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Delta Form, winner of the richest race ever run in South Africa, has been purchased by Team Valor and Gary Barber to be campaigned in the United States. The 4-year-old gelding will be trained in California by Jenine Sahadi and will be pointed for the Arlington Million next summer at Arlington Park. Included in Delta Form's six victories is the Summer Handicap, which became the first race in South Africa to carry a purse of 2 million Rands when it was run Nov. 25. The gelding is scheduled to arrive In New York in January to New York, where he will be in quarantine for 60 days before going to Sahadi in California. Bred in Australia, Delta Form is by two-time leading sire Marscay (Aus) out of Arborea (Aus), winner of the One Thousand Guineas and Oaks at Victoria Racing Club...Breeders of the 2000 Breeders' Cup race winners will be honored by Breeders' Cup Ltd. and the Thoroughbred Club of America on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2001, at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky. Each winning breeder will receive a 2000 Breeders' Cup trophy at the dinner, which begins at 8:00 p.m. NTRA commissioner Tim Smith will deliver the keynote address. Co-masters of ceremonies will be Mike Battaglia, Turfway Park track announcer and NBC analyst; and John Asher, vice president-racing communications, for Churchill Downs... The California Thoroughbred Breeders Association has announced there will be 60 Cal-bred stakes races in 2001 with total purses exceeding $6.2 million, an average of more than $100,000 per race. The CTBA also announced that at the request of the organization and the Thoroughbred Owners of California, racing secretaries at Southern California tracks have agreed to increase the value of 2- and 3-year-old Cal-bred maiden $32,000 claiming races to a claiming price of $40,000. The CTBA said the increase, which takes effect beginning with the Santa Anita winter/spring meet, better addresses the increasing costs of raising a Thoroughbred and preparing it for the racetrack and is more reflective of the true value of California-breds. Also, the Cal-bred owners' bonus in open company has now been increased from 25% to 30% of the purse level on all open allowance and overnight stakes races, effective at Santa Anita and Golden Gate.

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