Wilmington, Del., June 27, 2026 — Novogratz Racing Stables’ McCready notched his first career stake victory in the $150,000 Kent Stakes at Delaware Park today. The race had been originally scheduled to be run on the turf but was transferred to the main track due to a steady rain which started at the beginning of the race card and continued until early in the afternoon.
With former six-time Delaware Park leading jockey Carol Cedeno astride, the 3-year-old son of Practical Joke won by 2 ½-lengths and returned $16.80 as the fifth choice in the field of seven. Kravitz, with Kevin Gomez, finished second a neck in front of the 2-to-1 favorite Chambersville, with Christopher Elliott, in third.
McCready ran the mile and an eighth in 1:53.50 over a sloppy track.
The Kentucky-bred conditioned by locally based trainer McLean Robertson raised his career record to three wins from five starts with earnings of $201,870.
“This is an incredible win for me,” said Carol Cedeno who resides in nearby Middletown, Delaware. “This is my home track and I live in the area, so to get a victory here like this is especially nice. The horse got the job done though. He was super. When I watched the replays of his prior races, I noticed he breaks good but not good enough to go right to the lead, so today I was planning to be patient and to get him to relax. He got relaxed and when I got to the 5/8ths pole I knew I had a lot of horse. When we got to the 3/8ths pole, he took off and I knew we had it.”
