Favored POSEIDON'S WARRIOR, a three-year-old colt out of POISED TO POUNCE, survived after dueling through blistering fractions of 21.24 and 43.26 seconds to take Delaware Park's $75,000 New Castle by 1 3/4 lengths on October 15.

Bred by Dark Hollow Farm in partnership with William Paca Beatson, POSEIDON'S WARRIOR previously won Penn National's East Hanover Stakes in July and Monmouth's NATC Futurity as a precocious two-year-old.