The annual Family Fun Day hosted by Delaware Park and the Delaware Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association will benefit the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund.
Delaware Park will add an additional day of live racing October 13 to make up for a day lost to heat in August and reach 81 days of live racing for the year.
Old Harbor blazed to a Delaware Park track record in winning the Rosenberger today, while Ain’t Got Time defended his title in the Governors Day.
Trainer Gina Rosenthal took two Delaware-certified stakes today at Delaware Park; Del Park lover Galiana had to be vanned off.
A pair of juveniles – Sunshine Included and Our Rombauer – made their first wins count in stakes company today at Delaware Park.
Janine Melnitz — named for the secretary in Ghostbusters — makes her first foray into stakes company in Saturday’s Rosenberger. Plus odds and analysis.
Saturday’s Tax Free Shopping Distaff at Delaware Park may run through 3-time champ Galiana. If not there’s an opening for Papa’s Forest, trained by Joe Sharp.
Trainer Larry Jones brings a live pair to Saturday’s DTHA Governors Day Stakes, though Tim Ritchey’s Ain’t Got Time is favored.
Though trainer Jamie Ness split with his main owner 18 months ago, he’s back in familiar territory now: atop the Delaware Park trainer standings.
Total handle in the mid-Atlantic region fell 25 percent in August versus July, and the daily average was off by nearly five percent.