| Date | Race | Purse | Age/Sex | Dist | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | |||||
| Stanton S. | $50,000g | 3yos | 8.5f T | Details | |
| Obeah S. | $100,000g | 3&up, f/m | 9f | Details | |
| Christiana S. | $50,000g | 3yos, Fillies | 8.5f T | Details | |
| Light Hearted S. | $50,000g | 3yos, Fillies | 8.32f | Details | |
| July 2017 | |||||
| Robert G. Dick Memorial S. (G3T) | $200,000g | 3&up, f/m | 11f T | Details | |
| Dashing Beauty S. | $50,000g | 3&up, f/m | 6f | Details | |
| Cape Henlopen S. | $50,000g | 3&up | 12f T | Details | |
| Delaware Oaks (G3) | $300,000g | 3yos, Fillies | 8.5f | Details | |
| Carl Hanford Memorial S. | $50,000g | 3&up | 8.5f | Details | |
| Hockessin S. | $50,000g | 3&up | 6f | Details | |
| Kent S. (G3T) | $200,000g | 3yos | 9f T | Details | |
| Delaware H. (G1) | $750,000g | 3&up, f/m | 10f | Details | |
| August 2017 | |||||
| White Clay Creek S. | $50,000g | 2 yo, Fillies | 5.5f | Details | |
| Strike Your Colors S. | $50,000g | 2 yo | 5.5f | Details | |
| September 2017 | |||||
| DTHA Governor's Day H | $75,000 | 3&up, | 8.32f | ||
| First State Dash | $75,000 | 2yo, | 5.5f | ||
| George Rosenberger Memorial S | $75,000 | 3&up, f/m | 8.5f T | ||
| New Castle S | $100,000 | 3&up, | 6f | ||
| Small Wonder S | $75,000 | 2yo, f | 5.5f | ||
| Tax Free Shopping Distaff | $100,000 | 3&up, f/m | 6f | ||
Take Charge Indy, the 2012 Florida Derby winner, can boast his first black-type winner after the Kelly Breen-trained Take Charge Paula survived a speed duel and drew off to win the White Clay Creek Stakes at Delaware Park Aug. 9.
Buffum. Bridgetown get first winners on debut at Delaware Park and Fingers Lakes Aug. 9. Buff's in Love and Lover's Leap also were the first starters for the sires.
Green Lantern Stables' Frostmourne broke through for his first graded win in the June 3 Penn Mile Stakes (G2T) and put in a repeat performance July 15 in the $200,000 Kent Stakes (G3T) at Delaware Park.
The champion daughter of Medaglia d'Oro came and conquered July 15 at Delaware Park, where she claimed the $750,000 Delaware Handicap (G1) for Delaware native Rick Porter of Fox Hill Farms and Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer.
When Mike Smith hangs up his tack for the final time, many fans will remember him as racing's "ladies' man."
Frostmourne will stretch out to 1 1/8 miles for the first time when he again faces other 3-year-olds on the turf in the $200,000 Kent Stakes (G3T) July 15 at Delaware Park.
For owner Rick Porter, a victory in the $750,000 Delaware Handicap (G1) would mean a lot as the big race at his local track. On July 15 he will send out two-time champion Songbird in an effort to land the $750,000 race for fillies and mares.
West Coast shipper It Tiz Well found her way back to the winner's circle July 8 when she held on to take the $300,000 Delaware Oaks (G3) as the odds-on favorite.
Merry Fox Stables homebred Guilty Twelve put in a sustained stretch drive to nip favored Zipessa in the $200,000 Robert G. Dick Memorial Stakes (G3T).
Southern California-based It Tiz Well will travel east for the $300,000 Delaware Oaks (G3) July 8 at Delaware Park, a 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-old fillies that also has attracted recent Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (G2) winner Actress.
Zipessa will be seeking her first victory of season and try to end a five-race skid dating back to last season when the 5-year-old daughter of City Zip starts in the $200,000 Robert G. Dick Memorial Stakes (G3T) at Delaware Park July 8.
Pennsylvania freshman sire El Padrino's first starter became his first winner June 8 at Delaware Park, where longshot Whereshetoldmetogo rallied in the stretch to win by 2 1/2 lengths.
Delaware Park, a bucolic race course steeped in racing history but an operation battling stiff competition from other Mid-Atlantic region tracks, begins its 80th season of racing with a 10-race program June 3.
Delaware Park has canceled live racing for Aug. 13 because of excessive heat in the Wilmington, Del., area.
Longtime race caller Tony Bentley will take the mike in the announcer's booth at Suffolk Downs when live racing returns to the East Boston, Mass., racetrack Aug. 6-7.
An excessive heat warning from the National Weather Service led Parx Racing to cancel its July 25 live racing program.
WinStar Farm homebred American Patriot overhauled pacesetter He'll Pay in the stretch and edged away to win the $200,000 Kent Stakes (gr. IIIT) July 16 at Delaware Park.
I'm a Chatterbox waltzed to victory on the track and then survived an objection to win the $750,000 Delaware Handicap (gr. I) July 16 at Delaware Park.
Fletcher and Carolyn Gray's homebred I'm a Chatterbox, an easy winner of the Obeah Stakes in her last start, could be heavily favored versus five other fillies and mares in the $750,000 Delaware Handicap (gr. I) July 16 at Delaware Park.
A sloppy track and a rain delay that kept the runners in the Delaware Park paddock for more than 30 minutes was no bother to WinStar Farm's Dark Nile, who won the $300,000 Delaware Oaks (gr. III) by 1 1/4 lengths.
Second choice Real Smart got a perfectly timed ride to collar grade I winner and even-money favorite Photo Call in the stretch and win the $200,000 Robert G. Memorial (gr. IIIT) July 9 at Delaware Park.
Grade I winner Photo Call headlines a field of eight older fillies and mares set to run in the $200,000 Robert G. Dick Memorial Stakes (gr. IIIT) July 9 at Delaware Park.
Dark Nile and Browse, the one-two finishers in the local Our Mims Stakes in early June, are among nine 3-year-old fillies entered for the $300,000 Delaware Oaks (gr. III) at Delaware Park.
Trainers Arnaud Delacour and Graham Motion each entered two in the $50,000 Christiana Stakes, which will offer a look at many promising 3-year-old fillies should the 1 1/16-mile event remain on the turf July 6 at Delaware Park.
Maybe I'm a Chatterbox needed a race, maybe she needed an easy target. Either way, the grade I winner got her mojo back in the $100,000 Obeah Stakes (gr. III), in which she made short work of a short field June 11 at Delaware Park.
