Here’s a look around Saturday’s Mid-Atlantic racing scene.

What was going on? Plenty.

DELAWARE’S HANDLE RECORD

There’s some kinda magic in the word Derby.

That’s at least one of the conclusions you can draw from Saturday’s card at Delaware Park. While the feature – in terms of purse and graded status – was the Grade 3, $300,000 Delaware Oaks, it sure seemed like most of the attention went to the inaugural running of the $200,000 Delaware Derby.

One metric: wagering handle. Saturday’s 10-race Delaware card handled a track-record $6.5 million, shattering the 2007 record of $4.98 million, set on that year’s Delaware Handicap day.

Last year’s edition of the Oaks got moved to Monday because of the weather, so it doesn’t really provide much of a comparison. But two years ago, when the Oaks card – which also included the Grade 3 Robert G. Dick Memorial and the Alapocas Run – was held on a Saturday, it handled a little over $3.3 million.

WEATHER WOES

Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races canceled the latter portion of its Saturday night card as a result of lingering thunderstorms and heavy rain. After the first three races were run without incident over a track labeled sloppy, the decision was made in conjunction with state racing officials and the jockey colony to not continue with the card.

The evening’s feature, the $75,000 It’s Only Money Stakes, will be brought back “at a later date,” the track said. The card’s other races will be extras this coming week.

BUSTED!

Bracket Buster wasn’t quite ready to join his contemporaries on the Triple Crown trail in the spring but the Vicki Oliver-trained colt may have positioned himself to start making amends over the second half of the racing season.

Put on the lead early by jockey Axel Concepcion, Bracket Buster shook off a prolonged challenge from Wildncrazynight, pulling away to an impressive seven-length win in Saturday’s $150,000 Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park. He’ll receive free entry and start fees for the July 19 Grade 1 Haskell.

“It would be pretty unbelievable for me to have a horse in the Haskell,” Oliver said. “I started my career at Monmouth and spent a lot of years here. It would just be a great thing.”

GOOD ENOUGH TO DREAM

Twenty-four hours after Dreaming of Alys posted a professional score, trainer Gary Capuano celebrated another juvenile debut winner with Probably Dreaming.

Breaking from the inside post under jockey Carlos Lopez, Probably Dreaming ($8) stumbled leaving the gate and was last after the opening quarter in the 5 ½-furlong maiden special weight for 2-year-olds.

Unfazed by the poor start, Lopez maneuvered Probably Dreaming outside and in the clear, and they gradually advanced on the leaders on the turn.

Probably Dreaming swung four wide into the stretch, changed leads, and was off to the races, prevailing by 3 ½ lengths in 1:07.29 seconds. G Q Worthy nipped favored Let’s Go Lando for second. Then came Mister Roscoe, Hoppetosse, Mose Smokin, and El Papacito.