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Crazy Beautiful Headlines Saturday’s Delaware Oaks

Phoenix Thoroughbred III's Crazy Beautiful tops a field of nine in the $300,000 Grade 3 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.

In her most recent effort, the Kentucky-bred trained by Kenneth McPeek posted a 1 3/4-length score in the mile and a sixteenth Grade 2 Summertime Oaks at Santa Anita May 30.

“She is doing great,” said trainer Ken McPeek. “We could not be happier with this filly. She handled the race in California pretty handily, so hopefully we will be able to pull off the coast-to-coast bookend and pull off the Santa Anita to Delaware Park double. The Delaware Oaks is a real good spot for her. The money, the grade and the timing are all what we are looking for. We are excited that Mike Smith is coming back to ride her and I suspect she will be tough.”

Previously, the daughter of Liam's Map was unplaced in mile and an eighth Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on April 30. In her two other outings this year, she won the mile and a sixteenth Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks by 2 ¼-lengths on March 27 and finished second in the one mile Grade 2 Davona Dale at Gulfstream Park on February 27.

Last year, she posted a record of two wins and two seconds from five starts which included a second in the Grade 1 Alcibiades at Keeneland and a second in the Grade 3 Pocahantas Stakes at Churchill Downs. She closed her 2020 campaign by finishing sixth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Filly at Keeneland.

Her connections are intending to use the Delaware Oaks as springboard for further engagements this summer in upstate New York.

“Absolutely, there is no question and after the Delaware Oaks, she will ship to Saratoga,” McPeek said. “If she runs well, she might comeback in the Coaching Club or we may skip the Coaching Club and run in the Alabama. We have not decided that yet, but she will be definetly be headed to Saratoga.”

She has a career record of four wins and three seconds from nine starts with earnings of $520,865.

#	HORSE	OWNER	TRAINER	JOCKEY	Wg	ODD
1	Orbs Baby Girl	A R M Racing	Anthony Margotta	Mychel Sanchez	120	15-1
2	Exogen	Nautical Racing	Miguel Penaloza	Mychel Sanchez	116	15-1
3	Midnight Obsession	Main Line Racing	John Servis	Joe Bravo	118	4-1
4	Juror Number Four	Cash is King &LC	Brittany Russell	Sheldon Russell	116	6-1
5	Hybrid Eclipse	Magic Oaks	Linda Rice	Jorge Vargas	116	10-1
6	Leader of the Band	SMD Limited	John Servis	F. Pennington	116	8-1
7	Crazy Beautiful	Phoenix Thoroughbred	Ken McPeek	Mike Smith	122	6/5
8	She a Hot Mess	Cantrell Family Partner	Brett Brinkman	Angel Suarez	116	12-1
9	Baby Gundin	Bra-Gar Stables	Antonio Machado	Jamie Rodriguez	116	15-1

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Horse-For-Course Dream Marie Upsets Obeah Stakes

Miracles International Trading's Dream Marie posted an upset victory in the $100,000 Obeah Stakes at Delaware Park today. The Obeah is the local prep for the Grade 2 Delaware Handicap to be run on July 10th.

With Joe Bravo aboard, the 4-year-old daughter of Graydar won by a 1 3/4-lengths and returned $19.40 in the field of seven. Miss Marissa, with Daniel Centeno, finished second. It was another a 2-lengths farther back to Market Rumor, with Chris Landeros., in third. The 6-to-5 favorite, Bajan Girl with Paco Lopez, finished fourth. Dream Marie covered the mile and a sixteenth in 1:44.40 on a sloppy main track.

The Obeah Stakes was the first career stakes victory for the Kentucky-bred conditioned by Matthew Williams. She raised her career record to five wins from 20 starts with earnings of $297,420.

Last year, Dream Marie teamed up with jockey Joe Bravo for a second-place finish in Delaware Oaks at odds of 9-to-1.

“She really likes this course,” said winning jockey Joe Bravo. “The last time she was on this course she was a very game second a heart-beat from winning. Today, as I was expecting, when she turned for home, she really kicked off nicely.”

Trainer Matthew Williams was never discouraged after her previous race when she ran fifth at Gulfstream Park on May 7 and he has the Delaware Handicap under consideration for her.

“She really likes being here at Delaware,” said winning trainer Matthew Williams. “She ran really well here last year and she was only beaten a half-length. She has been training really well. In her last race, she finished last but that was against boys. In that race she ran the time I was expecting because I was not expecting the winner to run in 1:34, but even in that race I thought she ran the race we were expecting. It did not end the way we wanted, but she was off for three months and she trained really well since then. The Delaware Handicap is definitely a consideration. It is a mile and a quarter, so we have to think about it, but she really likes it here at Delaware, so we got a lot to think about.”

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Live Racing Returns To Delaware Park On May 26

The 84th season of live Thoroughbred and Arabian racing at Delaware Park opens this Wednesday, May 26, with a first race post time of 1:15 p.m.

The opening week festivities will continue with live racing cards slated for Memorial Day weekend on Saturday, May 29, and Monday, May 31.

Live racing will be conducted on Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays in 2021. Thursdays will be added June 24 through September 30. The Grade 3 Delaware Oaks is scheduled for Saturday, July 3, and the Grade 2 Delaware Handicap will be run on Saturday, July 10.

The 29th Owners Day, featuring four Delaware Certified Stakes, will be Saturday, September 25. The 77-day meet will conclude on Saturday, October 16.

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Learning With Experience: Hopeful Growth Wins Monmouth Oaks

Trainer Anthony Margotta, Jr. and jockey Antonio Gallardo know that much more went into Hopeful Growth's upset victory in Saturday's Grade 3 Monmouth Oaks at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., than just a perfect trip.

Two starts ago Margotta took the blinkers off the filly to get her to relax in a race at Tampa in which Gallardo rode her. Last time out the veteran conditioner sent her two turns for the first time. She finished fifth in the Grade 3 Delaware Oaks.

Both learning experiences, they agreed, keyed a four-length victory at odds of 11-1 in the 96^th edition of the $200,000 Monmouth Oaks.

Hopeful Growth, able to sit chilly along the rail behind dueling leaders, mowed down the frontrunners in the lane for the first stakes score of her five-race career. She covered the mile and a sixteenth in 1:45.63.

Delaware Oaks winner Project Whiskey held for second, 2¼ lengths ahead of Eve of War.

“I had a really good trip,” said Gallardo. “I know this filly. I won with her in Tampa. Anthony told me that day `try to teach her. I don't want her to be a filly that just goes to the lead. I don't care if you lose, just teach her.'

“That's what happened in Tampa. She learned – and she still won. I was able to put her behind horses that day and she learned very fast. When I put her in the clear that race she took off. That lesson paid off today. She's a good horse and now she knows how to relax and sit behind horses. That's why she won this.”

Margotta said the filly's last two races were learning experiences for this one.

“Her last race was the first time she ran around two turns,” he said. “We were hoping to hit the board there, but typically a horse going two turns for the first time in our program may need a race around two turns the first time. This was our bull's eye target. I took the blinkers off her last two races so she would learn a little. I put them back on (today) so she would focus more after she learned a little bit.

“The Delaware Oaks was a race we needed to get in before this one for the two-turn experience and to learn. I loved the trip (today). She was patient on the rail. That's what we have been teaching her to do and it paid off.”

Owned by St. Elias Stable, Hopeful Growth returned $25.60 to win. The daughter of Tapiture–Maiden America by Rock Hard Ten now sports a 3-1-0 line from five career starts.

“She's bred to go long and she has trained that way the whole time so I knew she would go longer,” Margotta said. “She has always wanted to stretch out.

Gallardo kept Hopeful Growth along the rail as favored Lucrezia and Project Whiskey battled for command through early fractions of :23.94, :48.51, 1:13.52 and 1:139.10 for the mile.

Hopeful Growth found clearance in mid-stretch and proved to be much the best in the field of nine 3-year-old fillies.

“I had good position the whole way,” said Gallardo. “I was close to the leaders. I had the favorite (Lucrezia) in front of me with Project Whiskey with her and the two horse (Princess Cadey) was just outside us. I just waited to get clear. I was able to do that before the quarter pole. I knew she had a lot left and she responded.”

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