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 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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