Piece Of My Heart Aims For Kentucky Oaks Points In Delaware Oaks

Wolfe Racing and Hugh Robertson's Piece of My Heart tops a field of eight in the $300,000 Grade III Delaware Oaks at Delaware Park this Saturday. The Oaks has been carded as the eighth race with an approximate post time of 4:45 p.m.

For the first time, the mile a sixteenth affair will be a points race for the Grade I Kentucky Oaks which was rescheduled to September 4 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Delaware Oaks will be worth 50 points to the winner, 20 points for second, 10 points for third and five for fourth.

Piece of My Heart has won her last two at Oaklawn Park. In her most recent, the Florida-bred trained by McLean Robertson posted a 1 ½-length score in the mile and a sixteenth $80,000 Gardenia Stakes on May 1. Previously, the daughter of Flat Out notched a 1-length triumpn in a one mile allowance on April 10. She has a career record of three wins, two seconds and a third from eight starts with earnings of $135,750.

She has had four workouts at Delaware Park with her most recent on June 30 when she breezed five furlongs over a fast main track in 1:00.

“She is doing real good,” said trainer McLean Robertson. “It looks like she gets over the Delaware Park surface really well. Hopefully, she will run the same as last time. It took her a little while for her, but she got awful good at Oaklawn and she is doing really good here, so we are looking forward to Saturday.”

WinStar Farm, Lindy Farms, and Madaket Stables' Comical will be seeking redemption as she finished second to Piece of My Heart in the Gardenia Stakes in her last race. Previously, the Kentucky-bred trained by Steven Asmussen second in a mile and a sixteenth allowance at Oaklawn Park on March 28. In her only other outing this year, she finished fourth in mile and forty yards $150,000 Suncoast Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs on February 8. Last year, she posted a record of two wins, a second and a third from nine starts including a win the Grade III Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga and a second in the Grade I Chandelier Stakes at Santa Anita. She has a record of two wins, three seconds and a third from nine starts with earnings of $271,251.

$300,000 Grade III Delaware Oaks

For 3-year-old fillies

at a mile and a sixteenth

# HORSE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY Wg ODD
1 Comical WinStar, Lindy Farms, Mad Steven Asmussen Alex Cintron 116 5/2
2 Piece of My Heart Wolfe Racing & Robertson McLean Robertson Joe Talamo 118 2-1
3 Princess Cadey Magic Stable Claudio Gonzalez Angel Cruz 120 10-1
4 Long Point Beach Five Hellions Farm Lacey Gaudet Feargal Lynch 116 15-1
5 Hopeful Growth St. Elias Stable Anthony Margotta Jr Trevor McCarthy 116 10-1
6 Project Whiskey Cash Is King LC Racing Robert Reid Frankie Pennington 116 12-1
7 Dream Marie Miracle's International Matthew Williams Joe Bravo 116 7/2
8 Queen Bridget Mary Ann Gould John Alexander Ortiz Tyler Baze 116 12-1

 

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