Well-traveled Shrinking Violet, whose specialty is sprinting on the grass, used the featured $92,530 Daisycutter Handicap as a showcase for her ability Friday with an authoritative victory in the five-furlong dash over Del Mar’s infield...

An evenly-matched field of ten three-year-olds will battle Sunday in the 75th running of the Grade III $150,000 La Jolla Handicap at a mile and one-sixteenth over Del Mar’s infield Jimmy Durante Turf Course. Despite...

She’s Not Here, an 11-1 longshot invader from the Midwest making her California debut, rallied from off the pace under Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith to win Thursday’s feature at one mile over the...

By Hank Wesch SWIPE SWINGS FOR GRADED STAKES WIN IN BEST PAL Trainer J. Keith Desormeaux took a look at the past performance sheet for Saturday’s Grade II $200,000 Best Pal Stakes, noted that his...

By Hank Wesch SANTIAGO GONZALEZ: FROM VENEZUELA, WITH DRIVE California is the third state in which jockey Santiago Gonzalez has landed in his quest to make a place for himself in American racing. But it’s...

Del Mar’s ten-race program Saturday will feature an attractive stakes doubleheader, spotlighting two-year-olds in the 45th running of the Grade II $200,000 Best Pal and classy older fillies and mares in the 58th running of...

Reddam Racing’s Mrazek, the 3-5 betting choice ridden by Mario Gutierrez, drew off easily in the stretch to win the featured $100,000 Graduation Stakes for California-bred two-year-olds Wednesday at Del Mar. Mrazek dueled for command...

By Hank Wesch ‘PHAROAH’S BACK ‘HOME’; LA JOLLA NEXT FOR HIS ONLY CONQUEROR OM “Home is where the heart is” – Pliny the Elder If the equine corollary to that universally known statement is: “Home...

Heavily-favored Gimme Da Lute completed a coast-to-coast stakes double for trainer Bob Baffert Sunday as the three-year-old colt emulated his Triple Crown champion stablemate American Pharoah, winner of the $1.75 million Haskell Invitational, with a...

By Hank Wesch ALL ABUZZ ABOUT BEHOLDER AND PACIFIC CLASSIC POSSIBILITY The excitement after Beholder’s victory in the Grade I $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes and possible next start in the $1 million TVG Pacific...