Delacour enters promising pair in Christiana Stakes
Trainer Arnaud Delacour will look to continue his winning ways at Delaware Park this Wednesday. Delacour has entered a pair of promising and lightly raced fillies in the $50,000 Christiana Stakes. The mile and a sixteenth turf affair for 3-year-old fillies has attracted a field of 13.
Through Wednesday, June 29, Delacour has posted a record of six wins from ten starts and five of the six were with 3-year-olds. He also won the $50,000 Our Mims Stakes with Dark Nile and the $50,000 Stanton Stakes with Aquaphobia. Both were lightly raced, full of potential and won first career stake victories in respective stakes.
Involuntary and Strong Gale fit the same profile and were among a total of seven fillies nominated to this race by Delacour.
“Both of these fillies are doing very well,” said trainer Arnaud Delacour. “This is a good time to try them versus stakes company. They are both eligible for two other than in allowance conditions, but it is tough to run them in that condition because many times they will be facing older horses. Those kind of races can turn out to be some pretty salty spots, so we are better offer trying them in a stake against 3-year-olds.”
Catherine Mills Involuntary has a record of two wins from three starts with earnings of $43,240. The Kentucky-bred daughter of City Zip broke her maiden by 4-lengths in her career debut going a mile and a sixteenth at Tampa Bay Downs on April 8. She followed by posting a 3-length triumph in a mile and a sixteenth allowance at Pimlico on May 20. In her most recent, she finished third but was placed fifth in the one mile $200,000 Pennsylvania Oaks at Penn National on June 4.
Polivka Equine Holdings, Rock Marcoux and Dan Kjorsvik’s Strong Gale has a career record of two wins and a second from four starts with earnings of $45,500. The Kentucky-bred daughter of Discreetly Mine broke her maiden by 1 ¼-lengths in her career debut at Presque Isle last year. In her 2016 season debut, she finished in a one mile allowance at Tampa bay Downs on May 6. In her most recent, she won a one mile allowance by 1 ¼-lengths at Delaware Park on May 30.
$50,000 Christiana Stakes
For 3-year-old fillies
at a mile and a sixteenth (Turf)
PP | HORSE | OWNER | TRAINER | JOCKEY | Wg | OD |
1 | Leafy Shade | Gregory Bentley | Edward Graham | Victor Carrasco | 119 | 6-1 |
2 | April Gaze | K&C Glassman | Edward Plesa Jr | Paco Lopez | 116 | 6-1 |
3 | Outsider Art | Delmar Pettigrew | Jonathan Sheppard | Andrew Wolfsont | 116 | 15-1 |
4 | Miss Inclusive | Main Line & Joshtylane | John Servis | Joshua Navarro | 116 | 12-1 |
5 | Strong Gale | Polivka Equine Holdings | Arnaud Delacour | Carol Cedeno | 116 | 20-1 |
6 | Channel Regatta | John Baffa | Hamilton Smith | Alex Cintron | 119 | 15-1 |
7 | Dreams to Reality | Gabriel Duignan | Michael Dilger | Alex Cintron | 116 | 12-1 |
8 | It’s the Truth | Augustin Stable | H. Graham Motion | Edgar Prado | 116 | 15-1 |
9 | Involuntary | Catherine Mills | Arnaud Delacour | Daniel Centeno | 119 | 12-1 |
10 | Conscription | Pin Oak Stable | H. Graham Motion | Trevor McCarthy | 116 | 12-1 |
11 | Gioia Stella | Moyglare Stud Farm | Christophe Clement | Kendrick Carmouche | 116 | 4-1 |
12 | Arraign | Dilschnieder & Hancock | Michael Matz | Joe Bravo | 119 | 12-1 |
13 | My Impression | Stuart Janney III | Claude McGaughey III | Jose Ortiz | 116 | 3-1 |
Source: Delaware Park