Team Merchants © Benoit Photo O’NEILL HAS A PAIR TO FACE THE ACES IN SOUPED UP SHARED BELIEF Who knew that Bob Baffert was going to supplement disputed Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit to run...

Miss Bigly © Benoit Photo Agave Racing Stable or Rockin Robin Racing Stable’s Miss Bigly dug in through the stretch and outgamed a dead-game rival to score a neck victory in the featured Tranquility Lake...

C Z Rocket © Benoit Photo TRAINERS’ CONCERNS ‘SURFACE’ ON EVE OF THE PAT O’BRIEN STAKES It’s a common, everyday factor in Thoroughbred racing magnified by the size of the purse and the importance of...

Rock Your World © Benoit Photo A delicious confrontation between two of the aces from this year’s Triple Crown events will unfold at Del Mar Sunday when Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit and Kentucky Derby/Belmont...

Hear My Prayer © Benoit Photo Holly and David Wilson’s Hear My Prayer, a filly in from Florida and making her west coast debut, tracked the early pacesetter, then fired a good shot in the...

Medina Spirit © Benoit Photo MEDINA SPIRIT SUPPLEMENTED TO SUNDAY’S SHARED BELIEF STAKES While his Kentucky Derby victory remains in limbo pending a Kentucky Horse Racing Commission ruling, the next start for Medina Spirit was...

C Z Rocket © Benoit Photo A field of 10 stout sprinters will travel seven furlongs Saturday at Del Mar in the 36th edition of the Grade II, $200,000 Pat O’Brien Stakes. The extended dash...

Miss Bigly © Benoit Photo Six fillies and mares will run a mile here Friday afternoon in the featured event of the afternoon’s eight-race card, the $80,000 Tranquility Lake Stakes. The overnight headliner honors the...

Raymundos Secret © Benoit Photo The question, much more often than not, is “Can he/she go long?’ The vast majority of American horses start out their careers sprinting, or going around one turn. The distance...

Lieutenant Dan © Benoit Photo Nick Alexander’s homebred Lieutenant Dan was just too fast for seven rivals in Sunday’s $101,500 Green Flash Handicap at Del Mar, running five furlongs on turf in :55.98. The 5-year-old...