.
The projected average daily overnight purse distribution is $200,000 for the 116-day season which opens on Sat., May 1 and is slated to close on Sat., November 6.
Live racing will be held on Saturdays, Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Thursday live racing will be added from July 15 through August 26.
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