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Royal Delta Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1991

Surface
  
Dirt

Website
  
www.gulfstreampark.com

Location
  
Gulfstream Park Hallandale Beach, Florida, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)

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The Royal Delta Stakes (formerly the Sabin Stakes) is an American Thoroughbred horse race for older fillies and mares (four-year-olds and up) and is run at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida. A Grade II stakes race, it is currently set at a distance of  1 1⁄16 mile on the dirt with a purse of $200,000.

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The race was originally named for the multiple Grade I stakes-winning filly Sabin. Born in 1980, she made 25 starts and won 18 of them. In 2015, Gulfstream Park renamed the race after the three-time Eclipse Award winner Royal Delta, who won the race in 2013.

This race was upgraded to a Grade II for its 2014 running.

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Records

Most wins:

  • 2 - Awesome Maria (2011, 2012)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - John Velazquez (2004, 2005, 2011, 2012)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 3 - Claude R. McGaughey III (1991, 1995, 1997)
  • 3 - Kiaran McLaughlin (2004, 2008, 2016)
  • 3 - Todd Pletcher (2005, 2011, 2012)

    • References

    Royal Delta Stakes Wikipedia
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