Local correspondent Doug McCoy handicaps the Grade 2 Delaware Oaks and Grade 3 Robert Dick Memorial.
This week’s On Tap features four graded events, including the second-biggest races from Delaware and Monmouth, and two Top Midlantic-bred Poll runners.
Real Solution and Storming Inti remained atop the Top Midlantic-bred Polls, but the 3 year-old list saw substantial change.
A field of 10 older runners is entered in Sunday’s Grade 1 United Nations Stakes from Monmouth Park.
Claiming activity dropped substantially, plus the Midlantic Claiming 7, in our Claimbox report.
We spent a few minutes with Maryland Jockey Club president Tom Chuckas to get his take on the Bowie training center, takeout, the Preakness, and more.
Joint Return is the lukewarm 5-2 favorite in Saturday’s Grade 2 Delaware Oaks, which has drawn four from the Black-Eyed Susan, including runner-up Vero Amore.
An accomplished group of sophomore sprinters will tackle Delaware Park’s Oh Say Stakes on Saturday on the Delaware Oaks undercard.
Vegas No Show, a two-time stake winner in 2013, is the morning line favorite for Saturday’s Carl Hanford Memorial Stakes in the four year-old’s 2014 debut.
A full field is slated to run in Saturday’s Robert Dick Memorial at Delaware Park, and Graham Motion will have two shots at a seventh win in the event.
