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Songbird
15
Jul
  • Delaware Handicap
  • Delaware horse racing
  • Delaware Park
  • Jerry Hollendorfer
  • Kieron Magee
  • Rich Glazier
  • Rick Porter
  • Songbird

Songbird, tested, gives Porter first DelCap win

  • Frank Vespe / 9 years
  • 0
  • 7 min read

Songbird’s expected Delaware Handicap coronation turned into a dogfight, but in the end, she gave owner Rick Porter his first DelCap win.

I'm a Chatterbox
10
Jul
  • Delaware Handicap
  • Delaware horse racing
  • Delaware Park
  • George Arnold
  • Keith Nations
  • Martini Glass
  • Weep No More

Delaware Handicap: The other guys… err, gals

  • Frank Vespe / 9 years
  • 0
  • 6 min read

The Delaware Handicap figures to be the Songbird show. But … meet the five horses with designs on spoiling the party.

Proportionality
09
Jul
  • Horacio De Paz
  • Laurel Park
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Proportionality

Proportionality squares up a first-out win

  • Frank Vespe / 9 years
  • 0
  • 4 min read

Proportionality looks to be yet another good Sagamore Farm runner, as she won at first asking today at Laurel Park.

It Tiz Well
08
Jul
  • Dan Ward
  • Delaware horse racing
  • Delaware Oaks
  • Delaware Park
  • Drayden Van Dyke
  • It Tiz Well

It Tiz Well, indeed, in Delaware Oaks triumph

  • Frank Vespe / 9 years
  • 0
  • 5 min read

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer’s It Tiz Well traveled east and took home the money, winning the Grade 3 Delaware Oaks.

Guilty Twelve
08
Jul
  • Adrian Rolls
  • Delaware horse racing
  • Delaware Park
  • Graham Motion
  • Guilty Twelve
  • Robert G. Dick Memorial

Motion nets eighth Dick Memorial win as Guilty Twelve up in time

  • Frank Vespe / 9 years
  • 0
  • 6 min read

For the eighth time in 21 years, a Graham Motion trainee won the G3 Robert Dick Memorial as Guilty Twelve won a thriller at Delaware Park.

30
Jun
  • Andy Cashman
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Maryland State Fair
  • Timonium

Timonium to offer stakes race, enhanced purses

  • Frank Vespe / 9 years
  • 2
  • 5 min read

This year’s Maryland state fair at Timonium will include the $75,000 Coalition Stakes and $185,000 in daily overnight purses.

27
Jun
  • Ben's Cat
  • Gary Quill
  • King Leatherbury
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Trevor McCarthy

“End of an era” as Ben’s Cat, “Maryland’s horse,” is retired

  • Frank Vespe / 9 years
  • 0
  • 9 min read

Ben’s Cat — called “Maryland’s horse” by jockey Trevor McCarthy — was retired today by owner-trainer King T. Leatherbury.

26
Jun
  • Delaware horse racing
  • Delaware Park

Delaware Park horses to watch: June 26

  • Frank Vespe / 9 years
  • 0
  • 4 min read

In which we point out a couple of horses we’ll be keeping an eye on at Delaware Park today…

Phlash Phelps
24
Jun
  • Ben's Cat
  • Horacio Karamanos
  • King Leatherbury
  • Laurel Park
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Mister Diz S.

“Empty” Ben’s Cat ninth as Phlash Phelps takes Mister Diz

  • Frank Vespe / 9 years
  • 2
  • 5 min read

Ben’s Cat faded to ninth as Phlash Phelps rallied to win this afternoon’s $75,000 Mister Diz Stakes at Laurel Park.

22
Jun
  • Delaware horse racing
  • Delaware Park

Delaware Park horses to watch: June 22

  • Frank Vespe / 9 years
  • 0
  • 4 min read

In which we point out a couple of horses we’ll be keeping an eye on at Delaware Park today…

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