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Crafty Bear Lumbers Home in Miracle Wood

Crafty Bear, the longest shot in a four-horse field, motored up the rail and won $50,900 Miracle Wood Stakes for 3-year-olds Saturday afternoon at Laurel Park.

 Saturday, February 03, 2007

Cleve Delp Saddles First Winner at Laurel

Three weeks after cancer claimed his father, Cleve Delp saddled his first winner as trainer of record when Glenwood Ace ($5.80) won Laurel Park's second race. The 3-year-old gelding wired the field to win an $18,000 claimer by 9 ¾ lengths.

 Friday, January 19, 2007

Heart Throbbin' Wins Dancing Count; Delp's Crafty Bear 3rd

One & Won Stable's Heart Throbbin' was claimed for $40,000 in September by trainer King Leatherbury. Monday, he paid back his connections in full on the opening day of the 75-day winter meeting when he won the $63,200 Dancing Count Stakes for newly minted three-year-olds at muddy Laurel Park.

 Monday, January 01, 2007

Hall of Fame Trainer Bud Delp Dies

Hall of Fame trainer Grover G. "Bud" Delp, conditioner of the three-time champion Spectacular Bid, died Friday night at his Ellicott City home due to cancer. He was 74.

 Saturday, December 30, 2006

Delp Recovering at Home After Triple Bypass

Hall of Fame trainer Bud Delp is at his home in Ellicott City, Md., recovering from triple bypass surgery he underwent one week ago.

 Friday, August 06, 2004

Bud Delp, Ronny Franklin Look Back on 'The Bid'

Trainer Grover "Bud" Delp and jockey Ron Franklin looked back on the silver anniversary of Spectacular Bid's victory in the 1979 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) at Churchill Downs Sunday afternoon.

 Sunday, April 25, 2004

Honest Bronze Abe Takes Conniver Stakes

Bronze Abe won the $75,000 Conniver Stakes at Laurel Park Sunday, but runner-up Search For A Cure made the 4-year-old gray mare really work for it. The victory was the fifth added money win for the daughter of Two Punch.

 Sunday, March 07, 2004

Bronze Abe Shines in What A Summer Stakes

The hard-knocking gray mare Bronze Abe bounced to the lead and battled head-to-head almost to the finish line to win the $73,500 What A Summer Stakes Saturday at Laurel Park, marking the fourth straight year the daughter of Two Punch has won an added money race in Maryland.

 Saturday, January 17, 2004

Bronze Abe Battles to Skipat Victory

Samuel F. Bayard's Bronze Abe raced tenaciously from start to finishe to win the $75,000 Skipat Stakes over seven filly and mare rivals Saturday at Pimlico.

 Saturday, May 31, 2003

Include Takes On Gander at Meadowlands

Include will be back at Meadowlands Friday night for another shot at the Meadowlands Cup (gr. II), a race that eluded him last year, when he came up two necks short of the top prize as the odds-on favorite.

 Wednesday, October 02, 2002

Pino Edges Closer to Career Win 5,000

Mario Pino's quest for 5,000 career victories reached single digits when the veteran jockey rode two winners on Thursday's card at Laurel Park, giving him 4,991.

 Thursday, August 22, 2002

Still Budding

Grover "Bud" Delp has made his own way in the Thoroughbred business. His path--from Maryland, to stardom, to the New Orleans-Chicago circuit, and back to Maryland--has led him to racing's pinnacle: the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

 Monday, August 05, 2002

Include to Return in Meadowlands Cup

Friday night's $500,000 Meadowlands Cup (gr. II) is expected to draw a field of five to seven horses with a list of solid credentials for the mile and an eighth test. The one with the most impressive resume is Robert Meyerhoff's Include.

 Wednesday, September 26, 2001