Splendora © Benoit Photo

Five fillies and two mares will go sprinting this Thursday in an allowance feature that carries a purse of $84,000 and tops Del Mar’s eight-race card.

Likely favorite in the six-furlong testing is By Talla Racing’s Splendora, a steady sort who has been either first or second in six of her seven lifetime starts. The 4-year-old daughter of the Into Mischief stallion Audible has been knocking heads most recently with Graded stakes horses and gets some serious class relief in this event.

The connections for the dark bay or brown miss are good: Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert and top local rider Juan Hernandez. 

Yet another runners worthy of an extra look in the lineup is Saints or Sinners’ Nay V Belle, a Midshipman filly who races out of the barn of trainer Mark Glatt. The chestnut 4-year-old has a pair of wins and three seconds on her ledger and had a good prep race going six and a half furlongs at Santa Anita on June 15 following seven months on the sidelines. 

Kazushi Kimura has the call on Nay V Belle and they’ll break from the outside post in the seven-horse lineup. 

A most-interesting entrant in the field is the Argentinian miss Ooty, who will be making her U.S. bow in the dash. The 4-year-old daughter of the Curlin stallion Dabster

was a Group I winner last May in her native land, but will be making her first start in 10 months. 

But she’s got connections: She’s wears the silks of no less a Thoroughbred owner than Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa al Maktoum and now races out of the Baffert barn. Drayden Van Dyke will be aboard for her first Northern Hemisphere outing.

Here’s the full lineup for the race from the rail out with riders and morning line odds:

Harris Farms’ Scary Fast Ride (Tyler Baze, 5-1); Splendora (7/5); Ooty (5-1); Bishara or Khoury’s Safa (Geovanni Franco, 8-1); Amestoy, Amestoy Jr. or Beasley’s Practical Dream (Antonio Fresu, 12-1); Klein, Lebherz or Lyons’ Getthemoney (Antonio Ayuso, 12-1), and Nay V Belle (3-1).

The sprint is Race 7 on the card, which has a first post of 2 p.m.