Delightful Kiss entered Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Turfway Park Fall Championship without having raced over a synthetic track or farther than 1 1/8 miles.

It didn't show in his performance. Unleashing an eye-catching rally under Calvin Borel on the final turn of the 1 1/2-mile stakes, Delightful Kiss ($19) swooped to the lead and maintained a comfortable advantage in the stretch to win by 1 1/4 lengths over Star Plus.

A wall of horses then surged to engage them midway on the final turn, but none could muster the acceleration to go with Delightful Kiss leaving the turn and through the stretch. The winner, a 4-year-old gelded son of Kissin Kris owned and bred by Hobeau Farm and trained by Pete Anderson, raced 1 1/2 miles over Turfway's Polytrack surface in 2:32.25.