Obeah Stakes

The Obeah Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid June at Delaware Park Racetrack in Stanton, Delaware.

Formerly a Grade III event, it is contested on dirt at a previous distance of a mile and an eighth (9 furlongs).

The race is now one and one-sixteenth miles and permits horses three years and older to compete.

[1] The race is named in honor of Jane du Pont Lunger's filly, Obeah, winner of the Delaware Handicap in 1969 and 1970.

After a nine-month layoff, the filly Unbridled Belle ran second in the 2007 Obeah, won the 2008 edition by nearly six lengths and at age six, won the 2009 race by eleven lengths.