Champagne Room © Benoit MARIO GUTIERREZ (Champagne Room, winner) – “Peter (trainer Peter Eurton) is good with riders. He doesn’t say too much. He just says ‘Ride your race.’ I had a good trip from...

California Chrome © Zoe Metz for Del Mar Thoroughbred Club CLASSIC UPDATE: TWO WEEKS OUT, THE BUILD-UP HAS BEGUN With the $1 million Grade I TVG Pacific Classic, the signature event of the summer meeting,...

SIBLING REVELRY FOR DESORMEAUXS WITH MISS SOUTHERN MISS Circumstances have prevented the Desormeaux brothers, Hall of Fame jockey Kent and trainer J. Keith, from combining forces with 2-year-old filly Miss Southern Miss for her first...

CHAMPAGNE ROOM BUBBLES UP AS SORRENTO THREAT On paper, it looks like a quantum step up, sending a maiden race runner-up out for a second career start in a $200,000 Grade II Stakes. But trainer...

Monster Bea © Benoit Del Mar Thoroughbred Club will present an attractive stakes doubleheader Saturday, shining the spotlight on the Grade II $200,000 Sorrento Stakes for two-year-old fillies and the Grade III $150,000 La Jolla...

Green With Eddie © Benoit For the third consecutive year, the owner-trainer-jockey combination of J. Paul Reddam, Doug O’Neill and Mario Gutierrez won Del Mar’s $100,000 Graduation Stakes as 6-5 favored Green With Eddie easily...

Bob Baffert © Benoit BAFFERT TAKES THE FOURTH ON HIS INITIAL THOROUGHBRED GOAL Making the transition from Quarter Horse to Thoroughbred trainer in the late 1980s and early ‘90s, Bob Baffert had one initial goal....

Stellar Wind (outside) and Beholder in the Gr I Clement L Hirsch Stakes © Benoit BEHOLDER LOSS LEAVES MANDELLA WITH A CLASSIC DECISION TO MAKE Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella was calm and, to...

Stellar Wind (outside) © Benoit In a stunning upset, Hronis Racing’s Stellar Wind, the Eclipse Award winner as champion three-year-old filly of 2015, outran 1-9 favored Beholder in the stretch to win the featured $300,000...

Beholder winning the 2015 Clement L Hirsch Stakes © Zoe Metz Del Mar Thoroughbred Club BEHOLDER HAS A TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW – HER OWN IN 2015 Following the seven-length victory by Beholder in the...