Barbaro Stakes At Delaware Park
The Barbaro Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid July at Delaware Park Racetrack in Stanton, Delaware. Previously known as the Leonard Richards Stakes, in 2007 it was renamed in honor of Barbaro, the horse who won the Kentucky Derby in 2006 but who eventually died after shattering his leg in that year's Preakness Stakes.
A Grade III race through 2009, it is open to three-year-old horses running one and one sixteenth mile on the dirt and offers a purse of $300,000. In 2011, the race was run at 1 mile and 70 yards.
There was no race from 1983 through 1996.
Read more about Barbaro Stakes At Delaware Park: Records, Winners Since 1997, Earlier Winners (partial List)
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