Delaware Oaks

Delaware Oaks
Grade 3 stakes race
LocationDelaware Park Racetrack
Stanton, Delaware, United States
Inaugurated1938
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Websitewww.delawarepark.com
Race information
Distance8.5 furlongs (1+116 miles)
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationThree-year-old Fillies
WeightAssigned
Purse$300,000[1]

The Delaware Oaks Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid July at Delaware Park Racetrack in Stanton near Wilmington, Delaware.

Part of the Del Cap Festival Weekend that features other races over the two days including the Delaware Handicap, the Oaks is open to three-year-old fillies and is run over one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt.

Currently, the Grade III race offers a purse of $300,000.

  1. ^ "Statistics - Delaware Oaks". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 9 July 2016.