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Delaware Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1937

Surface
  
Dirt

Website
  
www.delawarepark.com

Location
  
Delaware Park Racetrack Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
10 Furlongs ( 1 ⁄4 miles)

The Delaware Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid July at Delaware Park Racetrack in Wilmington, Delaware. The Grade I race is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-quarter miles on the dirt.

The race was inaugurated as the New Castle Handicap as part of the racing schedule with the 1937 opening of Delaware Park Racetrack. In 1955 it was renamed the Delaware Handicap.

Run at Saratoga from 1982 until 1985.

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:59.80 - Coup de Fusil (1987) (event and track record for  1 1⁄4 miles)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 4 - Christiana Stable (1958, 1959, 1969, 1970)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - Angel Cordero, Jr. (1968, 1974, 1981, 1987)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 4 - Henry S. Clark (1958, 1959, 1969, 1970)
  • 4 - Todd A. Pletcher (2001, 2006, 2007, 2010)

    • References

    Delaware Handicap Wikipedia
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