Barbaro Stakes at Delaware Park


The Barbaro Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race once run annually in mid July at Delaware Park Racetrack in Stanton, Delaware. It is now run in October.
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 but now ungraded, it is open to three-year-old horses running one and one sixteenth mile on the dirt and offers a purse of $100,000. In 2011, the race was run at 1 mile and 70 yards.
There was no race from 1983 through 1996.

Records

Speed record:
Year
Winner
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Time
1997LeestownJose Velez, Jr.D. Wayne LukasNot found1:43.46
1998ScatmanduRichard MiglioreJohn C. KimmelRobert Waxman1:42.43
1999Stellar BrushMike McCarthyRichard W. SmallRobert E. Meyerhoff1:42.78
2000GrundlefootTravis DunkelbergerGary CapuanoPaul Fowler, Jr.1:44.04
2001Burning RomaRick WilsonAnthony DutrowHarold Queen1:42.41
2002Running TideRamon DominguezRodney JenkinsOn The Run Farm1:45.10
2003Awesome TimeAnthony BlackNick ZitoRobert V. LaPenta1:43.26
2004Pollard's VisionJerry BaileyTodd PletcherEdgewood Farm1:43.85
2005Sun KingRafael BejaranoNick ZitoTracy Farmer1:43.33
2006Awfully SmartRamon DominguezAlan E. GoldbergJayeff B Stables1:43.23
2007XchangerEdgar PradoMark ShumanCircle Z Stable et al.1:43.40
2008Magical ForestJorge ChavezJoseph DemolaParaneck Stable1:44.02
2009Our EdgeAlan GarciaNick ZitoRobert LaPenta1:43.70
2010TrickmeisterGabriel SaezCindy JonesBrereton Jones and Timonthy Thornton1:45.32
2011Awesome BetKent DesormeauxSteve AsmussenMike McCarty1:40.37
2012StephanoatseeSheldon RussellH. Graham MotionMy Meadowview Farm1:44.79
2013Purple EggPaco LopezJane CibelliGoodwood Racing1:43.66

Earlier winners (partial list)