Miss Monica © Benoit Photo

Ten fast fillies of the 2-year-old variety will line up deep in Del Mar’s backstretch chute Saturday in the 76th edition the Grade I Del Mar Debutante, the championship race for juvenile lassies at the summer session.

The seven-furlong crucible will carry a purse of $300,000 with $180,000 of it earmarked for the winner and will be Race 10 on an 11-race program.

Also on the Saturday card is the Del Mar Juvenile Turf, a Grade III offering that carries a $100,000 prize and is run at a mile on the Jimmy Durante Turf Course for 2-year-olds. Further still, there is the Tranquility Lake Stakes, an overnight affair that promises a $100,000 pot for fillies and mares aged 3 and up at a mile on the main track.

The morning line favorite for the Debutante is Pegram, Watson and Weitman’s Miss Monica, a whip-fast winner in a six and a half furlong straight maiden affair on August 9. A daughter of the Gun Runner sire Early Voting who fetched $850,000 at a 2-year-old in training sale in April, the dark bay or brown miss is trained by Bob Baffert, who already has won this race on 12 occasions. She’ll be ridden by top rider Juan Hernandez.

Baffert additionally has By Talla Racing’s Holmby entered in the dash. That chestnut miss by Corniche has been to the post twice already and scored both times, most recently by a neck in the Sorrento Stakes on August 9. Rickie Gonzalez has the call on her.

The Juvenile Turf, which goes as Race 7, has drawn a field of 10 juvenile colts and geldings headed by a sparkling first-out winner in Shadow Nation, an Irish-bred colt who’ll have the services of leading rider Joel Rosario. The chestnut by the Scat Daddy sire Sioux Nation and has been training forwardly locally for trainer Mike Puype since his impressive initial tally.

The Tranquility Lake will be presented as Race 8 on the card and has drawn 10 runners.

First post for the Saturday program goes at 1:30 p.m.