Weekend Racing
It’s a big weekend of racing coming up at Delaware Park, with six stakes races carded for Saturday and Sunday, including the $1 million Delaware Handicap, which has attracted six graded stakes winners (Daily Racing Form), and the Delaware Oaks, which will feature Sis City and Round Pond (Blood-Horse). The once hot High Limit will make his first start since the Kentucky Derby in the Leonard Richards Stakes. A bevy of familiar names from this spring’s Triple Crown season — Sun King, Sort It Out, and Scrappy T — are set to start as well. An impressive win from any one would add some depth to three-year-old division, as Surf Cat did last Saturday in the Swaps (LA Times). Although, as the Times article points out, Surf Cat’s rise to prominence off one win is “indicative of the frailty of the game,” as is the fact that neither Surf Cat, nor last weekend’s Gold Cup winner Lava Man, is nominated for the Breeders’ Cup.
Papi Chullo is entered in the Richards as well, but it’s safe to say the maiden will scratch — Papi is entered in the fifth race at Belmont on Friday, where he gets Rafael Bejarano aboard and is the 7-5 morning line favorite.
