Seismic Beauty © Benoit Photo

The Grade I, $400,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes tops a highly competitive Saturday program at Del Mar and the filly and mare offering will be joined by the California Dreamin’ Stakes on the 11-race card.

The Hirsch, named in honor of one of the founders of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, is a key part of the shore oval’s “Oak Tree Day,” a salute to the racing association that is one of the sport’s most generous benefactors and an organization that Hirsch helped found besides.

Besides the 55th edition of the Hirsch, which has drawn seven distaff runners for its mile and one-sixteenth testing on the main track, the afternoon also will feature the 20th running of the $150,000 California Dreamin’, a mile and a sixteenth turf test limited to 3-year-olds and up bred in California.

The main track Hirsch features a trio of females who are all graded stakes winners – MyRacehorse or Leidel’s Seismic Beauty, Spendthrift Farm’s Kopion and Hill n Dale Equine Holdings and Stud Vendaval’s Richi. Four other topnotch femmes will join them in what will be Race 10 on the program.

The California Dreamin’, which goes as Race 9 on the card, has a standout in the 11-horse field in Integrity Thoroughbred Racing, the Ellwood Johnston Trust or Tevelde’s Kings River Knight, a speedy 7-year-old gelding who has been first or second in 17 of his 19 starts and is listed at even money on the morning line.

The Oak Tree group hosted a race meeting in the fall at Santa Anita for 42 years from 1969 through 2010. Their charitable generosity to racing includes nearly $25 million to such activities as equine research at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, the Winner’s Foundation, the Gregson Foundation and other worthy racing organizations. Additionally, they have aided Del Mar in providing its unique feeding program to its backstretch workers for the past three years.

For “Oak Tree Day,” the group has provided $100,000 toward the purse for the Hirsch and also will present $500 to the grooms of each “best turned out” horse during the 11-race program.

Here are the fields for the two stakes in post position order with horse, rider and morning line odds:

Clement L. Hirsch – Seismic Beauty (Juan Hernandez, 2-1); Breffni Farm’s Royal Spa (Hector I. Berrios, 6-1); US Equine, Burke or Sones, et al’s Mahina (Mike Smith, 20-1); Hunt, Giglio or Rogitz’s Nothing Like You (Drayden Van Dyke, 8-1); Richi (Atonio Fresu, 3-1); Hronis Racing’s Little Hidden Port (Armando Ayuso, 12-1), and Kopion (Kazushi Kimura, 5/2).

California Dreamin’ – Barba or McWilliams’ Annan (Geovanni Franco, 30-1); Double L Racing’s Aligato (Fresu, 4-1); Giddyup JR’s Clouseau (Kent Desormeaux, 12-1); Four Quarters Corp’s Miss Jo’s Curlin (Van Dyke, 30-1); Mojarro Racing’s Mr. Disrespectful (Berrios, 8-1); Reddam Racing’s Barely Funtional (Ayuso, 30-1); Harris Farms’ Coalinga Road (Mirco Demuro, 8-1); Slugo Racing’s Takes Three (Kimura, 15-1); Kings River Knight (Hernandez, 1/1); Koriner or Lyons’ Pure Madness (Tyler Baze, 15-1), and Sweetwater Stable, Gaudreau or Yamamoto, et al’s Mystic Spirit (Smith, 15-1).

First post Saturday is 2 p.m. with the California Dreamin’ slated to go postward at 6 p.m. and the Hirsch at 6:30 p.m.