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Obeah Stakes

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Surface
  
Dirt

Purse
  
100,000 USD (2015)

Track
  
left-handed

Location
  
Delaware Park Racetrack Stanton, Delaware, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
web.archive.org/web/20100105183048/http://delawarepark.com/racing.php

Distance
  
1 ⁄8 miles (9 furlongs)

2012 obeah stakes


The Obeah Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid June at Delaware Park Racetrack in Stanton, Delaware. A Grade III event open to horses age three and older, it is contested on dirt at a distance of a mile and an eighth (9 furlongs).

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The race is named in honor of Jane du Pont Lunger's filly, Obeah, winner of the Delaware Handicap in 1969 and 1970.

Fleet indian 2006 obeah stakes


Records

Speed record:

  •  1 1⁄8 miles - 1:48.05 - Fleet Indian (2006)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 3 - Ramon Dominguez (2002, 2005 & 2008)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 3 - Todd Pletcher (2005, 2008 & 2009)

    • References

    Obeah Stakes Wikipedia
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