Del Mar 2005 Features $7.7 Million Worth of Stakes
By GREG MELIKOV, Contributing Writer
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Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, where the surf meets the turf, is featuring its richest stakes schedule since opening 66 years ago. Purses exceed $6.7 million, ranging from $100,000 to $1 million for 29 stakes.
Delmar's 2005 Horse racing meet begins July 20 and offers an additional $450,000 and a pair of new stakes that promises to help the track surpass last year's record season.
Del Mar Racing Secretary Tom Robbins gave a special pizzazz to the upcoming seaside season. The premier $1 million Pacific Classic on Sunday, Aug. 2, is one of several twin stakes Saturdays or Sundays that will attract outstanding handicap horses throughout the land.
Past winners of the Grade 1 event include Candy Ride two years who broke the track record covering 1¼ miles in 1:59, plus pretty fair thoroughbreds such as Came Home in '02, General Challenge, '99; Free House, '98; Gentlemen, '97; and Best Pal, '91, during the inaugural running.
Other big weekends with double stakes days during the 43-day meeting are:
Saturday, July 21, features the $400,000 John C. Mabee Handicap for fillies and mares 3-year-olds, 1 1/8 miles on the resodded Jimmy Durante turf course, named for one of the Hollywood entertainers who supported the track over the decades.
GN-1 Bermuda replaced a combination of Coast Bermuda, Hybrid Bermuda and Kikuyu. Each type of grass had different growing patterns and watering needs, making it difficult to grow a uniform seven-furlong turf course.
Saturday, July 22, includes the $400,000 Eddie Read Handicap for 3-year-olds and up 1 1/8 miles on the turf, one of six Grade 1 stakes.
Sunday, Aug. 21, includes 20th running of the $300,000 Pat O'Brien Stakes for 3-year-olds and up, seven furlongs, one of 11 Grade 2 stakes that was boosted by $50,000. The race is named for the actor who served a vice president of the Del Mar Turf Club when it was formed in the late '30s.
He and club president Bing Crosby, a racing enthusiast who led the founding group of film stars, put up personal loans against their life insurance when initial funding met with d setbacks.
On Aug. 12, 1938, Seabiscuit nosed out Ligaroti, considered one of the best horses on the West Coast, in a match race before 20,000 fans before heading east to soundly defeat War Admiral.
During 1942-44, Del Mar first served as a World War II training area for Marines, then grandstand became a bomber tail assembly production line for B-17 bomber parts.
When the war ended in '45, President Truman declared a national holiday on Aug. 15 and 20,324 fans turned out as racing resumed.
In '46, Indian Watch and War Allies dead-heated in the first running of the Bing Crosby Handicap. The $300,000 race, increased by $100,000, for 3-years-olds and up with be run at six furlongs on Sunday, July 31.
The first stakes race is opening day Wednesday – the Oceanside Stakes for $3-year-olds at a mile on the turf, one of seven $100,000 races.
Corey Nakatani will defend his '04 riding title. He was aboard 54 winners, two more than Tyler Baze. Doug O'Neil was last year's top trainer with 28 victories, four more than Jeff Mullins.
Closing day is Wednesday, Sept. 7, which features the $250,000 Del Mar Futurity for 2-year-olds at seven furlongs.
Del Mar, by the way, means "by the sea" in Spanish.
2005 Del Mar Stakes Races Schedule
Free Del Mar horse racing handicapping, betting tips & picks. Bet Del Mar Horse Racing @ Bodog Racebook.
Free Del Mar horse racing handicapping, betting tips & picks. Bet Del Mar Horse Racing @ Bodog Racebook.
Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, where the surf meets the turf, is featuring its richest stakes schedule since opening 66 years ago. Purses exceed $6.7 million, ranging from $100,000 to $1 million for 29 stakes.
Delmar's 2005 Horse racing meet begins July 20 and offers an additional $450,000 and a pair of new stakes that promises to help the track surpass last year's record season.
Del Mar Racing Secretary Tom Robbins gave a special pizzazz to the upcoming seaside season. The premier $1 million Pacific Classic on Sunday, Aug. 2, is one of several twin stakes Saturdays or Sundays that will attract outstanding handicap horses throughout the land.
Past winners of the Grade 1 event include Candy Ride two years who broke the track record covering 1¼ miles in 1:59, plus pretty fair thoroughbreds such as Came Home in '02, General Challenge, '99; Free House, '98; Gentlemen, '97; and Best Pal, '91, during the inaugural running.
Other big weekends with double stakes days during the 43-day meeting are:
Saturday, July 21, features the $400,000 John C. Mabee Handicap for fillies and mares 3-year-olds, 1 1/8 miles on the resodded Jimmy Durante turf course, named for one of the Hollywood entertainers who supported the track over the decades.
GN-1 Bermuda replaced a combination of Coast Bermuda, Hybrid Bermuda and Kikuyu. Each type of grass had different growing patterns and watering needs, making it difficult to grow a uniform seven-furlong turf course.
Saturday, July 22, includes the $400,000 Eddie Read Handicap for 3-year-olds and up 1 1/8 miles on the turf, one of six Grade 1 stakes.
Sunday, Aug. 21, includes 20th running of the $300,000 Pat O'Brien Stakes for 3-year-olds and up, seven furlongs, one of 11 Grade 2 stakes that was boosted by $50,000. The race is named for the actor who served a vice president of the Del Mar Turf Club when it was formed in the late '30s.
He and club president Bing Crosby, a racing enthusiast who led the founding group of film stars, put up personal loans against their life insurance when initial funding met with d setbacks.
On Aug. 12, 1938, Seabiscuit nosed out Ligaroti, considered one of the best horses on the West Coast, in a match race before 20,000 fans before heading east to soundly defeat War Admiral.
During 1942-44, Del Mar first served as a World War II training area for Marines, then grandstand became a bomber tail assembly production line for B-17 bomber parts.
When the war ended in '45, President Truman declared a national holiday on Aug. 15 and 20,324 fans turned out as racing resumed.
In '46, Indian Watch and War Allies dead-heated in the first running of the Bing Crosby Handicap. The $300,000 race, increased by $100,000, for 3-years-olds and up with be run at six furlongs on Sunday, July 31.
The first stakes race is opening day Wednesday – the Oceanside Stakes for $3-year-olds at a mile on the turf, one of seven $100,000 races.
Corey Nakatani will defend his '04 riding title. He was aboard 54 winners, two more than Tyler Baze. Doug O'Neil was last year's top trainer with 28 victories, four more than Jeff Mullins.
Closing day is Wednesday, Sept. 7, which features the $250,000 Del Mar Futurity for 2-year-olds at seven furlongs.
Del Mar, by the way, means "by the sea" in Spanish.
2005 Del Mar Stakes Races Schedule
Free Del Mar horse racing handicapping, betting tips & picks. Bet Del Mar Horse Racing @ Bodog Racebook.
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