Himika © Benoit Photo

Six juvenile fillies will get their initial taste of stakes experience at Del Mar Sunday when they go postward in the 57th edition of the Sorrento Stakes. The Grade III offering carries a $150,000 purse for its six-furlong spin.

Likely favorite in the dash that serves as a key prep to the track’s filly championship race – the $300,000, Grade I Del Mar Debutante on Saturday, September 6 – is Baoma Corp’s Himika, a bay daughter of champion Curlin who fetched $900,000 at the OBS 2-year-old in-training sale in April. She races out of the barn of 2-year-old king Bob Baffert and comes into the stakes off a six-length romp in her debut June 12 at Santa Anita.

Baffert, who already has won the Sorrento a record eight times, has signed on top rider Juan Hernandez to handle his filly. They’re listed as the morning line favorite at 6/5.

Another miss of note in the dash is Altamira Racing Stable, Kagele or Marchosky’s Mo’Em Down, who is trained by Peter Miller, the man currently tied for top training honors at the Del Mar summer meet. The daughter of the Uncle Mo sire Caracaro was a romping nine and a half length winner of her second start at Churchill Downs on July 21 and gets the saddle services of Umberto Rispoli for the Sorrento. They are listed at 3-1 on Del Mar’s morning line.

Here’s the full field for the stakes from the rail out with riders and morning line odds:  Himka; Agave Racing Stable and Medallion Racing’s Dreaming of Alys (Antonio Fresu, 7/2). Mo’Em Down; J K Racing Stable’s My Kat (Diego Herrera, 10-1); Michael Jawl’s Thank You India (Roberto Gonzalez, 15-1), and Juan Garcia’s Stuffy Mist (Armando Ayuso, 5-1).

The Sorrento will go as Race 3 Sunday with a likely post time of 3:00 p.m. First post that afternoon will be 2 p.m.