Retired Racing Hall of Fame jockey Chris McCarron and 1967 Horse of the Year Damascus are among five new inductees into the Delaware Park Wall of Fame.

Trainer Virgil “Buddy” Raines, Foxcatcher Farms, and R.R.M. Carpenter Jr., who served as chairman of the Delaware Racing Commission from 1971 through ’89, were also selected for induction by a panel of Delaware Park executives. Inductees were chosen from horse, trainer, jockey, owner, and non-participant categories, with only one nominee from each category elected.

“We are extremely proud to continue this tradition or recognizing achievements of the legends of Delaware racing,” said Bill Fasy, Delaware Park’s chief operating officer. “This second class of inductees represents the virtues and commitments of the people who have made the great tradition of horse racing at Delaware Park what it is today.”

McCarron was inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1989. A career winner of 7,141 races who retired from racing riding in 2002, McCarron led all riders at Delaware Park by wins in ’74, the same year he won the Eclipse Award as North America’s outstanding apprentice jockey.

Damascus concluded his racing career in 1968 with 21 wins in 32 starts for trainer Frank Whiteley Jr. and owner Edith Bancroft. Damascus made four career starts at Delaware Park and earned stakes wins in the ’67 Leonard Richards Stakes and ’68 William duPont Jr. Handicap.

Damascus was also named champion handicap horse and champion three-year-old male in ’67 after winning 12 of 16 starts. Following a third-place finish in the ’67 Kentucky Derby, Damascus posted consecutive wins in the Preakness and Belmont Stakes prior to winning the Leonard Richards.

Raines trained for 65 years and won seven stakes races at Delaware Park, including the Delaware Handicap with Everget (’44) and Open Fire (’66). He also trained ’62 Preakness winner Greek Money.

Foxcatcher Farms was owned and operated by the late William duPont Jr., who designed and built Delaware Park. DuPont owned and bred champions Fairy Chant, Parlo, and Berlo.

Carpenter owned Major League Baseball’s Philadelphia Phillies for three decades and served on the Board of Trustees and the committee on athletics and physical education at the University of Delaware. The University of Delaware’s Bob Carpenter Sports/Convocation Center is named in his honor.