Well-traveled Eunomia heads to DelCap a G1 winner
Won G1 Clement Hirsch in latest start
Frank Vespe
September 29, 2026
Eunomia started her stakes climb in Virginia. She arrives at Delaware Park a Grade 1 winner.
The 4-year-old filly, listed as the 3-1 morning-line favorite for the Grade 3 Delaware Handicap on Oct. 3, won the Sandy Bottom Stakes at Colonial Downs on March 14, her first career stakes win. She added the Grade 1 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes at Del Mar on Aug. 1, her most recent start, fending off bids from Om N Joy and Simply Joking to win by a half-length. She has won five of 16 races and earned $566,193.
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“She jumped up big last time,” trainer Saffie Joseph, Jr. said of the Hirsch, in which Eunomia was 12-1. “To add a Grade 1 to her resume was huge.”
Joseph appeared on the Sept. 26 edition of Off to the Races Radio.
Eunomia won the Hirsch after shipping west from New York. It was her third win in six starts since joining Joseph’s barn following a private purchase last fall. Joseph said he expects another demanding assignment at Delaware.
“It’s a very competitive race,” he said. “She’s gonna need to bring her A game again.”
Since the Hirsch, Eunomia has posted four recorded works at Saratoga, three of them bullets. Her Sept. 6 half-mile move in 46 3/5 seconds was the fastest of 63 at the distance that day.
“We feel like she’s trained well since [the Hirsch],” Joseph said.
One thing’s for sure: shipping shouldn’t be an issue. Eunomia’s five starts this year have come at five different racetracks, from Gulfstream to Aqueduct to Del Mar. Delaware will mark number six.
The trip may matter as much as the form. Joseph said Eunomia’s prospects improve if she settles in the early stages of the 1 1/8-mile race. Micah Husbands, who rode her in the Hirsch, has the mount again.
The Sandy Bottom also marked a productive stop for Joseph at Colonial Downs, where he hopes to expand his presence. He called it “a good track to train on to help horses develop” and said his stable is trying to bring more runners there each year.
Eunomia was, in Greek mythology, a goddess of law and order, and her name can be translated to “good order” or “governance according to good laws,” according to Wikipedia: appropriate for a four-year-old filly by Tiz the Law.
For Eunomia, that Virginia win was one step in a campaign that has since taken her across the country. Saturday brings her back to the Mid-Atlantic with a Grade 1 on her record and another test ahead.
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