The Triple Crown nominations released earlier this week include a half-dozen horses bred in the Mid-Atlantic and a larger number based here.
Pennsylvania-bred Uncle Heavy rallied to post an upset in the Grade 3 Withers and earn 20 points on the Kentucky Derby trail.
Trainer Butch Reid’s barn won almost 20 stakes this year, capped by Carmelina’s decisive win in Saturday’s Gin Talking Stakes at Laurel Park.
Keswick Stakes winner Carmelina hasn’t done much wrong on dirt. In today’s Selima at Laurel Park, she’ll try to transfer that form to the grass.
A pair of Pennsylvania-breds, Carmelina and Going Up, scored in Colonial Downs two-year-old stakes Saturday, with the latter especially impressive.
Today’s Delaware Park card features three stakes, topped by the Grade 2 Delaware Handicap, and those races pose (and will answer) some questions.
Several graded stakes winners are among the runners expected to compete in Saturday’s Battery Park Stakes at Delaware Park.
Only two trainers have won both the Delaware Oaks and Delaware Handicap in the same year. Morning Matcha gives Butch Reid a shot to be the third.
For the second time in four editions of the Grade 3 Delaware Oaks. a Butch Reid-trained longshot pulled the upset, this time Foggy Night doing the trick.
Multiple stakes winner Morning Matcha has been installed as the favorite for Saturday’s Obeah, the local prep for the Delaware Handicap at DelPark.
