Lucky Move posts 40-1 Obeah shocker

Ten Strike Racing’s Lucky Move posted an upset victory in the $100,000 Obeah Stakes on the opening day card at Delaware Park today.  The Obeah is the local prep for the Grade II Delaware Handicap to be run on July 11^th. 

With Roberto Rosado aboard, the daughter of Lookin At Lucky won by a 1 1/4-lengths and returned $87.60 as the second longest-shot in the field of eight.  The exacta, with second choice Vault the runner-up, returned $217.10 for a buck.

Vault, with Florent Geroux, finished second.  It was another a three lengths farther back to the even-money favorite Lady Apple, with Ricardo Santana, Jr., in third.  Lucky Move covered the mile and a sixteenth in 1:42.28 on a fast main track. 

The Obeah Stakes was the first career stakes victory for the New York-bred conditioned by Juan Carlos Guerrero.  She raised her career record to 5 wins from 27 starts with earnings of $264,573.