Inaugurated 1938 Surface Dirt | Website www.delawarepark.com | |
Location Delaware Park Racetrack
Stanton, Delaware Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing Distance 8.5 furlongs ( 1 ⁄16 miles) | ||
The Delaware Oaks Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid July at Delaware Park Racetrack in Stanton near Wilmington, Delaware.
Part of the Del Cap Festival Weekend that features other races over the two days including the Delaware Handicap, the Oaks is open to three-year-old fillies and is run over one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt.
Currently, the Grade III race offers a purse of $300,000. From 2003 to 2008, the purse was $500,000
United States Hall of Fame fillies Gallorette (1945), Dark Mirage (1968), Gallant Bloom (1969) and Desert Vixen (1973) have all won this race, as did the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Lauries Dancer.
There was no race held in 1943 and from 1983 through 1995.
References
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