The Barbaro Stakes is an American

United States

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 Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse race

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 run annually in mid July at Delaware Park Racetrack in Stanton

Stanton, Delaware

Stanton is an unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States, near the confluence of the Red Clay and White Clay Creeks. It is located in the southern end of Mill Creek Hundred.-History:...

, Delaware

Delaware

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. Previously known as the Leonard Richards Stakes, in 2007 it was renamed in honor of Barbaro

Barbaro

Barbaro was an American thoroughbred who decisively won the 2006 Kentucky Derby, but shattered his leg two weeks later in the 2006 Preakness Stakes, ending his racing career and eventually leading to his death....

, the horse who won the Kentucky Derby

Kentucky Derby

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 in 2006 but who eventually died after shattering his leg in that year's Preakness Stakes

Preakness Stakes

The Preakness Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a Grade I race run over a distance of 9.5 furlongs on dirt. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds ; fillies 121 lb...

.

A Grade III

Graded stakes race

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 race, it is open to three-year-old horses running one and one sixteenth mile on the dirt and offers a purse of $300,000.

There was no race from 1983 through 1996.

Records

Speed record: (since 1997 at current distance of 1¹/16 miles)

• 1:42.41 - Burning Roma (2001)

• Previously the race has been contested at 1⅛ miles. On June 18, 1960, Victoria Park
  Victoria Park (horse)
  Victoria Park was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse. A grandson of American Triple Crown champion Gallant Fox, he was the first Canadian-bred horse to place in an American Triple Crown race...
  
   won the race in a track record time of 1:47.40 for 1⅛ miles. As at 2008, that record remains intact.

Winners since 1997

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2009	Our Edge	Alan Garcia Alan Garcia (jockey) Alan Garcia is a thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He was Peru's leading apprentice jockey in 2003 and in that same year he began racing in the United States at the Meadowlands Racetrack where he was also the leading apprentice. His father and grandfather were both jockeys in Peru...	Nick Zito Nick Zito Nicholas Philip "Nick" Zito is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.Zito began his career as a hot walker and worked his way up to a groom, to an assistant trainer, and to a trainer...	Robert LaPenta	1:43.70
2008	Magical Forest	Jorge Chavez Jorge F. Chavez Jorge F. Chavez is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Chavez began his career in horse racing in 1982 in his native Peru and by 1987 was his country's leading rider. In April 1988 he emigrated to the United States where he raced with a great deal of success at Florida race tracks...	Joseph Demola	Paraneck Stable	1:44.02
2007	Xchanger	Edgar Prado	Mark Shuman	Circle Z Stable et al.	1:43.40
2006	Awfully Smart	Ramon Dominguez Ramon A. Dominguez Ramon A. Dominguez is an Eclipse Award-winning champion jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing....	Alan E. Goldberg Alan E. Goldberg Alan E. Goldberg is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer. He began his career as a professional trainer in the early 1970s, serving as an apprentice to Walter Kelley from a base at New York's Aqueduct Racetrack. In 1974 he went out on his own and in 1989 trained Safely Kept to American...	Jayeff B Stables	1:43.23
2005	Sun King	Rafael Bejarano	Nick Zito Nick Zito Nicholas Philip "Nick" Zito is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.Zito began his career as a hot walker and worked his way up to a groom, to an assistant trainer, and to a trainer...	Tracy Farmer	1:43.33
2004	Pollard's Vision	Jerry Bailey	Todd Pletcher	Edgewood Farm	1:43.85
2003	Awesome Time	Anthony Black Anthony S. Black Anthony S. "Tony" Black is a record-holding jockey in North American Thoroughbred horse racing. He is a nephew of U.S...	Nick Zito Nick Zito Nicholas Philip "Nick" Zito is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.Zito began his career as a hot walker and worked his way up to a groom, to an assistant trainer, and to a trainer...	Robert V. LaPenta	1:43.26
2002	Running Tide	Ramon Dominguez Ramon A. Dominguez Ramon A. Dominguez is an Eclipse Award-winning champion jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing....	Rodney Jenkins	On The Run Farm	1:45.10
2001	Burning Roma	Rick Wilson	Anthony Dutrow Anthony W. Dutrow Anthony W. "Tony" Dutrow is an American horse trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing.The eldest of three brothers involved in Thoroughbred racing, he is the son of the late well-known Maryland trainer Richard E. Dutrow, Sr...	Harold Queen	1:42.41
2000	Grundlefoot	Travis Dunkelberger	Gary Capuano	Paul Fowler, Jr.	1:44.04
1999	Stellar Brush	Mike McCarthy Michael J. McCarthy Michael J. McCarthy was a Major General in the United States Air Force.-Biography:A native of Niagara, Wisconsin, he attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Additionally he attended Troy State University and Harvard University.-Career:...	Richard W. Small	Robert E. Meyerhoff	1:42.78
1998	Scatmandu	Richard Migliore	John C. Kimmel John C. Kimmel John C. Kimmel is an American thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He holds a pre-med undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School in 1980.-References:**...	Robert Waxman	1:42.43
1997	Leestown	Jose Velez, Jr. Jose A. Velez, Jr. Jose Antonio Velez, Jr. is a jockey who competes in American Thoroughbred horse races.The son of jockey Jose Velez, Sr., he began his riding career at Atlantic City Race Course in 1980 and won his first race later that year at the Meadowlands...	D. Wayne Lukas D. Wayne Lukas Darrell Wayne Lukas is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S...	Not found	1:43.46