Del Mar Stable News

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Del Mar's Maiden Allowance Dirt Purses to be Worth Over $100,000

Uncontrollable © Benoit Photo As it did in 2022, Del Mar again will offer an alluring bonus package for maidens competing at the highest levels on dirt throughout its upcoming 84th summer season. The bonus...

Highly Successful 'Ship & Win" Program Back at Del Mar for 2023

Bello and Bartlett’s The Big Wam was a double “Ship & Win” winner last summer, including the Graduation Stakes. © Benoit Photo Del Mar’s “Ship & Win” program, the track’s highly successful magnet for attracting...

Regal Glory Goes Out In A Blaze Of Glory Again Winning Matriarch As Del Mar Closes

Regal Glory © Benoit Photo Peter Brant’s grand racemare Regal Glory closed out her exceptional career with a second straight triumph in Del Mar’s Grade I, $401,500 Matriarch Stakes Sunday on closing day of the...

Cecil B. DeMille Stakes (GIII)

Speed Boat Beach © Benoit Photo FLAVIEN PRAT (Speed Boat Beach, winner ) – “He broke well and I thought I was going to be on the lead. But Umberto (Rispoli on Game Time) wanted...

Stable Notes December 4, 2022

Pizza Bianca © Benoit Photo PIZZA BIANCA RETURNS TO THE SCENE OF HER GREATEST TRIUMPH Pizza Bianca was a little known 2-year-old filly when she first arrived at Del Mar at the beginning of November...

Speaking Scout Comes Running Late Saturday To Take Down Grade I Hollywood Derby at Del Mar

Speaking Scout © Benoit Photo Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners’ Speaking Scout fired a big shot in the lane and came away a Grade I stakes winner for the first time when he clicked by three-quarters of...

Jimmy Durante Stakes (GIII)

Liguria © Benoit Photo FLAVIEN PRAT (Liguria, winner) – “She was travelling well and I was confident. When I rode her in New York (her maiden victory on October 22 at the Belmont at Aqueduct...

Stormy Liberal Stakes

Turn On The Jets © Benoit Photo JUAN HERNANDEZ (Turn On The Jets, winner) – “I was having a nice trip inside, saving ground. I was hoping a hole would open up for me, and...

Stable Notes December 3, 2022

Regal Glory © Benoit Photo REGAL GLORY BACK TO DEFEND HER CROWN IN G1 MATRIARCH SUNDAY Last year when Regal Glory came out to Del Mar for the G1 Matriarch, she had never won a...

Jack Sixpack Rambles Best Late To Take Friday Del Mar Feature

Jack Sixpack © Benoit Photo Nick Alexander’s homebred Jack Sixpack came widest and fastest of all through the lane Friday at Del Mar to capture the day’s feature attraction by a length and a quarter...