Quality Stakes Schedule on Tap for 2024 Bing Crosby Fall Meet.

Del Mar’s betting menu for its upcoming 11th fall season projects a virtual mirror image to the one it presented in 2023, with one adjustment to the daily payout on the Pick Six.

Play at Del Mar, Online, or at Satellite Locations Nov. 1-2 in Thoroughbred Racing’s Biggest Live-Money Tournament.

Gaming, one of the “other” Bafferts in Sunday’s 77th edition of the Del Mar Futurity, proved plenty good enough under Flavien Prat and captured the Grade I sprint by a length and three quarters on closing day as the curtain rang down on Season 85 at the seaside oval.

Del Mar Juvenile Turf (GIII)

Big fields, big names highlight 2024 Summer Meet at Del Mar.

Before Saturday, jockey Kazushi Kimura had not won a stakes race at Del Mar. At the end of the day he can now say he’s won two, including the Grade II, $251,000 John C. Mabee Stakes aboard outsider Hang the Moon, who races for the Texas outfit CJ Thoroughbreds.

Thought Process © Benoit Photo HECTOR I. BERRIOS (Thought Process, winner) - “I knew I wanted to go and close. She is a very fast filly so I try and go and switch positions. I...

As has been known to happen more than once, it was “the other Baffert” again Saturday at Del Mar in the 74th running of the $301,000 FanDuel Racing Del Mar Debutante as the Nyquist filly Tenma came running late to take down honors by an oh-so-slim nose in the Grade I feature.

It’s always a fitting way to put a cap on the summer meet’s stakes schedule by running a race filled with potential stars of the future. The G1 Del Mar Futurity will be run Sunday. It has attracted seven juvenile colts, three from the Bob Baffert barn. All three have won at Del Mar this summer. In the case of Getaway Car, he’s won twice. The son of Curlin broke his maiden at first asking, winning by 3 ½ lengths on opening day. He came back and dominated the G3 Best Pal last month, winning by 5 ½ lengths.