Delaware Park 2019 horses to watch: September 12

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Delaware Park has an eight-race card lined up for Thursday, September 12. Some horses to watch:

Race 2 — Claiming

Three-year-olds and up will go about one mile on the turf at the $8,000 claiming level.
The second and fourth races are two divisions of the same race, and it looks like the second has come up the more intriguing and challenging contest. #7 Blarp (7-2) is just two races removed from winning at $16,000 (double the claiming price here), and that victory capped a three-race win streak for the eight-year-old War Front gelding. A clsoing sort, he was a bit more involved early in his most recent race, moving into third after a half-mile before flattening out to be fifth, though beaten less than four lengths. He’s been away since June 29 and is showing just a single work in the interim, that on July 25. Trainer Gerald Bennett has a good record with horses coming off similar breaks (20%) and on the class drop, and he’ll leg up journeyman Ricardo Chiappe here.
Selections: 7-6-4-1

Fillies and mares three years-old and up will go 6 furlongs on the main track in a second-level allowance with an optional claiming tag of $35,000.
It’s a short but solid field that is set to line up in this allowance sprint, and one of the factors that makes this race interesting is that a couple of the major players enter this contest off subpar performances. #2 Starship Reina (3-2) has failed as the odds-on favorite in her last two, for example. #3 Margie’s Money (9-5) has been well beaten two straight at odds around 3-1. And #5 Fillupcohensapikcer (9-2) has finished fourth two straight against similar and owns an odd record of seven runner-up finishes in 10 tries over the strip. That all points us in the direction of #4 Heather Hills (7-2), who has been moving in the right direction. The Stacy Hendry trainee had won two straight and three of four prior to an up-the-track effort on the turf, but that was her first try on the lawn, so we’ll give her a pass on that. She’ll need to continue to improve here to contend with these, but she’s the most formful of all and will have regular pilot Jose A. Garcia up.
Selections: 4-2-5-3