The Delaware track pours for the eighth time the Strange Brew Turf Handicap.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The $100,000 nine furlong turf race was first run in 1999 making it one of the long running stakes in the sim.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The race shapes up with one speed horse, grimmy\u2019s Z Dancer<\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>4-1 favorite Scotian Kid, <\/B>9\/2 second favorite Cry of the Fox <\/B>and 5-1 third choice Seeking Sal<\/B> figure to be the top contenders most likely to run down Z Dancer before the finish line.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Last year\u2019s Strange Brew winner, Lyric Poet<\/B>, also has returned to defend his title.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Here is the entire field, in post position order, with the odds, jockey and owner in parentheses. <\/P> \u00a0 Giddyup Diddie (10-1, P Fabre, deelynette) \u00a0 This mare is once again trying to take on the boys.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is the 31st<\/SUP> ranked classic distance mare that is a multiple stakes winner.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This includes a win in the Grade 1 Cedora D Stakes at Illinois in week 2587.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Though she has not had much success recently taking on the opposite sex, she did post a victory against colts early in her 3yo season in the Disturbing Storm(IRE) Handicap in week 1999.<\/SPAN><\/P> \u00a0 Lostcode\u2019s Highest Love has raced impressively recently.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He finished second in his last two races, including a 102 speed figure last time out in an allowance race in Michigan and a placing in the Bird Seed Bonanza Stakes in Illinois in week 2685.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He also was a winner three races ago.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>His recent form makes him a strong threat for top honors.<\/P> \u00a0 Though he has one only three of eighteen lifetime races, Scotian Kid is a perfect one for one on the turf.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>That win was in the Prosper Vision Stakes in week 2608 at Upper New York.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>That victory was his first since his two year old season.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This four year old colt is racing against older horses for the first time in his career.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He is graded stakes placed and figures to be right there for the victory based on his win in the Prosper Vision.<\/P> \u00a0 As mentioned earlier, there is a single speed horse in this race, and that is Z Dancer.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He was able to go wire to wire in his last race, but that is the first time in a while that he has been able to take his easy lead and carry it home to victory.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This veteran of 55 races has seen the winners circle 14 times.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>His last race was an allowance win in California with a 102 speed rating.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>That was a good tuneup for the Strange Brew, a race in which Z Dancer finished second last year.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>One final interesting tidbit about this multiple stakes winner is that he ran as a claimer during his four year old season, but he wasn\u2019t claimed.<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> Eternity(IRE) (8-1, Z Wylde, blackirish) \u00a0 Eternity has a very favorable 6 wins in fourteen starts on the turf.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This record includes nine races over on the sod of Ireland.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Eternity is running out of the EAAA division for only the second time in his career.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The first race in the North American division was his last race, a disappointing ninth place finish in the DelPenn Championship Day Pennsylvania Handicap.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He won a stakes race as a two year old in an owner restricted race and looks for his second stakes win in the Strange Brew.<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> Joyoflife (7-1, B Dillin, turfsurf) \u00a0 Owner\/trainer turfsurf has compiled and impressive record in the sim, with over 100 victories.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He will try to instill some of that success in Joyoflife this week.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Joyoflife ran second last time out in a North Florida allowance race in week 2713.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He also won three races back, also an allowance race.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Joyoflife has been enjoying success of late in allowance company but will need to step it up against graded competition to continue his successful streak.<\/P> <\/B>\u00a0<\/P> Lyric Poet (7-1, B Ironside, opinora) \u00a0 Lyric Poet has been a faithful turfer throughout his career.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>After his first career race on the dirt, owner\/trainer opinora sent Lyric Poet to the grass and won.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This son of Dixieland Band (Dixieland Band x A.P. Indy x Forli) has been on the turf ever since that first victory.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Lyric Poet won this race last year and looks to repeat that performance again this year. \u00a0<\/SPAN>He has had success on the Delaware lawn with the win in last year\u2019s Strange Brew and also finished 2nd<\/SUP> by a nose in his other Delaware race.<\/P> \u00a0 Seeking Sal may be coming into the Strange Brew with the best recent form.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He has finished 2nd<\/SUP> in his last two races including a speed figure of 106 in the owner restricted DPCD Mile at Pennsylvania in week 2706.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He has previous history of good form streaks.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In the transition from his two year old season to the beginning of the three year old season he had a four race winning streak, culminating in a Grade 1 victory in the DUR AJC in week 2454.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This race will be Seeking Sal\u2019s first race of his four year old year.<\/P> <\/B>\u00a0<\/P> Cry of the Fox (9\/2, I Wimpy, redback) \u00a0 Frequent winner Cry of the Fox is coming off a very successful 2005 campaign.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He was the winner of five races last year, totaling thirteen wins for his career.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>As a two year old he won the Grade 3 Flying Saucer Stakes, his only stakes victory.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>As second favorite, owner\/trainer redback hopes to get Cry of the Fox hopes to get Cry of the Fox back to the graded stakes winners circle.<\/P> <\/B>\u00a0<\/P> What else to look for at Delaware in Week 2741<\/B>:<\/P> \u00a0 In the seventh race zewango3\u2019s Wylde Cat <\/B>shows up in a conditioned allowance race.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The race is the seventh and Wylde Cat is the 3\/5 favorite.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In his last race Wylde Cat finished second in the Grade 1 Blue Ant Handicap on DelPenn Championship Day.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The first race of Wylde Cat\u2019s 6 race career was here at Delaware in week 2517.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He finished second in a maiden special weight that day.<\/P> \u00a0 Two Delaware regulars will be racing this week.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Gone and Went(IRE)<\/B> is once again entered in a starter allowance in the 8th<\/SUP> race.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This is the seventh straight race at Deleware for Gone and Went.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Owner\/Trainer theodore10 <\/B>claimed Gone and Went in week 2608 and has enjoyed two wins, a second, and a third in the five races since the claim.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Meanwhile, tartar\u2019s Barefoot Rose<\/B> also races for the seventh straight time.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Barefoot Rose had a four race winning streak at Delaware but finished third and fourth in his last two races.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Rider B Ironside is up in the saddle for the seventh straight time.<\/P> \u00a0 Former Grade 1 winner and 2004 Bluegrass Derby participant Danzig With Buda <\/B>will participate in a conditioned allowance race in the 9th<\/SUP> race.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Owner\/Trainer juju<\/B> looks to get \u2018Buda back on the winning track by dropping out of stakes and graded stakes competition for the first time in seven races.<\/P> \u00a0 Last Year’s Winner Lyric Poet Looks to Defend Title<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Highest Love(IRE) (7-1, D Silver, lostcode)<\/FONT><\/H1>
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Scotian Kid (4-1, C Sanders, dougiec5)<\/FONT><\/H1>
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Z Dancer (5-1, G Rogers, grimmy)<\/FONT><\/H1>
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Seeking Sal (5-1, H Ross, keryn)<\/FONT><\/H1>
Piccolo87\u2019s Whirling Thunder goes for his third straight win at Delaware in the thirteenth race.