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Delaware Oaks features Grade 1 winners Round Pound and Sis City Once beaten ROUND POUND (Awesome Again), winner of the Acorn S. (G1) and Fantasy S. (G2) in her last two starts, and Ashland S. (G1) heroine SIS CITY (Slew City Slew) highlight a field of eight sophomore fillies entered for Saturday's $500,000 Delaware Oaks (G2). The talented lasses will meet for the first time in the 1 1/16-mile event. Trained by John Servis, Round Pond dropped her career bow in mid-February and has won four straight starts since, including the one-mile Acorn at Belmont Park by 1 1/2 lengths on June 4. She defeated Smuggler (Unbridled), who came back to win the Mother Goose S. (G1), and Splendid Blended (Unbridled's Song), who returned to defeat older distaffers in the Vanity H. (G1) in her last appearance. Stewart Elliott rides. Sis City finished fourth as the favorite in the Kentucky Oaks (G1) most recently, but she doesn't appear to care for Churchill Downs (0-0-1 from three starts) and should be much more formidable racing outside of Louisville, Kentucky. The bay filly dominated her competition in her first two attempts this year, winning the Davona Dale S. (G2) by 16 lengths and Ashland by 10 1/2, and Sis City will make her first start under the direction of new trainer Bobby Frankel on Saturday. The complete field, from the rail with pilots and weights, is LISAIZED (Wayne County [Ire]), Eriluis Vaz, 115; BAYOU BREEZE (A.P. Indy), no rider, 115; PLEASANT CHIMES (Pleasant Tap), no rider, 119; BROOKE'S HALO (Southern Halo), Jason Lumpkins, 119; R LADY JOY (Vicar), Jose Lezcano, 119; Sis City, Edgar Prado, 122; DANCE AWAY CAPOTE (Capote), Rafael Bejarano, 119; and Round Pond, 122. The $300,000 Robert G. Dick Memorial Breeders' Cup H. and $100,000 R.R.M. Carpenter Jr. Memorial H. will also be held Saturday at Delaware Park. The former drew an overflow of 15 for fillies and mares for 11 furlongs on the turf, and Grade 2 winner HONEY RYDER (Lasting Approval) is the 120-pound highweight. The Carpenter, which will be held at 1 1/16 miles on the main track, attracted eight runners, including nine-time stakes victor CHEROKEE'S BOY (Citidancer), who exits wins in the Skip Away S. and Brandywine H.
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