Chalcolithic vaults Neolithic en route to $2 million; R Averie Lynn wins at Delaware – again

Neolithic is less than $100,000 away from reaching the $2 million mark in career progeny earnings after the victory of Chalcolithic in a mile and 70-yard race at Delaware Park.

The 3-year-old filly owned and bred by William A. Smith enjoyed a rail trip early in the race under a stranglehold by Cecily Evans, swung out for racing room on the turn and was all out getting up at the wire by a neck. With her second victory in four starts this year, she paid $7, earned a check for $11,400 and lifted her sire over $1.9 million in earnings.

R Averie Lynn continued her assault on the Delaware Park oval yesterday, getting her eighth career victory, seven of them coming in Joe Biden’s home state.

The 5-year-old Gone Astray mare went wire-to-wire in a $25,500 starter allowance under Daniel Centeno and paid $5 for her second victory in a row, both of them receiving 87 Equibase ‘E’ speed figures. Bred by Dancing Wind Stables, R Averie Lynn was a $25,000 OBS July 2-year-old, and the $14,400 prize for her latest score, by nearly three lengths, boosted her lifetime earnings to $193,986 on a record of 8-12-3 in 34 starts.