2016 Maiden Info from Del Mar

[Bill Lyster]

2016 Del Mar maiden info:

There were 93 maiden races with FTS (first time starters) and FTS won 34 of them, but FTS only won when running 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 on the dirt and 8.0 on the turf.

Total 2YO MCl - 2YO MSW - 3YO MCl - 3YO MSW

5.0 - 2/7 1/3 1/2 0/1 0/1
5.5 - 18/33 6/14 10/12 1/5 1/2
6.0 - 8/23 1/4 5/8 1/6 1/5
6.5 - 2/4 0/0 1/3 0/0 1/4
7.0 - 0/3 0/0 0/0 0/3 0/0
8.0 - 0/2 0/0 0/2 0/0 0/0
5.0T – 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/1
8.0T – 4/15 0/0 4/8 0/0 0/7
8.5T – 0/2 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/2

Obviously, the Delmar meet is a development meet for young horses, so this info might be specific to this time of year and perhaps on into the fall, at least until the good FTS maidens win their first races.

Workout factors:
The FPD, SRW, 5f/6f info appears close to the same for the 34 FTS winners and all other of the 89 maiden winners.

Of the 34 maiden FTS winners, 73.5% had an SW workout; 35.3% had a GW workout; 52.9% had an HWL workout; 47.1% had a SAR workout and 67% had an SWG workout.

The other 89 maiden race winners, 48.9% had SW; 2.3% had a GW; 23.3% had an HWL; 14.5% had a SAR and 39% had an SWG workout designation.

So you can see that successful FTS runners are ones that check most of the SW/GW/HWL/SAR/SWG boxes


So most of the first time winners are in shorter races, with fewer first starts as the distances increase or change surface.

Good luck this year at Del Mar.