Del Mar News & Announcements

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Del Mar Again Offers 41 Stakes at $7.3 Million for Summer 2018

Mirroring its successful 2017 summer stakes pattern, Del Mar will present 41 stakes races worth $7,300,000 over the course of the 36-day session scheduled for 2018. Racing alongside the blue Pacific this year will begin...

2017 Breeders' Cup World Championships brings $96.8 Million to San Diego Economy

Breeders’ Cup provides powerful economic stimulus to local San Diego community through extensive employment opportunities and increased visitor and local spending.

Josh Rubinstein Named President of Del Mar Thoroughbred Club

Josh Rubinstein © Benoit Photo The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club (DMTC) announced today that Josh Rubinstein has been named its President. Rubinstein, 48, has worked at Del Mar in an executive capacity since 1997 and...

An Evening of Music to Support the Victims of the Fire at San Luis Rey Downs Training Center

Featuring Burt Bacharach with a special guest performance by Elvis Costello Burt Bacharach, a horse owner and racing fan for 50 years, has announced that he will host a fundraiser for the victims of the...

Over $600,000 Now Raised to Help Victims of Last Week's San Luis Rey Downs Training Center Fire by The Stronach Group/Santa Anita & Del Mar GoFundMe Effort

$250,000 Has Been Approved for Immediate Dispersal to Assist with Urgent Expenses More than $600,000 currently has been raised via donations to the TSG/Santa Anita & Del Mar GoFundMe account through a world-wide outpouring to...

Post-Fire Situation Settles at Del Mar as Training Is Held

Thoroughbreds jogged on the main racetrack at Del Mar Monday morning as life after the horrific training track fire in nearby Bonsal began to settle for horses and horsemen involved with the events at San...

Trainer Martine Bellocq Remains Hospitalized Following Injuries Suffered at San Luis Rey

Trainer Martine Bellocq continues to be treated at UCSD Medical Center in San Diego for burns she received trying to rescue her horses during the San Luis Rey Downs training center fire in Bonsal Thursday....

Santa Anita & Del Mar Thoroughbred Club Join Forces Following Fire to Provide Off-Site Stabling During San Luis Rey Downs Training Center Reconstruction

With Eight Barns at San Luis Rey Destroyed by Lilac Fire on Thursday, Training & Stabling Facilities Immediately Required for Nearly 500 Thoroughbreds Following an emergency meeting of the California horse racing industry’s Stabling and...

More Than 800 Fire-Threatened Horses Evacuated to Del Mar

Del Mar’s backstretch area is currently providing safe haven for more than 850 horses that escaped a wind-blown, fast-moving fire that ripped through the North County area of San Diego Thursday. The first group of...

Del Mar Springboards Off Breeders' Cup to its Best Fall Season

The highly successful first Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar – which has drawn rave reviews from coast to coast – got the track’s fall meeting off to a rousing start and that momentum carried through...