Six Stakes Make Rich Card at Delaware Park

The 22nd annual Owners' Day at Delaware Park Sept. 13 features a 12-race card that includes six stakes and has total purses of $582,750.



A $75,000 purse will be offered for each of the six stakes: the DTHA Governors Day, Small Wonder, Tax Free Shopping Distaff, First State Dash, George Rosenberger Memorial, and the New Castle.



Owner/trainer Rodolfo Romero's Galiana, the potential horse of the 2014 Delaware Park meet, tops the 99 total entries on the Owners' Day card. The 4-year-old New York-bred daughter of Stonesider   leads a field of seven in the six-furlong Tax-Free Shopping Distaff for fillies and mares.



Bred by John Behrendt and Charles Marquis, Galiana has a record this year of three wins, a second, and a third out of five starts at Delaware Park. The 2-1 favorite won this race in 2013 after breaking her maiden at first asking and taking two allowance/optional claiming races at Saratoga.



Galiana won the six-furlong Dash Beauty Stakes by two lengths June 12, and followed that two races later with a 1 3/4-length victory in the $100,000 Sweet & Sassy Stakes at six furlongs. Both races were at Delaware Park.



Top Notch Racing Stable's Good Feng Shui has been entered in the six-furlong New Castle. Trainer Michael Pino first claimed the Florida-bred for $16,000 April 15 at Parx Racing. On June 16, Good Feng Shui was claimed by Midwest Thoroughbreds and trainer Jamie Ness for $15,000 after posting a 5 3/4-length score on the turf at Delaware Park.



Pino took the 6-year-old son of Pomeroy  , bred by Dr. Thomas Croley, back for $22,000 in an allowance/optional claimer after he notched a two-length victory in a five-furlong turf event July 7 at Delaware Park. In his most recent outing, Good Feng Shui posted a 2 1/4-length win in a six-furlong dirt allowance Aug. 25.



The gelding has a career Delaware Park record of four wins, two seconds, and a third from eight starts with earnings of $130,035. His lifetime record is 10 wins, five seconds, and six thirds from 31 starts with earnings of $280,953.

 

"I do not claim a horse back very often," said Pino. "I claimed him at Parx thinking we would try him on the grass and at Delaware Park because he is Delaware certified. We put him in for about the same price for what we took him for. He ran a big race and we lost him. He was sharp and getting good, so we decided to go back and get him. I rarely go back and claim a horse like that. You have to really like one.

"In his last, he ran really well on the dirt. Before that, I thought the turf may have made him a little better, but now I am thinking he is just good regardless of surface. He is coming into the Saturday race sharp, so we are just going to see what happens and go from there."



Here are the the fields for the six Owners' Day stakes: