Del Mar Stable News

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Stellar Wind Outruns Vale Dori Again in Hirsch Stakes

Stellar Wind (outside) © Benoit Photo Hronis Racing’s classy Stellar Wind continued her mastery over archrival Vale Dori with a hard-fought victory in Sunday’s featured Grade I $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes for older fillies...

Fleet Treat Stakes Quotes

MIKE SMITH (Miss Sunset, winner) – “She was on it all the way. Perfect set-up; perfect spot for her. Went just like it was supposed to – not like yesterday (when Smith was unseated by...

Nine Juvenile Fillies Clash Wednesday in C.T.B.A. Stakes

Nine California-bred two-year-old fillies, all of them winners of at least one race in their brief careers, will match strides Wednesday in the 64th running of the $100,000 C.T.B.A. Stakes at five and one-half furlongs....

Stable Notes July 30, 2017

Flores, David © Benoit Photo CROSBY PRINCIPALS SHOW CLASS AND STUDIOUSLY MOVE ON Thirty yards out of the gate, Saturday’s $300,000 Grade I Bing Crosby Stakes went from high expectations to high anxiety. When 2016...

Ransom the Moon Wins Eventful Bing Crosby Stakes

Ransom The Moon © Del Mar Thoroughbred Club In a memorably eventful renewal of the Grade I $300,000 Bing Crosby Stakes Saturday, Ransom the Moon took advantage of untoward circumstances to triumph after Drefong, the...

California Dreamin' Stakes

My Italian Babbo © Benoit Photo COREY NAKATANI (My Italian Babbo, winner) -- “I knew it was close, but I thought I got there. We put a lot of time in with him (winner). He’s...

Stables Notes July 29, 2017

Vale Dori © Benoti Photo VALE DORI OUT TO BRING AN END TO BAFFERT’S DEARTH IN THE HIRSCH There are 44 different names of stakes Bob Baffert has won in compiling a Del Mar training...

Mr. Hinx Upsets Ann Arbor Eddie in Real Good Deal Stakes

Mr. Hinx © Benoit Photo Gary Barber’s Mr. Hinx, ridden by Flavien Prat, gamely withstood the stretch long challenge of favored Ann Arbor Eddie to win the featured $150,000 Real Good Deal Stakes for California-bred...

Stellar Wind, Vale Dori Tangle Again in Clement L. Hirsch Stakes

Vale Dori © Del Mar Thoroughbred Club The burgeoning rivalry between Stellar Wind and Vale Dori resumes Sunday when the two outstanding mares will lead a field of six female runners to the post in...

Stable Notes July 28, 2017

Drefong © Del Mar Thoroughbred Club BAFFERT ON CROSBY: ‘IT’S A WIN AND LAY DOWN FOR A WEEK’ Saturday’s Grade I $300,000 Bing Crosby Stakes is a “Win And You’re In” Breeders’ Cup Challenge series...