EARA - Eastern Arabian Racing Alliance

06/15/2022

Mary Lyons is the best!

She makes her job look easy, but to Mary Lyons, Delaware Park's longtime track photographer, that's a sign of a job done well.

11/06/2021

Clairvest Group Inc. (TSX: CVG) today announces that it, together with Clairvest Equity Partners VI and a newly-formed subsidiary of Rubico Gaming LLC, run by experienced gaming investor Thomas Benninger, has agreed to acquire the Delaware Park casino and racetrack business. Delaware Park is a racin...

09/24/2021

Trainer Lynn Ashby is 6-for-10 with 2-year-olds in 2021 and has a big shot to win the First State Dash. It's been quite the tonic in a year of challenges.

07/13/2021

The Eastern Arabian Racing Alliance announced that the 2021 Arabian racing season at Delaware Park was over, a victim of too few owners and horses.

07/04/2021

07/02/2021

End of an Era for Arabians at Delaware

Horse racing is the greatest sport and has provided many of us some of our best lifetime memories. Arabian racing was established at Delaware Park in 1984 through the efforts of several passionate leaders who worked very hard to bring Arabian racing into the major pari mutual venues.

EARA has had many years of wonderful collaboration with Delaware Park, and we are extremely grateful to the executives and staff who welcomed the Arabian horses and for their support to the community.

We regret to announce that the 2021 meet is over, and we will lose the three remaining Graded Stakes that were scheduled for Labor Day weekend. We are very disappointed, and it is a very troubling sign for the future of Arabian racing.

This year has proven to be a difficult one globally and here in the U.S. Even with the challenges, Delaware Park provided a fantastic opportunity for Arabian horses at their summer meet, offering the most races weekly and two Grade 1 Stakes races for older horses, yet it failed to get the support of many owners and trainers.

That lack of support is now the direct result of the end of summer racing at Delaware Park after 37 years.

Many champions were established at the east coast oval. Delaware winners have stamped their careers in racing, and many Darley Award winners are the legacy of USA breeding.

Since the Arabian breed is welcomed at so few recognized tracks in the U.S., losing Delaware Park will be felt by all.

Howell Wallace, EARA Board of Director
Alan Kirshner, EARA Board of Director

Amanda Roxborough, EARA Breed Rep

06/25/2021

Condition Book #2

06/05/2021

Congratulations to owners/breeders Jon and Krista Henningsgard and trainer Lynn Ashby for their 1-2 finish with Uptown Lady Arabella and Uptown Georgie today at Delaware Park. Lazur Hess (also trained by Ashby) finished third. Winning time for the 6 furlongs was 1:19.96.

06/04/2021

Here's a closer look at the field of 9 for the first Arabian race of the season at Delaware Park, an allowance optional claimer over 6 furlongs...
1. ON THE VERGE - Part of an entry owned by Jim and Susan Meyer and trained by Jeremias Castro, he won his final two starts in 2020, including the Wathba Stallions Cup (Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Racing Festival) at Lone Star
1A. HIAB AL ZAMAN - Finished 5th as a maiden in The President Cup at the Preakness in his second career start
2. CONSIDER THESS - 2020 Darley Award (Arabian Racing Cup) nominee for 3-Year-Old Filly ridden and trained by Kirsten Swan
2B. CROWN THESS - Second part of the CRE RUN FARM entry, he comes off a maiden win in his final start of 2020
3. UPTOWN LADY ARABELLA - 2020 Darley Award champion 3-Year-Old Filly ridden by 2017 Darley champion jockey Keiber J Coa
3C. UPTOWN GEORGIE - Second part of the Uptown Arabians entry coming off a second-place finish in a maiden at Sam Houston
4. SMOKE N THUNDER - Debuting Michigan-bred for Paul and Kathy Kroll-Smoke ridden by two-time Darley champion jockey Carol Cedeno
5. BELLFASTT - Goldensands Racing entry trained by Fenneka Bentley is one of four in this race coming out of the UAE President Cup Races at Pimlico
6. LAZUR HESS - 10-year-old won the 2014 Darley Award for 3-Year-Old Colt/Gelding and two races in 2020 as a 9-year-old for Mark and Lynn Ashby

06/03/2021

June 5, Race 9. Post time 5:15pm